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Occasional postings for just causes only. Always busy. Never bored. Stephen Weir lives in downtown Toronto, Canada.sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.comBlogger561125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-59683742893237335232024-03-02T14:04:00.003-05:002024-03-02T14:04:55.477-05:00AIDWYC notes the death of Terry Swinton<p><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Laila; font-size: xx-large;">Innocence Canada acknowledges the death of Terry Swinton </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a;">Innocence Canada wishes to acknowledge the recent passing of Terry Swinton and celebrate his contribution to the innocence movement in Canada. Many Canadians will remember Terry as one of the “The Canadians” who played a pivotal role in freeing Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Terry would go on to help form the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) later to be renamed Innocence Canada. He and his friends Sam Chaiton, and Lindy Green contributed generously to the ongoing fight for justice for wrongly convicted individuals in our country. Terry was justly proud of his support of social justice organizations and Innocence Canada gratefully acknowledges being a recipient of that support.</span></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; outline: currentcolor !important;"><p style="margin: 3pt 0cm 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;">Terry and Sam enjoyed a lifelong friendship from which we at Innocence Canada benefited from on a practical financial bias and inspirationally. As we continue to work towards freeing innocent individuals, we are ever mindful of the seeds of justice sown by Terry, Sam, and Lindy. The greatest tribute we can pay to Terry’s memory is to carry on the fight for justice he helped start. He was known to say the fight is long but winnable and we accept his challenge to continue that journey.</span></p><p style="margin: 3pt 0cm 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><div style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;">“Thank you, Terry, for a life well lived, we will do our best to live up to your example.” – Innocence Canada</span></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;"><br clear="none" style="outline: currentcolor !important;" /></span></div><div class="yiv2494863968ydpb237a530yiv8883002358ydp9381cb29signature" dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;">Issued on behalf of Innocence Canada</span></div>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-51645177969539099782024-02-16T12:41:00.001-05:002024-02-16T12:41:55.926-05:00CARIBANA GOING DOWN THE ROAD TO KITCHENER IN LATE AUGUST<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">CARIBANA ON THE ROAD TO KITCHENER</span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXzBbE7mG5M9zt33ZCuwt-nyHsCu_YnNMXodMSByoqnoo1jkjz_KjOz-fJ6d9hyphenhyphenWElHSdphIRFTtGf26pI3vokWElmXVtJHQLSLBGZ-cF2Edc8qvC4Gkw3q433RtxWptv_g8-d1he253boEJo-pr-geoLtTCjCg7YxGR86pzvArDqlilwK1G_MWSzD6GE/s610/Screenshot%202024-02-16%20at%2012.37.34.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="610" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXzBbE7mG5M9zt33ZCuwt-nyHsCu_YnNMXodMSByoqnoo1jkjz_KjOz-fJ6d9hyphenhyphenWElHSdphIRFTtGf26pI3vokWElmXVtJHQLSLBGZ-cF2Edc8qvC4Gkw3q433RtxWptv_g8-d1he253boEJo-pr-geoLtTCjCg7YxGR86pzvArDqlilwK1G_MWSzD6GE/w428-h346/Screenshot%202024-02-16%20at%2012.37.34.png" width="428" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">The City of Kitchener is gearing up for an unprecedented summer cultural extravaganza as it partners with the Caribana Arts Group to bring Caribana Ignite to the heart of the city from August 23-24, 2024. This marks a significant expansion of the iconic Caribbean carnival beyond its traditional Toronto roots.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Caribana Ignite promises to be a dazzling celebration of Caribbean culture, featuring a shift from the usual parade format to a street <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>performance and street party spectacle. The event will showcase emerging carnival designers, the rich diversity of the Caribbean, and the vibrant essence of carnival itself.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Mayor Berry Vrbanovic expressed his excitement about the collaboration, stating, “This celebration will contribute to the social, cultural, and economic vibrancy of Kitchener.” The event is expected to bring together communities, fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation for Caribbean traditions.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">With Carl Zehr Square in Downtown Kitchener transforming into Carnival Village, attendees can anticipate an immersive experience where they can enjoy Caribbean cuisine, music, and arts. The departure from the traditional parade format aims to give festival-goers a front-row seat on the carnival runway, providing a unique perspective on the cultural explosion that is CaribanaTM.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Davina Reid, Chair of the Caribana Arts Group, expressed gratitude to the City of Kitchener for co-hosting the event and highlighted the goal of introducing the region to the vibrant culture of Caribana. Lannois Carroll-Woolery, President of the Caribbean Canadian Association of Waterloo Region, echoed this sentiment, emphasizing the alignment of the event with the organization's mission of promoting the social, cultural, and economic interests of the Caribbean community.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Caribana Ignite was officially announced by Mayor Berry Vrbanovic at a special KW Titans game, accompanied by live performances from the Dance Caribe Performing Company and Acoustic Steel. As anticipation builds, event organizers encourage the community to stay updated on festival details by subscribing to <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="http://www.kitchener.ca/CaribanaIgnite?fbclid=IwAR3m2jYfUXCivF7IeKa8-BtbqEyWG1Pm2b0ExigdsRbBMfiyfgJUQuSonbM" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">www.kitchener.ca/CaribanaIgnite</a> or visiting <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="http://www.caribana.com/ignite?fbclid=IwAR3HCgTMQt7WCep7p13ZLCAihm1mrBjix7mAIo33EgpbzGF0c3cx8_NRQFI" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">www.caribana.com/ignite</a>.</span></div></div><p><br /></p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-36528304321720274892024-01-05T10:31:00.004-05:002024-01-05T10:31:47.585-05:00BRIEF NEWS CLIP FROM SWEIR RE: INNOCENCE 40 YEARS AFTER MURDER CONVICTION<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7HRkvSH33Wbg6aeyTAAClFz62wMa6v9nVAnTfxpZ8Lxf2hBJ_62AxUkdUghFgPc0qVucp4LsycNEKgknYBjePT-oJhEhHT6B031dsSg99_MyydJ5_tt-It1rhg8jekgOrfAoOmmTl26LdpYAEACjthkiNAZpFuGGx1jIyvTgxUV0sYYcwjYRu9JlksCI/s3760/innocent%20clipping.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2674" data-original-width="3760" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7HRkvSH33Wbg6aeyTAAClFz62wMa6v9nVAnTfxpZ8Lxf2hBJ_62AxUkdUghFgPc0qVucp4LsycNEKgknYBjePT-oJhEhHT6B031dsSg99_MyydJ5_tt-It1rhg8jekgOrfAoOmmTl26LdpYAEACjthkiNAZpFuGGx1jIyvTgxUV0sYYcwjYRu9JlksCI/w507-h362/innocent%20clipping.jpg" width="507" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Breaking news from Innocence Canada</span></b><span style="font-size: 15px;">.</span></span></div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> JAN 4, 2024 This afternoon Robert (Bobby) Mailman and Walter (Wally) Gillespie were acquitted by Chief Justice Tracey DeWare of the King’s Bench Court in Saint John, New Brunswick, 40 years after they were wrongly convicted in the murder of George Leeman</span><br /> </span></p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-18654414395798829782024-01-04T11:16:00.003-05:002024-01-04T11:16:41.191-05:00Mailman and Gillespie will be appearing before Chief Justice Tracey DeWare of the King’s Bench Court re: murder<p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;">Bench Court today </span></b><b style="outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;">40 years after they were charged and convicted in the murder of George Leeman</span></b></span></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaYT1T79Jd06mnjRos1pysN3j6fsW4O1US68g_ZgHbZ1jxrEHxe4lgd6WyZUEXLQxMNtkaKE_NG5shC4710NNFX5dr6g80S7WvBApjJ5sTPi6AHP5c1OB2yivZa5vf7kVE3OsGA5TdZSl2zFx-DiuwqUdxu-MFBzwQ_St5oCq_yIGkQW8CIU8Oa7S2tI4/s1360/King%E2%80%99s%20Bench%20Court%20in%20Saint%20John,.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="1360" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaYT1T79Jd06mnjRos1pysN3j6fsW4O1US68g_ZgHbZ1jxrEHxe4lgd6WyZUEXLQxMNtkaKE_NG5shC4710NNFX5dr6g80S7WvBApjJ5sTPi6AHP5c1OB2yivZa5vf7kVE3OsGA5TdZSl2zFx-DiuwqUdxu-MFBzwQ_St5oCq_yIGkQW8CIU8Oa7S2tI4/w495-h278/King%E2%80%99s%20Bench%20Court%20in%20Saint%20John,.jpeg" width="495" /></a></b></span></div><p></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important;"><b style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; outline: currentcolor !important;">___________________________________________________________</span></b><span style="font-size: 13pt; outline: currentcolor !important;"> </span></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><i style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;">Innocence Canada</span></i></b><b style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"> is announcing that this afternoon, Thursday, January 4, 2024, at 1:30 p.m., Robert (Bobby) Mailman and Walter (Wally) Gillespie will be appearing before Chief Justice Tracey DeWare of the King’s Bench Court in Saint John, New Brunswick, 40 years after they were charged and convicted in the murder of George Leeman.</span></b></span></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: large;">On November 30, 1983, Mr. Leeman’s body was found by a jogger in a wooded area in Rockwood Park, Saint John. Mr. Leeman was the victim of a significant beating, and his body was partially burned. Mr. Leeman was living in Saint John in a rooming house when he was murdered.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: large;">Between January 19 and 21, 1984, the Saint John Police Service charged Wally Gillespie and Bobby Mailman with the murder. </span></span></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Gillespie and Mr. Mailman both had strong alibis with multiple witnesses placing them kilometers from the crime scene on the day of the murder. Nevertheless, they were convicted of the murder on May 11, 1984. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment without parole eligibility for at least 18 years. Not for one day since then have they wavered in insisting on their innocence.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Mailman who served 18 years in prison, sadly, is terminally ill. He is 76 years of age. He also lives in Saint John. Mr. Gillespie served 21 years of his life sentence in prison and is presently living in a halfway house in Saint John. He is now 80 years of age. </span></span></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: large;">On December 22, 2023, Justice Minister Arif Virani quashed the murder convictions of both men on the grounds that there was a reasonable basis to conclude that a miscarriage of justice likely occurred in their case. The Minister directed new trials for both.