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<strong>From May to October we posted the following 150 songs about Canada to commemorate Canada's 150 years of confederation on the Canadians in Portugal Facebook page. Below is the collection of those postings.</strong><br />
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<strong>Week 1: April 1-9</strong><br />
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The railway was what stitched Canada together and Canada’s greatest troubadour <strong>Gordon Lightfoot</strong> gave it its due through the classic Canadian folk song “Canadian Railway Trilogy”, a tune about the construction of “an iron road runnin' from the sea to the sea.” Worth noting, the song was commissioned by the CBC 50 years ago to commemorate Canada's centennial. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiSFZBDAH9Y"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiSFZBDAH9Y</span></a><br />
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“Moose Jaw, Broadview, Moosomin too; Runnin' back to Saskatoon. Red Deer, Terrace, Hanna, Medicine Hat; Sing another prairie tune.” So goes <strong>The Guess Who</strong>’s “Runnin’ Back to Saskatoon”, a song that praises the goodness of what’s local, because “this tune is home grown. Don't come from Hong Kong.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BixQMQFMOYQ"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BixQMQFMOYQ</span></a><br />
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<strong>Sam Roberts</strong> decided to write Canada’s own national reverie when he wrote “The Canadian Dream”, a song he roots in things like freedom and equality, characteristics that have come to define Canada. "S.O.C.I.A.L.I.S.M. is here to stay; S.O.C.I.A.L.I.S.M. is the only way," he sings, as if a deciding factor of the Canadian dream, all the while questioning its acceptance, worrying that the dream may actually be further away than it's ever been. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tutTzTYuU1Y"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tutTzTYuU1Y</span></a><br />
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The Highway of Tears – also known as MacDonald-Cartier Freeway or Highway 401 – was unofficially named in 2002, after the first of Canada’s soldiers killed in Afghanistan were repatriated. Their remains were flown into Canadian Forces Base Trenton, and then taken southwest to Toronto along the highway. People young and old lined the highway, waving the red and white Canadian flag emblazoned with the maple leaf in tribute. In 2010 the highway was the subject of a song entitled "Highway of Tears" by <strong>The Trews</strong>, a song inspired by the 2006 death of Capt. Nichola Goddard, who was the first female Canadian soldier killed in combat and was from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, the band’s hometown. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrkgV5bl7kQ"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrkgV5bl7kQ</span></a><br />
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While the song never mentions Montreal by name, <strong>Leonard Cohen</strong>’s “Suzanne”, pays homage to romance in that Quebec city. The song depicts Cohen’s (real life) platonic relationship with Suzanne Verdal, a prominent muse of the beat era. The lyrics describe a rendez-vous in which Cohen goes to visit Verdal at her apartment by the Saint Laurence River. There, Suzanne would serve Cohen tea and oranges before the two would head off on a walk through the Old Port, towards the Church of Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours. A beautifully composed guided tour. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o6zMPLcXZ8"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o6zMPLcXZ8</span></a><br />
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<strong>Week 2: April 10-16</strong><br />
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“The Banks of Newfoundland” is the earliest Newfoundland composition set down in music notation. It was composed by none other than Francis Forbes, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland in 1820. Originally composed as a dance, it was later treated as a march by the soldiers of Royal Newfoundland Regiment during World War I. The song voices the lament of sailors on a voyage from Liverpool to Baltimore, where passing the cold Grand Banks of Newfoundland is the hardest struggle of them all. <strong>Great Big Sea</strong>’s contemporary version of this old-time standard, delivered in a Newfie accent, almost makes you feel those “cold nor'westers” in your bones. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRadBJvAKdU"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRadBJvAKdU</span></a><br />
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If you’re familiar with the folk/comedy sounds of <strong>The Arrogant Worms</strong>, you’ll know that every song they’ve ever penned tends to pokes fun at various aspects of daily life in Canada. “The Ballad of Tim Horton’s” is one good example, an Irish-inflected folk song that details a veritable Canadian nightmare: the day that Timmy’s ran out of coffee. They say “it was the morning the world began to end”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8FcM8sgY9k"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8FcM8sgY9k</span></a><br />
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“Walter Gretzky had a son, he grew up to be the great one …” He sure did. Who wouldn’t want the Wayner we used to know back in the day on their team right now? Also hailing from Edmonton, <strong>The Pursuit of Happiness</strong> put together this ode to the king of Edmonton called “Gretzky Rocks”. “When I lived in Edmonton, he made us the City of Champions. With Jari and Semenko by his side, he filled our frigid city with pride …” And nothing’s been the same there since. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7mCmm2FKKg"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7mCmm2FKKg</span></a><br />
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Hailing from the small farming and ranching town of Claresholm, Alberta, <strong>Shane Chisholm</strong> does a unique interpretation of country music with a large dose of Canada thrown in. Perfect for this time of year, the song “If Jesus was a Canadian” tells us exactly would Jesus would do from Newfoundland to British Columbia and up to the territories if he had been born in Canada or at least held citizenship. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/shane-chisholm/if-jesus-was-a-canadian"><span style="color: blue;">https://soundcloud.com/shane-chisholm/if-jesus-was-a-canadian</span></a><br />
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"Late-breaking story on the CBC, a nation whispers, we always knew that he'd go free." The first time David Milgaard’s mother, Joyce, heard those words, she cried. It was 1992, and Joyce’s son had recently been released from prison after serving 23 years — 8,355 days — for a heinous crime he didn’t commit. He was just 17 when he was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of nursing assistant Gail Miller. <strong>The Tragically Hip</strong>, inspired by the case, wrote “Wheat Kings.” According to Gord Downie, the song is “about David Milgaard and his faith in himself. And about his mother, Joyce, and her absolute faith in her son's innocence. And about our big country and its faith in man’s fallibility. And about Gail Miller, all those mornings ago, just lying there, all her faith bleeding out into that Saskatoon snowbank.” David Milgaard was released from prison on April 16th, 1992, 25 years ago today. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xIaBcfL6vU"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xIaBcfL6vU</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span> <br />
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<strong>Week 3: April 17-23</strong><br />
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“Well Canada's been good to us; we've a living and a home. We've all got central heating here and most are on the phone. I'm a citizen of both countries and very proud to be, for the thistle and the maple leaf are the emblems of the free”. So goes the song “The Old Sod” by <strong>Spirit of the West</strong>, a song about Scottish immigration to Canada, mind you it’s a story that can be applied to all immigrant groups in the Great White North – from language maintenance, to the creation of social clubs, to the ethnic shrines in the basement, easily applicable to the Portuguese as well, for example. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6KBf16qJIY"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6KBf16qJIY</span></a><br />
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While the <strong>Stan Rogers</strong> song “Northwest Passage” recalls the history of early explorers trying to discover a route across Canada to the Pacific Ocean (especially Sir John Franklin, who lost his life in the quest for the Northwest Passage), its central theme is a comparison between the journeys of these past explorers and the singer's own journey to and through the same region. Rogers sings that, just as the quest for a northwest passage might be considered a fruitless one, a modern-day journeyer along similar paths might meet the same end. Along the way, the song also references a series of Canadian geographical features, from the Fraser River to the the Davis Strait to the Beaufort Sea. <br />
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The <strong>New Pornographers</strong> song “War on the East Coast” seems to paint Canada in a state of armageddon: “Last night I dreamt Vancouver dressed up in the ocean. Last night I dreamt, Victoria drowned in the ocean” – it’s war from coast-to-coast. A closer examination, however, reveals that that war may actually be based on vanity and hip(ster)ness. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMcumbSMY_8"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMcumbSMY_8</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br />
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“She was a big boned gal from southern Alberta, you just couldn’t call her small. And you can bet every Saturday night she’d be heading for the legion hall” sings <strong>k.d. lang</strong> in the song “Big Boned Gal”, a reflection of women’s empowerment in the rural confines of Canadian cowboy country where “the big boned gal was proud”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4oKsP4VVKI"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4oKsP4VVKI</span></a><br />
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The song “The Vancouver National Anthem” by <strong>Matthew Good</strong> is a gritty, critical exposé of a city infested with a lingering problem called drugs. “We all live downtown / Pay in blood, no parking / Sleep on the ground / Step over ourselves”, sings Good, lyrics inspired by scenes drawn from the city's notorious Downtown Eastside, considered one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods in North America. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQVLVUxpaes"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQVLVUxpaes</span></a><br />
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<strong>Week 4: April 24-30</strong><br />
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If there’s a politician in Canada that recently almost caused a revolution of sorts, it’s Steven Harper. He ever led bands like <strong>Blue Rodeo</strong> to write political songs against him. “Stealin' All My Dreams” is that Blue Rodeo song and as the song goes: “He’ll throw me in jail cause I disagree”. So 25th of April. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3C1SWVquXA"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3C1SWVquXA</span></a> <br />
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"How many acres how much light, tucked in the woods and out of sight; Talk to the neighbours and tip my cap, on a little road barely on the map". This is <strong>Feist</strong>'s description of the simple life to be lived in “Mushaboom”. Where is Mashaboom you ask? Well, it's a rural community located in Nova Scotia, along that province's Eastern Shore, and, apparently, it's where the living's easy. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yInB2qWMs6k"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yInB2qWMs6k</span></a><br />
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The song “Rossland Square” is a light jab at what we take for granted in the towns we were raised in across Canada, only to realise how much a part of us they are when we’ve been away to long. Rossland Square is a square in Oshawa, Ont. “Rossland Square” it's an ode to Oshawa, the city that gave us the band behind the song, <strong>Cuff the Duke</strong>. "So if you go, take Park Road, and have a good look around. ‘Prepare to be amazed', that's the slogan of the city where I was raised. And I'll come running back each time." <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jq5qnmOQZg"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jq5qnmOQZg</span></a> <br />
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“West Van girl, you are all that isn't fair; Can I brush your hair and whisper East Van things in your ear?” goes the song “West Van Girl” by Vancouver’s <strong>The Awkward Stage</strong>, a song about divided love separated by the class and wealth structures to be found in opposite ends of the city of Vancouver: East Van and West Van. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjj7N8_Uxbo"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjj7N8_Uxbo</span></a><br />
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Back when he was simply known as Tom Connors, <strong>Stompin’ Tom Connors</strong> got hired to play a tavern in Sudbury, Ont. called the Townehouse. Shortly after starting his stint, Conner’s penned “Sudbury Saturday Night” as a way of winning over the crowd who, more often than not, seemed to ignore the man up on stage singing and playing his guitar. It was here where Connors started stomping his cowboy boot on the stage to get the attention of patrons, and it was here where, slowly but surely, “Sudbury Saturday Night” became a crowd favourite and eventually a Canadian classic. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl751CDdRZI"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl751CDdRZI</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Week 5: May 1-7</strong><br />
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"One Great City!" by Winnipeg’s <strong>The Weakerthans</strong>. Yes, the song's chorus says "I hate Winnipeg," but the title (snarkily borrowed from a local civic pride slogan) and loving detail reveals the heart beneath the hate. After all, we've all at times harboured ill will toward our hometowns, especially when we were young and bored and eager start our lives somewhere, anywhere, new. But we adore them, too, and that love-hate relationship to where we're from is impeccably presented here. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLlsjEP7L-k"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLlsjEP7L-k</span></a><br />
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The genius of <strong>Joni Mitchell</strong>’s “A Case of You”, the quintessential after-the-fact love song, is that Mitchell understands we have to feel the love enough to mourn its passing. Apparently that passing, the version presented by Mitchell, involves Canada: “On the back of a cartoon coaster; In the blue TV screen light; I drew a map of Canada; – Oh Canada –; With your face sketched on it twice”. Maybe like Mitchell herself, he too was Canadian. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YuaZcylk_o"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YuaZcylk_o</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Cord Lund</strong>’s “Long Gone to Saskatchewan” is a song aimed at all those folks back in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, etc. who have to work their butts off to afford a simply life in an over-priced city: “Cuz I can buy up an acre beside a nice lake here for what it costs me at home to just rent” (…) “I can miss my foothills here and still drink my pilsner, and bitch and complain and surmise; about missin' the mountain, buy hey, look, who's countin', my place here is five times the size.” The likes of Saskatchewan await. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkhcjI5Pwi0"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkhcjI5Pwi0</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 24:<br />
Well before the people at Molson Breweries started selling beer on the back of the nationalist slogan “I Am Canadian”, Vancouver’s <strong>D.O.A</strong> was letting the punk-loving masses know what crisscrossing the country of Canada in a punk band is all about via the song “I Am Canadian”. “Driving down Highway 1; Just a little east of Saskatchewan; I pulled into a Husky truck stop; More Canadian bacon and a porkchop …” Who among us doesn’t love the Canadian wasteland? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaXoI3tyKgw"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaXoI3tyKgw</span></a><br />
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The Canadian jazz fusion band <strong>The Shuffle Demons</strong> scored a Canadian Top 40 hit with a song about a Toronto Transit Commission’s (CTT’s) Spadina Avenue bus called “Spadina Bus” back in the 80’s. Now lets hear you sing along: “Spadina Bus (Spadina Bus); Spadina Bus (Spadina Bus); Spadina Bus (Spadina Bus); Spadina Bus (Spadina Bus); I say get on the bus (get on the bus); Yeah, right on the bus (right on the bus); Right on the bus (right on the bus); The Spadina bus (the Spadina bus)”. Easy, fun and silly. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZnLjRi_g9o"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZnLjRi_g9o</span></a><br />
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<strong>Week 6: May 8-14</strong><br />
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Released in 1963, "Four Strong Winds" is a song by the Canadian folk duo <strong>Ian and Sylvia</strong>, a melancholy reflection on a failing romantic relationship where the male subject expresses a desire for a possible reunion in a new place in the future (Alberta), while, at the same time, acknowledging the likelihood that the relationship is over. “Think I'll go out to Alberta; Weather's good there in the fall; I got some friends that I can go to working for; Still I wish you'd change your mind; If I asked you one more time; But we've been through that a hundred times or more”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m7ckGhnsc"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m7ckGhnsc</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 27:<br />
“False Creek Change” by Vancouver’s <strong>Said the Whale</strong> laments the trendy, expensive development in the False Creek area of downtown Vancouver, and how it has pushed out so many long standing residents. “False Creek changed in '86; the year Expo exploited her shore. It's been twenty two years laying down bricks, and there's no room for me here anymore …”. Nowadays, a ghetto for the upper classes, this part of Vancouver is. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IkqtDWhpz0"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IkqtDWhpz0</span></a><br />
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<strong>Hank Snow</strong>’s “Canadian Pacific” tells the story of a man travelling by train across Canada from East to West, taking up different jobs to get by, until he reaches his final destination – his baby’s arms. “Canadian Pacific, carry me three thousand miles. Through the valleys and the forests, to the sunshine of her smile. 'Cross the plains and the rugged mountains, keep this wandering boy from harm. Canadian Pacific, take me to my baby's arms. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyeK4dfbth8"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyeK4dfbth8</span></a><br />
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The Leopard Canal, located in Belgium, was a major line of German resistance during the Battle of the Scheldt in World War II. "The Banks of the Leopold Canal" by Saskatchewan’s <strong>Deep Dark Woods</strong> tells the story of a Canadian soldier leaving his love behind to go serve his country during the war. “Cruel was the war when it first began; Out of Canada we lost many a man. Out of Canada, men were battered and torn; Thousands lay dead on Leopold's shore”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKNYtva2bNA"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKNYtva2bNA</span></a> <br />
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<strong>The Tragically Hip</strong>’s “Bobcaygeon”, at first listen, a beautiful song about Ontario cottage country where “the constellations reveal themselves one star at a time.” A closer introspection, however, reveals a song about racism that obliquely drinks inspiration from the Toronto Christie Pits Riot in 1933, a riot started at a baseball game between a mostly Jewish team and an anti-semitic club where Anglo-Canadian teens displayed a swastika flag. Supporters of both sides started to mass and a 10,000 person riot ensued as “their voices rang with that Aryan twang”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qxGYnZCeTY"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qxGYnZCeTY</span></a><br />
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<strong>Week 7: May 15-21</strong><br />
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<strong>Rita MacNeil</strong> was proud to represent her province of Nova Scotia. One night, as she sat in her hotel room in Vancouver, thinking about her beloved home, she came up with the lyrics: “So walk through her green fields, go down to the sea; The fortune in your eyes is more like a dream; She's called Nova Scotia and she so makes you feel; You’ve discovered a treasure no other has seen.” Alas the song “She’s Called Nova Scotia”, Rita’s ode to her home province. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2krP7HQMGgo"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2krP7HQMGgo</span></a> <br />
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“There is a town in North Ontario; Dream comfort memory to spare; And in my mind I still need a place to go; All my changes were there”. So sings out <strong>Neil Young</strong> in the song “Helpless”, a song about Young’s pining for simpler times in Northern Ontario, or more precisely, the town of Omemee where Young grew up. Below Neil does a rendition with Joni Mitchell and The Band. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2z7LXpAX3Q"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2z7LXpAX3Q</span></a> <br />
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"Montreal -40°C" by Montreal’s French singing band <strong>Malajube</strong> is a song that tells us “Oh Montréal t'es tellement froide” only to go on to declare “Et je t'aime tellement que j'hallucine”. Yes that’s what -40ºC on l'Île de Montréal can do to a person. Bonne fête Montréal! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHwSk8bFS4M"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHwSk8bFS4M</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Sloan</strong>’s "The Rest of My Life" is a song that deals with growing up, or better yet, not knowing when it’s time to do so – when it’s time to take on other responsibility, to leave the fast life behind and settle down. The doubter depicted in the song may have doubts but there’s one thing he’s pretty sure of: “One thing I know about the rest of my life: I know that I'll be living it in Canada”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygejqgBm9l0"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygejqgBm9l0</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Blue Rodeo</strong> doesn’t mince any words when comparing Alberta to Ontario in their classic tune “Western Skies”. “And I’d rather be back in the Rocky Mountains than sitting in some bar on Queen Street” is one such line in this ode to the natural wonders found along the B.C./Alberta border, set to one of the band’s twangiest Canadiana country licks. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bese4ijI8V8"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bese4ijI8V8</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Week 8: May 22-28</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 36:<br />
The Lakeside Park offering its name to the <strong>Rush</strong> song “Lakeside Park” is located on the shore of Port Dalhousie, a suburb of St. Catharines, Ontario, on the south shore of Lake Ontario. Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart lived very close to Lakeside Park, and spent summers as a child and in his teen years playing and working at the fairgrounds that occupy the park. The lyrics mention that all too typical holiday that takes place in May, Victoria Day – today. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfpZGtr9BiU"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfpZGtr9BiU</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 37:<br />
“Yo, it's corrupt where I'm from, Edmonton, tough” isn’t a lyric one is used to hearing in hip-hop. But the artist known as <strong>Cadence Weapon</strong>'s tune “Oliver Square” is rife with rich detail of the oil town. The city’s Poet Laureate just wants us all to know he’s from “Champion City”, or at least it used to be. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLU8Crh5x_M"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLU8Crh5x_M</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 38:<br />
“Oh Alberta, don't you cry, listen to me, it'll be alright, uh huh oh yeah; Don't hate Saskatchewan, never meant no harm to anyone; Manitoba, don't you know you're out where you won't make it home; Back to Ontario” is the start of a musical journey across Canada via the song “Oh Alberta” by Ontario’s <strong>Elliott Brood</strong>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC547s953ac"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC547s953ac</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 39:<br />
