Source: Media Release
The Meaford BIA invites artists to submit proposals to design and create exterior public artwork in Nelson Street Square, downtown Meaford.
The Meaford BIA aims to keep Meaford's downtown fresh and appealing to residents and visitors. The project theme is "Inspired by Southern Georgian Bay." The finished art will: demonstrate contemporary artistic excellence, be conceptually timeless and enduring, be iconic or highly visible and be engaging to the surrounding community and visitors. The large-scale pieces (4'x8') are to be displayed for ...
By Jon Farmer
In December 2012, I attended a Vinyl Café Christmas Concert in Vancouver as an aspiring documentary maker. Armed with an audio recorder, I was there to interview audience members about the role of radio in their lives. I wandered the lushly carpeted lobbies of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and introduced myself to strangers, asking for a few minutes of their time and a handful of their memories. Although the campus radio station I was volunteering with was moth balled before I could edit the show, an interview with one man stayed with me...
-by Curtis Healy
Today I finished Pierre Berton's 'The Great Depression'. And it may come as a bit of shock to some when I describe it as a bible for our times, these events precipitated 86 years ago, seem to parallel our own exactly. In it you will find the absolute psychosis of national leadership, clinging to principles that make no sense in hardship, crying balanced budgets, over empty stomachs, nakedness from destitution and evictions, the heap of treatment done to 'communists' and 'Jews', like is being done and talked about toward 'environmentalists' and 'Muslims', in our own era, to the fine razor's notion of similarity.
'Maybe we can take 10,000'. Mass deportations, detainings, brutal street violence conducted by police under the sacrimonious 'we have our orders', search and seizures for the sake of having a differing political opinion, that make things like bill C-51 scream 'Padlock Law' all over again. You'll find Canada's history of
-by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
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by Sandra J. Howe
Did you know that the Bruce Trail is Canada's oldest and longest footpath? Begun by volunteers in 1962, over 50 years ago, it now stretches 885 km from Tobermory to Queenston, ON. Nine member clubs are part of the Bruce Trail Conservancy. In Grey-Bruce, the Peninsula, Sydenham, Beaver Valley, and Blue Mountain Clubs maintain the trail, and offer local hiking programs. Fall is a wonderful time for hiking: cooler weather, few bugs, and spectacular colours all add to the pleasure. The clubs provide a wide range of opportunities for the public to get active and involved.
On Sunday, October 18, the Sydenham Club invites members and friends to ...
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