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Culture encompasses social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies: knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, attitudes, and habits. Culture often comes from a specific region/ location.
Does that match your idea of what culture is? I have thought it was mainly something that comes from an original source, location. Passed down in families and groups, changed by time.
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Please help me support my fondness for groceries and the occasional new print book.
Thank you.
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Canadian Inspiration
The Canadian Snowbirds are grounded, for now. The jets are too old to keep repaired and in use. New jets are planned but… its not a strictly necessary expense. The Snowbirds have been a Canadian icon – I hope they will fly again.
From a post to Facebook:
The iconic CT-114 Tutor jets retire this year, marking the end of an era for the Snowbirds.
The new Snowbirds are expected to fly the CT-157 Siskin II around 2030 but there’s one thing the CT-157 is a turboprop aircraft. While it will bring modern capabilities, it won’t produce that distinctive Snowbirds jet whine and roar that sends chills down your spine as the formation passes overhead. That sound has been part of the Snowbirds experience for generations. What do you all think? Will the new aircraft keep the same magic, or will something be lost when the Tutors make their final pass? The iconic CT-114 Tutor jets retire this year, marking the end of an era for the Snowbirds.
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Canadian People
Jonathan Crombie – Possibly the favourite leading man in a Canadian romance. Best remembered for his performance as Gilbert Blythe in Anne of Green Gables on CBC Television. There have been other Anne of Green Gables movies but Jonathan Crombie is still the only one I think of when I think of Gilbert Blythe. The little smirks, winks, and the way he would look at Anne, even when she said she didn’t like him at all. But, of course, that wasn’t who Jonathan Crombie was, that was just a part he played especially well.
Jonathan David Crombie (1966 – 2015) Canadian actor, comedian, and voice-over artist. He was born on October, 12th, 1966, in Toronto, Ontario. He was the son of David (mayor of Toronto from 1972 to 1978) and Shirley Crombie. Jonathan had two older sisters, nieces and nephews.
Out of all the characters Jonny ever played, the most colourful by far was himself. The beloved attributes that added up to our vibrant, vital Jonathan were many. An ardent debater, he loved a good discussion and took no prisoners in arguing his point home. He raised the pursuit of economy to an art form, priding himself on travelling light and living close to the bone, delighted whenever he came across a good deal at Honest Ed’s or found the perfect all-in-one gizmo. He was a perfectionist at his craft and the ease and excellence of his performance belied intense, disciplined preparation. Though he could be maddeningly undependable, his talent for creative explanations and hysterically tall tales always smoothed things over. And the gentle sweetness that was the very core of the man was evident in the time and thought he put into gifts and notes, especially for his adored and adoring nieces and nephews.
Quoted from his obituary in the Toronto Star.
“Like he would only take the bus back and forth from Toronto to New York. And, to be honest, that’s how we are going to be bringing him back. We felt that it was an ode to Jonathan. He would never go on a plane, so we’re going to make the trek from New York to Toronto on a bus with his ashes.” Carrie Crombie, sister.
“I think for legions of young women around the world who fell in love with the Anne of Green Gables films, Jonathan literally represented the quintessential boy next door, and there were literally thousands of women who wrote to him over the years who saw him as a perfect mate,” Kevin Sullivan, producer, Sullivan Entertainment.
Crombie was spotted by casting director, Diane Polley, in a high school performance of ‘The Wizard of Oz’. She cast Crombie in ‘A Judgement in Stone’ (1986) and suggested him for the role in Anne of Green Gables. He used a photo he took at a kiosk in Union Station for his audition for the role of Gilbert Blythe. He would answer to the nickname “Gil” when recognized by fans on the street.
From Chatelaine magazine, “it’s Crombie’s Gilbert that we fell in love with: his winks and longing gazes, his soft voice and brown curls, and his uncanny ability to pull off suspenders and hats.”
He performed on stage, screen and improvised comedy. Too many to list, but easily found online with the links below.
In 2014, Crombie and John Mitchell wrote, produced, and directed a documentary ‘Waiting for Ishtar’ financed by an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. It premiered in 2017, after his death, dedicated to the memory of Jonathan Crombie.
Crombie died suddenly, at the age of 48, suffering a brain hemorrhage while in New York, US.
CBC – Jonathan Crombie, Anne of Green Gables actor, dead at 48
The Canadian Encyclopedia – Jonathan Crombie
My Gilbert Blythe (YouTube) – A video tribute.
Wikipedia – Jonathan Crombie
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Canadian Places
The Kidd Creek mine near Timmins, Ontario, is the deepest base-metal mine in the world, worked for copper, zinc and silver.
Geologists have found water isolated deep underground for about two billion years. This water has had no contact with the surface of the Earth since before there were animals, plants, or life other than microbial cells. It is one of few places on land where rock this deep can be touched. The mine’s lowest accessible point sits about three kilometres down, far below sea level. No sunlight, or moonlight, in all those years.
The water was dated by measuring gases dissolved in the water, including helium, argon, neon, krypton and xenon. The more they found the longer they knew the water had been isolated.
“When people think about this water they assume it must be some tiny amount of water trapped within the rock,” Barbara Sherwood Lollar, geochemist at U of T and lead author of the new study, told the BBC. “But in fact it’s very much bubbling right up out at you. These things are flowing at rates of litres per minute – the volume of the water is much larger than anyone anticipated.”
Mining.com – World’s oldest water found in Ontario base metal mine
Barbara Sherwood Lollar of the University of Toronto, the researcher who led the work, tasted it. The older the water, the saltier it tends to be. By her account it runs up to about ten times saltier than seawater, thick, and bitter, with a sulphurous smell, and it turns a faint orange when it meets air, as dissolved iron reacts with oxygen.
Space Daily – Nearly three kilometres beneath a Canadian mine, geologists found water that may have been isolated in the rock for roughly two billion years — older than animals, plants and almost everything we think of as complex life. The brine was so salty and bitter that, when one researcher tasted it, she was sampling a flavour shaped by a world humans never knew
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Canadian Things
Where is the longest uninterrupted highway in the world? Canada!
The Trans-Canada Highway (also known as Highway 1) is about 8,000 kilometres long it is Canada’s longest national road, running from the West Coast, passing through the provinces to the East Coast. (Or from the East Coast to the West Coast). The highway was approved by the Trans-Canada Highway Act of 1949. Construction begun in 1950 and was completed in 1971.
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Victoria, BC, have the Mile 0 markers of the Trans-Canada Highway.
Atlas Canada (YouTube) – The Trans Canada Highway
Road Trip Across Canada.ca – Trans Canada Highway Road Trip: 50+ Places You Have to See
Trans Canada Trail – Explore Canada’s national trail, the longest multi-use trail system in the world.
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Canadian Links
Insider Toronto – Videos and photographs from a Toronto real estate agent.
National Film Board of Canada – For more than 85 years, the National Film Board has been producing documentaries and animated films from every region of Canada and for all audiences—available free of charge.
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