<strong>Metric</strong>’s “Fanfare Parkdale” is regarded an ode to the Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale with special descriptive emphasis of the neighbourhood lying in the lines: "We almost forgot every building is a shop, every person is a shopper..." – “flipping out” living in a consumer or “magazine neighborhood” designed to be exactly that. “As we headed further west, into the worst, out of the best” of Toronto we guess, but it could be other major Canadian cities too. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD-ImYZxKCY"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD-ImYZxKCY</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 40:<br />
Is there anyone in Canada capable of writing a breakup song using the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway as analogy? Of course there is; that can only be <strong>Gordon Downie</strong>. The song “Vancouver Divorce” does just that. “Sitting here at the Horton's”, says the song, “so you know this is important. Because it’s a Canadian gathering point of serious debate and discussion; … till one day. “Now we've hammered the last spike and we've punched the railroad through”. It’s the end of the line. It’s time to move on. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX1C_ZbzM-k"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX1C_ZbzM-k</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Week 9: May 29-June 4</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 41:<br />
<strong>Sarah Harmer</strong> cofounded a conservation group called Protecting Escarpment Rural Land (PERL) to battle a proposed quarry development on the Niagara Escarpment near her hometown of Burlington, Ontario. The song "Escarpment Blues" starts by asking: “If they blow a hole in my backyard; Everyone is gonna run away; The creeks won't flow to the Great Lake below; Will the water in the wells still be ok?”. Sometimes local activism can create some worldly results. That quarry never did go ahead. The creeks still flow to the Great Lakes and the water in the wells are still ok. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52vXPZAkDug"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52vXPZAkDug</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 42:<br />
In 1971 Manitoba’s Rick Neufeld wrote and recorded a song called “Moody Manitoba Morning” and had no success with it. That same year, the Montreal band <strong>The Bells</strong>, would cover the song and would see it become a cross-Canada hit. “I'm not sad or happy; just living day by day. It's a moody Manitoba mornin'; and I like it that way”, goes the tune. Manitoba sure sounds laid-back. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPygR80OOmM"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPygR80OOmM</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 43:<br />
As we celebrate young lives the world over today, we are reminded of the tragic story of Chanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old indigenous boy who, in the 1966, was separated from his family and placed in the Cecelia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario. In October of 66, Chanie escaped the residential school and tried to walk home. His family lived 400 miles away. He followed the railway but never made it. Last year, <strong>Gord Downie</strong> paid homage to Chanie Wenjack with the release of an album that, in Downie’s words, is “an attempt to capture the feeling, somehow, of Chanie trying to get home.” The song “The Stranger” kicks off what Downie depicts as Chanie’s “secret path”. May Chanie’s story serve as a lesson to Canada and the world over. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za2VzjkwtFc"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za2VzjkwtFc</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 44:<br />
“And at the end of the day I will return to the city of lakes; Where the real people roam close to where all the real waves break”, sings <strong>Matt Mays and El Torpedo</strong> in the song “City of Lakes”, the nickname of the community of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, the town Matt Mays calls home. Because no matter how far you roam, it’s always nice to come home to who and what you know. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWqT6erNWUg"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWqT6erNWUg</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 45:<br />
“Old Portuguese men, hanging 'round, in the ancient smoke of a local bar”. In the song “Charlin, Angel of Kensington”, <strong>Jason Collett</strong> sets to song the presence of the Portuguese in the Toronto neighbourhood of Kensington Market. In the song, however, just like historic Kensington Market, the Portuguese are just part of the equation that composes “the shopkeepers and merchants, all families of immigrants”, or at least used to. Kensington Market is today very much a hipster neighbourhood with its hip bars, vegan sandwich joints and vintage clothing shops. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz02rHvVwjk"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz02rHvVwjk</span></a><br />
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<strong>Week 10: June 5-11</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 46:<br />
If you happen to have been in Eastern Ontario, Southern Quebec and in Nova Scotia during the Great Ice Storm of 1998, it was probably one of the worse, yet unique, climatic moments in your life lives. The <strong>Arcade Fire</strong> song “Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)” is about that ice storm (during which band members, no different from other Montrealers, were trapped in darkness with no power for an entire week. “Kids are swingin' from the power lines; Nobody's home, so nobody minds” – of course not, it’s Canada. The snow banks must have been pretty damn high. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ozdCLrTrtA"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ozdCLrTrtA</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 47:<br />
In 1972, Canadian folk singer <strong>Bonnie Dobson</strong> sang about the “Poor Girls of Ontario” and the way men left that province for other points of Canada, leaving the young ladies behind. The only solutions? – “I’ll find me a husband and a good one too, if I have to go to the Caribou”. That’s right, she’ll chase one down all the way out to central B.C., if need be. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33mEwWeioxg"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33mEwWeioxg</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 48:<br />
There was a time when life wasn’t easy in the province of Saskatchewan. A time when farmers couldn’t make ends meet and working aged folk couldn’t find jobs. For the character in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Arrogant Worms</strong> song “The Last Saskatchewan Pirate”, the only option was to become a pirate on the river Saskatchewan. “'Cause it's a heave-ho, high-ho, coming down the Plains; Stealing wheat and barley and all the other grains. And it's a ho-hey, high-hey, farmers bar your doors; When you see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores”. An eye patch and parrot on the shoulder kinda trouble had hit the Prairies. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHAl1tWvvPA"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHAl1tWvvPA</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 49:<br />
<strong>Trush Hermit</strong>’s “The Day We Hit the Coast”, a song written about the band's experiences touring Canada. The lyrics describe crossing prairies, “going up and over the mountains” and the "cool, cool breeze; blowing cool off Lake Louise." But the most joy is reserved for the moment these once east coast kids from Halifax meet the other coast – the Pacific. <a href="https://vimeo.com/78886283"><span style="color: blue;">https://vimeo.com/78886283</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 50: <br />
The song "The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead" by <strong>Final Fantasy</strong> (aka Owen Pallett) is certainly one not limited to poetic interpretations. The song deals with living and dying, that’s pretty clear. The CN Tower, however, seems to depict an object that, although built by humans, in the end it “lives” to outlast us all. “The CN Tower is built upon our bones! The CN Tower will always be our home!” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sryXWMn81nQ"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sryXWMn81nQ</span></a><br />
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<strong>Week 11: June 12-18</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 51: <br />
<strong>Neil Young and Crazy Horse</strong> bringing out some provincial pride with the song “Born in Ontario”: “I was born in Ontario, where the black fly bites, and the green grass grows, that's where I learned most of what I know …” and then you move on. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1woTG_DaTuw"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1woTG_DaTuw</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 52: <br />
<strong>Woodpigeon</strong>’s “Our Love is as Tall as the Calgary Tower” wants to make sure you know there’s no bigger love in town. Well that is unless that love is being measured on a Canada wide scale. In that case, there are taller loves in other Canadian cities. <a href="https://vimeo.com/15006305"><span style="color: blue;">https://vimeo.com/15006305</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 53: <br />
“One day God walked on old Mount Royal; Just to dream up the human form; Threw stones and cans and comic books in a kettle; And you came out like a shining goddess heavy metal”, goes the song “Montreal” by hometown act <strong>Bran Van 3000</strong>, a song that might be about a female love interest, or maybe, if you think about it, about the city of Montreal itself. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-BfbjYRPrw"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-BfbjYRPrw</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 54: <br />
“Oh the prairie lights are burnin' bright; The Chinook wind is a-movin' in; Tomorrow night I'll be Alberta bound” are the opening lined to <strong>Gordon Lightfoot</strong>’s “Alberta Bound”, a tune about going back home to what one knows and what one loves. Here’s Gordon doing the song along with a bunch of friends. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A12paRJaCFo"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A12paRJaCFo</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 55: <br />
Outside my window, I listen to the rain; and the sounds of the passing cars, and the waves on English Bay” goes the song “English Bay” by <strong>Blue Rodeo</strong>, a song about being in a hotel room in Vancouver (obviously located in front of English Bay), while missing someone who’s “fifteen hundred miles away”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC9HrAyzkmg"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC9HrAyzkmg</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Week 12: June 19-25</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 56: <br />
<strong>Gordon Downie</strong> shares a depiction of a hard Canadian via the song “The Hard Canadian”. Who might the hard Canadian be though? Well the character seems to be as uncommunicative as a sheet of rock in coldest February (after all, undaunting is “the elusive presence of the sun, to the hard Canadian”), but as the Hard Canadian drags a “brush through ... wet pigment,” remembering the “glow” of someone's nightgown, it appears that his hardness is really just an act. Perhaps Canada itself is the hard Canadian, a country that according to Downie, “needs to feel more vulnerable, act more vulnerable.” <span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egtKJN5ro2o"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egtKJN5ro2o</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 57:<br />
<strong>Buffy Sainte-Marie</strong> was born in Qu'appelle Valley, Saskatchewan. The song “Qu'appelle Valley Saskatchewan” is about her origins as an aboriginal Canadian and about going back to roots, going back to “walking the old way”. “Wrap me in your blanket dance me around; Take me back to where my heart belongs; Qu'Apelle Valley, ho Saskatchewan”. Because sometimes you have to return to officialise who you really are. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwV3vuMN1_o"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwV3vuMN1_o</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 58:<br />
“From the Troller to the Raven with all stops in between.” And in between there was the “Park Royal Hotel, The Rusty Gull, Square-Rigger and Queen's Cross” – all of each drinking establishments in Vancouver North Shore back when there were very few and non were close to each other. That’s the theme of the song “The Crawl by <strong>Spirit of the West</strong>. That’s right, a song that tackles the very serious issue of going out on a pub crawl in a vast, all too Canadian setting. The song is further explained by the band in the video below. “I got out to Horseshoe Bay a little after five; From a table in the corner I heard familiar voices rise.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVhW6Tiwm6A"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVhW6Tiwm6A</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 59:<br />
“Tell her I'm glad she's doin' well in Montreal” goes the <strong>Corb Lund</strong> song “Alberta Says Hello”. “Tell her that the winters are still cold. Tell her I still got the old wood stove. Tell her that the Oilers are scorin' goals. Tell her that Alberta says hello.” And after that, “Tell her that I really miss her laugh. And tell her that I'm sick about the past. Tell her what I'd do with one more chance. Tell her that the snow is comin' fast. Well not that fast … yet. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAHbjMxzDlo"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAHbjMxzDlo</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 60:<br />
Hey Christmas is exactly 6 months from today. To celebrate that, here’s a classic Canadian country tune by the classic Canadian country artist <strong>Wilf Carter</strong>, a little something called “Christmas in Canada”. Let’s all join in and sing shall we? “It’s Christmas time in Canada, hear the church bells ring; oh gather around the Christmas tree, sweet carols for you to sing. Christ was born on Christmas day, give thanks to God above; For it’s Christmas time in Canada the land we dearly love. It’s Christmas time in Canada, from the shores of Newfoundland; Across the snowcapped Rockies, to the Prairies can be found. A Merry Christmas to you all, make merry while we can; It’s Christmas time in Canada, God bless our native land.” One more time… <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6j5R0YpnJM"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6j5R0YpnJM</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Week 13: June 26-July 2</strong> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 61:<br />
In 1979, Toronto’s <strong>Martha and the Muffins</strong> had a huge international hit with the song “Echo Beach”. Now at the time the song was written, Echo Beach wasn’t a place anywhere in Canada, but rather a symbolic notion of somewhere someone would rather be. The song “Echo Beach”, however, perhaps foresaw a place, one that would be built years later, as is the case of the Echo Beach outdoor concert space in Toronto (built in 2011), located along the waterfront on a real sandy beach. Sure an Echo Beach now exists but it will always be more fun if you tell people that it’s “far away in time.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQkIEkxm7k"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQkIEkxm7k</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 62: <br />
"The Maple Leaf Forever" is a Canadian song written by Alexander Muir (1830–1906) in 1867, the year of Canada's Confederation. Muir was said to have been inspired to write this song by a large maple tree which stood on his street in front of Maple Cottage, a house at Memory Lane and Laing Street in Toronto. The song became quite popular in English Canada and for many years served as an unofficial national anthem CBC Radio's Metro Morning show in Toronto ran a contest to find new lyrics for the song in 1997. The contest was won by Romanian immigrant, mathematician, and now a songwriter, actor and poet, Vladimir Radian, who came to Canada in the 1980s. During the final game of the Toronto Maple Leafs at their former home stadium, Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Anne Murray sang another version (modified from Radian's version) of the Maple Leaf Forever to the crowd. This version was also used by <strong>Michael Bublé</strong> during the 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony. Here’s that Michael Bublé version. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WHbj4_y8q8"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WHbj4_y8q8</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 63:<br />
Hip Hoppin’ the Canadian identity, sometimes serious sometimes stereotypically, that’s what <strong>Classified</strong>’s “Oh Canada” does. So many lyrics to chose from, could really quote the whole song, but we’ll go with the part that most applies to those us on the outside: “I know where I'm from and I told ya before, North of America, hard to ignore; Every-time I go away I tell them for sure; I'm from Canada, oh-oh-oh Canada; Oh Canada, oh-oh-oh Canada; I'm from Canada, oh-oh-oh Canada.” Yes sir! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF62J3vxPdQ"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF62J3vxPdQ</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 64:<br />
Whittling Canada down to just 150 references is a pretty tall order, but <strong>Bryan Anderson</strong>, a language teacher from New Westminster, B.C., proved up to the challenge and created a six-and-a-half minute song entitled “We're Canadian”, a tune that features 150 references covering everything from Niagara Falls and Penny Oleksiak's gold medal race to James Naismith and Stompin’ Tom’s Good Ol’ Hockey Game, all for Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMiFeu91Dms"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMiFeu91Dms</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 65:<br />
The band is called <strong>Sikumiut</strong> (translation: People of the Ice); the song is called “Utirumavunga” (translation “I Want to Go Back”). This Canadian Inuit country-rock outfit hailed from Puvirnituq, a northern village in Nunavik, near its mouth on the Hudson Bay in northern Quebec in the mid-1970’s. One of the versus of this song says: "White man came, destroyed everything, but we fought, and fought, and even though they beat us with their heavy killing machines and close-mindedness, our souls will forever live on in bliss and harmony because we and all things under the sun except the white man understands life as it was meant to be, not what they thought it should be." A story all too typical to the making of Canada. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VSsDSE2HEk"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VSsDSE2HEk</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Week 14: July 3-9</strong> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 66:<br />
“I am the face of my country; Expressionless and small. Weak at the knees, shaking badly; Can't straighten up at all. I watch the spine of my country bend and break; I'm a sorry state” goes <strong>Spirit of the West</strong>’s “Far too Canadian”, an anti-Mulroney songs about the Mulroney government years, reflecting the widespread popular opposition to Mulroney among the Canadian public which led to the 1992 defeat of the Charlottetown Accord and the Progressive Conservative decimation in the Canadian federal election in 1993. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cax8qkZz6Lk"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cax8qkZz6Lk</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 67:<br />
Many are the ways one can interpret the <strong>Joel Plaskett Emergency</strong> song "True Patriot Love". We believe that Plaskett is here using a real life relationship as a metaphor for the one that exists between Canada-US, especially concerning free trade: “And we raise the white flag, So they can paint it red and blue, Getting into bed seemed easy enough, Getting out's a little harder to do”. As timely as a softwood lumber dispute, isn’t it? You’d think the two would be good bed buddies, but: “We all go out, then we all come home, But I fall asleep with the TV on, At 3 AM they play "O Canada", True patriot love and lalalalala”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLoO_XsYAxQ"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLoO_XsYAxQ</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 68:<br />
<strong>The Tragically Hip</strong> song “38 Years Old” is a fictional account of the real-life escape of 14 inmates from Millhaven Institution near the band's hometown of Kingston, Ontario on July 10, 1972. The date of the event and the number of escapees mentioned in the song are historically incorrect ("12 men broke loose in '73..."). This was done for the purpose of meter, and for rhyming with the next line of the song ("...from Millhaven maximum security"). In real life, of the 14 escapees, 12 were caught, one was shoot dead and the 14th was never found again. If there was a “Michael” among them, he wasn’t so lucky: “My mother cried, "The horror has finally ceased"; He whispered, "Yeah, for the time being at least"; And over her shoulder on the squad car megaphone; Said, "Let's go, Michael, son, we're taking you home." <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbIZ1IuqCzU"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbIZ1IuqCzU</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 69:<br />
In the tune "416/905 (T.O. Party Anthem)", the godfather of Canadian rap and self-proclaimed "Toronto sex symbol" <strong>Maestro Fresh-Wes</strong> sets out to accomplish one goal: “to put Toronto on the party map”. In other words, form “T to the dot, O to the 'nother dot, know who makes the party hot”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r2rmYUly7I"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r2rmYUly7I</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 70:<br />
<strong>Rufus Wainwright</strong>'s “Hometown Waltz is a song about how "travelling out to find your way home" is a waste of time, as there's nothing special to be found out there. So eventually you'll end back home with the frustration of that greener grass you thought you'd find, being non-existent. Hometown, in this case, is Montreal, Wainwright’s hometown where “on Ontario Street looking up, Maybe (he'll) catch him on his way to the show. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roIMWTF3vOk"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roIMWTF3vOk</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Week 15: July 10-16</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 71:<br />
“In the blue Canadian Rockies; Spring is silent through the trees; And the golden poppies are blooming; 'Round the banks of Lake Louise” goes the song “Blue Canadian Rockies” by <strong>Wilf Carter</strong>. It’s classic Canadiana at its best. Let that fiddle weep. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n90KkM2XVHw"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n90KkM2XVHw</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 72:<br />
“I left Toronto in the rain, landed in Vancouver in the rain” are the lines that state off the song “Pacific Blue” by <strong>Jason Collett</strong>, not necessarily a song about the all too common Canadian climate conditions of light precipitation or heavy downpours, but one that does bring on the blues. Vancouver, as we know, sure gets a lot of it, but it’s in the interior of British Columbia where it’s particularly needed right now. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ScydVfWIo"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ScydVfWIo</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 73:<br />
<strong>The Rural Alberta</strong> <strong>Advantage</strong> don’t forget their roots, hence the name of the band. The song “Vulcan, Ab.” Is an ode to the small Alberta community that shares its name with a planet on Star Trek, that of Vulcan (of course). Vulcan, Alta. takes pride in its Star Trek connection, though ask pretty much any local, it’s pretty much the only thing the community has going for it – a community where the Enterprise is the town’s centrepiece. “Oh, you and me in the Enterprise, in Vulcan another night”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDgLsrMwo7U"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDgLsrMwo7U</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 74: <br />
Lets face it, Canada, the country of “sorries” and “I’ll hold the door open for you even if you’re at a considerable distance” and “lets pay that double-double forward”, is also one packed with trashy, trailer trash outcasts who often wish not to see life beyond their next welfare check. If it weren’t for these rogues of society, guess we would’ve never ended up with the Trailer Park Boys on the TV. <strong>The Dayglo Abortions</strong> tune ‘Proud to be a Canadian’ paints a silly, in your face, not exactly politically correct image of this side of Canada. “I'm proud to be a Canadian; Pass me another welfare check. I'm proud to be a Canadian; Hold my seat while I go out and cash it.”<br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 75:<br />