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv6358804890ydp69a22b28yiv1780165498ydpae8bdfffyiv9176158630ydp38e3e918yiv5011768059ydp14f30431yiv2549589626ydp6536ecfbyiv0853177154ydpcfa6304fyiv5641828895ydpcd414ec9MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><b style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. will be Mr. Mailman and Mr. Gillespie’s first appearance in court since the Minister’s decision. As noted, they will be appearing before the Chief Justice at 1:30 p.m. The courthouse is located at 10 Peel Plaza in Saint John. Mr. Mailman and Mr. Gillespie will be accompanied by <i style="outline: currentcolor !important;">Innocence Canada</i> counsel Jerome Kennedy and James Lockyer. </span></span></b></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"> </span> </p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-32822763079811746942023-12-22T17:44:00.003-05:002023-12-22T17:47:19.276-05:00Murder convictions of Robert Mailman and Walter Gillespie quashed<div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Justice Minister Quashes Murder Convictions of Two New Brunswick Men Convicted of a Murder 40 Years Ago </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinNk14pUdQsBYdJGBLWCj709e-zjMhmCKwrYOkp2mAGPy0RebqxdQt5W6G_wWTEvkONDu-G4Y7tuNkgyruKbLoWKYWhEMX6BPgBA-Gahyphenhyphen1fxy7gqBBJUibn5scZuWsdR9_2_Ft8Hdq0u05-uN9w3zr4BwkYaBw-TmTIby5VMmHPhETnnBgHVDxwyRX1XA/s1892/innoncene.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="1892" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinNk14pUdQsBYdJGBLWCj709e-zjMhmCKwrYOkp2mAGPy0RebqxdQt5W6G_wWTEvkONDu-G4Y7tuNkgyruKbLoWKYWhEMX6BPgBA-Gahyphenhyphen1fxy7gqBBJUibn5scZuWsdR9_2_Ft8Hdq0u05-uN9w3zr4BwkYaBw-TmTIby5VMmHPhETnnBgHVDxwyRX1XA/w414-h106/innoncene.png" width="414" /></a></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Innocence Canada is announcing that this afternoon, Justice Minister Arif Virani quashed the murder convictions of Robert (Bobby) Mailman and Walter (Wally) Gillespie 40 years after they were charged and convicted in the murder of George Leeman in Saint John, New Brunswick.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">On <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>November 30, 1983, Mr. Leeman’s body was found by a jogger in a wooded area in Rockwood Park, Saint John. Mr. Leeman was the victim of a significant beating by one or more weapons and his body was partially burned. Mr. Leeman was living in Saint John in a rooming house when he was murdered.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Between January 19 and 21, 1984, the Saint John Police Service charged Wally Gillespie and Bobby Mailman with the murder. They also charged a third person, Janet Shatford, with the murder. Ms. Shatford subsequently pleaded guilty to manslaughter.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Mr. Gillespie and Mr. Mailman both had strong alibis with multiple witnesses placing them far from the crime scene on the day of the murder. Nevertheless, they were convicted of the murder on May 11, 1984. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment without parole eligibility for at least 18 years. Not for one day have they wavered in insisting on their innocence.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Mr. Gillespie served 21 years of his life sentence in prison and is presently living in a halfway house in Saint John. He is now 81 years of age. Mr. Mailman who served 18 years in prison, sadly, is terminally ill. He is 76 years of age. He also lives in Saint John.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Innocence Canada has worked on their case for many years. We worked alongside Gary Dimmock, formerly a journalist with the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, now with the Ottawa Citizen. Mr. Dimmock investigated the case before Innocence Canada came to it and always believed in Mr. Mailman and Mr. Gillespie’s innocence. He deserves great credit for his work on their case.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Innocence Canada is grateful to Minister Virani for realizing the urgency of the case and giving his decision today to quash the convictions of both men and directing a new trial. We hope Mr. Mailman will be able to appear in the King’s Bench in Saint John in the near future as a result of the Minister’s Order.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Jerome Kennedy of Innocence Canada said today:</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">“I want to thank Minister Virani for his decision today. It is welcome news for both Mr. Mailman and Mr. Gillespie. Both are in their senior years and Mr. Mailman is gravely ill. This is the best news they could have, and Innocence Canada is privileged to have been helping them.”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">James Lockyer of Innocence Canada said today:</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">“Minister Virani has stepped forward for Mr. Mailman and Mr. Gillespie. The causes behind their wrongful convictions can be left to another day. Today is one of celebration for them.”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Ron Dalton, co-President of Innocence Canada, said:</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">“I spent 9 years in prison for a murder that I did not commit and much of that time I spent with Bobby Mailman and Wally Gillespie in a maximum-security penitentiary. They never gave up hope that one day justice would be done for them. Today is that day and I congratulate them on their perseverance and courage.”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Bobby Mailman and Wally Gillespie issued a joint statement today:</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">“It has taken 40 years. Today we are happy that justice is being done for us. Neither of us had anything to do with Mr. Leeman’s murder. We have always been innocent and we thank the Minister for what he has done.”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">As a final note, the Minister’s powers to review wrongful convictions are set out in the Criminal Code of Canada. His greatest power is to quash a wrongful conviction and direct a new trial. It is a power rarely exercised but it is what he has done today for Mr. Mailman and Mr. Gillespie. The case is now in the hands of the original trial court, the Court of King’s Bench in Saint John.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">For further information, contact: </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Jerome Kennedy at 709-725-2966 or jkennedy@wrmmlaw.com</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">James Lockyer at 416-518-7983 or jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Ron Dalton at 709-327-6864 or rcdalton34@gmail.com</span> </span></p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-78792951517222230632023-10-22T14:40:00.004-04:002023-10-22T14:40:38.986-04:00BAIL HEARING TOMORROW FOR WOODHOUSE<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> <span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;">Indigenous Man Returns to the Court in Winnipeg where He was Convicted 50 Years Ago</span></span></b></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">______________________________________</span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">More than 49 years ago on March 5, 1974, <span style="outline: currentcolor !important;">Clarence Woodhouse</span>, a young Indigenous man, and a member of the Pinaymootang First Nation on the Fairford Indian Reserve in Manitoba, was convicted of the murder of Mr. Ting Fong Chan in Winnipeg, a crime he did not commit.</span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">On July 18 of this year, two of Mr. Woodhouse’s former co-accused were vindicated in the King’s Bench Court by Chief Justice Joyal in Winnipeg. A fourth accused, Clarence’s brother Russell Woodhouse, sadly died in 2011 before he could be vindicated.</span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">On September 13, 2023, <i style="outline: currentcolor !important;">Innocence Canada </i>filed an application with Federal Justice Minister Arif Virani for a ministerial review of Clarence Woodhouse’s conviction pursuant to the provisions of the <i style="outline: currentcolor !important;">Criminal Code. </i> We also filed a posthumous application on Russell Woodhouse’s behalf with the support of his surviving sister, Linda Anderson.</span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Clarence Woodhouse, now in his early 70s, has always proclaimed his innocence but no one listened to him. The prosecution’s case at his trial in 1974 depended on a “confession” that he was supposed to have made in fluent English despite Saulteaux being the language he spoke. Mr Woodhouse testified that he was assaulted by members of the Winnipeg Police into signing a false confession, but the trial judge and the jury disbelieved him. <i style="outline: currentcolor !important;">Innocence Canada </i>has now adopted his case and brought it before the Justice Minister urging him to quash his conviction.</span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Monday, October 23, 2023, will be the next step on Clarence Woodhouse’s road to vindication. He will appear at 2:00 p.m. before the King’s Bench Court at 408 York Avenue, Winnipeg asking that he be released on bail pending the Minister’s decision. </span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Jerome Kennedy, a Director of <i style="outline: currentcolor !important;">Innocence Canada</i>, who has led the case for Mr. Woodhouse’s vindication, said today:</span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“49 years has been an interminable wait for Clarence Woodhouse, but he never gave up. Tomorrow will be an extraordinary day for him, to be back in the very same court where he was wrongly convicted.”</span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">James Lockyer, also a Director of <i style="outline: currentcolor !important;">Innocence Canada, </i>who is assisting Mr. Kennedy with the case, said today:</span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“<i style="outline: currentcolor !important;">Innocence Canada </i>is privileged to be able to help Mr. Woodhouse and we will be there for him at his release hearing.”</span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For further information, contact: </span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important;"><i style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></i></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;">Jerome Kennedy at 709-725-2966 or </span><span lang="EN-US" style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><a href="mailto:jkennedy@wrmmlaw.