No. 0126 - 25 Jun 2012 - 11:35:09The cemetary at Cathédrale de Saint-Boniface on Taché Avenue is stretched and flattened with the aid of a camera app.
Left of centre in this image and encircled by stone is
the grave of Louis Riel.
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Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
25 June 2012
Panorama
No. 0126 - 25 Jun 2012 - 11:35:09The cemetary at Cathédrale de Saint-Boniface on Taché Avenue is stretched and flattened with the aid of a camera app.
Left of centre in this image and encircled by stone is
the grave of Louis Riel.
18 January 2012
Stop Censorship
No. 2830 - 11 Sept 2007 - 20:17:39The internet crack-down will not be about piracy or democracy but rather good old-fashioned control of the few over the many.
Check out the list of SOPA supporters at
http://wwws.house.gov/htbin/search?vdkvgwkey%20%3Csubstring%3E%20%22/judiciary.house.gov/%22|sopa
And for more information about this legislation see
http://www.slashgear.com/slashgear-101-sopa-and-pipa-explained-in-plain-english-17209599/
Thanks to Michael K and all my friends at dlisted
http://www.dlisted.com/2012/01/18/hot-sopa-related-slut-day#comments
for the information and links above.
Vive la revolution!
16 May 2011
Misspelt and Misdirected
No. 0670 - 16 May 2011 - 13:34:48I checked the spelling of Wolseley, a neighbourhood in downtown Winnipeg, only to find the graffitist doesn't know where exactly he/she is asking this fatuous question.
No winners here I fear.
03 May 2011
Tough Guys
No. 6662 - 12 Jul 2008 - 06:41:05 * No. 9286 - 02 May 2011 - 09:02:08
One man's crime is another man's profit.
The tough guy on the left is probably a member of a drug cartel and is apparently free to do business as long as he stays within the boundaries of Vancouver's "downtowneastside". As well as selling drugs he will be involved in the abuse and drug addicting of very young girls who have landed in this hell zone often due to family abuse and lack of education. Many refer to these female persons as "prostitutes" or "hookers" but really they are sex slaves and no more than children with stuffed animals hanging off their bags. They do not actually work for money but for the drugs that anesthetize their misery. When they are arrested and thrown in jail their male clients go free while their cartel bosses wait for them on the street. They will be beaten when they return without drugs or cash and then this pattern will repeat. Reviled by everyone and unable to escape their penury, most will die young and desperate within a short period of time from the bad dates, dirty drugs and impossible living conditions on the street.
Meanwhile the tough guy on the right is focused on property crime. He will tell you we need more prisons - built by corporate interests for profit. He will ignore studies suggesting a comprehensive national daycare program would help raise up hungry and unsupervised children whose parents, many single, make up the working poor because he disapproves on moral grounds.
At least girls can look forward to careers with the drug trafficking, money-laundering, sex-enslaving cartels which also give boys opportunities in drug dealing and pimping.
Both the federal and civic police forces can be witnessed standing by and watching because in many cases as one cop told me, off the record,
"if our political bosses tell us to sit on our hands, we sit on our hands".
No. 6677 - 19 May 2010 - 18:18:59
I lived over the intersection of Main and Hastings Streets for three and a half years and documented plenty of the above scenario. Eventually I was forced to walk away due to the stress and frustration of living amongst the most stricken citizens in our country. I am lucky - the young women in these pictures are not.
"Tough on Crime" is a bill of goods and yesterday a slim majority of Canadians bought into it at the polls. Today I am a Canadian who feels neither strong nor free.
02 May 2011
23 April 2011
22 April 2011
01 March 2011
Golden Boy
No. 5761 - 25 Feb 2011 - 17:34:51
No. 4714 - 04 Feb 2011 - 17:10:29 * No. 5041 - 07 Feb 2011 - 08:13:09
Poised atop the dome of the Legislative Building, seat of the Manitoba
provincial government, the boy is a Winnipeg icon sculpted by parisien Charles Gardet and cast in 1918 by the Barbidienne foundry in France.
25 February 2011
21 February 2011
Red River Resistance
No. 3599 - 12 Jan 2011 - 16:17:35One century's rebel is another century's hero. Today is Riel Day
and a general holiday in Manitoba.
12 February 2011
Red-letter Days
No. 5943 - 12 Feb 2010 - 12:48:25A shaky start.
No. 6207 - 14 Feb 2010 - 12:39:55The Valentine's Day march for the missing women of the downtown.