The song “Philadelphia” by Vancouver’s <strong>Vancougar</strong> is not about the American city of Philadelphia whatsoever. The song is actually about growing up in the city of Vancouver back in the days before social media and iphones. “He used to skate. He skated all the time. He used to be shy, to see me in the summertime. We'd go to the PNE, with cash from Al and Jean …”. That’s right, those innocent summer days spent at the PNE – the Pacific National Exhibition – the annual 17-day summer fair that is surely part of the memories of many who grew up in that city. The fair’s been running since 1910, only having taken a break during World War II. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKiVISBsSlw"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKiVISBsSlw</span></a><span style="color: blue;">.</span><br />
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<strong>Week 16: July 17-23</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 76:<br />
<strong>The Rheostatics</strong> wrote a song in two parts about the hardworking Canadian hockey player. They called that song “Ballad Of Wendel Clark, Pts. 1 – 2”. “Well I heard Wendel talking to Dave Hodge last night; And he said that he was confident and keen. And he said that Jacques Plante didn't die so all of us could glide; He said that hard work is the ethic of the free. Wendel was a man with a stick in his hands who learned how to play in Kelvington, Sask. You'll wish that you had died, when Wendel has your hide, 'cause he does it the Canadian way. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD-ITgCZlCE"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD-ITgCZlCE</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 77:<br />
In the world of global travel and backpacking, no nationality is more respected than that of the Canadian. That’s often the reason for the flag on the back – let the world know where you’re from, because with that way of speaking, you just might be taken for an American otherwise. The song “X-pat” by <strong>Octoberman</strong> is about this very theme, the Canadian backpacker, the friendliest, most laidback travel there is. “He asked me if I paid my fare; a flag on my back and it was all laissez-faire. Then he asked me about those great outdoors; and if it's true we don't lock doors …”. <br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8HvnaFMqR8"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8HvnaFMqR8</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 78:<br />
If anything, the <strong>Stompin' Tom Conners</strong> song "Long Gone to the Yukon" teaches us that the Yukon was once full of dancing girls, mystic voices and a whole lot of gold. Between 1896 and 1899, an estimated 100,000 prospectors made their way to the Klondike Gold Rush up in the Yukon. “Long Gone to the Yukon” tells the simple story of one such prospector. “I'll paddle my canoe along the Klondike; I'll pan the gold and be a sour dough. And when I pull into Dawson City, Yukon I'll be heading for the Diamond Lil Saloon…” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oGiybl9Af8"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oGiybl9Af8</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 79:<br />
“The girl works at the store sweet Jane St. Clair” is the opening line to the <strong>Barenaked Ladies</strong> song “Jane”, a tune inspired by one of the loveliest named intersections in Toronto Jane and St. Clair. Of course the female character in the song can only be a reflection of what inspired her name, as in someone “divided” as Jane and St.Clair is dividing, as it is so sweet to the point that you can’t really decide which side you want to be on. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0AayVP5w9s"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0AayVP5w9s</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 80:<br />
The Lethbridge Viaduct, commonly known as the High Level Bridge, is a massive railroad bridge that goes over coulees and creeks located right in the city of Lethbridge, Alta. Sadly, the bridge is also a place where many people go to commit suicide. The song “The Dethbridge in Lethbridge” by <strong>The Rural Alberta Advantage</strong> tells the story of a couple torn apart by the death of a family member (her grandfather), and now, while he wants out of town, she’s staying in the “old aching town”. “You felt the old bridge weigh us down; Let's try to turn our love around; And take the Dethbridge out of town.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFm64JKARGI"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFm64JKARGI</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Week 17: July 24-30</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 81:<br />
"Acadian Driftwood" by <strong>The Band</strong> is a portrayal of the troubled history of Nova Scotia and Acadia. Specifically, it is about the Expulsion of the Acadians (the descendants of French colonists) from Acadia, what is now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, during the war between the French and the English. In all, of the 14,100 Acadians in the region, approximately 11,500 Acadians were deported, the majority sailing down the East Coast of North America to the Thirteen Colonies (the 13 original British colonies along the eastern seaboard of the US) and eventually further down to Louisiana becoming known as "Cajuns". “Acadian driftwood, Gypsy tailwind; They call my home the land of snow; Canadian cold front, movin' in; What a way to ride, Oh what a way to go”. <br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te7KW4K-00E"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te7KW4K-00E</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 82:<br />
<strong>The Arkells</strong> song “Where U Goin” is set in a dorm room at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. The protagonist is a girl from Sarnia – aka “the Chemical Valley” – who’s feeling homesick and missing her family. The song is about being from small town Canada and missing that part of one’s life when one leaves it for the first time. “And you know in your bones, this might never feel like home, tonight. 403-401-402, you're on the run tonight.” The 403, 401 and the 402 are all highways leading back to Sarnia. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSb38323fJk"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSb38323fJk</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 83:<br />
<strong>The Smugglers</strong> song “Vancouver B.C.” is the ultimate catchy Vancouver tune. The song is so Vancouver, it even makes reference to Vancouver’s most popular citizen in the 80’s, Good Rockin’ Tonite and Much Music VJ, Terry David Mulligan. "I love Vancouver, Vancouver is my home town. Well I love Grouse Mountain, I love to surf, Vancouver, B.C., Vancouver, B.C." <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewEH8VrnY0"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewEH8VrnY0</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 84:<br />
The Northern Ontario town of Kapuskasing is a community known for its long, cold winters. The summer growing season is short and often punctuated by killing frosts. It is said that visitors often comment on the deep blue of the sky during clear weather – a cold blue. That said, surely the only reason <strong>Justin Rutledge</strong> would pen a song called “Kapuskasing Coffee” is to honour such a beverage in keeping Kapuskasingites(?) warm. It surely isn’t for the fact that Kapuskasing produces some of the finest blends to be had in Canada. “Early one morning drinking Kapuskasing coffee; Kapuskasing Coffee and I sang to you”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-9lWcSkr2o"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-9lWcSkr2o</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 85:<br />
If you’ve ever made the long trek across Ontario with the seemingly endless stretches of trees, you’ll appreciate this <strong>Blue Rodeo</strong> song. The Toronto band has done more than a few of these drives, touring most of the country’s small towns many times over. “Mattawa” is the name of a song named after the northeastern Ontario town in the Ottawa valley. The song describes a winter night’s journey home with arrival scheduled in the wee hours of the morning: “200 miles ’til sunrise; 200 miles of this ice and snow; I’ll greet the dawn in Mattawa.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiR0B6cDEek"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiR0B6cDEek</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Week 18: July 31- August 6</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 86:<br />
The tune “Manitoba” by <strong>The Wilderness of Manitoba</strong> is a soft, meandering song that sits beautifully in a landscape the invites observation to be carried out at a measured pace. Surely the wide open spaces of a province like Manitoba are fitting, as are the prairies in general. “I’m driving far; In a broken car; To where you are; Today.” <a href="https://vimeo.com/9682727"><span style="color: blue;">https://vimeo.com/9682727</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 87:<br />
Canadian alt-country chanteuse <strong>Carolyn Mark</strong> definitely and deftly walks the line between sly, sardonic humor with a wink and deadpan seriousness in the song “The Queen of Vancouver Island”, a song that leaves us wondering at times if the song is referring to a specific someone, or if it’s simply about the ferry boat that plies the Georgia Straight on a daily basis from Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island to Tsawwassen on the B.C. mainland. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuKPAGILeLo"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuKPAGILeLo</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 88:<br />
Best known as the voice behind the Winnipeg band The Weakerthans, <strong>John K. Samson</strong>’s solo work has brought us such gems as “Oldest Oak at Brookside”, a song is addressed to the oldest oak tree in Winnipeg's Brookside Cemetery which happens to be western Canada’s oldest cemetery containing over 200,000 graves, the oldest dating back to 1876. The song serves as a reminder that nature, even if in the form of a single tree, existed long before the events and advances we tend to take for granted, in the case of this song, having Winnipeg as the setting of those events and advances. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVYFWlkAU7w"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVYFWlkAU7w</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 89:<br />
The <strong>Kate & Anna McGarrigle</strong> song “Complainte Pour Ste. Catherine” just might be the quintessential song about Montreal. “Moi j' me promène sous Ste-Catherine; J' profite de la chaleur du métro; Je n' me regarde pas dans les vitrines; Quand il fait trente en-dessous d' zéro; Y'a longtemps qu'on fait d' la politique; Vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques; Je ne me sens pas intrépide; Quand il fait fret j' fais pas du ski; J'ai pas d' motel aux Laurentides; Le samedi c'est l' soir du hockey”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXL7hUHaJaY"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXL7hUHaJaY</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 90: <br />
<strong>Sam Roberts</strong> penned a song called “An American Draft Dodger in Thunder Bay” and guess what it’s about? Yeah Thunder Bay was somewhat a popular destination for American draft dodgers who didn’t want to go to Vietnam back in the late 60’s. “He's on his way to Thunder Bay; Crossed the border late at night; And it was high stakes until he saw the Great Lakes; And he felt the cold wind bite”. (…) “I'm an American on the Canadian Shield; And I'm putting down roots in your frozen fields; It gets cold but you feel so good to be a stranger in a town and you're understood”.<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI6rInBvpmI"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI6rInBvpmI</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 91:<br />
The thing about an instrumental piece of music is that you can pretty much give it whatever name you want. This <strong>Broken Social Scene</strong> song is called “I Slept with Bonhomme at the CBC”, and why not (the title that is, not the actual sleeping with Bonhomme at the CBC.) Does the song not ooze sexual relations with the King of the Quebec Winter Carnival under the architectural confines of Canada’s oldest existing broadcasting network? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZuikjeK6Do"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZuikjeK6Do</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Week 19: August 7-13</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 92:<br />
“50 Mission Cap” by <strong>The Tragically Hip</strong> describe the mysterious disappearance of Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player Bill Barilko. Barilko scored the Stanley Cup clinching goal for the Leafs over Montreal Canadiens in the 1951 cup finals. Four months and five days later, Barilko departed on a fishing trip in a small, single-engine airplane with friend. The plane disappeared between Rupert House and Timmins, Ont., leaving no trace of the men. Eleven years later a helicopter discovered the plane wreckage roughly 100 kilometres north of Cochrane, Ont. Barilko would be buried to rest in his home town of Timmins, Ont., the same year that the Maple Leafs would win their next Stanley Cup. “I stole this from a hockey card, I keep tucked up under”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkYoGf0pN9o"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkYoGf0pN9o</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 93:<br />
A Québécois anthem, <strong>Gilles Vigneault</strong>’s “Mon pays” expresses nationalism, solidarity and connection to the northern landscapes. "Mon pays, ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver" ("My country is not a country, it's winter") — provides a good illustration of the metaphoric character of the song as Vigneault goes on to speak of winds, cold, snow and ice, establishing the weather of Northern Québec as a metaphor for its cultural isolation. Beyond evoking the solitude of wide open spaces, Vigneault also expresses the ideal of brotherhood and solidarity, stating: “De mon grand pays solitaire; Je crie avant que de me taire; A tous les hommes de la terre; Ma maison c'est votre maison; Entre mes quatre murs de glace; Je mets mon temps et mon espace; A préparer le feu, la place; Pour les humains de l'horizon; Et les humains sont de ma race.” And surely nothing’s changed. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G551bmF4AhA"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G551bmF4AhA</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 94:<br />
“Bud the Spud” by <strong>Stompin’ Tom Connors</strong>, a song about a trucker who hauls potatoes out of Prince Edward Island. “It's bud the spud from the bright red mud; Goin down the highway smiling; The Spuds are big on the back of Bud's rig; And they're from Prince Edward Island they're from Prince Edward Island”. Is it any wonder that the song was turned into an illustrated children's book in 1994 featuring Bud the truck driver and his dog, and that an iconic tribute chip truck in downtown Halifax calling itself Bud the Spud has been there selling spuds since 1977? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtySGSuKZe8"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtySGSuKZe8</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 95:<br />
“Us middle-aged men just completing; The finishing touches on a dope deal; It's agreed we get a small piece; In the middle of the cornfield; When these Canada geese fly south; We'll harvest in the dark …” goes <strong>Gordon Downie</strong>’s “Canada Geese”, a song about the paranoia of pot growing middle-aged men and the Canada Geese who know what’s going on. “Us Canada geese held a meeting; In the middle of a cornfield; It's agreed we leave in small vees; And meet up again in the real world …”. Canada’s geese know all. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqgm9XiqAgE"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqgm9XiqAgE</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 96:<br />
Surely you’ve been there, “...kick the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight...” as <strong>Bruce Cockburn</strong> describes in the song “The Coldest Night of the Year”. “I was up all night, socializing; Trying to keep the latent depression from crystallizing; Now the sun is lurking just behind the Scarborough horizon; And you're not even here; On the coldest night of the year.” The song is an ode to wintery Toronto (oh so far away right now): “I took in Yonge Street at a glance; Heard the punkers playing; Watched the bikers dance; Everybody wishing they could go to the south of France” or maybe Portugal … why not? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mwc43Fd9DY"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mwc43Fd9DY</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 97:<br />
“Edmonton” by <strong>The Rural Alberta Advantage</strong>, a song about memories of where you’re from, of when you were growing up, and how that city defines you even when you’re not there. In this case, as you might have guessed, that city is Edmonton, and just like every city, when the kids are growing up and are bored, they set out to explore: “Meet me there again; Under the lights at the Leg; And we will burn our eyes; Seeking out these purple nights". When the Legislature in Edmonton is lit up at night with yellow floodlights, they say if you walk up and stare into them for awhile, everything will look all purple-y when you look away. "Purple City" – surely a cheap thrill when the kids have nothing better to do. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcqr68ocUxY"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcqr68ocUxY</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Week 20: August 14-20</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 98:<br />
Ode to Canadian girls is the song “Canadian Girls” by <strong>Dean Brody</strong>. “She grew up watching hockey”; “She likes snow storms and Gordon Lightfoot”; “She spends her summers out on a boat”; “She watched Degrassi”; and “She’d give her life for the red and white”. Good golly that is so every Canadian girl … except for those who hate hockey and snow storms and don’t know who Gordon Lightfoot is and get sea sick and have no nationalistic pride. Degrassi? Well everybody watched Degrassi? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvuHQkwMRmo"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvuHQkwMRmo</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 99:<br />
As <strong>The</strong> <strong>Arrogant Worms</strong> point out in the song “Canada is Really Big”, “It isn't what you do with it; It's the size that counts!” Guess that means Canada’s got a whole lot more thrust in it then say a place like Portugal, for example. “We're the second largest country; On this planet Earth; And if Russia keeps on shrinking; Then soon we'll be first (as long as we keep Quebec).” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOM-TmZBzZo"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOM-TmZBzZo</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 100:<br />
It only makes sense that a band from Canada would write a song called “Fuck, I Hate the Cold”. That band is <strong>Cowboy Junkies</strong>. “Too many years on the rinks of Montreal. Too many years in the lofts of old TO. Too many nights in the bowels of Avenue B. Too many days in the arms of Lady T. Or maybe I'm just getting old, 'cause, fuck, I hate the cold.” That’s when it’s time to move somewhere warmer. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmfwHqRW-Ko"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmfwHqRW-Ko</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 101:<br />
“Fogarty’s Cove” by <strong>Stan Rogers</strong> embraces a triple-barreled narrative common in Canadian Maritime lyricism: love for your home, pride in your work and the knife-twisting need to ship away to keep working. “We just lost sight of the Queensport light down the bay before us; And the wind has blown some cold today with just a wee touch of snow; Along the shore from Lazy Head hard abeam Half Island; Tonight we'll let the anchor go down in Fogarty's Cove.” Life once upon a time along the pristine, ruggedness of Nova Scotia. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1bB8hU_pzs"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1bB8hU_pzs</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 102:<br />
The<strong> Murray McLaughlin</strong> song “Down by the Henry Moore” references several Toronto landmarks, including Kensington Market, The Silver Dollar, the Henry Moore sculpture and close by Nathan Phillips Square, as well as the now defunct Palm Grove Saloon. The song is an ode to the Toronto of yesteryear, more specifically the 60’s and 70’s. The place has sure come a long way. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ1S7LE6vmY"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ1S7LE6vmY</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 103:<br />
<strong>The Tragically Hip</strong>’s “Goodnight Attawapiskat” is a song that grapples with the Federal Government’s poor treatment of Canada’s aboriginal communities. The northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat was/is an obvious example: high suicide rates, high unemployment, addiction, poor housing and overcrowding, poorly educated and high dropout rates, etc., etc… “Goodnight Attawapiskat” is based on a trip the band made to Attawapiskat to play for the people and bring light to the issues. “Attawapiskat; City by the Bay; A diamond dazzling; Oh, Attawapiskat; You're on your way.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzHu4btRUyY"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzHu4btRUyY</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Week 20: August 21-27</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 104:<br />
As he belts in the song “Saskatchewan Son-of-a-Gun” <strong>Tim Hus</strong> is the “genuine big sky son-of-a-gun from Saskatchewan”. And everywhere that he has been, “from Estevan up to Creighton; Meadow Lake to Speedy Creek and everyplace in between; Street so wide on the main drag you can drive a combine to the bank …”. Cause “the prairie is a place, you can watch your dog run away for days; Golden fields of wheat as far as you can see.” That’s what it’s like with “grain elevators in a line out in the land of the living skies”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGxKhsr_pxY"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGxKhsr_pxY</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 105:<br />
<strong>Leonard Cohen</strong> recorded "Un Canadien errant" (The Wondering Canadian), a song written in 1842 by Antoine Gérin-Lajoie after the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837–38, changing it to "Un Canadien errant" (The Lost Canadian) in 1979. The video below shows Cohen in Montreal in 1979, listening to the demo tape of this very song and translating it into English. He sits out on the balcony at the back of his home overlooking the neighboring backyard shacks of what might be his Portuguese neighbours. In the end, he is shown in Parc du Portugal where he lived until his recent passing. “Un Canadien Errant (A wandering Canadian); Banni de ses foyers (banned from his hearths); Parcourait en pleurant (travelled while crying); Des pays etrangers (in foreign lands)”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V-Rth-NKk4"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V-Rth-NKk4</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 106:<br />
Calgary’s hip-hop duo <strong>Dragon Fli Empire</strong> penned the song “Mount Pleasant” based on observations while riding a Calgary Transit Bus running from the Calgary neighbourhood Mount Pleasant to downtown and back again. “It's like up and down the number 2 Killarney 17th Avenue. Its Mount Pleasant. Its Mount Pleasant y'all. Its Mount Pleasant. Its Mount Pleasant y'all.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w0Zal6ffj8"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w0Zal6ffj8</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 107:<br />
A hardworking man from east of Gatineau pleads with “Jolie Louise” for her to marry him and live in a pretty house — but fate has different plans in this dark love song by Canada’s legendary musician / producer <strong>Daniel Lanois</strong>. “Ma jolie, how do you do? Mon nom est Jean-Guy Thibault-Leroux. I come from East of Gatineau; My name is Jean-Guy, ma jolie. J'ai une maison a Lafontaine; Where we can live, if you marry me; Une belle maison a Lafontaine; Where we will live, you and me; O-oh Louise... ma jolie Louise.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3SUAk0pEFg"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3SUAk0pEFg</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 108: <br />
“There's no short cut; And no straight line; How am I to find the sleeping country?; Ghost horse in my head keeping time; Wandering lines; Trans Canada”. Cause there’s no way around it when crossing the vastness that is Canada, and “Trans Canada”, the song by <strong>The Constantines</strong>, pays homage to that long, long stretch of uniting pavement. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApY-gpsxddU"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApY-gpsxddU</span></a> <br />
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<strong>Week 21: September 9-18</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 109: <br />
“Spoonful of sugar in Montreal city; when the leaves are dying and look so pretty. At home the ships are on the rocks and sinking. And as hard as we try, we just can't stop thinking.” The <strong>Matt Mays</strong> song “Spoonful of Sugar” is about being away from home, in this case, missing the Maritimes while in Montreal during autumn season. “Nothing can cure this homesick disease; this fall the trees fell before the leaves.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXBhXYKC_xU"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXBhXYKC_xU</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 110: <br />