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #954f72; outline: currentcolor !important;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:jkennedy@wrmmlaw.com"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;">jkennedy@wrmmlaw.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"></span></span></p><p class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;">James Lockyer at 416-518-7983 or </span><span lang="EN-US" style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><a href="mailto:jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #954f72; outline: currentcolor !important;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;">jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca</span></a></span></span><span class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; font-size: medium; outline: currentcolor !important; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"></span></span></p><div style="font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; outline: currentcolor !important; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"> </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="yiv5948663909ydp5e65fc77yiv7064075872ydp57e1a28eyiv6553144452ydpfe2300feyiv8425335183ydp842cfe2fyiv9285191205ydpd2e756dyiv4605185129ydpc3c6c5a0MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; outline: currentcolor !important; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><br /></span></span></div></div>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-88770313569145385052023-07-25T12:09:00.002-04:002023-07-25T12:09:22.137-04:00X MARKS THE SPORT AT CARIBANA PARADE<p><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;"><b> <span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">Black Tape Or Not this Rate R Section Will Be Turning Heads on the Parade Route</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtFNe1l0UacPqZxAvwX2eWtQdp08j0VZj_dErWTO-DQwVpJIfkfo2bfXCPbfH0clDxtPgaf9FHpzzyPpog32ktISeeC4RW-Wh-Wun_Z67GLpGpuyDu_rgd2NMPuwOSKJXVNeunwzeHuhWgjVJ8g43ZUYjX86sj1qGKljluzTLefW3bl6uPFeTwUeJaG-E/s1345/X.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1345" data-original-width="1078" height="587" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtFNe1l0UacPqZxAvwX2eWtQdp08j0VZj_dErWTO-DQwVpJIfkfo2bfXCPbfH0clDxtPgaf9FHpzzyPpog32ktISeeC4RW-Wh-Wun_Z67GLpGpuyDu_rgd2NMPuwOSKJXVNeunwzeHuhWgjVJ8g43ZUYjX86sj1qGKljluzTLefW3bl6uPFeTwUeJaG-E/w469-h587/X.jpeg" width="469" /></a></b></span></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: Laila; font-size: xx-large; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Stephen Weir The biggest question of the spring wasn't about the revealing costumes that the Rated R section will be wearing on the road at this August's Grand Parade. It was whether anyone would be brave to actually sign-up and join in.</span><p></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;">Imagine revelers confidently dancing down the Lakeshore, cracking whips. They will be adorned in black and purple S&M-inspired fishnet costumes, with optional <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>black X tape covering their nipples and super small silver codpieces to ensure legality. Their full-contact performance will be truly captivating.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;">"Yes, of course we sold out!" exclaimed Thea Jackson, the leader of the R-Rated section. "We received a fantastic response and actually have about 60% American participation, which I love. It's evident that those who choose to wear this costume are incredibly comfortable in their own skin and enjoy pushing boundaries. However, we also have some individuals who are more reserved, and for them, wearing this costume is a risk they've always wished to take. It's a beautiful thing."</span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYXwT9jIWCqcVHezlatbEmdZliRzoRAYG2S_CbjH2lYC7hrc9JKG2m9sgFBHikUTxVltw8TK93iw7E26jIfYQ-_nssfBjoZdyZYpAGvfRBL7OuB5jyIPJ_yHcsFZfzlDuu6ZLz_bqq6uumlBBq1ggJbHbnMklPJByHxyxoYDfQcUKOaPeLqPlmGl1VN00/s1346/XX.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1346" data-original-width="1078" height="599" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYXwT9jIWCqcVHezlatbEmdZliRzoRAYG2S_CbjH2lYC7hrc9JKG2m9sgFBHikUTxVltw8TK93iw7E26jIfYQ-_nssfBjoZdyZYpAGvfRBL7OuB5jyIPJ_yHcsFZfzlDuu6ZLz_bqq6uumlBBq1ggJbHbnMklPJByHxyxoYDfQcUKOaPeLqPlmGl1VN00/w479-h599/XX.jpeg" width="479" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;">The R-Section is just one of fourteen sections comprising this year's Toronto Revellers mas band. With a theme of "It's Show Time," the other sections will wear costumes that strike a balance between modesty and sensuality.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;">Costume production is in full swing at the Reveller's Mas Camp located at 2450 Victoria Park Ave, North York. "We are prepared to be one of the standout sections on the road," Jackson informed the Caribbean Camera. "Both masqueraders and spectators have yet to witness anything like this on the streets of Toronto... until now! In a flurry of purples and pinks, you won't be able to miss us." </span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5242S8u61SMMaHpmx8Ak6eCOD21M5_2BilzfDwl8_2Oz8rgocPS2K3ATodGNhizIJTv-_8njQo-2NBABPzy1JgZSCNBiI0_7S4VthT9hnZe2Z7y-tx0Hs5NowGUW2moUoauQencF2sV-XHM6kL0NxxB4NtwgPY3TUGTmkpvkXs8Z2nk7S8at5tuIdJhY/s1345/XXX.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1345" data-original-width="1078" height="593" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5242S8u61SMMaHpmx8Ak6eCOD21M5_2BilzfDwl8_2Oz8rgocPS2K3ATodGNhizIJTv-_8njQo-2NBABPzy1JgZSCNBiI0_7S4VthT9hnZe2Z7y-tx0Hs5NowGUW2moUoauQencF2sV-XHM6kL0NxxB4NtwgPY3TUGTmkpvkXs8Z2nk7S8at5tuIdJhY/w474-h593/XXX.jpeg" width="474" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;">While bare breasts have occasionally been exposed on the parade route in the past, this might be the first time a section, will be participating in such a manner if and it is a big if, the masqueraders opt out of wearing the supplied “boob tape” over their nipples</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;">The members of the R-Rated group have already engaged in a group chat. The Revellers have informed them about how much they will stand out from the rest of the parade and advised them to be prepared for the attention they will receive. "We will have additional marshals on the road but do not anticipate any issues," said Jackson. "We actually have a significant number of men within the section as well, so I am confident that the ladies will be well taken care of!"</span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1OfYBpjKRhMVzj84GzW5rQevQ4ZvsW6Kxd6hDCTqkfDqUUfHabpD1XgnAsocTNqlNXbwzr9L4vVqAo70W0zcqZd4VAsHvHT-0GA-2bIQuX9ZaLilJ0y7m6QngJCFRoI--DTh4fPLs0V7l42sSuWSxR5h8RDCN8ejnuTBpKIptvGSAFMPWGnyfqab67bg/s1342/XXXX.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1342" data-original-width="1079" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1OfYBpjKRhMVzj84GzW5rQevQ4ZvsW6Kxd6hDCTqkfDqUUfHabpD1XgnAsocTNqlNXbwzr9L4vVqAo70W0zcqZd4VAsHvHT-0GA-2bIQuX9ZaLilJ0y7m6QngJCFRoI--DTh4fPLs0V7l42sSuWSxR5h8RDCN8ejnuTBpKIptvGSAFMPWGnyfqab67bg/w487-h606/XXXX.jpeg" width="487" /></a></div></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Laila; font-size: x-large;">Based on reporter Weir's inbox traffic, the Rated R section has generated the most discussions in this year's Toronto Caribbean Carnival. The organizer she says she is looking forward to blowing everyone's mind this carnival and once again in 2024!</span></div></div>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-47765782405860280222023-07-25T11:20:00.002-04:002023-07-25T11:20:47.147-04:00Emancipation On Bloor / Underground Toronto Train Ride<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> <i style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; outline: currentcolor; text-align: center;"><u style="outline: currentcolor;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;">1,000 will ride the midnight subway train</span></u></i></span></p><div style="border: 1pt solid rgb(217, 217, 227); caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0cm;"><p style="border: medium; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 15pt; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>Tenth Year For the Underground Toronto Train Ride</b></span></span></p><p style="border: medium; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 15pt; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaCF14E01glEuea8ZQgMiBPwc1Kfu8lWNFqtxFgcZq75Ri-7xgoIyNgOBLP3oUIOpjkqwc4iO1johfhHLa8O732p2jcYQnBjBztHsu760r7AVEJ6iivxuZBaRx0dFafKvzAR3JXhppGNCQLGvVYSphG1jFEgSe90L2bMB40xj5E5FUnAK-NPiiEEA4hWU/s4396/all%20down%20to%20the%20train.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3303" data-original-width="4396" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaCF14E01glEuea8ZQgMiBPwc1Kfu8lWNFqtxFgcZq75Ri-7xgoIyNgOBLP3oUIOpjkqwc4iO1johfhHLa8O732p2jcYQnBjBztHsu760r7AVEJ6iivxuZBaRx0dFafKvzAR3JXhppGNCQLGvVYSphG1jFEgSe90L2bMB40xj5E5FUnAK-NPiiEEA4hWU/w499-h374/all%20down%20to%20the%20train.jpg" width="499" /></a></span></span></div><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br />There is a serious annual spiritual event during this Carnival season in Toronto, and it is coming down the track straight at you. The Emancipation Day "Underground Freedom Train" Ride begins on July 31st and ends early on August 1st, with over 1,000 people on board.</span></span><p></p><p style="border: medium; line-height: 24px; margin: 15pt 0cm; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;">This year marks the tenth time that the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has partnered with the Blackhurst Cultural Centre (formerly A Different Booklist Cultural Centre) to provide an actual underground experience via its subway system, representing the underground railroad journey. This is a very emotional song filled train ride, probably Canada's largest of its kind, </span><b style="outline: currentcolor;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;">and open to all Canadians, for the price of token.</span></b></span></p><p style="border: medium; line-height: 24px; margin: 15pt 0cm; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqt6kjSVItDkMdFSWRe4GVh1lhqjSUdh5YyNseKkhevnUdTOv5ozENLJyprZjYLXNEUKYsDmSydaGu4npayAcHpL7HE5k0T4XBe-ylAUJx7Vt-YR_QqrPIlm-yNV_sU_6LXtbVoJP1JpDkHdEDqWa32lr1sN8xsf4Lr1vwdi2dPdV9oFAyVUSZSzyUTAw/s3462/sign%20says%20it%20all.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3462" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqt6kjSVItDkMdFSWRe4GVh1lhqjSUdh5YyNseKkhevnUdTOv5ozENLJyprZjYLXNEUKYsDmSydaGu4npayAcHpL7HE5k0T4XBe-ylAUJx7Vt-YR_QqrPIlm-yNV_sU_6LXtbVoJP1JpDkHdEDqWa32lr1sN8xsf4Lr1vwdi2dPdV9oFAyVUSZSzyUTAw/w593-h518/sign%20says%20it%20all.jpg" width="593" /></a></span></span></div><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br />"The Emancipation Day 'Underground Freedom Train' Ride is symbolic of the role of the Underground Railroad within Canada's history," explained Itah Sadu, one of the founders of the event. "This train ride is a recognition of the historic date of Emancipation Day on August 1st when slavery was abolished in the British Empire. It is also a celebration of the power and potential of the peoples of African descent."