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Archive for the tag “Canada”
Canada Busts Al-Qaeda Ring
Two men have been arrested and charged with plotting a terror attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaeda elements inside Iran. Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, who live in Montreal and Toronto, were planning to derail a passenger train in Toronto.
In the Beginning
What might have happened if space aliens traveled to Earth to teach Neanderthals the rudiments of science and technology? Lunchun Wang ponders that question in the animated short In the Beginning. Wang completed the film in 2009 at Sheridan College in Canada.
The Assault on Free Speech
Sun TV’s Ezra Levant and fellow Canadian Mark Steyn discuss the assault on free speech, the criminalizing of opinion and the collapse of 700 years of Western traditions.
Camels Lived in Arctic
Palaeobiologists in Canada unearthed leg-bone fragments of a 3.5 million year-old camel that lived in the Arctic. The camel resembled those living today in the Sahara, but was much larger in size.
Mocking the Mass
Conservative pundit Ezra Levant lashes into the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. for airing a comedy skit mocking the Catholic Mass. It’s about time someone returned fire on vehement church critics, like Bill Maher, who seem to always have carte blanche to spew their bile over the public airwaves. Yes, the Bible counsels turning the other cheek, but admit it — ain’t it sweet to see the wicked get a taste of their own bitter medicine. H/T Blazing Cat Fur
Babes of Burlesque: 55
SCARLETT JAMES
This blonde bombshell from Montreal turns the spotlight on the glamour of burlesque. Her feathered and bejeweled costumes are exquisite to behold, but, of course, she looks even more radiant after she’s taken them off. She’s enamored with vintage burlesque and enjoys creating grandiose, spectacular shows. Little wonder she’s in hot demand around the world, from Shanghai to Paris, from Berlin to Chicago.
Here she is wowing and working up the crowd at the Windy City Burlesque Fest in 2010. For such a demure damsel, she sure slides and glides with ease, quickly transforming into a dynamo.
She gets into the swing of things at the Toronto Burlesque Festival, hosted by the Revival Nightclub.
Her website: http://www.scarlettjamesburlesque.com/about.html
Babes of Burlesque: 52
ROXI D’LITE
Hailing from Windsor, Ontario, in the Great Frozen North of Canada, Roxi D’Lite has established a rep as one of the bad girls of burlesque. She describes herself as “The Drinkin’ Smokin’ Strippin’ Machine,” and burnished her bad-girl cred by starring in the film Burlesque Assassins. Be that as it may, Roxi is often most alluring when she sheds the raunchy persona. She can be dreamboat-sweet, too, as in her erotic act, “Junglesque,” with an aerial climax, performed at The Orleans Casino for the Viva Las Vegas Festival.
But Roxi would not be Roxi unless she was purr-fecting something naughty, as in this act called “Fetish Feline.” That latex outfit she’s wearing would put Catwoman to shame, regardless of whether you’re talking Eartha Kitt or Julie Newmar.
You can follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Roxi_Dlite
The Danish Poet
Just in time for the 2013 Oscars, the 2007 Oscar winner for best animated short has turned up on Vimeo. And it’s one of the more magical Oscar winners in a many a moon — a serendipitous tale of the sad Danish poet Kaspar, who meets the love of his life, Ingeborg, on a vacation to Norway. But she’s destined to marry a local farmer, leaving Kaspar even more depressed than before. Will his fate finally turn? How much do circumstance and chance dictate all of our lives?
Torill Kove wrote and directed this delightfully quirky, hand-drawn work with teams of animators from the National Film Board of Canada and Mikrofilm AS in Norway. Liv Ullman is an inspired choice to serve as the narrator. The Danish Poet became the first film from Norway to capture an Oscar since Thor Heyerdahl’s documentary Kon-Tiki in 1952. H/T Kuriositas
Build the Keystone Pipeline
Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie identifies three arguments why President Obama ought to approve the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline, bringing oil from Alberta, Canada, to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico. The reasons: 1. The oil isn’t going to stay buried. 2. The pipeline isn’t a disaster waiting to happen. 3. It will create jobs and help improve the economy.