Terminal City is one of the various nicknames attributed to the city of Vancouver (or more specifically Gastown), in this case for being the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. <strong>Doug and the Slugs</strong> paid homage to their hometown with the 1992 album Tales from Terminal City, a record that kicks off with the song “Terminal City”. “That’s all right (That’s all right); I’m sitting pretty (That’s all right); We’ve got every colour alive out in Terminal City”. We do too. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbZGZ8ubM2k"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbZGZ8ubM2k</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 111: <br />
The song “Émile Bertrand” by <strong>The United Steel Workers of Montreal</strong> is an ode to the historic Émile Bertrand Restaurant in Montreal. It’s a nostalgic look back at working class life during bygone days along Montreal's Lachine Canal where the Émile Bertrand was located from 1898 till its closing about a dozen years ago. “Dreamin’ just comes easy; when work’s too hard to bear. Staring in your eyes dear; believing our dreams can be here.” In the making of Montreal. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-AEnb3bRiA"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-AEnb3bRiA</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 112:<br />
“Canadian lover, don't demean yourself; Though I know you and I know you mean well; Beneath a starlit night, in a prairie fire; With the pioneering spirit just about to expire” goes the song “Canadian Lover, Falcon’s Escape by <strong>Destroyer</strong>, a song about searching and not always finding. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4efK2fgdPww"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4efK2fgdPww</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 113:<br />
Huntsville, Ont. is 215 km north of Toronto, not far from Algonquin Provincial Park. In the song “Huntsville CA” <strong>Kevin Hearn</strong> (who is also a Barenaked Lady) and Thin Buckle describe the difference between life in the winter and in the summer up in Huntsville. It’s all comes down to this really: “Walking through the city in the sun; Where are all these people coming from?; Well they are disappear when the winter comes.” And then later on: “It’s 40 below where they go?; Shovellin’, shovellin’, shovellin’ snow.” Yeah, it almost seems like it the only reason to come out. <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 114:<br />
“North East South West” by Vancouver’s <strong>Japandroids</strong> tells us that no matter how long you’re going crazy away from Canada, Canada’s always there awaiting to ground you again. “Flayed and gutted, so I've got to go; Back home, hungry for a hand to hold; And no matter how much I fan the flames; Canada always answers when I call her name; Down and out, drinking Dundas dry; Up against the wall of a winter's night; Toronto, I'm trusting you to the cut the 'caine; 'Cause I'm saving Vancouver for a rainy day.” (By the way, some of the song’s video was shot in Portugal. See if you can spot São Bento train station in Porto for example.) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=172&v=D1cRSpSk5D4"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=172&v=D1cRSpSk5D4</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 115:<br />
<strong>The Rah Rah</strong>’s “Good Winter”, a song about tobogganing, ice skating and curling, can’t get much more Canadian than that. The song is a romanticised reimagining of being young in a small town Canada. The song’s nostalgic tone is meant to underline the dichotomy between all that is good about the 'good winter', as described in the song, and the reality of the harsh cold, boredom and loneliness that actuality accompanies Canada’s coldest season. “We used to go skatin' every other day. Slap in time to cheddar, I was Lafleur, you were Messier.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9L-ZDORArE"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9L-ZDORArE</span></a><br />
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<strong>Week 22: September 18-24</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 116:<br />
The <strong>Kathleen Edwards</strong> song “Oh Canada” is far from being about Canada’s national anthem. The song references the 2005 killing of 15-year-old Jane Creba (killed on Boxing Day when caught in the cross-fire of a gang-related shooting on Toronto's Yonge Street) as a way of criticising larger problems in Canadian society. Although a notch down from its southerly neighbours, we cannot forget that Canada too has problems of racism, cultural sexism and gun violence. “Oh Canada, I stand on guard for a lot; But just last week a white girl was shot; Outside a shopping mall; Yea, it's written in the press; That your sweet little town; Has lost its innocence”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMhohrxvgZA"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMhohrxvgZA</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 117:<br />
“Roll on Saskatchewan” by <strong>Stompin' Tom Conners</strong>, not necessarily about the province but the river that, in this case, rolls through a twangy, quickly strummed ditty. "From the wheat fields of my heart, go find your way to the cool Hudson Bay, and roll on, roll on Saskatchewan." The Saskatchewan River actually empties into Lake Winnipeg. It does not find its way to “cool Hudson Bay”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqROd4oUNB0"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqROd4oUNB0</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 118:<br />
<strong>Jason</strong> <strong>Collett</strong>’s “Provincial Blues” reflects on the at time unlivable state of Canadian provinces that leads to internal migration, only to have it all come back around. One moves from Alberta to Toronto because Alberta’s not doing it, only to have Toronto become too pricy. It’s an all too common part of Canada. “I came to the city, when the city was cheap. Now that cheap had some work done, I pay through the teeth. You came from Alberta; you said 'Toronto's not so bad'. I took it as a compliment, but I couldn't think of a compliment back”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUnWPFUvfuU"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUnWPFUvfuU</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 119:<br />
"YYZ" is an instrumental rock piece by Canada’s most popular power-trio ever <strong>Rush</strong> and, funny enough, one of the band's most popular pieces when played live as well (which may say something about what people really think of Geddy Lee’s voice).Rush drummer Neil Peart once said: “It is always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags! YYZ (pronounced YY Zed, of course) is the code for Toronto International Airport, and there’s nothing like coming back home. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpMpfp-J_I"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpMpfp-J_I</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 120:<br />
Anarchist Winnipeg punk rock band <strong>Propagandhi</strong> penned this raging but poignant ditty about Canada's favourite sport, that of hockey, what else? The tune "Dear Coaches Corner" comes from a passionate hockey fan who wonders why this wonderful sport must be publicly linked to military strength and nationalistic grandstanding, mainly by the man who wears the funny suits. It starts off like this: “Dear Ron MacLean, Dear Coach’s Corner, I'm writing in order for someone to explain to my niece the distinction between these mandatory pre-game group rites of submission and the rallies at Nuremburg. Specifically the function the ritual serves in conjunction with what everybody knows is in the end a kids game." <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAIUf_SYpwE"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAIUf_SYpwE</span></a><br />
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<strong>Week 23: September 25-October 1</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 121:<br />
“Nail up the windows and close up the doors, Good Time Charlie’s is no more,” laments <strong>The Deep Dark Woods</strong> in the song “Charlie's (Is Coming Down)”, a tune about the demolition of the Plains Hotel, aka the Good Time Charlie's Pub in Regina, Sask., a place where one could go to see bands play and where many a youngster – correct age or not – was introduced to ‘real’ music. They ended up putting up some condos where the sweet music used to come from. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNTcLNxci48"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNTcLNxci48</span></a> <br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 122:<br />
Metal music isn’t known for phrases like: "Back home to Canada to see our famous geese!" That is unless the metal band behind such lyrics is Canadian. In this case, it’s the Toronto metal heads <strong>Anvil</strong> with the song “Flying”, a tune about jetting around the world to all kinds of different cities and countries, but at the end of it all, it’s “taxi the tarmac let’s go” back to where those famous geese also call home. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CofptnV94s"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CofptnV94s</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 123:<br />
Written in 1949, "The Black Fly Song" by <strong>Wade Hemsworth</strong> is a song about being tormented by black flies while working in the wilds of Northern Ontario. The song talks about the experiences Hemsworth himself had while accompanying a Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario crew surveying the Little Abitibi River to the determine the feasibility of erecting a dam, the Abitibi Canyon Generating Station. “And the black flies, the little black flies; always the black fly no matter where you go. I'll die with the black fly a-pickin' my bones; In North Ontar-eye-o-eye-o, in North Ontar-eye-o”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLBXb1kgMo"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLBXb1kgMo</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 124:<br />
“And I'm peeling off the label as they peel a corner guard; Dance down the sheet to the tune of "Hurry, Hurry Hard"”. When the song “Tournament of Hearts” by <strong>The Weakerthans</strong> was penned, the intention was clear: to describe a scene where at the forefront is Canada’s love for curling, beer, winter and more curling. “Now the lounge is full of farmers for the 7:30 draw; teammates all left before they had to buy a round. When they pull the 50/50 and I've lost again I’ll go …” Because what else is there after the 50/50 draw? It’s classic Canadian moment. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYWkUeFYzl4"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYWkUeFYzl4</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 125:<br />
Surely you’ve heard of the War of 1812, but do you remember what happened? In a nutshell: “And the white house burned burned burned down, and we're the ones that did it. It burned, burned, burned while the president ran and cried. It burned, burned, burned down and things were very historical, and the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies yeah wah wah wah! In the war of 1812.” – or so <strong>The Arrogant Worms</strong> tell us in the song “The War of 1812”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU2Zr8bI6T4"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU2Zr8bI6T4</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 126:<br />
The Frank Slide was a rockslide that buried part of the mining town of Frank, Alberta. Having taken place at 4:10 am on April 29, 1903, the horrid night would see over 90 million tons of limestone rock slid down Turtle Mountain in the Rocky Mountains, obliterating the eastern edge of Frank, the Canadian Pacific Railway line and the coal mine. It was one of the largest landslides in Canadian history and remains the deadliest, as it’s believed that up to 90 of the town's residents were killed, most of whom remain buried in the rubble today. <strong>The Rural Alberta Advantage</strong> song “Frank, AB” is about the episode in Canadian history, an ode to the people underneath all the rocks. “And under the rubble of the mountain that tumbled, I'll hold you forever”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otSHtSea1Yo"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otSHtSea1Yo</span></a><br />
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<strong>Week 24: October 2-8</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 127:<br />
<strong>Prairie Oyster</strong>’s “Canadian Sunrise”, a song that tells us that no matter how bad things may get for those who live in the Great White North, tomorrow’s a new day. And when that sun comes up, it’s a good a time as ever to start anew new. “However rough the road, however dark the skies; Your frozen soul will melt like April ice; When a shot of gold hits your eyes; Canadian Sunrise”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuInLbVUOAM"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuInLbVUOAM</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 128:<br />
“It's the longest street in the world; with the most feet in the world. Another street where boy meets girl; on Yonge Street.” A major arterial route connecting the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe, up until 1999, the Guinness Book of World Records listed Yonge Street as being 1,896 km long, and thus the longest street in the world; this due to a conflation of Yonge Street with the rest of Ontario's Highway 11. This was actually false. The truth is Yonge Street (including the Bradford-to-Barrie extension) is actually 86 km long and in the song “On Yonge Street”, <strong>Gordon Lightfoot</strong> pays tribute to every single foot of it. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drVQ3tsDA9A"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drVQ3tsDA9A</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 129:<br />
Because the NHL season kicks off tonight, and because hockey is a cornerstone of what Canada’s all about, this is <strong>Jane Siberry</strong>’s “Hockey”. “They rioted in the streets of Montreal when they benched Rocket Richard, it's true; Don't let those Sunday afternoons get away get away get away get away; Break away break away break away break away. The sun is fading on the frozen river; The wind is dying down; Someone else just got called for dinner”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPEBW4o740"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPEBW4o740</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 130:<br />
“Lefty” by Edmonton’s <strong>The Wheat Pool</strong> tells the story of the troubled, emotional lives of Lefty’s adult-aged children and their distant relations with their father and even among themselves. Lefty was distant, even absent. He was probably more troubled than anyone. He was a Canadian war veteran and who knows in what condition he was in. On the day of Lefty’s funeral, his children come together. It was time for some healing. “Those ashes, they’re in the ground. We left them in a Manitoba town”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5buW2wvhUQ"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5buW2wvhUQ</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 131:<br />
The <strong>Moxy Fruvous</strong> song “King of Spain” is a fictional immigrant song about a man who was once king of his country, only to ended up living in Toronto, working at the Pizza Pizza, vacuuming the turf at SkyDome and being called up to drive the Zamboni for the Leafs. A true Canadian immigrant tale indeed; taking up multiple jobs just to make ends meet. “Now I eat humble pie.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpGV1jOqk4I"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpGV1jOqk4I</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 132:<br />
<strong>Tom Cochrane</strong>’s “Life is a Highway” is nothing short of a Canadian classic that pays tribute to that all too common love for moving around. In fact, the song is probably best listened to while heading down that long stretch of highway. In conjunction with that, the song also pays tribute to “Vancouver's lights”; and why not? She sure is a beaut when she’s all lit up, Vancouver is. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3sMjm9Eloo"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3sMjm9Eloo</span></a><br />
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<strong>Week 25: October 9-15</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 133:<br />
“I've been through the Rockies, I've seen Saskatoon; I've driven down the Highway 1, just hopin' that I'd see you soon; Cause I'm comin' home”, goes the tune “Comin Home” by <strong>City and Colour</strong>, a song about travelling about and always coming back to the Canada you know. “I've been through Nova Scotia, Sydney to Halifax; I'll never take any pictures, cause I know I'll just be right back; Cause I'm comin' home …” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTSx1qprbmc"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTSx1qprbmc</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 134:<br />
<strong>Drake</strong>, the guy who gave Toronto it’s new nickname “the 6” – this apparently due to the fact that TO’s area code is 416 and because at one point Toronto was broken up into six areas (Old Toronto, Scarborough, East York, North York, Etobicoke and York) – loves to rap about where he’s from. The tune “City is Mine” is one such example. “Yo, the city is mine (which one?), T-O-R-O-N-T-O, D-R-A-K-E that's me, you know how the story goes …” Yeah we do: bitches, bling and Toronto we think. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbU3gbASzmc"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbU3gbASzmc</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 135:<br />
“If there's a goal that everyone remembers, it was back in ol' 72. We all squeezed the stick and we all pulled the trigger, and all I remember is sitting beside you. You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey, and I never saw someone say that before. You held my hand and we walked home the long way, you were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr.” Those are the opening lyrics to <strong>The Tragically Hip</strong> tune “Fireworks”, a song that uses Paul Henderson’s historic goal ’72 Hockey Summit Series between Canada and the USSR and the love for our hockey heroes to explain how the little things we find important as carefree, irresponsible youth, become less important when a deeper connection to someone is come across; when stars get replaced with fireworks. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=San1NQSS1Rw"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=San1NQSS1Rw</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 136:<br />
According to Burton Cummings, <strong>The Guess Who</strong> member who came up with the lyrics for the song “American Woman”: “When I said 'American woman, stay away from me,' I really meant 'Canadian woman, I prefer you.'” Cummings’ explanation, no different from the song itself, is actually one big metaphor. “American Woman” is an anti-American song from a Canadian perspective, where the “American Woman” in the song is actually America itself; an America that the song’s narrator wants to distance himself from (as many Canadians do). “Don't come a-hangin' around my door; Don't wanna see your face no more. I don't need your war machines; I don't need your ghetto scenes. Coloured lights can hypnotize; Sparkle someone else's eyes. Now woman, get away from me; American woman, mama, let me be”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqfpkTTy2w"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqfpkTTy2w</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 137:<br />
The <strong>Stan Rogers</strong> song “Free in the Harbour” deals with the primary consequence of the death of the cod fishery and whaling in Newfoundland, that consequence being the migration of Newfoundlanders to Western Canada, namely Alberta. “It's at Portage and Main, you'll see them again; On their way to the hills of Alberta. With lop-sided grins, they waggle their chins; And they brag of the wage they'll be earning. Then it's, "Quick, pull the string boys, and get the tool out; Haul it away! Haul it away!" But just two years ago, you could hear the same shout; Where the whales make free in the harbour.” … “Now they're Calgary roughnecks from Hermitage Bay”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbjEmEifZp4"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbjEmEifZp4</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 138:<br />
“In late September I drove across the prairie; the mountains behind me and the ocean beyond” is the opening lines to the <strong>Joel Plaskett</strong> song “Light of the Moon”, a song that places you in that driving all night to get to your destination in anywhere, Canada mode. “Through the night's deep abyss, flirt with the waitress in Sault Ste Marie; hear music and voices through static and hiss”. And even then there’s that all night place along the highway when the hunger kicks in. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C2_5P8SByA"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C2_5P8SByA</span></a><br />
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<strong>Week 26: October 16-22</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 139:<br />
The narrator tells the story of “5 men on a wooden row boat capsized on an uncharted lake”. The narrator’s grandfather was among the men, but he “meet a tragic end” and “perished on that hunting trip. One man the lone survivor held on to that upturned boat. Weighted down by their heavy clothing the others would even float. This is the plot of the anguish filled song “November in Ontario” by <strong>The Skydiggers</strong>. “November in Ontario; Cold water and an early snow; 100ft from the water’s edge; They never even had a chance.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bwcIKCfInk"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bwcIKCfInk</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 140:<br />
On this the day of Gord Downie’s passing, we present to you a <strong>Tragically Hip</strong> song from the band’s very first EP dating back to 1987. “Last American Exit” was the bands second single ever, a song that marked the bands persona as 5 musicians that would forever be dedicated, first and foremost, to Canada, without ever selling out to the pressures that often come from south of the border. “I'm on the last American exit to the northland; I'm on the last American exit to my homeland; I'm on the last American exit to my last dance; They keep calling out my name, I shout it down.” Later in the song Gord sings: “Hope I make it, I know I'm going to make it somehow…” As we know now, that “somehow” would be by singing to Canadians about Canada. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjbFcglJYb8"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjbFcglJYb8</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 141:<br />
“Six” by <strong>Ghostkeeper</strong> is a song about family, Saturday morning pancakes, how Autumn pulls on our heartstrings, and about living in Canada’s north. It is also about growing up Métis which is what Shane Ghostkeeper and Sarah Houle, the two principal members of Ghostkeeper, are. “My home it's in my bones, but mostly it's the six of you that sticks with me, this mixed blood in us was just laughin' crying loving fighting living up in the north”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VispNE0pvBk"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VispNE0pvBk</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 142:<br />
“I hear the call from the suburbs down to the Plateau”. It’s the calling of Montreal to come join it in all its fun and frolic, the city that at the time of first European contact was inhabited by the St. Lawrence Iroquoians. Jacques Cartier became first European to reach the area now known as Montreal in 1535 when he entered the Iroquoian village of Hochelaga on the Island of Montreal. Seventy years later, Samuel de Champlain tried to create a fur trading post but the Mohawk of the Iroquois defended that it was their hunting grounds. The “missionaries that never went home” would conquer. “Ask the colonial ghost what they took and they’ll tell you that …You’re dancing on it. You’re dancing on it”, sings <strong>Rae Spoon</strong> in the song “Come on Forest Fire Burn the Disco Down”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYfVRI-aub0"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYfVRI-aub0</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 143:<br />
The members of <strong>The Grapes of Wrath</strong> grew up together in the town of Kelowna, B.C. Written at a time the band was already based in Vancouver, the song “Backward Town” is a reflection on their days of youth growing up in the Okanagan town of feeling claustrophobic and of wanting to get out, to then one day return and realize getting out was undoubtedly the best decision. “My old school is getting drunk on the town; don't think they'll ever get out. Go home just to realize why I had to get out.” Interestingly enough, even given the song’s not so positive reflection on the city, “Backward Town” has since become the official anthem of Kelowna. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_r5zXOnKio"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_r5zXOnKio</span></a><br />
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<strong>Week 26: October 23-31</strong><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 144:<br />