</span></span><p></p><p style="border: medium; line-height: 24px; margin: 15pt 0cm; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Formerly enslaved people undertook an incredible and dangerous journey in their migration to Canada, and this symbolic train ride helps keep history alive by connecting the past to the present and ultimately linking to the future.</span></span></p><p style="border: medium; line-height: 24px; margin: 15pt 0cm; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">The journey begins and ends at Union Station in downtown Toronto. It all starts at 10.30 p.m. inside Union Station with choirs, drumming, brass music, and greetings from the TTC and city officials. The train will be boarded at 11:40 p.m. The route travels along the TTC subway line to Downsview Station, where there will be music, readings, and special guests just outside of the station. The train will then return everyone back to Union Station by 12:45 a.m.</span></span></p><p style="border: medium; line-height: 24px; margin: 15pt 0cm; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">This year's conductor is Barbara Thomas, Nursing Admin Coordinator at the Toronto Western Hospital for 55 years. She is a former Board Director of the Jamaican Canadian Association, and her record of volunteerism spans over 50 years.</span></span></p><p style="border: medium; line-height: 24px; margin: 15pt 0cm; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Also attending will be Kathy Grant, the recipient of the 2023 Emancipation Award for preserving, documenting, and curating local Black history in the city. She is the founder of Legacy Voices, an organization dedicated to the histories of Black Canadian war veterans.</span></span></p><p style="border: medium; line-height: 24px; margin: 15pt 0cm; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">The theme for the 10th anniversary is "Planting Seeds of Emancipation." Over the past years, the Emancipation Ride has planted seeds of hope and inspiration through its symbolism. This is evidenced in the attendance of all Canadians to the Ride, its innovation, and the positive relationship shared with the TTC and community organizations as event collaborators.</span></span></p><p style="border: medium; line-height: 24px; margin: 15pt 0cm; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuB2dPVGSFW1H2w9NoZj2RcuvTZHAwIVTem-R3edVYTMk-GFM-nymrzSBm3UfiqGJe8VdKD2X6JfNNZmEqK_0cS8q-yzWqZ3c_avZFlpKlgtc7jTEaIkYGwkrj1P0i7C9U1TUGHfHTwBG4QVTrp1PbB-s9o61zAkbZrd-DzmBnRC2JS6pFlQaKgKbGdlE/s4032/All%20aboard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuB2dPVGSFW1H2w9NoZj2RcuvTZHAwIVTem-R3edVYTMk-GFM-nymrzSBm3UfiqGJe8VdKD2X6JfNNZmEqK_0cS8q-yzWqZ3c_avZFlpKlgtc7jTEaIkYGwkrj1P0i7C9U1TUGHfHTwBG4QVTrp1PbB-s9o61zAkbZrd-DzmBnRC2JS6pFlQaKgKbGdlE/w582-h436/All%20aboard.jpg" width="582" /></a></span></div><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="border: medium; line-height: 24px; margin: 15pt 0cm; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">"During this 2023 season of Emancipation," said Sadu, "it is important to give thanks to Mother Earth for nurturing us, to thank the ancestors who came before and prepared fertile ground. Finally, to ask the question, what new seeds will Canadians plant going forward, and how soon can they break soil and cultivate?"</span></span></p><p style="border: medium; line-height: 24px; margin: 15pt 0cm 0cm; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Passengers aboard the Emancipation Train, will be given a package of organic corn seeds to take home and plant.</span></span></p><p style="border: medium; line-height: 24px; margin: 15pt 0cm 0cm; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p></div><p style="border: medium; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b style="outline: currentcolor;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;">Emancipation On Bloor </span></b></span></p><p style="border: medium; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b style="outline: currentcolor;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p style="border: medium; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b style="outline: currentcolor;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b style="outline: currentcolor;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwmJB_ARH_lIWsCIiIbAR1PrtEe-n2PDrk00nouLqwig_NinsizyjKK7Hl1g1bJlCLmlV1JdkmlXWM2edCYJSY11NCpG7g0hVtZg4WYzY_7FdRVwdBr3B-PPBpn_ATaDzetAY4_Aac-YLYqjRkk23Le8j0jbVRpooimlzJ4A_iRVOnmbN7guJ3o-ECsWw/s1440/WALKING%20ON%20BBLOOR%20STREET.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="688" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwmJB_ARH_lIWsCIiIbAR1PrtEe-n2PDrk00nouLqwig_NinsizyjKK7Hl1g1bJlCLmlV1JdkmlXWM2edCYJSY11NCpG7g0hVtZg4WYzY_7FdRVwdBr3B-PPBpn_ATaDzetAY4_Aac-YLYqjRkk23Le8j0jbVRpooimlzJ4A_iRVOnmbN7guJ3o-ECsWw/w516-h688/WALKING%20ON%20BBLOOR%20STREET.jpeg" width="516" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b style="outline: currentcolor;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><br /></span></b></span><p></p><p style="border: medium; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br clear="none" style="outline: currentcolor;" /></span></p><p style="border: medium; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;">Following the Underground Freedom Train ride, which ends in the early hours of August 1</span><sup style="outline: currentcolor;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;">st</span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;">, Emancipation celebrations continue with the Emancipation On Bloorwalk. That starts at 12:30pm. The walk will proceed along Bloor St form Bathurst to Christie Pits. The public is invited to join the walk in recognition of the National Emancipation Day. The gathering place is outside the Randolph Theatre, located at 736 Bathurst Street. Participants are asked to wear white and come with wrapped heads.</span></span></p><p style="border: medium; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Joining this year’s Emancipation on Bloor is BMO, which will make a joint announcement with the Blackhurst Cultural Centre at Blackhurst Cultural Centrelocation. The 12.00 pm announcement will precede the Emancipation Walk. </span></span></p><p style="border: medium; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;">E</span><i style="outline: currentcolor;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;">mancipation on Bloor</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 32px; outline: currentcolor;"> is an animation of Bloor Street. The animation takes place at key intersections on Bloor from Avenue Rd, to Christie Pits with a number of artistic expressions and music. The event commemorates an important milestone for descendants of enslaved Africans. It marks the abolition of slavery and honours the many contributions and resilience of African peoples throughout the Diaspora. </span></span></p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-9001222298541078282023-07-17T11:54:00.000-04:002023-07-17T11:54:06.771-04:00RELEASED ISSUED FOR INNOCENCE CANADA RE: ANDERSON AND WOODHOUSE<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQW24bs6v_UoF8iNQZKlC2KQilVBFUMlMBecsrg-KBTbCblH9Mc-WlxsN6fL1tmumsSdGkbKqdt_lVsot9PO4l9Nm_TOzbHM7a-PRNSNo0dIH7WbqSBBCXnqhyjXvaPNlgo1afes9rc8r3-HNfXeUfmqWH_VSlCBpd-2cViLlGhJ1ZC4MbzTzjcVwG8fE/s2010/Screenshot%202023-07-17%20at%2011.33.53%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="2010" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQW24bs6v_UoF8iNQZKlC2KQilVBFUMlMBecsrg-KBTbCblH9Mc-WlxsN6fL1tmumsSdGkbKqdt_lVsot9PO4l9Nm_TOzbHM7a-PRNSNo0dIH7WbqSBBCXnqhyjXvaPNlgo1afes9rc8r3-HNfXeUfmqWH_VSlCBpd-2cViLlGhJ1ZC4MbzTzjcVwG8fE/w508-h113/Screenshot%202023-07-17%20at%2011.33.53%20AM.png" width="508" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">Press Release: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">Innocence Canada<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;">Monday, July 17, 2023 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two Indigenous Men Return to Court in Winnipeg where They were Convicted 50 Years Ago<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">___________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Brian Anderson </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and <b>Allan Woodhouse</b>, two young Indigenous men, members of the Pinaymootang First Nation on the Fairford Indian Reserve in Manitoba, were convicted of a murder they didn’t commit 50 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On June 22, 2023, Justice Minister David Lametti quashed their murder convictions and ordered new trials for them both. Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, they return to the Court of King’s Bench in Winnipeg for the first time since they were wrongly convicted to appear before the Chief Justice of the Court for their new trials.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Anderson and Mr. Woodhouse, both now in their late 60s, have always proclaimed their innocence but no one listened to them. Several years ago, <i>Innocence Canada </i>adopted their cases and brought them before the Justice Minister urging him to quash their convictions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tomorrow will be the next step on their road to vindication. They will appear before Chief Justice Glenn Joyal at 10:00 a.m. in the King’s Bench Court at 408 York Avenue, Winnipeg. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jerome Kennedy, a Director of <i>Innocence Canada</i>, who has led the case for their vindication, said today:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“50 years has been an interminable wait for Brian Anderson and Allan Woodhouse but they never gave up. Tomorrow will be an extraordinary day for them, to be back in the very same court whether they were wrongly convicted.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Brian Anderson and Allan Woodhouse</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>, </i>who assisted Mr. Kennedy with the case, said today:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“<i>Innocence Canada </i>is privileged to have been able to help these two men and we will be there with them tomorrow.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For further information, contact: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Jerome Kennedy at 709-725-2966 or </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:jkennedy@wrmmlaw.com" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">jkennedy@wrmmlaw.