No. 7368 - 17 Feb 2010 - 14:09:01 * No. 7382 - 17 Feb 2010 - 14:13:25
The warmest winter in recorded history
and uncommonly sunny and bright
due to a two week long, high pressure ridge.
No. 8364 - 19 Feb 2010 - 20:25:33Round robin at the bonspiel.
No. 9023 - 24 Feb 2010 - 17:19:53 * No. 9043 - 24 Feb 2010 - 17:33:30
Yahoos at the hockey.
No. 0856 - 28 Feb 2010 - 14:51:36We win. Huzzah!
04 February 2011
14 November 2010
Tsunami
No. 3962 - 30 Apr 2008 - 10:15:31From within an overwhelming wave of change; Aung San Suu Kyi has been released, in Burma (Myanmar), after many years of house arrest.
Ward of The East
No. 5011 - 14 Jul 2010 - 18:43:33For want of electoral divisions an unequal amount of civic control lives west of Main Street and beyond.
12 November 2010
11 November 2010
Sacred Ground
No 8249/1 - 25 Dec 2009 - 07:36:06Angel and unknown soldier ascend into collective memory on Remembrance Day.
05 November 2010
Formerly Robson Square
No. 0810 - 18 Apr 2010 - 14:30:07Gastown, Vancouver
Perhaps we will still refer to this public space as Robson Square but the signage on all corners says GE Plaza.
I was living in New York City in the 1980's when this same thing happened to Rockefeller Plaza after GE bought everything at the Center including NBC which resides in the complex's main building. Mostly everyone ignored the corporate name changes and refused to give GE any credit for the famous landmark in mid-town Manhattan. Our landmark, on the other hand, is discreet and human-sized and more easily overlooked. It was designed by Arthur Erickson as a public concourse leading into and away from the important public spaces of the Courthouse and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Corporate sponsors come and go but civic landmarks, public spaces, and local awareness are precious commodities of a functioning, meaningful, and supportive urban environment. The current corporatization of British Columbia has been gaining momentum for at least a dozen years and shows no sign of letting up in spite of a recent high-profile resignation. Campbellization devours not only the resources and services of the public but also the good will. Possibly one's role, as a historian, is to remain vigilant of events riding so consistently below the radar of everyday city life as to be not generally noticed.
Perhaps we will still refer to this public space as Robson Square but the signage on all corners says GE Plaza.
I was living in New York City in the 1980's when this same thing happened to Rockefeller Plaza after GE bought everything at the Center including NBC which resides in the complex's main building. Mostly everyone ignored the corporate name changes and refused to give GE any credit for the famous landmark in mid-town Manhattan. Our landmark, on the other hand, is discreet and human-sized and more easily overlooked. It was designed by Arthur Erickson as a public concourse leading into and away from the important public spaces of the Courthouse and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Corporate sponsors come and go but civic landmarks, public spaces, and local awareness are precious commodities of a functioning, meaningful, and supportive urban environment. The current corporatization of British Columbia has been gaining momentum for at least a dozen years and shows no sign of letting up in spite of a recent high-profile resignation. Campbellization devours not only the resources and services of the public but also the good will. Possibly one's role, as a historian, is to remain vigilant of events riding so consistently below the radar of everyday city life as to be not generally noticed.
04 November 2010
Campbellized
No. 6239 - 18 May 2010 - 16:50:16 * No. 6416 - 19 May 2010 - 06:38:52
No. 5931 - 01 Nov 2010 - 10:28:12
An umbrella camp has persisted at the back door of the former Contact Centre, for several months, while the space remains unrented: on the edge of the Portland Hotel Society's Roosevelt building in the alley behind the Carnegie Community Centre. It is uninhabited and swept clean today but could return at any time.
Regarding the resignation of Gordon "Gordo" Campbell from whatever it was he was doing; public governance, accountability, and confidence have ebbed along with social and cultural ethics. Could a scandal involving rivers, railways, and infidelity be close at hand? Cut and run baby and thanks for the memories!
UPDATE: While writing this post I witnessed actual sweeping. Coincidence or post hoc fallacy?
No. 6337 - 04 Nov 2010 - 11:51:34 * No. 6348 - 04 Nov 2010 - 12:09:41
30 October 2010
Parade Of Lost Souls 2010
No. 5515 - 20:14:17 * No. 5535 - 30 Oct 2010 - 20:42:26
If it looks a little dark in here it is due, perhaps, to cuts in cultural funding and the curtailing of ritual light and autumn fires. Public Dreams Society responded with their customary powers of transformation and fortitude; over 100 artists volunteered their creativity to this on-going neighbourhood event and the community showed up better dressed than ever.
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