The narrator has a dream; it’s a “Canadian Dream”, as is <strong>The</strong> <strong>Rheostatics</strong> song. The narrator’s dream is to cross the country; to go out west where Vancouver awaits. “When this winter freeze is done, come the springtime, I'll be gone; Traverse the grand prairies on a Greyhound bus”. It’s the youthful dream of a "youthful optimists" who will get by with a guitar on his back. “Perhaps next year … perhaps next year”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mles5y9LKI"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mles5y9LKI</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 145:<br />
“There's a million stories in the naked dominion; coast to coast, the real Canadians...” sing <strong>Trooper</strong> in the song “Real Canadian”, a song about having a good time on “a hot night in a cold town” all across the land. “From the Malahat, to Kitimat, to Medicine Hat to Uranium City, From Thunder Bay, to Saint-Gervais, all the way to St. John’s, Newfoundland; The real Canadians...” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSg4TOXJ71Q"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSg4TOXJ71Q</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 146:<br />
<strong>Julie Doiron</strong>’s “Snow Falls in November” is the sweetest song about the romantic aspects of a cold, snowy Canadian winter day; the kind of day that keeps you indoors, from first morning light to the return of another long winter night, in the safety of all things warm. “Through the window we watch the snow, kids walking in snow pants. We don't go nowhere, not today, not tonight.” The season is just around the corner. “Watch the snow while night falls and stay here till November is through”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBExgM0NpM4"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBExgM0NpM4</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 147:<br />
<strong>Joel Plaskett</strong>’s “The Park Avenue Sobriety Test”, according to Plaskett himself, is the nickname a neighbour of his gave to a metal guardrail at the corner of Park Avenue and King Street in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia near Plaskett’s home. While the curve is not geometrically unusual and can be easily navigated by a conscientious driver, there have been several instances of impaired drivers mishandling the turn and smashing their cars into the guardrail. Successfully negotiating the Park Avenue Sobriety Test, therefore, means you’re probably sober. “This is the Park Avenue Sobriety Test It's a kick in the teeth, it's the hornet's nest”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE98AGNAHvQ"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE98AGNAHvQ</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 148:<br />
“Subdivisions” by <strong>Rush</strong> is a commentary on societal stratification through the pressure to adopt certain lifestyles. It describes young people dealing with a "cool" culture amidst a comfortable yet oppressively mundane suburban existence in single housing subdivisions. Anyone who does not obey social expectations is regarded as an outcast; the lyrics flatly describe a choice of "conform or be cast out”. Although this commentary could apply to pretty much any North American metropolis, the band drew inspiration from the lives of youth in suburban Greater Toronto, something illustrated in the song’s video with suburban scenes filmed in early 1980's Scarborough and the Don Valley Parkway, accompanied by scenes of downtown TO. “Any escape might help to smooth; the unattractive truth; but the suburbs have no charms to soothe; the restless dreams of youth.” 35 years after the song’s release, still relevant. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYYdQB0mkEU"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYYdQB0mkEU</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 149:<br />
“Spread your tiny wings and fly away; and take the snow back with you where it came from on that day”, sings <strong>Anne Murray</strong> in here timeless classic “Snowbird”. Although it was Anne Murray who took the song to the world, it was Canadian singer-songwriter Gene MacLellan who composed the song while walking on a beach in P.E.I. and seeing in the distance migratory birds setting flight. The song contrasts the narrator's inability to leave the place of his/her heartache with the bird's ability to just up and fly away -- freedom. Of course many Canadians have taken the song to heart by they themselves becoming snowbirds, migrating every year to a sunny, southerly destination (most likely in the US) where they do not take the snow with them -- the Canadian snowbird. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peWwHTTKmVw"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peWwHTTKmVw</span></a><br />
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CinP150 for Canada150 – Song 150:<br />
For the last 7 months we here at Canadians in Portugal have been offering up songs about Canada as a way of celebrating Canada’s 150 years of confederation. Today we offer up the last of 150 songs, what we think could possibly be Canada’s other national anthem – the one that points out “the best game you can name”. Yes, you guessed it: the “Good ol’ Hockey Game” by the legendary <strong>Stompin’ Tom Conners</strong>. From the first to the second to the third period, until “‘THE PUCK IS IN! THE HOME TEAM WINS!’ At the good old hockey game. And that’s 150. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS3GQverRiQ"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS3GQverRiQ</span></a> <br />
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Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-24918460089856938232014-12-31T18:56:00.001+00:002014-12-31T19:25:48.864+00:00Favourite Canadian Albums of 2014<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Alright, after presenting songs from CanadiansinPortugal’s favourite Canadian albums of 2014 on our Facebook page the last few weeks, here now are the albums and the artists in order from 1 to 20.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>2. Rural Alberta Advantage</strong> - Mended with Gold<br /><strong>3. The Wooden Sky</strong> - Let’s be Ready<br /><strong>4. Sloan</strong> - Commonwealth <br /><strong>5. Gord Downie, The Sadies and the Conquering Sun</strong> - Gord Downie, The Sadies and the Conquering Sun<br /><strong>6. Sam Roberts Band</strong> - Lo-Fantasy<br /><strong>7. Elliott Brood</strong> - Work and Love<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>8. Pink Mountaintops</strong> - Get Back</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">
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<strong>9. Mounties</strong> – Thrash Rock Legacy<br /> <strong>10. Mac DeMarco</strong> – Salad Days<br /><strong>11. Kalle Mattson</strong> – Someday, the Moon Will Be Gold</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>12. Alvvays</strong> – Alvvays<br /> <strong>13. The Bicycles</strong> – Young Drones<br /><strong>14. Zeus</strong> – Classic Zeus<br /><strong>15. The Meligrove Band</strong> – Bones of Things<br /> <strong>16. Elephant Stone</strong> - The Three Poisons<br /><strong>17. Amos the Transparent</strong> – This Cold Escape<br /><strong>18. Cousins</strong> – The Halls of Wickwire<br /><strong>19. Neil Young</strong> – Storytone<br /> <strong>20. Arkells</strong> – High Moon</span>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-78211751291539217552013-12-31T13:25:00.000+00:002013-12-31T13:29:11.742+00:00Favourite Canadian Albums of 2013<div class="separator" style="line-height: 10.75pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So after presenting songs from CanadiansinPortugal’s
favourite Canadian albums of 2013 on the CanadiansinPortugal Facebook page the
last few weeks, here, as in previous years, are the albums, the artists and
some links to album streams (if you’re interested and hopefully you will be) in
the order of 1 to 20, as well as the favourite compilation / project album of
the year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Before getting into it though, let just say that out of the three years
of putting this list together, this was the hardest year as far as picking out
an overall favourite. </span>Whatever
the case, here it is:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">1. The
Grapes of Wrath</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"> – High Road <a href="http://music.cbc.ca/#/play/Judith-Lynch/playlist/The-Grapes-of-Wrath---High-Road"><span style="color: blue;">http://music.cbc.ca/#/play/Judith-Lynch/playlist/The-Grapes-of-Wrath---High-Road</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2. Arcade Fire <span style="line-height: 12px;">–</span> Reflektor</b> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPWrFHySSyo" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPWrFHySSyo</span></a></span></div>
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Good</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"> – Arrows of Desire <a href="http://musicmp3.ru/artist_matthew-good__album_arrows-of-desire.html#.Uq8CUvRdUu4"><span style="color: blue;">http://musicmp3.ru/artist_matthew-good__album_arrows-of-desire.html#.Uq8CUvRdUu4</span></a><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt;">4. Blue Rodeo</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt;"> – In Our Nature <a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/blue_rodeo-in_our_nature_album_stream"><span style="color: blue;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/blue_rodeo-in_our_nature_album_stream</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt;">5. The Sadies</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt;"> – Internal Sounds <a href="http://www.avclub.com/article/the-sadies-new-record-eminternal-soundsem-is-strea-102990"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.avclub.com/article/the-sadies-new-record-eminternal-soundsem-is-strea-102990</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt;">6. The Bicycles</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt;"> – Stop Thinking so
Much <a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/bicycles-stop_thinking_so_much_album_stream"><span style="color: blue;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/bicycles-stop_thinking_so_much_album_stream</span></a>
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Woods</b> – Jubilee <a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/deep_dark_woods-jubilee_album_stream"><span style="color: blue;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/deep_dark_woods-jubilee_album_stream</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>9. Daniel Romano <span style="line-height: 12px;">– Come Cry with Me</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> </span><a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/daniel_romano-come_cry_with_me_album_stream" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/daniel_romano-come_cry_with_me_album_stream</span></a></div>
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Hooded Fang </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">– Gravez<b style="color: blue;"> </b><a href="http://hoodedfang.bandcamp.com/album/hooded-fangs-gravez-lp" style="color: blue;">http://hoodedfang.bandcamp.com/album/hooded-fangs-gravez-lp</a><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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The Danks</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"> – Gank <a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/danks-gank_album_stream"><span style="color: blue;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/danks-gank_album_stream</span></a>
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Dog Day</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"> – Fade Out <a href="http://fundog.bandcamp.com/album/fade-out"><span style="color: blue;">http://fundog.bandcamp.com/album/fade-out</span></a><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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Odd Years</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"> – Drawing Lines <a href="http://oddyears.bandcamp.com/album/drawing-lines"><span style="color: blue;">http://oddyears.bandcamp.com/album/drawing-lines</span></a>
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Headstones</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"> – Love + Fury <a href="http://www.purevolume.com/news/headstones-love-and-fury-track-commentary-stream"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.purevolume.com/news/headstones-love-and-fury-track-commentary-stream</span></a><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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Shotgun Jimmie</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"> – Everything,
Everything <a href="http://youvechangedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/everything-everything"><span style="color: blue;">http://youvechangedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/everything-everything</span></a>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">16. Paul Langlois </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">–</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><b> Not Guilty</b> (Not available for streaming anywhere online)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt;">17. The Highest Order</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt;"> – If it’s Real <a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/highest_order-if_its_real_album_stream"><span style="color: blue;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/highest_order-if_its_real_album_stream</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt;">18. Fiver</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt;"> – Lost the Plot <a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/fiver-lost_plot_album_stream"><span style="color: blue;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/fiver-lost_plot_album_stream</span></a>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">20. The Gertrudes </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">– </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Neighbourhood</b> </span><a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/gertrudes-neighbourhood_album_stream" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/gertrudes-neighbourhood_album_stream</span></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Compilations: <b>Skydiggers </b>– All of our Dreaming –
Skydiggers Live, 1988, 2000 & 2012 (3 live performances); No. 1
Northern (cover album); She Comes in the Room (Skydigger songs covered by
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Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-13544823850134192982012-12-31T17:01:00.000+00:002013-12-31T12:45:24.763+00:00Favourite Canadian Albums of 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So after presenting songs from CanadiansinPortugal’s favourite Canadian albums of 2012 over on the CanadiansinPortugal facebook page over the last few weeks, here now are the albums, the artists and links to album streams (if you’re interested and hopefully you will be) in the order of 1 to 20, as well as the fav. compilation album of the year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before getting into it though, let just say that out of the three years of putting this list together, this was the hardest year as far as picking out an overall favourite. Whatever the case, here it is:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">1.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The Sheepdogs – The Sheepdogs<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/sheepdogs-sheepdogs_album_stream"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/sheepdogs-sheepdogs_album_stream</span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Matt Mays – Coyote </span><a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/matt_mays-coyote_album_stream"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/matt_mays-coyote_album_stream</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Cuff the Duke – Union </span><a href="http://music.cbc.ca/#/blogs/2012/10/Cuff-the-Dukes-Union-full-album-stream"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://music.cbc.ca/#/blogs/2012/10/Cuff-the-Dukes-Union-full-album-stream</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. The Tragically Hip – Now for Plan A </span><a href="http://www.thehip.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.thehip.com/</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Wintersleep – Hello Hum </span><a href="http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/album-stream/stream-wintersleep-hello-hum-110426"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/album-stream/stream-wintersleep-hello-hum-110426</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Yukon Blonde – Tiger Talk </span><a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2012/03/album-stream-yukon-blonde-tiger-talk.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2012/03/album-stream-yukon-blonde-tiger-talk.html</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. Rah Rah – The Poet's Dead </span><a href="http://totallyfuzzy.blogspot.pt/2012/10/rah-rah-poets-dead-album-stream.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://totallyfuzzy.blogspot.pt/2012/10/rah-rah-poets-dead-album-stream.html</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. A.C. Newman – Shut Down the Streets </span><a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/c_newman-shut_down_streets_album_stream"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/c_newman-shut_down_streets_album_stream</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9. Skydiggers – Northern Shore </span><a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/skydiggers-northern_shore_album_stream"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/skydiggers-northern_shore_album_stream</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10. Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Americana </span><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/album-premiere-neil-young-and-crazy-horse-americana-20120528"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/album-premiere-neil-young-and-crazy-horse-americana-20120528</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11. The Mohawk Lodge – Damaged Goods </span><a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/mohawk_lodge-damaged_goods_album_stream"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/mohawk_lodge-damaged_goods_album_stream</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12. Boxer the Horse – Would You Please </span><a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/boxer_horse-french_residency_album_stream"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/boxer_horse-french_residency_album_stream</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13. Jason Collett – Reckon </span><a href="http://arts-crafts.ca/releases_spotlight.php?search=AC075&artist=Jason%20Collett"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://arts-crafts.ca/releases_spotlight.php?search=AC075&artist=Jason%20Collett</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14. Octoberman – Waiting in the Well </span><a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/octoberman-waiting_in_well_album_stream"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/octoberman-waiting_in_well_album_stream</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">15. Zeus – Busting Visions </span><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-album-premiere-zeus-busting-visions-20120320"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-album-premiere-zeus-busting-visions-20120320</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">16. The Wooden Sky – Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun </span><a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/wooden_sky-every_child_daughter_every_moon_sun_album_stream"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/wooden_sky-every_child_daughter_every_moon_sun_album_stream</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">17. Islands – A Sleep and A Forgetting </span><a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/islands-sleep_forgetting_album_stream"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/islands-sleep_forgetting_album_stream</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">18. Plants and Animals – The End of That<span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2012/02/album-stream-plants-and-animals---the-end-of-that.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2012/02/album-stream-plants-and-animals---the-end-of-that.html</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">19. Apollo Ghosts – Landmark </span><a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/apollo_ghosts-landmark_album_stream"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/apollo_ghosts-landmark_album_stream</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">20. Hot Panda – Go Outside </span><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/vice-exclusive-listen-to-hot-pandas-new-album-before-anyone-else"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.vice.com/read/vice-exclusive-listen-to-hot-pandas-new-album-before-anyone-else</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Compilation: The Grapes of Wrath – Singles </span><a href="http://music.cbc.ca/#/artists/The-Grapes-Of-Wrath"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://music.cbc.ca/#/artists/The-Grapes-Of-Wrath</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you remember the Montreal Olympics of 1976? I do. The Montreal Olympics were the first Olympics I remember, mind you I remember them in black and white - colour TV's weren't market fixtures yet at that time in Portugal and I was still 3 years away from emigrating to Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now if there's one legacy of the Montreal Games that still remains, it's a little something that became a BIG something (in more ways then one) known as Le Stade Olympique de Montréal. Here it is below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now what you may or may not know is that the 76 Olympics were a financial disaster for Montreal, with the city ending up with a debt that would take 30 years to pay off. The incompetency of the city, in fact, lead to the Quebec provincial government having to take over construction when it became evident, a year before the games were to begin, that work had fallen behind schedule. One week leading up to the opening ceremonies, construction was still under way, and the tower, that had been projected for the stadium at its inauguration, was not completed until 1987.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Nicknamed The Big O as a reference to both its name and doughtnut-shaped opening in its roof (that was meant to have a retractable roof but has never come to fruition), the stadium was not completely paid off until December, 2006. The final expenditure (including construction, repairs, renovations, interest and inflation) amounted to $1.61 billion (cdn). Ironically, one year before it was paid off, The Big One was left tenentless after its only tenent, the Montreal Expos, moved south of the border to Washington. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the province of Quebec, the 76 Olympics thus left a financial legacy. For the world, however, the games left both political and some historical sports moments. In running some of these down they include:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Taro Aso, a member of the Japanese shooting team, 32 years later would be elected as the prime minister of Japan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- The daughter of the Queen of England, Princess Anne, competed in the games as part of the British equestrian riding team. </span><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 28 African nations boycotted the Games in response to the participation of New Zealand, a country whose national rugby team (the All Blacks) continued to play rugby with South Africa, a country that had been banned from the Olympic movement since 1964 due to its apartheid policies.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- The 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci who scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals, including the prestigious All-Around. Funny enough though, the score board could hold only 3 digits and the score was shown as 1.00 every time she pulled off a perfect 10.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- The Montreal Games would introduce the Bruce Jenner to the world, the decathlon gold medal winner in Montreal, today a facelift/plastic surgery lover.</span>
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The Olympic flame also became "electronic" in 76, being transmitted via satellite from Athens to Ottawa by means of an electronic pulse derived from a acual burning flame. From Ottawa it then went by hand to Montreal. After a rainstorm doused out the flame a few days after the games opening ceremonies, an official relit the flame using his cigarette lighter. Organisers quickly doused it out again and relit it using a backup of the original flame.</div>
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<br />The guy with the lighter then went up to the flame and lit a cigarette with the flame becoming the first to do such a thing. Ok this part I made up but it would've been something. And with the afros they had back then, you just know what the main thing going through the head of the guy in the above picture was, right? Lets keep that fire at a distance.</div>
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So in the end, the Soviet Union lead the medal count with a total of 125 medals, with the United States not even a close second with 94 medals. Canada pulled off 11 medals and Portugal two silvers. Wikipedia is wonderful ... as is the steeplechase!