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">James Lockyer at 416-518-7983 or </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-38632768724755105452023-06-22T16:31:00.001-04:002023-06-22T16:31:09.474-04:00BREAKING NEWS from Innocence Canada Two Indigenous Men innocent after 49 Years<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBA0DUnpbLtBRH02TErtFkHpe9YvjxcUFVRTWj-7KHPEqR75zzVr74tTu94DeUigD1Sv6PlI5jzxfvq6T6Xqxw3ZU0FcUL8gCI1WtiJB80B5juzGwMcTcxuwP8t6QSzPXSoebAoW9FKwvyHrr3DFa2_zymfz9PwQrmx1NZ99skTVD1thk3FsNLlzxPjBE/s2258/Screenshot%202023-06-22%20at%203.14.37%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="2258" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBA0DUnpbLtBRH02TErtFkHpe9YvjxcUFVRTWj-7KHPEqR75zzVr74tTu94DeUigD1Sv6PlI5jzxfvq6T6Xqxw3ZU0FcUL8gCI1WtiJB80B5juzGwMcTcxuwP8t6QSzPXSoebAoW9FKwvyHrr3DFa2_zymfz9PwQrmx1NZ99skTVD1thk3FsNLlzxPjBE/w543-h100/Screenshot%202023-06-22%20at%203.14.37%20PM.png" width="543" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Justice Minister David Lametti Quashes the Wrongful Convictions for Murder </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">of Two Indigenous Men 49 Years After Their Convictions</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">____________________________________________________________</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Imagine that you are a young Indigenous male in 1973, a member of the <b>Pinaymootang First Nation, </b>who has just moved to Winnipeg from the Fairford Indian Reserve 240 kilometres north-west of Winnipeg. You speak some English, but Saulteaux/Ojibway is your first language. You have no criminal record and are gainfully employed. Then one day you are charged with the brutal murder of a man called <b>Ting Fong Chan</b>, killed by unknown assailants on the streets of Winnipeg as he walked home from work. You were not there when he was killed and had no involvement in the homicide. Nevertheless, the police arrest you and force you to sign a false confession.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">This is what happened to <b>Brian Anderson </b>and <b>Allan Woodhouse</b>, two young Indigenous men. They proclaimed their innocence, but no one believed them. The nightmare continued and they went to trial for murder before an all-white male jury. The police officers, the lawyers and the judge were all white men.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">They were convicted of murder in 1974 and sent to jail for life. They kept proclaiming their innocence, but no one listened. Decades later, they heard about <i>Innocence Canada </i>and asked for their help. <i>Innocence Canada </i>adopted their case and took it to the Minister of Justice. No one could give them back the years stolen from them, but they hoped that someone would finally recognize their innocence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">This nightmare scenario happened to Brian Anderson and Allan Woodhouse. These two young men were the victims of systemic racism. Today, they take a giant step on their road to vindication. <b>Minister David Lametti</b> has recognized the injustice wreaked on them decades ago and exercised the greatest power he has under the <i>Criminal Code</i>. He has quashed their convictions for murder and directed a new trial for them both.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Their story is one of remarkable courage and perseverance. They have never wavered in their quest to prove their innocence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Jerome Kennedy,</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> a Director of <i>Innocence Canada</i>, who has led the case for their vindication, said today:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">“This is a great day for justice for Mr. Anderson and Mr. Woodhouse. 49 years has been an interminable wait for them but they never gave up. I never doubted their innocence. I want to thank the Minister and his working group on wrongful convictions for their great work on this case.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">James Lockyer</span></b><span lang="EN-US">, also a Director of <i>Innocence Canada, </i>who assisted Mr. Kennedy with the case, said today:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">“<i>Innocence Canada </i>is privileged to have been able to help these two men. Their cases raise important systemic issues that need to be addressed in Manitoba and across Canada. <i>Innocence Canada </i>looks forward to discussing with the Federal and Provincial Governments the next steps in righting the wrongs done by our criminal justice system to Indigenous peoples in the past, and preventing the same wrongs being done to Indigenous peoples in the future.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">No date has yet been set for Mr. Anderson and Mr. Woodhouse to appear before the presiding <b>Justice of the Manitoba King’s Bench Court. </b>We will advise the media as soon as we know<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="yiv9807199550MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Below is the Justice Minister’s announcement regarding their case.</span></p><p class="yiv9807199550MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv9807199550MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2023/06/minister-of-justice-orders-new-trial-in-manitoba-cases-following-conviction-review.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #338fe9; outline: currentcolor !important;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2023/06/minister-of-justice-orders-new-trial-in-manitoba-cases-following-conviction-review.html</span></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><p class="yiv9807199550MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; margin: 0cm; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">For further information, contact: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Jerome Kennedy at 709-725-2966<i> </i>or </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:jkennedy@wrmmlaw.com" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">jkennedy@wrmmlaw.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">James Lockyer at 416-518-7983 or </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-90805598210943278212023-03-23T19:42:00.007-04:002023-03-23T19:44:51.742-04:00Judge to give Decision on Freedom for 2 Indigenous Sisters in Prison for more than 30 Years<p><br /></p><div class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyahoo_quoted" id="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyahoo_quoted_0223147072" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; outline: none;"><div 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id="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182yqtfd36384" style="outline: none;"><div class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayahoo_quoted" id="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayahoo_quoted_0553223760" style="outline: none;"><div style="outline: none;"><div style="outline: none;"><div id="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256" style="outline: none;"><div class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256ydp590f500ayahoo-style-wrap" style="outline: none;"><div style="outline: none;"><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Bail Decision to be made at 9:00 a.m., Monday, March 27 in Yorkton, Sask</span></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ah6OSnSfrXTaQPbAlmumHZ4lRoHrl2j9prIRutnwa-esMoJ68vluPgqCEn3BZe_pRaTSminmK0yIKfCxVGJT43Z4EMYV3EeNzV1COR2qkbKikMHxhP9RDG2eKs_2JxZ3sD5mv_QD91mAJeNr6ru4ULTnV9Z33nBnBvkIWTwC4t8NePYydXXUGc-j/s2592/Screenshot%202023-03-23%20at%205.19.46%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="2592" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ah6OSnSfrXTaQPbAlmumHZ4lRoHrl2j9prIRutnwa-esMoJ68vluPgqCEn3BZe_pRaTSminmK0yIKfCxVGJT43Z4EMYV3EeNzV1COR2qkbKikMHxhP9RDG2eKs_2JxZ3sD5mv_QD91mAJeNr6ru4ULTnV9Z33nBnBvkIWTwC4t8NePYydXXUGc-j/w1028-h138/Screenshot%202023-03-23%20at%205.19.46%20PM.png" width="1028" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i></i></span></span><blockquote><i><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Justice Layh of the Court of King's Bench in Yorkton, Saskatchewan will deliver his d</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ecision whether Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance, two Indigenous sisters who have been in prison for more than 30 years since Feb 25, 1993, should be released on bail while they wait for Minister Lametti’s decision in their case. </span></span></i></blockquote><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></span></span></h1><p class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256ydp948e3357MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large; outline: none;"> </span></p><p class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256ydp948e3357MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; outline: none;">In December, 2021, the sisters asked the Minister to review their convictions for 2<sup style="outline: none;">nd</sup> degree murder as miscarriages of justice. They are supported by Innocence Canada and many Indigenous activists’ groups and supporters across Canada. </span></p><p class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256ydp948e3357MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; outline: none;"> </span></p><p class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256ydp948e3357MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; outline: none;">In June, 2022, the Minister advised that he believed there may have been a miscarriage of justice in their case. </span></p><p class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256ydp948e3357MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; outline: none;"> </span></p><p class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256ydp948e3357MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; outline: none;">In the summer of 2022, Odelia and Nerissa filed an application in the King’s Bench Court for their release on bail pending the Minister’s decision. The application was heard by Justice Layh in November 2022, and again in January, 2023. </span></p><p class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256ydp948e3357MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; outline: none;"> </span></p><p class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256ydp948e3357MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; outline: none;">On Monday, Justice Layh will deliver his decision in open court in Yorkton. Odelia and Nerissa will both be there, along with their families and supporters. </span></p><p class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256ydp948e3357MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; outline: none;"> </span></p><p class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256ydp948e3357MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; outline: none;">Media can attend the court in person to hear Justice Layh’s decision.</span></p><p class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256ydp948e3357MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0cm; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; outline: none;"> </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: small; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"></span></span><p class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256ydp948e3357MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0cm; outline: none;"><br /></p><p class="ydp8243d0f5yiv0094761853ydpa67caeefyiv9360723729ydpd67b14bbyiv7641716092ydp739ffaabyiv3413605693ydp40394737yiv9454695806ydpab7bc004yiv3418072182ydpc780811ayiv7516004256ydp948e3357MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0cm; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; outline: none;"> </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-10140133848909785342023-03-16T13:36:00.004-04:002023-03-16T13:36:36.361-04:00<h1 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Face of the Festival (and a body too!) wanted for 2023</span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6XipHPF5Iwy910se00T5ycfwkUT2Fk2WYPilP76CBpJi6z0QPD--7kPynxCQ7f4OKDa_y9LvDmxQqiGQpGdRKwBitOhyE3RNS5edSiOtfr8okB28p4L6epkOL0DCQoeKdRCQMMfzNVssJDkeSp6sdSHg63RlaoFBGv-ACI_DkbSj0APx62Rm6Fo5z/s1024/DALL%C2%B7E%202023-03-15%2013.00.15%20-%20Mas%20costume%20dancer%20carnival%201919%20female%20illustration%20Dali%20style.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6XipHPF5Iwy910se00T5ycfwkUT2Fk2WYPilP76CBpJi6z0QPD--7kPynxCQ7f4OKDa_y9LvDmxQqiGQpGdRKwBitOhyE3RNS5edSiOtfr8okB28p4L6epkOL0DCQoeKdRCQMMfzNVssJDkeSp6sdSHg63RlaoFBGv-ACI_DkbSj0APx62Rm6Fo5z/s320/DALL%C2%B7E%202023-03-15%2013.00.15%20-%20Mas%20costume%20dancer%20carnival%201919%20female%20illustration%20Dali%20style.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">Just as this week’s Caribbean Camera was going to press, the Toronto Caribbean Carnival sent out a call for this year’s Face of the Festival. The carnival is looking for a </span><span style="background-color: white;">Brand Ambassador to represent the Toronto Caribbean Carnival this summer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="yiv3581301245rb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv3581301245rb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="yiv3581301245rb1"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">“Are you the next Face of the Festival?” asked festival organizers in the first issue of their new Carnival Insider newsletter. </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">“</span><span class="yiv3581301245rb1"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">If you think you have the passion, energy, and rhythm to represent what the Toronto Caribbean Carnival is all about, we need you! Register for a chance to become the 2023 Face of the Festival.”</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“If you believe carnival is LIFE and believe there is no greater joy than jamming down de road with your section, then we are looking for you. Your duties will include event appearances, event hosting, appearing in social media content, and promoting Toronto Carnival to the world!” reads the newsletter article.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5oqvJ9wTKKdlVpuAx4sV4fOGbUNFppFVK0X_CEaNmzkJW5wuoPB2g0DLLhI8PaxxvCKJM7UUMk7XPEqcBUO0YWzqRY1SS7ASgolgbb7ZjnZDu-dwuMv8-tkyz0OVhnR1tDE1bW5YD1sq4-OS5pvPXaOM03KwKJDccMVeZUFkGNCqmCczE18axSh3Q/s1596/Screenshot%202023-03-16%20at%2012.53.49%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="1596" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5oqvJ9wTKKdlVpuAx4sV4fOGbUNFppFVK0X_CEaNmzkJW5wuoPB2g0DLLhI8PaxxvCKJM7UUMk7XPEqcBUO0YWzqRY1SS7ASgolgbb7ZjnZDu-dwuMv8-tkyz0OVhnR1tDE1bW5YD1sq4-OS5pvPXaOM03KwKJDccMVeZUFkGNCqmCczE18axSh3Q/w319-h146/Screenshot%202023-03-16%20at%2012.53.49%20PM.png" width="319" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In advertising for the next Face of the Festival the TCC is using a picture of a beautiful female in Mas costume </span><span style="font-size: medium;">(pictured left in Caribbean Camera clipping of this article)</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">. It implies that only women should apply. Last year the carnival had both a male and a female model in the role.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40);">I used an the Dali-E AI programme to create the copyright free drawing of a reveller at the top of this page. Article by Stephen Weir</span></span></span></i></span></p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-84710331037282759352023-02-17T14:51:00.006-05:002023-02-17T20:32:44.739-05:00INNOCENCE CANADA PRESS RELEASE - February 16, 2023 - David and Joyce Milgaard’s Law<p> </p><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(175, 60, 67); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 2pt;"><h1 style="border: none; break-after: avoid; color: #2f5496; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 12pt 0cm 2.4pt; padding: 0cm;"><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><i><u>David and Joyce Milgaard’s Law</u></i></span></b></h1><h1 style="border: none; break-after: avoid; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal; margin: 12pt 0cm 2.4pt; padding: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Minister of Justice Introduces Legislation to Establish an Independent Canadian Criminal Case Review Commission</span></b><b style="font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span color="windowtext" face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9i1EzUqQ3D0by5ctaBb8GgYZtnXvIZZ3GshXuiZsTW4syo5qkHuffAWQtWtSgTcATgG5AagU8g7KfslwgfcVGM522mOHvjeGpR9pWfqczFt9w_a0aVAr2ZKlzzhkn0Jh8U-aF4gOb9MFGg6L8WuAIwCL_kQEvEeR49iaSa2gXHiC_qxDEso2Y1-Ql/s275/Recent%20photo%20of%20David.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9i1EzUqQ3D0by5ctaBb8GgYZtnXvIZZ3GshXuiZsTW4syo5qkHuffAWQtWtSgTcATgG5AagU8g7KfslwgfcVGM522mOHvjeGpR9pWfqczFt9w_a0aVAr2ZKlzzhkn0Jh8U-aF4gOb9MFGg6L8WuAIwCL_kQEvEeR49iaSa2gXHiC_qxDEso2Y1-Ql/w408-h272/Recent%20photo%20of%20David.jpg" width="408" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>David Milgaard</i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Innocence Canada is pleased with Justice Minister David Lametti’s announcement today of a new bill to establish an Independent Commission to review claims of innocence which has been named after Joyce and David Milgaard. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">We honour the memory of David and Joyce Milgaard (right) and all wrongly convicted individuals and their families.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikJO9p20uOz6P9W_Zk6K-pyCvb5q8pjFyeTCVDgjoOkL4evfKfwYjBrNdn_za-e4Fot7Db9ueC5AMzNhCYmCrPTJO-JUAmqGtR6r73xQy1magnKLP1JP7ayvCopQNum2rLz6qxLCDDV2ej5Tl9KfQ513OuIyk6yeWcruWSofhrGRR5oRCD3_MBR8t-/s1024/mom%20hr.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="683" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikJO9p20uOz6P9W_Zk6K-pyCvb5q8pjFyeTCVDgjoOkL4evfKfwYjBrNdn_za-e4Fot7Db9ueC5AMzNhCYmCrPTJO-JUAmqGtR6r73xQy1magnKLP1JP7ayvCopQNum2rLz6qxLCDDV2ej5Tl9KfQ513OuIyk6yeWcruWSofhrGRR5oRCD3_MBR8t-/s320/mom%20hr.png" width="213" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">We would like to also acknowledge the countless people starting with the Donald Marshall Jr. Commission of Inquiry, who have for over thirty years been advocating for an independent case review commission. We are grateful to Justice Minister David Lametti for his dedication and commitment to making this important and vital new commission a reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">We hope that the new proposed Criminal Code amendments will rectify the failures of the past and provide the wrongly convicted with the means to prove their innocence as expediently as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Ron Dalton, Exoneree stated:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">“This legislation would have been beneficial in the past, but we hope more importantly going forward, it will benefit those coming after us.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />For further information please contact James Lockyer, lawyer and Innocence Canada Director at 416-613-0416 or </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca" style="color: #954f72;"><span>jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US">or</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US">Ron Dalton, Exoneree and Co-President, <i>Innocence Canada </i>at <span class="MsoHyperlink">709-327-6864 or </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:rcdalton@hotmail.ca" style="color: #954f72;"><span>rcdalton@hotmail.ca</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Laila; font-size: medium;">issued by Stephen Weir</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-85643560330328217312023-01-22T16:36:00.008-05:002023-01-22T17:12:49.416-05:00FRONT PAGE ALVIN AILEY NEWS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuzGohazIZXrKXAIyFQwrHxtXtWDHMHPmM1dElCJGW-6nFB2-lhEwgFiq0v-q_tiVBAVb9YCv8yeTnQsWqdKwuV-nv4CA8uDhVOaOyI3FViEyfvnhEXADylbf2y2ZTH9HGtqCFMNRi2w36nYjq8bspsf7QBJY4iIELn7Lg3iRz1Zt--UV3d0lXyTkQ/s1464/Screenshot%202023-01-22%20at%203.46.11%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="1396" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuzGohazIZXrKXAIyFQwrHxtXtWDHMHPmM1dElCJGW-6nFB2-lhEwgFiq0v-q_tiVBAVb9YCv8yeTnQsWqdKwuV-nv4CA8uDhVOaOyI3FViEyfvnhEXADylbf2y2ZTH9HGtqCFMNRi2w36nYjq8bspsf7QBJY4iIELn7Lg3iRz1Zt--UV3d0lXyTkQ/w496-h520/Screenshot%202023-01-22%20at%203.46.11%20PM.png" width="496" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><h1 class="entry-title single-post-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "palatino linotype", palatino, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 40px; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 44px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Toronto dancer about to take to the big stage with Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre</h1><div><br /></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Not only is it the first weekend for Black History Month in Toronto, it will also be two days of first for dance fans. On February 3<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">rd</span> and 4<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> “America ‘s Cultural Ambassador to the World” the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre will kick off its 2023 North American tour with a trio of performances at the downtown Meridian Hall (formerly the Sony Centre).</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; margin: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-37528" decoding="async" height="560" sizes="(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px" src="https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_247,h_300/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15-Hannah-Alissa-Richardson-247x300.jpg" srcset="https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_247/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15-Hannah-Alissa-Richardson-247x300.jpg 247w, https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_355/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15-Hannah-Alissa-Richardson.jpg 355w" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" width="461" /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The 32-member dance troop will be performing for the first time in Canada a new dance —<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Are You in Your Feelings</em></strong> — that acclaimed choreographer Kyle Abraham describes as a “celebration of Black culture, Black music, and the youthful spirit that perseveres in us all.