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all know how the Portuguese are in Canada when it comes to community or communities - very tight, generally organised, although never free of all kinds of internal rift. Here in Portugal, Canadians are nowhere close to that. Why? Well we don't really have an organised community per say. We here at Canadians in Portugal, however, have been trying to change that, at least cyberly. Thinking that it would be nice to try to gather people, we have collaborated in putting together an event - the one below: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, on Tuesday, July 10th at 21:00 we are hosting the Documentary Film Screening Fado and Canada outdoors at the Quiosque do Melhor Bolo de Chocolate do Mundo smack dab in the middle of Avenida da Liberdade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what documentaries are these you ask? Well <em>Os Três de Portugal</em> (The Three of Portugal), a film by Vancouver-based filmmaker Jordan Paterson, tells the story of the fado trio going by the same name out of Vancouver. For 40 years <em>Os Três de Portugal </em>played and sang fado in BC's lower mainland. Quite the feat, there's no arguing that! The documentary sets out to reveal how these three Portuguese emigrant <em>fadistas</em> attempt to preserve the Portuguese national song in a new cultural context and to decipher what fado tradition mean for "The Three of Portugal" far from its land of origin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second documentary is one we've previously written about here on this blog. <em>Regressa Urgente </em>(Return Urgent) by João Sardinha (one of the two contributers of this blog) and António João Saraiva, captures the story of Marta Raposo, a Luso-Canadian fado singer who moved to Portugal in 2005 in the hopes of affirming herself as a fado singer in Portugal. <em>Regressa Urgente</em> catches up with Marta five years into her fado journey in Portugal, at a time when she was again preparing to return to Canada; a pivotal period that ended up triggering divided feelings of belonging, carrying with them doubts and regrets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So these are our offerings. Hope to see some of you who follow this blog out on July 10th, and hey, in the end even if you don't like the docs., there'll always be the chocolate cake. </span></div>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-80645604733235359872012-05-27T15:58:00.000+01:002012-07-08T23:13:05.008+01:00Feeling the ethnic pride at EURO and World Cup time<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Well it's been awhile since I was last on here. The truth is I've had little to no time. Whatever the case, I'm back and there's a very important issue that we have to debate: that's right - EURO2012.</div>
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Ok, now we all remember EURO 2004, right? We all remember the sadness of the final. Greece won, Portugal lost, and life went on. Surely it was a sad ending to a wonderful ride. Still, how could we ever forget the flags hanging out of every window throughout the country and the spirit of nationalism that was created by the individual that lead the Portuguese National Team - yeah, a Brazilian, Luís Felipe Scolari.</div>
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Arguably it can be said that when it comes to Portuguese nationalism, it is felt to be stronger when outside the country. All of us who have lived as emigrants outside of Portugal know well how this is, especially in immigrant countries like Canada and the USA where we are surrounded by other nationalities on a daily basis and thus often feel the need to 'represent', if you will. Of course, we all know that there are certain times when this ethnic pride particularly makes itself known, usually every couple of years, a time that is once again just around the corner. EURO 2012 is a couple of weeks again, and eventhough the spirit of 2004 is not quit in the air, you just know that when kick-off takes place against Germany, on June 9th, that national pride is going to make itself noticed and we'll be seeing images such as these with Portuguese folks celebrating on the streets and in bars and association clubhouses across such countries as Switzerland, France, Germany, England, the US and Canada (in no specific order): </div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">Provide us with another wonderful ride!</span></div>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-50981074638212017882012-03-22T22:19:00.000+00:002012-03-22T22:19:56.870+00:00Hot enough for ya? or, The eternal weather discussion...The weather. <br />
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I find that the weather was always a bit of an obsession in Canada, at least in my neck of the woods (south-western Ontario). <br />
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In the winter, if it snowed a lot or was very cold, it'd be front page news, in the summer, if it rained a lot or was hot, it’d be front page new. <br />
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At my parents’ house, we used to have The Weather Network on the TV for hours on end. In the kitchen it would be on as background noise whenever we were making dinner, as it was far more relaxing (some would argue informative as well) than CNN. <br />
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I always used to love the severe weather alerts that would come up once in a while, usually in the spring or summer at the height of the tornado season. We used to pride ourselves in being in the Tornado belt. <br />
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It'd give me a tingly sensation in my spine, like if we were close to the end of the world whenever the warning tone would sound and one of those blood red severe weather alerts would come up. You could almost feel the electricity in the air when a tornado or severe thunderstorm warning was announced. <br />
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And when the summer thundershowers would pass, as you'd step outside you would be greeted with clear skies and the sound of dripping water, with flashes of lightning and the low rumble of thunder in the distance. Later on you'd have a breathtaking sunset in hues of violet and red. <br />
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Though summer also brings allergy alerts and UV warnings.<br />
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In the winter, seeing the Arctic front coming down was always a bit depressing, that spelled cold snaps and wind chill warnings and having to plug in the block heater. <br />
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When I moved to Portugal, invariably any phone call with my parents would include a weather report, including local humidity and wind chill. They would, of course, expect the same from me. <br />
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Unfortunately, Portugal's weather isn't very temperamental (ha!). I can count on one hand the number of thunderstorms I've experienced here, and have only seen snow once, most of the year the weather is either sunny or rainy.<br />
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We may not talk about anything else, but we'd always talk about the weather.Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07399961975118439564noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-84845622631960163422012-02-19T22:07:00.020+00:002012-02-20T02:35:44.056+00:00The Québec Winter Carnival vs. the Portuguese Carnival<div align="justify">Right from the get-go, when the French first colonised New France (what is now Quebec), they created a rowdy tradition of getting together just before Lent to eat, drink and be merry. The custom of celebrating sometime around mid-February has long been popular.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BJuIDfxfqzk/T0F1eDYgItI/AAAAAAAAA-k/XWpKcBQKTII/s1600/download.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 207px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 220px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710974961647100626" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BJuIDfxfqzk/T0F1eDYgItI/AAAAAAAAA-k/XWpKcBQKTII/s320/download.jpg" /></a>The first officially recognised large winter Carnival in Québec City, however, took place in 1894. Often faced with winter’s hardships, the city's population reinvented the popular tradition of carnival brought from France with a winter celebration that celebrates exactly that - winter. In 1954, in the context of the economic development of Québec City, a group of business people started to commercialise the festivities. That year, Bonhomme (to the right) was born and elected the event’s representative. The first official edition of the Québec Winter Carnival took place the following year, in 1955. Since then, the Carnival has snowballed into an undeniable manifestation for the entire Québec City population, having become an important vehicle for tourism and economical activity in the city. As well, from one winter to the next, the Carnival has enriched its activity program, having added a number of more popular activities that includes winter sports, snow sculptures, and activities based on the traditional Québec lifestyle, such as canoe races and dogsled races. Check out the Ice Palace put up every year below. Today the Québec Winter Carnival is the largest winter carnival in the world, and is third on the list of top carnivals worldwide, after the famous carnivals in Rio and New Orleans.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 223px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710977333174257650" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uJrwMYMUoi4/T0F3oGAox_I/AAAAAAAAA-w/vOrWU49zhYI/s320/snow-palace-quebec-carnival-1125.jpg" /> <br /><p align="justify">Ok, now we know that this blog is all about Canadians in Portugal, where these two countries coexist as much as possible. That said ... the Portuguese Carnival. First off, it's worth pointing out that the Portuguese carnivals of yesteryear were not exactly like todays, as missing were the scantily clad dancing girls a la the Brazilian Carnival (we must not forget that at the time of the Carnival in Brazil, it's summer, not exactly the same here, brrrr...). Yes images like the one below are typical to Ovar, Torres Vedras, Loulé and many other carnival-loving Portuguese towns. </p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 212px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710983099813825474" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NAwx--7BiIY/T0F83wapi8I/AAAAAAAAA-8/V4GyZJ9ylyg/s320/carnaval.jpg" /> <br /><p align="justify">The traditional Portuguese Carnival is more about people getting dressed up, often with masks, and making fun of each other and playing tricks on each other. It's also all about mocking public figures like what you see on the left below. Yes that's Cavaco Silva, the Portuguese President of the Republic right up front and former Portuguese PM José Socretes in the back as well. Sometimes, however, public figures themselves show-up to even mock themselves. Yes that's Madeira's Alberto João Jardim below on the right. He's a regular at the Carnival in Funchal year in, year out.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cFE8qagqYIA/T0F_MSXYh7I/AAAAAAAAA_I/rHmYI6KXQTk/s1600/images.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 231px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 167px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710985651547572146" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cFE8qagqYIA/T0F_MSXYh7I/AAAAAAAAA_I/rHmYI6KXQTk/s320/images.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--38KULs9fTw/T0F_h5Z-h2I/AAAAAAAAA_U/qnyvZR336CM/s1600/cortejo7.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 166px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710986022804686690" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--38KULs9fTw/T0F_h5Z-h2I/AAAAAAAAA_U/qnyvZR336CM/s320/cortejo7.jpg" /></a><br /><br /></p><br /><p align="justify"></p><br /><p align="justify"></p><br /><p align="justify"></p><br /><p align="justify"></p><br /><p align="justify">Now this year we all know that Passos Coelho is cutting back on the Carnival. For that reason, this upcoming Tuesday will not be as lively as the rest of the carnival-loving world. So enjoy yourself Québec. Maybe we here in Portugal will join you again next year on a Tuesday, or that year after that, or the year after that, ... </p>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-1892468366434030722012-02-11T18:54:00.014+00:002012-02-12T19:30:57.685+00:00Canadian encounters with wildlife<div align="justify">Canada is full of wildlife, there's little arguing that. In fact, it is quite common for Canadians to encounter their forest friends in their yards, for example, or simply walking down the street. Surely the friendly deer in the front yard, like the one seen below, is always a pleasant and adorable surprise. Look how cute Bambi looks eating the flowers.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708310304077081330" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--VXwtILVt0A/Tzf9-kY3avI/AAAAAAAAA9M/OYxzyLHoF0A/s320/Living-with-wildlife.jpg" /></div><br /><div align="justify">Still, not all encounters with the forest creatures are that way. Take, for example, this sort of encounter below. Not really sure if running inside to get some feed is the right thing to do.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 197px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708311935477092050" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0PkIPnT3f1Y/Tzf_dh08DtI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/9wB6cZOvxe8/s320/bear_woman_feeding.jpg" /></div><br /><p>Nor is this a good reaction either, as funny as it may look.</p><br /><p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 241px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708319116152077442" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mJ8L7u-XCMA/TzgF_f7Q_II/AAAAAAAAA9w/qvjn9GQapyo/s320/run-bear-run.jpg" /></p><br /><div align="justify">Of course this all depends on your relationship with these sorts of animals. I just recently watched the Werner Herzog documentary Grizzly Man about a fellow named Timothy Treadwell who used to live among the grizzlies in Alaska, until one day (I won't spoil the ending for you). But his story is not the only one. Charlie Vendergaw was been living among bears in Alaska for over 20 years and he says it's the bears that search him out (<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=5288312#.Tza-d1x7pbk"><span style="color:#3333ff;">http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=5288312#.Tza-d1x7pbk</span></a>). And then there's Montana native Casey Anderson and his pet grizzly and best buddy Brutus who Anderson raised since the bear was a baby. Here they are together:</div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 194px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708316466661696978" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YEsuedy55Is/TzgDlRziJdI/AAAAAAAAA9k/LXlrZ9h2DiE/s320/casey-bear-pet.jpg" /></div><br /><div align="justify">Now those who don't know any better would look at Anderson and Brutus and think 'bears are just so cuddly and cute'. Not quite. Wildlife experts will tell you that bear attacks are rare; as long as we avoid them, they'll avoid us. Yes they may be rare, but every year you hear about somebody being mauled, especially so in Canada. Attacks are often for predatory, territorial or protective reasons, or in other words, they often happens due to human encroachment, with victims often being hikers, hunters, and campers, and other times those who take up residency in wilderness areas. In other words, some folks just don't try hard enough to avoid these creatures.<br /><br />Being brought up in Canada, from an early age we are taught to hit the ground and pretend we are dead if we ever encounter a bear because if we do, this is what the bear's going to think:</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 241px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 209px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708321394812198914" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2eh9lNAm8SM/TzgIEImLIAI/AAAAAAAAA98/p3fSVGmkETM/s320/imagesbear.jpg" /> <br /><p align="justify">If you are in Canada, however, and you do want to start up a relationship with wildlife, it's more then obvious that the moose is your best choice for a companion. If you need evidence, just have a look at these four:</p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--izIM6bI1gM/TzgJkRvljeI/AAAAAAAAA-I/mfSRUCjgEEE/s1600/moose_attacks.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 228px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 145px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708323046535040482" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--izIM6bI1gM/TzgJkRvljeI/AAAAAAAAA-I/mfSRUCjgEEE/s320/moose_attacks.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mRrHF-wbzOQ/TzgKH_PaMCI/AAAAAAAAA-U/FcHTMVpbdU0/s1600/True-Love-Newfie-Style.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 239px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 145px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708323660043530274" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mRrHF-wbzOQ/TzgKH_PaMCI/AAAAAAAAA-U/FcHTMVpbdU0/s320/True-Love-Newfie-Style.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><p align="justify"><br /></p><br /><br /><p align="justify"></p><br /><p align="justify">One piece of advice, however, just don't take them hunting.</p>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-69902086713135953462012-01-31T00:51:00.027+00:002012-01-31T03:27:36.867+00:00Historic cafés of Portugal and the great minds who love(d) them<div align="justify">There are places in Portugal that never go out of fashion and many of these places are coffee shops or cafés. The Portuguese love coffee, there’s little doubting that – they always have and something tells me they always will. There are cafés everywhere in Portugal – every suburb, every aldeia, by the sea, inland, underground, on top of the highest mountains … they are everywhere. On their daily routines, the folks of Portugal grab their cafés wherever they can and they do it fast. In some cafés, however, this is ill advised. Coffee has its history in Portugal as do many coffee shops. Every city and town possesses cafés that are very much a part of the local socio-cultural landscape to one degree or another. This is something Starbucks will never accomplish here (at least I hope).<br /><br />Now how important are the cafés of Portugal to the country? Well, lets just say that some are as important as Portuguese culture itself, for many have served to inspire the essence of Portuguese culture itself. Nowhere is this truer than in the case of Portuguese literary history, for Portugal possesses a number of historical cafés that have served as a major source of inspiration for poets and writers, this beyond having been starting points for political, social and cultural rights movements. So if in Portugal and you’re hankering for some history (literary at that) let me recommend a number of cafés for you.<br /><br />In northern Portugal, in the city of Braga, Café Vianna was a regular stopping ground for Eca de Queiros and Camilo Castelo Branco. Smack-dab in the middle of the city, Café Vianna has been under the famous arcades at Praça da Republica for 141 years.</div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gH56j5exOsU/TydEcfHvAbI/AAAAAAAAA6k/sNPwOC4IzdY/s1600/Viana%2B026.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 244px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 146px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703602709268988338" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gH56j5exOsU/TydEcfHvAbI/AAAAAAAAA6k/sNPwOC4IzdY/s320/Viana%2B026.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dRsDcYwPid8/TydEHdFSnjI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/qBQPqNvVx68/s1600/Viana%2B033.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 246px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 146px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703602347944615474" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dRsDcYwPid8/TydEHdFSnjI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/qBQPqNvVx68/s320/Viana%2B033.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div align="justify">Leaving Braga and heading south-west towards the city of Porto, here two cafés are particularly worth highlighting: The Majestic and Café d’Ouro.<br /><br />A stroll down Rua de Santa Catarina will take you past The Majestic. More than just a café, The Majestic is a throwback to 1920s Porto, to the city’s ‘Belle Epoche’. The Majestic quickly became a hangout for the local intellectual bourgeoisie and for writers and artists as well. The café was abandoned for a 16 year period, from 1964 to 1980, restored during a 14 year period and reopened with all its splendor in 1994, becoming Cultural Patrimony of the city of Porto.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zSzlkQQXkcU/TydDKtZm9_I/AAAAAAAAA6M/ZzJCJaIA1NU/s1600/Majestic%2B%2523008%2B%255BJMB%255D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 247px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 169px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703601304352782322" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zSzlkQQXkcU/TydDKtZm9_I/AAAAAAAAA6M/ZzJCJaIA1NU/s320/Majestic%2B%2523008%2B%255BJMB%255D.jpg" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LFWqtj2oAuE/TydC9lU7PSI/AAAAAAAAA6A/QQbio9E2ucY/s1600/majestic%2Bfront%2Bnoite.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 244px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 167px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703601078847356194" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LFWqtj2oAuE/TydC9lU7PSI/AAAAAAAAA6A/QQbio9E2ucY/s320/majestic%2Bfront%2Bnoite.jpg" /></a><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify">Located at Praça de Parada Leitão, the Café Âncora d'Ouro, also known as O Piolho (Lice, in English), has been around since 1909 and is known as the academics café. Here great minds of the city have come to study and to debate and to inspire. Interestingly, O Piolho was the first café in the city to have electricity (in 1957), the first to hook up a television and the first to get the famous Italian coffee machine "La Cimbali" which lead to the name given by the residence of Porto to expresso coffee or ‘uma bica’, that of ‘cimbalino’, name that has stack until this day.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I3futxwMSkY/TydHAhJ2xHI/AAAAAAAAA68/TQ6GssOed-k/s1600/apresentacao-de-cafe-paraiso-no-piolho-bairro-dos-livros-cultureprint-53.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 257px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 163px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703605527313302642" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I3futxwMSkY/TydHAhJ2xHI/AAAAAAAAA68/TQ6GssOed-k/s320/apresentacao-de-cafe-paraiso-no-piolho-bairro-dos-livros-cultureprint-53.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6KytHC6vrgY/TydGaB-2YTI/AAAAAAAAA6w/yEKayfZhuFE/s1600/5898654131_32dd3b795c_z.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 230px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 164px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703604866110611762" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6KytHC6vrgY/TydGaB-2YTI/AAAAAAAAA6w/yEKayfZhuFE/s320/5898654131_32dd3b795c_z.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">Now if in the University City of Coimbra, a visit to the Café Santa Cruz and all its Manuelino architectural elegance, is a must. Located at Praça 8 de Maio, Café Santa Cruz has been a symbol of the city by the Mondego River since 1923. Much was the controversy when the decision was made to allow the café to exist wall-to-wall with the Santa Cruz Church, but today and through its history, this café has been a home away from home for intellectuals, writers, artists, academics, fadistas, rubbing shoulders with the working class, the wealthy and most recently, tourists.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XXWFRm6MW-0/TydJQB35jJI/AAAAAAAAA7U/hXjjUiYOyak/s1600/Caf%25C3%25A9S.Cruz71.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 224px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 143px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703607992817650834" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XXWFRm6MW-0/TydJQB35jJI/AAAAAAAAA7U/hXjjUiYOyak/s320/Caf%25C3%25A9S.Cruz71.JPG" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KBS1CHXbsNI/TydI4e6f7-I/AAAAAAAAA7I/I6lhfH4Hz_0/s1600/114CSC10_grand.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 261px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 146px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703607588296323042" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KBS1CHXbsNI/TydI4e6f7-I/AAAAAAAAA7I/I6lhfH4Hz_0/s320/114CSC10_grand.jpg" /></a><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify">Further south but still in the centre of Portugal, we reach the City of the Knights Templar – Tomar. Here we can visit the centenary walls of Café Paraíso located at Rua Serpa Pinto, Tomar’s major pedestrian street. Contemporary writer António Lobo Antunes did his military service in Tomar and has had his name tied to Café Paraíso, for example.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cWeZ93hzd8c/TydLqdY0yLI/AAAAAAAAA7s/LDGTaqXT_hY/s1600/cafe-paraiso-tomar-100-years-old-2011.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 248px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 159px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703610645903362226" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cWeZ93hzd8c/TydLqdY0yLI/AAAAAAAAA7s/LDGTaqXT_hY/s320/cafe-paraiso-tomar-100-years-old-2011.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IXJLZNokg2Q/TydLWKKHJcI/AAAAAAAAA7g/UAJ8PdY_xWo/s1600/cafe-paraiso-300x222%2Blobo%2Bantunes%2Barmy%2Bdays.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 237px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 162px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703610297143993794" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IXJLZNokg2Q/TydLWKKHJcI/AAAAAAAAA7g/UAJ8PdY_xWo/s320/cafe-paraiso-300x222%2Blobo%2Bantunes%2Barmy%2Bdays.jpg" /></a><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">Our last stop is Lisbon. Here, three cafés are worth discussing. First, A Brasileira, located at Chiado Square, has been around since 1905. Although known through history as a place frequented by Lisbon’s top literary, artistic and intellectual figures, among these personalities, one frequent client stands out: Fernando Pessoa. In fact, the presence of Fernando Pessoa at A Brasileira was so common that, in order to recognise the poets’ link to this café, a bronze statue of Pessoa sitting at a table was installed in front of A Brasileira.</div><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wmq4Gj_cbyk/TydTJSQv_wI/AAAAAAAAA9A/4JXhrm1uBd0/s1600/a_brasileira_do_chiado.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 222px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 181px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703618872074043138" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wmq4Gj_cbyk/TydTJSQv_wI/AAAAAAAAA9A/4JXhrm1uBd0/s320/a_brasileira_do_chiado.jpg" /></a></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-73zIF3jO7nA/TydNAaxBXCI/AAAAAAAAA8E/IswO4g4FnCY/s1600/BRASILEIRA%2BDO%2BCHIADO.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 268px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703612122668293154" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-73zIF3jO7nA/TydNAaxBXCI/AAAAAAAAA8E/IswO4g4FnCY/s320/BRASILEIRA%2BDO%2BCHIADO.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div align="justify">Our second Lisbon stop is Café Nicola at Rossio Square, once upon a time the favourite haunt of the much celebrated poet from Setúbal, Bocage. The art deco facade and the sidewalk sitting is today a touristic must, thus the reason why when one walks by it is mostly tourists that occupy the tables.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pzpkwww9z_0/TydPfaGKkXI/AAAAAAAAA8c/XiFOgvFbW2c/s1600/cafes_large.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 237px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 172px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703614854087741810" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pzpkwww9z_0/TydPfaGKkXI/AAAAAAAAA8c/XiFOgvFbW2c/s320/cafes_large.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ck153XhqQXw/TydPEztD0RI/AAAAAAAAA8Q/71CV8Dh4LSE/s1600/Caf%25C3%25A9%2BNicola.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 171px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703614397105295634" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ck153XhqQXw/TydPEztD0RI/AAAAAAAAA8Q/71CV8Dh4LSE/s320/Caf%25C3%25A9%2BNicola.jpg" /></a><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify">Our last stop is under the arcades on the right hand side of Praça do Comercio (if you’ve got your back to the river). Café Martinho da Arcada has been around since 1778, originally as a liquor trade house, and in 1829 as the café that still stands today. If any café in Portugal is inevitably tied to the history of Portuguese arts and literature it’s Café Martinho da Arcada. Writers such as Cesário Verde, António Botto and Almada Negreiros were regulars in their day. Fernando Pessoa also has a table permanently reserved for him here. He certainly loved his coffee shops. More recently, Martinho de Arcada also has a table permanently reserved for Noble winner José Saramago.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JJIlNP-yJsw/TydRJBRdS9I/AAAAAAAAA8o/JH-Ga-Gk-M8/s1600/martinho.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 250px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 146px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703616668490353618" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JJIlNP-yJsw/TydRJBRdS9I/AAAAAAAAA8o/JH-Ga-Gk-M8/s320/martinho.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YeorxOJysSU/TydReWV9ZTI/AAAAAAAAA80/uxUn0r6HkGg/s1600/414828.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 146px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703617034923631922" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YeorxOJysSU/TydReWV9ZTI/AAAAAAAAA80/uxUn0r6HkGg/s320/414828.gif" /></a><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify">So if you’re in Portugal and you think coffee is just coffee and a café is just a café ... think again. From north to south, if you’re searching out literary inspiration these ‘temples of culture’ are sure to provide you with some, and do take your time to enjoy our coffee.</div>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com88tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-80067833810149976782012-01-20T18:44:00.017+00:002012-01-21T00:39:10.453+00:00Hockey poem week - the recap<div align="justify"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--7SHjy9g1RA/TxnD7FzoQuI/AAAAAAAAA34/7H3eUcmA2hA/s1600/01BogHockey.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699802223352496866" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--7SHjy9g1RA/TxnD7FzoQuI/AAAAAAAAA34/7H3eUcmA2hA/s320/01BogHockey.jpg" /></a>Hockey's place in Canadian culture is closer to religion than a simple sporting pastime; a unifying force in a country of 33 million people that, let the truth be told, is often split by politics and language. There is little arguing that the game is part of the national identity, a rite of passage between fathers and sons and, in the present day and age, between mothers and daughters as well. We all know that generations<img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 167px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699806298506139154" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dVAdnMNc91M/TxnHoS7-FhI/AAAAAAAAA5A/WqMVGOd2-eA/s320/pondhockey.jpg" /> of <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Ts1PIycxfk/TxnHOHDmEDI/AAAAAAAAA40/5D90y__dn1g/s1600/scan0002.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699805848640294962" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Ts1PIycxfk/TxnHOHDmEDI/AAAAAAAAA40/5D90y__dn1g/s320/scan0002.jpg" /></a>Canadians grew up listening to Hockey Night In Canada on the radio, for example, and decades later the Saturday night tradition continues intact on high-definition television.<br /><br />Surely the NHL is the sporting league that must be followed and every town has it's junior hockey team that is often the pride of the community as well. Still, the game goes beyond fandom and community pride. Tell me if this doesn't sound familiar: <em>'We had a hockey rink in the park. Every afternoon after school, my friends and I would head there and play until the sun went<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d11PGOTYLgA/TxnEQCOfDEI/AAAAAAAAA4E/oxJ4qbMMamI/s1600/li-street-hockey-cp9983448.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699802583168650306" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d11PGOTYLgA/TxnEQCOfDEI/AAAAAAAAA4E/oxJ4qbMMamI/s320/li-street-hockey-cp9983448.jpg" /></a> down';</em> or maybe this: <em>'The kids who lived on my street, we'd play street hockey almost everyday after school through winter'</em>. Hockey games at the local rink or on the street brought kids from all ages together to partake in “pure happiness”. I do, however, question if this can be said in relation to today's generation, or if technology is<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uJyXIql2_1Q/TxoDmtT9g6I/AAAAAAAAA5M/iLKLLWFeV-o/s1600/pictures-in-january-finland-ice-hockey-kids-school.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 188px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699872241924015010" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uJyXIql2_1Q/TxoDmtT9g6I/AAAAAAAAA5M/iLKLLWFeV-o/s320/pictures-in-january-finland-ice-hockey-kids-school.jpg" /></a> robbing todays youth of this sort of comradery. As the popular saying goes: <em>'Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive and skilful, and the best of all, it keeps them off the street'</em>.<br /><br />Generally speaking, however, Canada's love for hockey is hard to put into words non-Canadians<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n5iUABRmHkk/TxoGhhsmOPI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/UzIaQ8qt-Cw/s1600/6a00e5502e47b288330147e24f1846970b-800wi.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 252px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699875451441658098" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n5iUABRmHkk/TxoGhhsmOPI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/UzIaQ8qt-Cw/s320/6a00e5502e47b288330147e24f1846970b-800wi.jpg" /></a> can relate to, and the fanaticism may be hard for people outside of Canada to understand. I guess it might be similar to the way Brazilians feel about soccer but with one exception - the fact that the passion felt towards hockey in Canada brings with it a bit of lunacy. I'd like to see Brazilians go out for a game of road soccer when it's -20ºC.<br /><br />And thus it is here where the uniqueness of the game lies as far as connecting to a people and a country is concerned. Hockey is not so much the image of Canada as it is the image of Canadians - hard, touch, sentimental, fun and, of course, uniting; and everyone, from coast to coast to coast, idenitifies with that. So that said, I will finish this so-called 'hockey poem week' with a quote by the Canadian author and humorist Stephen Leacock that goes like this:<br /></div><br /><div align="justify">"<em>Hockey </em><em>captures the essence </em><em>of the Canadian experience </em><em>in the New World. </em><em>In a land so inescapably </em><em>and inhospitably cold, </em><em>hockey is the chance of a life, </em><em>and an affirmation </em><em>that dispite the deathly chill of winter </em><em>we are alive</em>".<br /></div><br /><div align="justify">... just as hockey is alive in us wherever we end up going.</div>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-32499308394386272402012-01-20T15:40:00.007+00:002012-01-21T02:44:52.926+00:00Hockey poem week - Poem 6<div align="justify"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d05jpwuEmbo/TxmU64lSiaI/AAAAAAAAA3g/_QxWd9WrIJY/s1600/6a00d8341bf8f353ef0133ef5328d2970b-900wi.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 260px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 183px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699750542756186530" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d05jpwuEmbo/TxmU64lSiaI/AAAAAAAAA3g/_QxWd9WrIJY/s320/6a00d8341bf8f353ef0133ef5328d2970b-900wi.jpg" /></a>Truly as it always was, your neighbour was your goalie or our goal scorer, but nobody was ever a defensemen. No glamour in defending. It was always about scoring picturesque goals and making game-winning saves. It was about making memories and in some cases, re-enacting them.</div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><br /></div><strong>The Goalie Who Lives Across the Street - Gordon Downie</strong><br /><br /><em>Jean Beliveau's welcome any time</em><br /><em>at the outdoor rink</em> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YbayyIFHmvQ/TxmPTFXayFI/AAAAAAAAA3I/4u-tuSw_y8A/s1600/beliveau-cup-cp_220.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 220px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699744361434761298" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YbayyIFHmvQ/TxmPTFXayFI/AAAAAAAAA3I/4u-tuSw_y8A/s320/beliveau-cup-cp_220.jpg" /></a><br /><em>in the park</em><br /><em>just across from my house</em><br /><em>for morning </em><em>hockey under blue skies </em><br /><em>this winter.</em><br /><em>Birds wheeling overhead</em><br /><em>Russian temperatures</em><br /><em>lousy to no gear.</em><br /><em>I'm the Goalie Who Lives Across the Street.</em><br /><br /><em>Kids play with smokes hanging out</em><br /><em>of their mouths;</em><br /><em>beautiful puck hogs</em><br /><em>with incredible tricks.</em><br /><em>They are so easily fatigued,</em><br /><em>they take a break after every rush.</em> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LPama2jTRWg/Txmw6bYpB0I/AAAAAAAAA3s/cBhzjtjJPhI/s1600/street-hockey.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 219px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 211px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699781321244084034" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LPama2jTRWg/Txmw6bYpB0I/AAAAAAAAA3s/cBhzjtjJPhI/s320/street-hockey.jpg" /></a><br /><em>Old-timers heckle:</em><br /><em>"Hey, Jim Carroll. Pass the puck."</em><br /><em>They don't get it.</em><br /><br /><em>No literary pretensions allowed.</em><br /><em>Two minutes for</em><br /><em>"I saw his blood,</em><br /><em>a billowing crimson cloud</em><br /><em>against the milk white ice."</em><br /><em>That's an infraction here.</em><br /><br /><em>When the predatory follow the puck </em><br /><em>down to the other end</em> <img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 219px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 279px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699747359863131378" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LX6YVjg9HPk/TxmSBnYczPI/AAAAAAAAA3U/4TDUU5MhcXk/s320/fe24d3584988ad3a7e35045786e9.jpeg" /><br /><em>my net swarms like the Great Barrier Reef</em><br /><em>with the smaller fish.</em><br /><em>My crease fills with good questions</em><br /><em>and wobbly wrist shots</em><br /><em>(there are no bad questions, only bad wrist shots).</em><br /><br /><em>And then there are </em><br /><em>the parents</em><br /><em>always yelling</em><br /><em>always telling them</em><br /><em>where to aim.</em><br /><br /><em>At the rink across the street</em><br /><em>Gerry Cheevers is welcome </em><em>any time.</em>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-68688478602037029252012-01-19T00:59:00.009+00:002012-01-19T02:26:41.498+00:00Hockey poem week - poem 5<div align="justify">There are those who play and there are those who just like to watch. Here in Portugal we are limited to watching and even that's recent ... but thank goodness for it. Playing not so much but it would be good to change that so we too could get ourselves ...<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"></div><strong>In Shape - Stephen Scriver</strong><br /><br /><em>just to move, man</em> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HZS1Hdpb-gY/Txd88DRpDaI/AAAAAAAAA2k/t6VSRzhcrhI/s1600/09-02-219PondHockeyDay2hayriveralta.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699161224573947298" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HZS1Hdpb-gY/Txd88DRpDaI/AAAAAAAAA2k/t6VSRzhcrhI/s320/09-02-219PondHockeyDay2hayriveralta.jpg" /></a><br /><em>feel those muscles stir again</em><br /><em>long summer of beer and sun</em><br /><br /><em>just to move</em><br /><em>hear the old heart pounding</em><br /><em>full of one more season</em><br /><br /><em>feel the body burst again</em><br /><em>charged with easy sweat</em><br /><br /><em>two weeks of up, down</em><br /><em>up, down</em><br /><em>backwards, forwards</em> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kw5DWlgkWNM/Txd9xrnRjWI/AAAAAAAAA28/tJ2Mhqn3D8Y/s1600/Cascade-glass2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699162145935166818" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kw5DWlgkWNM/Txd9xrnRjWI/AAAAAAAAA28/tJ2Mhqn3D8Y/s320/Cascade-glass2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><em>blows that whistle, man</em><br /><em>sounds like music now it's easy</em><br /><br /><em>... move, man</em><br /><em>only six strides down now</em><br /><em>blue/white/red/white/blue/white</em><br /><em>around the net</em><br /><em>leg over leg</em><br /><em>and blue/white/red ...</em><br /><br /><em>lungs smooth with swelling breath</em><br /><em>legs pump push that ice again</em><br /><br /><em>ah, but just to move</em>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-77987285554464185302012-01-16T19:15:00.012+00:002012-01-18T01:43:35.452+00:00Hockey poem week - poem 4<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">Who among us growing up in Canada didn't grow up on road hockey? Who among us didn't pretend we were 'Rocket' Richard, Guy LaFleur, Wendel Clark or Wayne Gretzky? Every generation had its hockey idols and today's still do. No matter how cold outside, a round up of friends for a game of road hockey kept us warm.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong><em><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YvjfRKHsrkM/TxR4sTs1-dI/AAAAAAAAA1w/NNscdPPD2-U/s1600/old_hockey.jpg"><em></em></a></em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>Road Hockey – Bruce Meyer</strong></span> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YvjfRKHsrkM/TxR4sTs1-dI/AAAAAAAAA1w/NNscdPPD2-U/s1600/old_hockey.jpg"><em><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 291px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 197px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698312131128457682" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YvjfRKHsrkM/TxR4sTs1-dI/AAAAAAAAA1w/NNscdPPD2-U/s320/old_hockey.jpg" /></em></a></div><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YvjfRKHsrkM/TxR4sTs1-dI/AAAAAAAAA1w/NNscdPPD2-U/s1600/old_hockey.jpg"><em></em></a></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>The middle of my journey,</em><em><br />as the train shakes,<br />I wake from a dream<br />about my childhood<br />where I saw the boys<br />I played hockey with<br />on the frozen streets<br />beneath purple dusks.<br />Snow had settled<br />on the brown furrows <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W5J36OZbkrw/TxR5KLgmIwI/AAAAAAAAA2I/FfECHpJYiHI/s1600/joy10.jpg"><em><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 291px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 220px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698312644325679874" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W5J36OZbkrw/TxR5KLgmIwI/AAAAAAAAA2I/FfECHpJYiHI/s320/joy10.jpg" /></em></a><br />of the fall ploughings<br />the way a dusting of ice <br />clung to our corduroys<br />as we shouted and raved<br />in a dead-end street, </em><em><br />pushing and hacking<br />each other’s spindly legs<br />until the night descended<br />blackening the game<br />and calling us home<br />to those tiny rooms<br />taped with clippings<br />of Howe and Hull <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kmYFdtYD0SY/TxR415OxyVI/AAAAAAAAA18/X8R_ysp3Arc/s1600/4eb62366f15c8.image.jpg"><em><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 290px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 187px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698312295821723986" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kmYFdtYD0SY/TxR415OxyVI/AAAAAAAAA18/X8R_ysp3Arc/s320/4eb62366f15c8.image.jpg" /></em></a><br />and silver grails.<br />I wanted to go back there,<br />wanted to dream again <br />of what I would become<br />but only become<br />the things I am<br />regardless of the dreams. </em><em><br />And as I woke just now,<br />at some point in a journey<br />I realized we’d all<br />become grown men, <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HHf2zbfG2yY/TxR7FL9_4tI/AAAAAAAAA2U/6hmKdKmUEF4/s1600/street_hockey.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 290px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 183px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698314757572911826" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HHf2zbfG2yY/TxR7FL9_4tI/AAAAAAAAA2U/6hmKdKmUEF4/s320/street_hockey.jpg" /></a><br />and the waking, not the growing<br />left me angry. Snow whirls<br />by the coach car window,<br />still clings to the furrows <br />of pantlegs and fields<br />as the journeymen continue on<br />their battles of earthly overtime<br />and the sudden darkness </em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>after. </em></span>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-77168189631156593682012-01-16T13:03:00.007+00:002012-01-16T13:48:03.895+00:00Hockey poem week - poem 3<div align="justify"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wFO0wmCGI4A/TxQjiYFki1I/AAAAAAAAA1Y/3u0aihvUSfY/s1600/hockey5.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 241px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 199px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698218502018861906" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wFO0wmCGI4A/TxQjiYFki1I/AAAAAAAAA1Y/3u0aihvUSfY/s320/hockey5.jpg" /></a>The term "pond hockey" is often used, especially in Canada, as a synonym to <strong>Shinny</strong>. It is meant to describe any form of disorganized ice hockey that is played outdoors, typically on a naturally frozen body of water. In fact, before hockey, there was shinny. Frozen lakes, frozen rivers, frozen ponds, frozen backyard rinks - all conducive to the game of hockey. The documentary film Pound Hockey is a must see for any enthusiast of Canada's game, and you can see it here free of charge: <a href="http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/pond_hockey"><span style="color:#3333ff;">http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/pond_hockey</span></a>.<br /><br /></div><strong>Shinny - Dale Jacobs</strong><br /><br /><em>Days of shinny, we played pick up games for into the night</em><br /><em>until our feet were numb, toes feeling like they would snap off,</em><br /><em>fingers rubbing through socks soaked with sweat, kneading</em><br /><em>the feeling back, ready for another period in the never ending</em><br /><em>game past the moment's break.</em><br /><br /><em>Spring when the ice got slushy, bumps grew along the boards</em><br /><em>where water dripped from the metal roof, deep winter when ice</em><br /><em>was burned to a ghostly white, hard, unforgiving, knees elbow</em><br /><em>bruides to a fine black, shaving rising from stopping skates,</em><br /><em>a delicious arc of ephemera.</em><br /><br /><em>Half-cylinder of corrugated steel, oversize machine shop becomes</em><br /><em>a rink, men of the town coming in from the field, tractors giving</em><br /><em>way to hammers and saws and arc welders, coming together for</em><br /><em>us, for skating, for games of hockey on cold Canadian winter</em><br /><em>nights that seemed to last forever.</em><br /><br /><em>Sitting in this southern town, no nights cold enough to frost your</em><br /><em>moustache, I wonder if anyone knows who built our rink or what it</em><br /><em>meant, if anyone skates or plays hockey long into the night, giving</em><br /><em>themselves over to the game, surrendering to air thick with cold,</em><br /><em>breath suspended for just a moment.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bwBnFnIDS4w/TxQoCdZZoRI/AAAAAAAAA1k/nHtnlr9NLVY/s1600/3201405916_89dd5a8114.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698223451246534930" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bwBnFnIDS4w/TxQoCdZZoRI/AAAAAAAAA1k/nHtnlr9NLVY/s320/3201405916_89dd5a8114.jpg" /></a></em>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-84771271986496572212012-01-15T23:54:00.014+00:002012-01-16T12:58:42.192+00:00Hockey poem week- poem 2<div align="justify">It’s one of those beautifully frigid winter nights that inspire poets. The skies are clear and the light from the moon illuminates the backyard. Fireplace smoke rises straight into the air and hangs motionless over the suburban outpost. The noise of metal on ice and the clacking of sticks rule here, in this time-honoured tradition.</div><strong><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 318px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 182px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698017238351158002" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kkqyVvo0jNI/TxNsfSf5GvI/AAAAAAAAA1M/ACpYt3y9HrQ/s320/pond_hockey_ii_by_sir_g-d35qquj.jpg" /></strong><br /><br /><br /><strong>Rink - </strong><strong>Raymond A. Foss</strong><br /><br /><em>After Minnesota’s lakes<br />in the winter of ’71,<br />it was no big deal<br />but for us it was<br />it was something we did together<br />dad, mom, and us some plastic, boards to frame the edge<br />and a thin film of ice added layer by layer, day by day<br />brittle pockets of air, deep solid parts and ragged places<br />where the lawn dipped, sloped draining the hose after each time,<br />so it wouldn’t fill setting lights to shine on our practice<br />under the stars and moon<br />using it after school too; but mostly at night,<br />watching mom figure skate and dad teaching us hockey<br />before the lure of skiing changed our winter sport.</em>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-81778223595205343702012-01-15T19:13:00.032+00:002012-01-15T23:09:27.158+00:00Hockey poem week - poem 1<div align="justify">I recently came across a book called <em>Going Top Shelf An Anthology of Canadian Hockey Poetry</em> edited by Michael P. J Kennedy, a university professor who in 2001 put together a course on Canadian ice hockey literature at the University of Saskatchewan. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f0yDXpasWKA/TxM8UNDiUQI/AAAAAAAAAz4/BRX8ab20DhM/s1600/nesbitt-st-1.jpg"><em><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 252px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 168px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697964271353352450" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f0yDXpasWKA/TxM8UNDiUQI/AAAAAAAAAz4/BRX8ab20DhM/s320/nesbitt-st-1.jpg" /></em></a>Having been inspired by Kennedy's book, and given my own interest in Canadian culture; hockey and poetry has come to occupy my reading interest of late. That said, this week I'm going to be offering up a few poems, some of my favourites that I've come across on ice hockey in Canada. Here's the first:<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><strong>Hockey - Jane Siberry</strong><br /><br /><em>Winter time and the frozen river Sunday afternoon<br />they're playing <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9KEglzA5syc/TxM2I6kSebI/AAAAAAAAAzI/v4ZgUpH8s_Q/s1600/100916_pond_hockey.