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Finally and probably most importantly dance lovers in the city are finally going to see </span></span><b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Hannah Alissa Richardson </span></span></b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">perform live on stage with this famed Dance Theatre. This is the Toronto native’s inaugural season with the Company and the first time for her dancing here since before the Pandemic shut down.</span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This is a sweet homecoming,” Hannah Alissa Richardson told the Caribbean Camera today, “My first time watching Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was back in 2012, right here in the then “Sony Centre,” now “Meridian Hall". I feel honoured and blessed to make my touring debut with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater here in front of my family and friends. And what a privilege it is to kick off Black History Month in Toronto! “</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“Apart from zoom performances throughout the pandemic, the last time I danced in Toronto was for several dance videos including one</span></p><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-37529" class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_37529" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; display: inline; float: left; margin: 2px 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 98%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; width: 409px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-37529" decoding="async" height="230" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px" src="https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_409,h_230/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15-Alvin-Aileys-Revelations-300x169.jpg" srcset="https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_300/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15-Alvin-Aileys-Revelations-300x169.jpg 300w, https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_1024/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15-Alvin-Aileys-Revelations-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_768/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15-Alvin-Aileys-Revelations-768x432.jpg 768w, https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_1536/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15-Alvin-Aileys-Revelations-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_123/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15-Alvin-Aileys-Revelations-123x70.jpg 123w, https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_570/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15-Alvin-Aileys-Revelations-570x320.jpg 570w, https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_701/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15-Alvin-Aileys-Revelations-701x394.jpg 701w, https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_1067/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15-Alvin-Aileys-Revelations-1067x600.jpg 1067w, https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_1920/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15-Alvin-Aileys-Revelations.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="409" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-37529" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 4px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Alvin Aileys Revelations</span></strong></em></figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">for Def Jam recording artist Teyana Taylor and another for Toronto based videographer Lee Zavitz,” the 20 something continued. “Before moving to the US and graduating with honors from The Ailey School, I danced with a competitive dance company, Maple Academy of Dance. I was also part of the cast of Disney Channel’s “Backstage” and Family Channel’s “The Next Step,” both filmed in Toronto.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was founded by the late Alvin Ailey in New York city back in 1958. Since then they have performed for over 25 million people in 48 states, as well as 71 countries on six continents. Always a stop on their North American tours, if the three performances on Friday and Saturday in Toronto (matinee and evening shows) follow tradition and are sold out, over 9,000 will see Richardson.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You won’t have trouble figuring out who she is, just listen for the wave of applause when she steps on stage for the first time. Richardson has deep ties in the city. “I attended Holy Trinity School in Richmond Hill before moving to New York for my post-secondary education at The Ailey School,” she explained “I come from a</span></p><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-37531" class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_37531" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; display: inline; float: left; margin: 2px 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 98%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; width: 284px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-37531" decoding="async" height="251" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px" src="https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_284,h_251/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hannah_ALY-300x265.jpg" srcset="https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_300/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hannah_ALY-300x265.jpg 300w, https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_360/https://thecaribbeancamera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hannah_ALY.jpg 360w" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="284" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-37531" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 4px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hannah Alissa Richardson</span></strong></em></figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Trinidadian and Filipino background. My father was born in Port of Spain and my mother was born in Manilla. I am proud of my culture. It gives me the basis to appreciate a variety of dance styles and forms.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;">Both the Friday and Saturday night evening performances begin at 8 pm. The curtain raises at 4pm for the Saturday matinee performance. At every performance, the inspiring finale will be Alvin Ailey’s American masterpiece <b>Revelations</b></span><span style="color: #444444;"> acclaimed around the world for sending hearts soaring and lifting audiences to their feet. Since its debut in 1960,</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"> Revelations </em><span style="color: #444444;">has been seen by more people around the world than any other modern dance work.</span></span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-36610231042739816292023-01-14T20:31:00.003-05:002023-01-14T20:37:12.997-05:00INNOCENCE CANADA MEDIA ALERT - RE QUEWEZANCE CASE<p> <b style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">MEDIA ALERT: </span></u></b></p><p class="yiv2524750855ydpa03637c1yiv5012667026ydp66ce0be7yiv4154824849ydp787fa054yiv3408693717ydpaec721a8yiv1072974361ydpc5f2d4c8yiv9156583620ydpbda0ce24yiv7397674183ydpd5f00bf5yiv0785051296ydp7d877093MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLLaIHwss9PzUPFVEvR7yC_fQ3f8Ybr-ZZeWy-tbSy6hW4dYITiSZljQSw8meK0QTfI9m_9dqGl1LR9w7_vxYq6tKtQfyTmtj9paGzcP9bWUx9wjZ6EDHYb6cSgRBNyOpyNrpZv1Z7wiYjleS7r9f4cIC_c3tY-nvPjy9b2rBiL-Iy4J_xnGbUugq0/s2016/innocence%20logo%20screenshot.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="2016" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLLaIHwss9PzUPFVEvR7yC_fQ3f8Ybr-ZZeWy-tbSy6hW4dYITiSZljQSw8meK0QTfI9m_9dqGl1LR9w7_vxYq6tKtQfyTmtj9paGzcP9bWUx9wjZ6EDHYb6cSgRBNyOpyNrpZv1Z7wiYjleS7r9f4cIC_c3tY-nvPjy9b2rBiL-Iy4J_xnGbUugq0/w394-h88/innocence%20logo%20screenshot.png" width="394" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><div style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-style: none none solid; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"><p class="yiv2524750855ydpa03637c1yiv5012667026ydp66ce0be7yiv4154824849ydp787fa054yiv3408693717ydpaec721a8yiv1072974361ydpc5f2d4c8yiv9156583620ydpbda0ce24yiv7397674183ydpd5f00bf5yiv0785051296ydp7d877093MsoNormal" style="border: none; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ODELIA AND NERISSA QUEWEZANCE AFTER 30 YEARS OF INCARCERATION HAVE A BAIL HEARING SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 17 – 18, 2023 AT THE YORKTON COURT OF KING’S BENCH in YORKTON, SASKATCHEWAN.</span></span></b></p></div><p class="yiv2524750855ydpa03637c1yiv5012667026ydp66ce0be7yiv4154824849ydp787fa054yiv3408693717ydpaec721a8yiv1072974361ydpc5f2d4c8yiv9156583620ydpbda0ce24yiv7397674183ydpd5f00bf5yiv0785051296ydp7d877093MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv2524750855ydpa03637c1yiv5012667026ydp66ce0be7yiv4154824849ydp787fa054yiv3408693717ydpaec721a8yiv1072974361ydpc5f2d4c8yiv9156583620ydpbda0ce24yiv7397674183ydpd5f00bf5yiv0785051296ydp7d877093MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Innocence Canada supports the Quewezance sisters’ application for bail before the Yorkton Court of King’s Bench, in Yorkton Saskatchewan.</span></span></p><p class="yiv2524750855ydpa03637c1yiv5012667026ydp66ce0be7yiv4154824849ydp787fa054yiv3408693717ydpaec721a8yiv1072974361ydpc5f2d4c8yiv9156583620ydpbda0ce24yiv7397674183ydpd5f00bf5yiv0785051296ydp7d877093MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv2524750855ydpa03637c1yiv5012667026ydp66ce0be7yiv4154824849ydp787fa054yiv3408693717ydpaec721a8yiv1072974361ydpc5f2d4c8yiv9156583620ydpbda0ce24yiv7397674183ydpd5f00bf5yiv0785051296ydp7d877093MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance were 21 and 19 years old at the time of the offence. In 1994 they were convicted of second-degree murder in the 1993 death of 70-year-old Anthony Dolff and sentenced to life imprisonment. Their 14-year-old cousin and co-accused accepted responsibility for the killing of Mr. Dolff. </span></span></p><p class="yiv2524750855ydpa03637c1yiv5012667026ydp66ce0be7yiv4154824849ydp787fa054yiv3408693717ydpaec721a8yiv1072974361ydpc5f2d4c8yiv9156583620ydpbda0ce24yiv7397674183ydpd5f00bf5yiv0785051296ydp7d877093MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv2524750855ydpa03637c1yiv5012667026ydp66ce0be7yiv4154824849ydp787fa054yiv3408693717ydpaec721a8yiv1072974361ydpc5f2d4c8yiv9156583620ydpbda0ce24yiv7397674183ydpd5f00bf5yiv0785051296ydp7d877093MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Innocence Canada is currently waiting for a decision on the ministerial review application (s.696.1 application) submitted on behalf of the Quewezance sisters to the Minister of Justice on December 21, 2021. As detailed in the application, Innocence Canada believes that the Quewezance sisters are the victims of a miscarriage of justice.