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 254px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 162px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697957480342124978" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9KEglzA5syc/TxM2I6kSebI/AAAAAAAAAzI/v4ZgUpH8s_Q/s320/100916_pond_hockey.jpg" /></a>hockey on the river<br />Rosie... he'll have that scar on his chin forever someday his girlfriend will say "hey, where...?"<br />he might look out the window... or not<br />you skate as fast as you can<br />'til you hit the snowbank (that's how you stop)<br />and you got your sweater from the catalogue<br />you use your</em><em> rubber boots for goal posts<br />ah...walkin' home<br />don't let those Sunday afternoons <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3oLribEQsUY/TxNYGba8T-I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/QVtGnTR0DP8/s1600/Ice_hockey_McGill_University_1884.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 256px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 162px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697994821017030626" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3oLribEQsUY/TxNYGba8T-I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/QVtGnTR0DP8/s320/Ice_hockey_McGill_University_1884.jpg" /></a><br />get away get away get away get away<br />break away break away...<br />this stick was signed by Jean Belliveau<br />so don't fucking tell me where to fucking go<br />...oh Sunday afternoon <br />someone's dog just took the puck<br />he's buried it it's in the snowbank ....your turn<br />they rioted in the</em><em> streets of Montreal<br />when they benched Rocket Richard it's true <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vVoZPCgJkPI/TxM78K7tMWI/AAAAAAAAAzs/KTl3yVxbkP0/s1600/lower_pond_hockey3.jpg"><em><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 255px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 153px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697963858466779490" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vVoZPCgJkPI/TxM78K7tMWI/AAAAAAAAAzs/KTl3yVxbkP0/s320/lower_pond_hockey3.jpg" /></em></a><br />don't let those Sunday afternoons<br />get away get away get away get away<br />break away break away break away break away<br />the sun is fading on the frozen river<br />the wind is dying down<br />someone else just got called for dinner<br />Rosie!<br />hmm...Sunday afternoon. </em></div>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-8120667305698255622012-01-08T17:31:00.025+00:002012-01-08T21:29:57.573+00:00Proud to be Portuguese Canadian - the event(s)<div align="justify"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WMrb1WWpWR0/TwnXmL-XoCI/AAAAAAAAAyE/Plsmt9iCvUU/s1600/TerryCosta_HarryLeonard2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 131px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 170px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5695320254836088866" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WMrb1WWpWR0/TwnXmL-XoCI/AAAAAAAAAyE/Plsmt9iCvUU/s320/TerryCosta_HarryLeonard2.jpg" /></a>For those Portuguese-Canadians who hail from the province of British Columbia, the name Terry Costa is one a lot of people got to know over the years. In Vancouver, when it came to community activism and participation within the Portuguese community, Terry (on the right) was, and in many ways still is, the poster boy of many initiatives. These days he calls the Azores home, although he still does a lot of traveling back and forth between Canada and the islands.<br /><br />Presently, through his production organisation Mirateca Arts,Terry has set out on one of his bigger ventures yet when it comes to the Portuguese in Canada. Aimed primarily at Portuguese descendant youth, Terry is the man behind the initiative Proud to be Portuguese Canadian (PtbPC), an initiative that sets out a number of objectives that include: 1.) stimulating young professional luso-descendants, students, their families and colleagues in discovering the Portuguese culture of today; 2.) strengthing links between the Portuguese in Canada and the Canadian social, cultural, political and economic life; 3.) promoting Portuguese culture through the presentation of artists and other cultural agents; and 4.) expressing pride in being Portuguese-Canadian.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 261px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 206px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5695318457340723586" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eDTZJIQDlLE/TwnV9jyFAYI/AAAAAAAAAxI/J6BCqOG4pLs/s320/6104448_9d6cf05c80_m.jpg" /> <br /><p align="justify">A series of PtbPC events will take place in Toronto during a 10 day period, from March 15th to the 25th, kicking off with a ‘not your regular kind of conference’ conference on Saturday, the 17th at the Mod Club Theatre, featuring special guests, among them Portuguese-Canadian celebrity chef extraordinaire, Carmen Correia, as well as presentations, talk-backs and more.<br /><br />As well, the PtbPC initiative inviting members of his community to submit their “Proud to be Portuguese Canadian” videos to a video contest aimed at bringing greater invisibility to the heritage of Portuguese descendants residing in multicultural Canada. Videos can be sent via email to <span style="color:#3333ff;">proudtobeportuguesecanadian@gmail.com</span> or uploaded on YouTube with the link then sent in to the same e-mail address. The person who’s video gets the most views wins him or herself a cool ‘grand’ (aka $1000.00).<br /><br />The PtbPC project is also a media partner with Canadian Music Week (CMW) and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/missioncanada2012" target="_blank"><span style="color:#3333ff;">Missão Canadá: Mission Canada</span></a> that, this year, are presenting a special "Focus on Portugal" session at the <a style="WIDOWS: 2; ORPHANS: 2; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" href="http://canadianmusicfest.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#3333ff;">Slacker Canadian Music Fest</span></a>, showcasing a series of music acts from Portugal. This year’s CMW will run from March 21st to 25th and will feature among the 100’s of music acts, a couple of hand fulls from Portugal, including Setubal’s Mazgani, Porto’s masked men Blasted Mechanism, Braga’s Peixe:Avião, among others…<br /><br />So there you go, if you’re in Toronto come the month of March, this is something worth taking in. Leave you with a couple of fun promotional posters for the event which also contain the website where you can go to get more info.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hOefwfr00ME/TwnXEMONh_I/AAAAAAAAAxg/bmX_EFLUju8/s1600/392362_348154158533083_308618562486643_1670953_1438854009_n.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 154px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5695319670786983922" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hOefwfr00ME/TwnXEMONh_I/AAAAAAAAAxg/bmX_EFLUju8/s320/392362_348154158533083_308618562486643_1670953_1438854009_n.jpg" /></a><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 255px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5695319874222765170" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oRDUsJ20Op0/TwnXQCFFNHI/AAAAAAAAAxs/Ac3oj2b0kx0/s320/374323_352174818131017_308618562486643_1688555_24047531_n.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><p align="justify"></p>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-27941947730273732462011-12-31T19:36:00.005+00:002012-01-01T10:58:03.128+00:00Favourite Canadian Albums of 2011<div align="justify">And yet another year comes to a close, one that was undoubtedly full of great music coming out of the Great White North, aka Canada.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify">And so for the second year running, I give you my 20 favourite Canadian albums of 2011. Without any further adieu, here they are with myspaces, bandcamps and soundclouds for your further listening if you're interested.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y1a2JU_TmJg/Tv9ke9QxEAI/AAAAAAAAAwk/eWvOfUv7GGM/s1600/SamRoberts_Collider-1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 182px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 166px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692378937023336450" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y1a2JU_TmJg/Tv9ke9QxEAI/AAAAAAAAAwk/eWvOfUv7GGM/s320/SamRoberts_Collider-1.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y1a2JU_TmJg/Tv9ke9QxEAI/AAAAAAAAAwk/eWvOfUv7GGM/s1600/SamRoberts_Collider-1.jpg"></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y1a2JU_TmJg/Tv9ke9QxEAI/AAAAAAAAAwk/eWvOfUv7GGM/s1600/SamRoberts_Collider-1.jpg"></a><br /><br /><br />1. Sam Roberts Band – Collider <a href="http://www.myspace.com/samrobertsband"><span style="color:#3333ff;">http://www.myspace.com/samrobertsband</span></a><br /><br /><br />2. Cuff the Duke – Morning Comes <a href="http://www.myspace.com/cufftheduke"><span style="color:#3333ff;">http://www.myspace.com/cufftheduke</span></a><br />3. Elliott Brood – Days into Years <a href="http://www.myspace.com/elliottbrood"><span style="color:#3333ff;">www.myspace.com/elliottbrood</span></a><span style="color:#3333ff;"><br /></span>4. Sloan – The Double Cross <a href="http://www.myspace.com/sloan"><span style="color:#3333ff;">http://www.myspace.com/sloan</span></a><br />5. Matthew Good – Lights of Endangered Species <a href="http://soundcloud.com/matthew-good"><span style="color:#3333ff;">http://soundcloud.com/matthew-good</span></a><br />6. The Sheepdogs – Learn & Burn <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thesheepdogs"><span style="color:#3333ff;">www.myspace.com/thesheepdogs</span></a><span style="color:#3333ff;"><br /></span>7. Hooded Fang – Tosta Mista <a href="http://www.myspace.com/hoodedfang"><span style="color:#3333ff;">www.myspace.com/hoodedfang</span></a><span style="color:#3333ff;"><br /></span>8. One Hundred Dollars – Songs of Man <a href="http://www.myspace.com/1hundreddollars"><span style="color:#3333ff;">www.myspace.com/1hundreddollars</span></a><span style="color:#3333ff;"><br /></span>9. Dog Day – Deformer <a href="http://www.myspace.com/dogdaytheband"><span style="color:#3333ff;">http://www.myspace.com/dogdaytheband</span></a><br />10. The Rural Alberta Advantage – Departing <a href="http://www.myspace.com/theraa"><span style="color:#3333ff;">www.myspace.com/theraa</span></a><br />11. The Flower City 3 – Brampton Comes Alive! <a href="http://theflowercity3.bandcamp.com/album/brampton-comes-alive"><span style="color:#3333ff;">http://theflowercity3.bandcamp.com/album/brampton-comes-alive</span></a><br />12. The Deep Dark Woods – The Place I Left Behind <a href="http://www.myspace.com/deepdarkwoods"><span style="color:#3333ff;">www.myspace.com/deepdarkwoods</span></a><br />13. Sun Wizard – Positively 4th Ave <a href="http://sunwizard.bandcamp.com/album/positively-4th-avenue"><span style="color:#3333ff;">http://sunwizard.bandcamp.com/album/positively-4th-avenue</span></a><br />14. Sports – Sports <a href="http://sports.bandcamp.com/"><span style="color:#3333ff;">http://sports.bandcamp.com/</span></a><br />15. Hey Rosetta! – Seeds <a href="http://www.myspace.com/heyrosetta"><span style="color:#3333ff;">www.myspace.com/heyrosetta</span></a><span style="color:#3333ff;"><br /></span>16. Arkells – Michigan Left <a href="http://www.myspace.com/arkellsmusic"><span style="color:#3333ff;">www.myspace.com/arkellsmusic</span></a><span style="color:#3333ff;"><br /></span>17. Chad Vangaalen – Diaper Island <a href="http://www.myspace.com/chadvangaalen"><span style="color:#3333ff;">www.myspace.com/chadvangaalen</span></a><span style="color:#3333ff;"><br /></span>18. Dark Mean – Dark Mean <a href="http://darkmean.bandcamp.com/"><span style="color:#3333ff;">http://darkmean.bandcamp.com/</span></a><br />19. Dinosaur Bones – My Divider <a href="http://www.myspace.com/dinosaurbonesband"><span style="color:#3333ff;">www.myspace.com/dinosaurbonesband</span></a><br />20. The Dears – Degeneration Street <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thedears"><span style="color:#3333ff;">www.myspace.com/thedears</span></a><span style="color:#3333ff;"><br /></span><br />Compilation: Have Not Been the Same - Vol. 1: Too Cool to Live, Too Smart to Die, tribute album based on the book: Have Not Been the Same: The Canrock Renaissance, 1985-1995. <a href="http://www.zunior.com/product_info.php?products_id=3362"><span style="color:#3333ff;">http://www.zunior.com/product_info.php?products_id=3362</span></a><br /><br />So there you have it. For any of you out there who check in from time to time, we thank you and all the best in 2012 to everyone.Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-1999632474405744722011-12-26T22:33:00.007+00:002011-12-27T02:11:45.173+00:00Boxing Day in Canada<div align="justify">Today is Boxing Day in pretty much all countries that were once, or still are, part of the British Empire. In Portugal, nobody has faintest idea what Boxing Day is, mind you in Canada, many don't really know what the day is all about either. Apparently there are two stories that somewhat serve to explain how Boxing Day came about. First, back in feudal England, it was common for the lord of the manor to provide his servants with a gift the day after Christmas, a gift that was, of course, given in a box. The second story, also dating back to the same era in British history, relates to servants being allowed to take home a portion of the food leftover from the Christmas celebrations in a box to their families, this in conjuction with the distribution of alms from the church collection boxes to poor parishioners.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify">Of course today, the term Boxing Day makes very little sense. If anything, in todays day in age, the name can be best applied to us boxing up unwanted Christmas gifts and returning them. Boxing Day, however, very much like Christmas in general, is a day that's become wrapped up with the culture of consumerism where 'mad prices' are abandant, where everything is 20, 40, 50, 70 per cent off, and where all stock must go - it's the Boxing Day sales! Images such as these have become synonymous with this day.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 215px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690576851944652466" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fsGYk2aj9to/Tvj9fzM4vrI/AAAAAAAAAvE/sMlkfFStzUw/s320/5911465.jpg" /></div><br /><div align="justify">People lining up at dawn in the freezing cold outside of a Best Buy waiting to get a deal on the latest technological gadget.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 204px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690576580418510626" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4-KtxQbe33s/Tvj9P_sAnyI/AAAAAAAAAu4/Ao3qOf5sNus/s320/article-0-0C94CB33000005DC-738_634x404.jpg" />Once the doors are open, it's the mad, crazy rush to be the first to get their hands on what they've come for, or to buy as many as they can, or to get their hands on the limited stock of merchandise, or perhaps a combination of any of these. With this tradition having become what it is, many stores have even gone on to apply special opening hours on this day.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify">Now although Boxing Day is a Canadian federal holiday, it is not uniformly observed in all provinces and territories. It is not an official holiday in Quebec, for example, nor is it a statutory holiday in Alberta and British Columbia. As well, in some provinces, namely the Maritime provinces, stores are not open on Boxing Day which means that all Boxing Day sales actually start on December 27th.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify">Ok, sofar I've made it sound like Boxing Day in Canada is all about people getting their greedy hands on products made available at incredible discount prices all in the name of satifying their needs for pleasure and consumerism. Yes it may be true, but Boxing Day also goes beyond that. Also synonymous with Boxing Day in the Northlands is ice hockey (we are after all talking about Canada) as every year, on the 26th of December, Canadians gather around their newly purchaced 64 inch televisions to watch the kick off of the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships. Very much ingrained as a holiday tradition for millions of Canadians, the World Juniors brings together leftover turkey, qualify family time and the red and white of Canada, all in the name of cheering on the Canadian kids in a tournament they are expected to win every years. In the picture below, Portuguese descendant John Tavares celebrates after helping win gold for Canada in 2009, something he had done the year before as well.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 209px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690587242483616002" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GDjuR0RV1lE/TvkG8m-bCQI/AAAAAAAAAvQ/jERV45O7sMg/s320/1322839632219_ORIGINAL.jpg" /></div><br /><div align="justify">Here in Portugal we have no Boxing Day, we have no mad rush to buy the latest cheap products (especially this year) and we don't have a major hockey tournament the whole country can rally around. As Boxing Day is non-existent here, this day is simply the day after Christmas Day. Still, it was good to see Canada beat Finland 8-1 in their opener today. It's great that some Canadian Boxing Day traditions can follow us around even when we're far away. Thanks internet!</div>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-36279491142825242852011-12-16T23:45:00.010+00:002011-12-17T01:18:12.822+00:00Christmas ... again it's all about food isn't it?<div align="justify">Well Christmas is fast approaching and with that, here's our Christmas post with all kinds of interesting facts about Christmas and about Canada and about Portugal and about eating and about doing nothing and about waiting for it all to be over and done with.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify">So if you're here in Portugal, when the 24th roles around, I'm sure you'll be slapping the good old <em>bacalhau</em> (or cod) on the table for all to enjoy, I'm I right? Or maybe if you're in northern Portugal you might be having <em>polvo </em>(in English that would be octopus) instead. In Portugal, Catholicism is to thank for the tradition of eating <em>bacalhau</em> and <em>polvo,</em> as back in the day the church would particularly not permit meat eating on those days of fasting. Bacalhau was particulary the common mans food, and in most of Portugal the tradition of eating it on Christmas Eve has remained. And so has the way it is served up; the easiest and simplest way possible: boiled and served up with potatos and <em>coves </em>(Portuguese cabbage). Here's what we'll be eating on the 24th:<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 178px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686881050954870578" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qPM1AMNN_DY/TuvcL3oQrzI/AAAAAAAAAtg/oVn69xZ3Id8/s320/bacalhau-couve-portugesa2.jpg" /></div><br /><div align="justify">Of course the next day we're back to good ol'fashion meat: goat, lamb, pork and of course, turkey.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify">Ok now lets look at Canada. When it comes to Christmas Day, we all know that Turkey is king. When it comes to Christmas Eve, however, there is no specific food typical to that night - there is no Canadian version of <em>bacalhau. </em>So what is a typical Christmas Eve diet in Canada? Well, in my house growing up it was <em>bacalhau</em> just like it was meatballs in Swedish homes or borscht in a Ukrainian home. In other words, Christmas Eve is all about ancestry when it comes to the 24th. The following day, however, for all of Canada, Christmas is synonymous with this:<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 242px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686888152939642050" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PXREUf3jY_I/TuvipQlYPMI/AAAAAAAAAts/nnmU6HtpDVM/s320/christmas_turkey.jpg" /> <br /><p align="justify">Tasty butterball with all the trimmings, and that includes the stuffing as well. Of course in Canada you might get regional differences to boot. For example, don't be surprised to find your turkey accompanied with either fresh or smoked salmon if you're out in British Columbia, for example.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1RhTJHko7qo/Tuvq6UwQFwI/AAAAAAAAAuc/wcoiohOZSGA/s1600/Bolo%2Brei.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686897242209785602" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1RhTJHko7qo/Tuvq6UwQFwI/AAAAAAAAAuc/wcoiohOZSGA/s320/Bolo%2Brei.jpg" /></a>And then comes desserts. Well in Portugal we have <em>sonhos</em>, <em>rabanadas, filhós</em> and then there's the <em>bolo</em> r<em>ei</em>, the Christmas cake I'm pretty sure the whole world shares; in Canada better known as fruit cake, mind you in Canada they don't look quit the same as they do here in Portugal. Here's the very lively and always colourful Portuguese version to the right.</p><br /><p align="justify">So now if you're a Canadian here in Portugal missing certain aspects of Canada this Christmas, we offer you these down below to help put a little bit o Canada into you Portuguese Christmas this year. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!</p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686895215826927490" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Hz_KlX9bCZw/TuvpEX47f4I/AAAAAAAAAuQ/905ZrtSrOGo/s320/Christmas%2BCookies.jpg" />Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982084337540098387.post-71120307331201927172011-11-30T11:03:00.009+00:002011-11-30T12:37:03.898+00:00Fado from its peripheries - Regressa Urgente / Return Urgent<div align="justify">As I mentioned before on this blog and on the Facebook page as well, as part of my research on Luso-descendant returnees, I recently put together a documentary with a colleague of mine by the name of António João Saraiva. After spending the Summer editing the film will Neel Naik of Ra Atelier, we are now ready to show the world the fruits of our labour and to show this little snippit of life taken from the journeys of Marta Raposo at a critical time in her life as a fadista (or fado singer) in the Portuguese world of fado.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify">That said, we kick off with the documentary's official launch which will take place on Friday, Dezember 9th at 9:00PM at the Fado Museum in Lisbon. We couldn't have asked for a better location and we thank the Fado Museum for having us for this one night.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rvy2-laMxNw/TtYNtg9PmQI/AAAAAAAAAsg/zHtpULkBako/s1600/Regressa%2BUrgente%2Bposter.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 226px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5680743055566543106" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rvy2-laMxNw/TtYNtg9PmQI/AAAAAAAAAsg/zHtpULkBako/s320/Regressa%2BUrgente%2Bposter.jpg" /></a></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5680752972656076226" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sUIkcZRxsrw/TtYWuw_o5cI/AAAAAAAAAs4/54tStH0_Ak8/s320/2415015034344_museu_do_fadofado_museum.jpg" /> <br /><p align="justify">As almost everybody knows by now, Fado is now on UNESCO's Intangible World Heritage list. The Portuguese music of fado has been reaching the four corners of the world of late. We are undoubtedly happy as well as lucky to be putting out our film at this time, riding the coat tales of fado's current success. Marta's story, however, is a little different from the stories often associated with fado, tied to Lisbon's traditional neighbourhouds such as Alfama and Bairro Alto. Marta's fado is peripheral in every sense of the word, and, above all, in her geographies (from the <em>Margem Sul</em> of Greater Lisbon or Lisbon's South Bank to her ancestral village to Montreal, land of emigration).</p><br /><div align="justify"></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5680758622684943506" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QpgFBDMIvco/TtYb3o_flJI/AAAAAAAAAtE/gawzOkTK3OY/s320/308600_10150311640156736_530761735_8337022_3721323_n%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" /> <br /><p align="justify">We started following Marta 5 years into her journey in Portugal, at a time when she was again preparing to return to Canada; a pivotal period that ended up triggering divided feelings of belonging, carrying with them doubts and regrets. The desire of wanting to succeed in the 'land of fado' was now to be left suspended, but the question that arises is why. We are inviting one and all who may be interested in this story to join us at the Fado Museum on Dezember 9th at 9:00PM. Seating is limited so we are doing a first come first serve. E-mail me at <a href="mailto:jmssardinha@gmail.com">jmssardinha@gmail.com</a> and we will put you on the list. Here's an invitation to all.<br /></p><br /><p align="justify"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 207px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5680761259102515090" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Pj9YYudXn34/TtYeRGabL5I/AAAAAAAAAtQ/88hNiRaL_vY/s320/Regressa%2BUrgente%2Blan%25C3%25A7amento%2Boficial%2B-%2Bconvite.jpg" /></p>Joãohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07357753326439389710noreply@blogger.com10