</span></span></p><p class="yiv2524750855ydpa03637c1yiv5012667026ydp66ce0be7yiv4154824849ydp787fa054yiv3408693717ydpaec721a8yiv1072974361ydpc5f2d4c8yiv9156583620ydpbda0ce24yiv7397674183ydpd5f00bf5yiv0785051296ydp7d877093MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv2524750855ydpa03637c1yiv5012667026ydp66ce0be7yiv4154824849ydp787fa054yiv3408693717ydpaec721a8yiv1072974361ydpc5f2d4c8yiv9156583620ydpbda0ce24yiv7397674183ydpd5f00bf5yiv0785051296ydp7d877093MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Innocence Canada co-founder, board member and lawyer James Lockyer is representing Odelia and Nerissa along with local Saskatchewan counsel and Jerome Kennedy of Innocence Canada.</span></span></p><p class="yiv2524750855ydpa03637c1yiv5012667026ydp66ce0be7yiv4154824849ydp787fa054yiv3408693717ydpaec721a8yiv1072974361ydpc5f2d4c8yiv9156583620ydpbda0ce24yiv7397674183ydpd5f00bf5yiv0785051296ydp7d877093MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The sisters also have the support of high-profile advocates who include the late David Milgaard, Senator Kim Pate, retired Justices Harry LaForme and Juanita Westmoreland-Traor</span><span lang="EN-US">é </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and Kim Beaudin from the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples.</span></span></p><p class="yiv2524750855ydpa03637c1yiv5012667026ydp66ce0be7yiv4154824849ydp787fa054yiv3408693717ydpaec721a8yiv1072974361ydpc5f2d4c8yiv9156583620ydpbda0ce24yiv7397674183ydpd5f00bf5yiv0785051296ydp7d877093MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-15733288201451918922022-09-22T16:11:00.003-04:002022-09-22T16:22:08.218-04:00SECOND TIME THAT THE SCARBOROUGH FESTIVAL HAS BEEN CANCELLED. BACK IN 2023<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "bookman old style", "new york", times, serif;"><b>This weekend's free Scarborough's Multicultural Festival cancelled</b></span></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXCAxzBzZJwxkOfP0hF_1ZANX7rf_1M8y9uCiLkIE-nURqqhjo2hTMN0FRbbDad2_NSToCDXoX58QCLlgI4U6dvWxbzO3CvXFp1j-CZqAOhuaPLqAXXHgZaN745J9jxM3B_-D0nhG_ZfYyTzlKUwAUFjTZKsy8KAAnezCFGv-8hh24FUfCr5k0rzKk/s1784/Screenshot%202022-09-22%20at%2012.29.02%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1468" data-original-width="1784" height="423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXCAxzBzZJwxkOfP0hF_1ZANX7rf_1M8y9uCiLkIE-nURqqhjo2hTMN0FRbbDad2_NSToCDXoX58QCLlgI4U6dvWxbzO3CvXFp1j-CZqAOhuaPLqAXXHgZaN745J9jxM3B_-D0nhG_ZfYyTzlKUwAUFjTZKsy8KAAnezCFGv-8hh24FUfCr5k0rzKk/w514-h423/Screenshot%202022-09-22%20at%2012.29.02%20PM.png" width="514" /></a></div><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">It has been a tough summer for the </span>Scarborough Community Multicultural Festival. The free 3-day summer festival was planning to come back big after the Covid shutdown by bringing the annual festival to the Scarborough Town Centre in mid-August.</span></div><p class="yiv4057906380ydp11cd52f5MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: large;">According to Kinron, the company that produces the annual carnival arts festival (calypso singers, mas costume routines and pan performances), they ran into permit issues with both the city and the mall and had to not only postpone the show but change the location as well.</span></p><p class="yiv4057906380ydp11cd52f5MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: large;">Shortly after announcing the changes, the festival’s website was hijacked by spammers and the festival had to come up with a new persona on social media.</span></p><p class="yiv4057906380ydp11cd52f5MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: large;"><i>The new date was to be this weekend and the location was to be Confederation Park in Scarborough.</i></span></span></blockquote><p></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">According to Kinron’s Steven McKinnon the September 23<sup>rd</sup> has had to be cancelled once again because their “permit wasn’t issued in time. We are </span>postponing it to 2023 'cause the weather is gonna be questionable going forward.”</span></div>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-32859688431336945842022-09-22T09:39:00.002-04:002022-09-22T09:39:33.348-04:00Blink Equity regroups Intuit’s TurboTax event featuring Toronto Raptors Fred VanVleet and Derek Foil.<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRNpY6E50V_ojuiOtgK8Xc5eL7ElZzgVW5tyI7VA0W_Kd9I2abdLAcXSVy4ZXryn38kEA7KR2WcJoinl9v0suc7uzPfHf7MwaZaSIRU9surxQ3JWow4b69e9GwEVZattvDwNgY16JFhVHS546sxd_UVD6bVd25GS2mChbNpptJsvHZDjGbaxwkf8Jp/s300/Unknown-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRNpY6E50V_ojuiOtgK8Xc5eL7ElZzgVW5tyI7VA0W_Kd9I2abdLAcXSVy4ZXryn38kEA7KR2WcJoinl9v0suc7uzPfHf7MwaZaSIRU9surxQ3JWow4b69e9GwEVZattvDwNgY16JFhVHS546sxd_UVD6bVd25GS2mChbNpptJsvHZDjGbaxwkf8Jp/w577-h323/Unknown-1.jpeg" width="577" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><br />How Top Tech Employers are Partnering with Entrepreneurs to Create </b></span><b style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">a More Diverse Talent Pipeline</span></b></p><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">More employers than ever before are partnering with entrepreneurs to drive growth for the tech talent pipeline.<br clear="none" /></span></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">From the basketball court to the boardroom, an All-Star Toronto Raptors player is helping the community by bringing people together for a shared mission.<br clear="none" /></span></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Blink Equity regroups Intuit’s TurboTax event featuring Toronto Raptors Fred VanVleet and Derek Foil.<br clear="none" /></span></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Toronto, ON, September 20 - Toronto has 52% diverse representation and is one of the most multicultural cities in the world. Yet, if you go into many of the tech companies that are putting Toronto on the map today, multiculturalism is not always represented.<br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">More and more, companies like Intuit Canada are leveraging brands such as Turbo Tax and Quickbooks to partner with like-minded corporations, community organizations and startups to address underrepresentation of BIPOC Talent within tech, fintech, and the financial services industries. The twist? They want to do it by increasing their support of BIPOC entrepreneurship through partnerships and collaborative industry-wide initiatives.<br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On September 21, 2022 Intuit Canada will be hosting an event in support of growing the Talent Pipeline in Tech through entrepreneurship. The event will be headlined by Toronto Raptors’ Fred VanVleet (<i>pictured above</i>) and his partner Derek Folk. The two influential entrepreneurs will gear up to announce season 2 of their “Bet on Yourself” podcast.<br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">To make this event happen and jumpstart the initiative, the firm reached out to a former employee, Pako Tshiamala, Founder and CEO of Blink Equity who understood the challenge and exactly how to hit the ground running. Tshiamala, recently left a corporate job to solve a problem he deeply cared about; the lack of representation of BIPOC talent in the tech and related industries, and even more specifically, with senior leadership roles.<br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); clear: both; color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb62G_Y4qjhtS8cTf9ah9ZpQD8m8HvyOJXOPv1dxWzJnkrYyboi59acq_ewy2kHj1Kxo7cM_gcohkD0EBU_ZZtNC_gD2HSOykBGlOtolydAE3AJx9Exoe2J7tsVbu9rJpkEQCHxQF6Mt_t1IDBSk6TDTFEzP8g9wlD9YbnYmMPreNDN0TuXYyHrQlU/s246/Unknown.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="205" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb62G_Y4qjhtS8cTf9ah9ZpQD8m8HvyOJXOPv1dxWzJnkrYyboi59acq_ewy2kHj1Kxo7cM_gcohkD0EBU_ZZtNC_gD2HSOykBGlOtolydAE3AJx9Exoe2J7tsVbu9rJpkEQCHxQF6Mt_t1IDBSk6TDTFEzP8g9wlD9YbnYmMPreNDN0TuXYyHrQlU/s1600/Unknown.jpeg" width="205" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><i>Paso Tshiamala (left)</i></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It was very important for us to program the event along a much larger initiative so the interaction with the BIPOC community is NOT episodic. Which is a pitfall of many well intended corporate initiatives start and drop. </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A number of community partnerships will be announced to solve the talent pipeline problem”, said Pako Tshiamala, Founder of Blink Equity.<br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The event will be taking over Toronto’s Rendez Views restaurant on September 21st and will transform the space into different experiences for the participants. There will be pop-up shops where team members of employers and the general public can purchase items such as jewelry, handmade soaps, and apparel from local BIPOC owned vendors from 11AM-8PM. Two open court basketball courts will be accessible for a little fun and play and will feature performances by BIPOC artists on the main stage. <br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The event will also host a courtside chat on the subject of advancing the talent pipeline from an organizational perspective, as well as with the help of entrepreneurs in the community. That is, before VanVleet and Derek Folk take over the stage to drive the point home- Always bet on yourself!</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /><b>About Blink Equity</b></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br clear="none" /></b>Blink Equity is a one-stop shop for business equity solutions. Through their flagship programs, and initiatives Blink Equity transforms workplaces and produces equitable, success-focused opportunities for diverse candidates.<br clear="none" />By embedding themselves in an organization, they develop customizable, comprehensive approaches to create scalable, sustainable, and replicable equity solutions<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />To learn more about Blink Equity: <a href="http://www.blinkequity.ca/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">www.blinkequity.ca</a></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">-30-<br clear="none" /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For further information / media inquiries:<br clear="none" />Pako Tshiamala<br clear="none" />Founder / CEO<br clear="none" />Email: <a href="mailto:pako@blinkequity.ca" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:pako@blinkequity.ca">pako@blinkequity.ca</a><br clear="none" />Tel: 647-802-8117</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /></span><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div><span style="font-size: large;">Sent by:</span></div><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">Craigg Slowly</span><br clear="none" /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i>Director of Communications and Strategic Partnerships</i></span><br clear="none" /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Matrix Mortgage Global</span><div><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Lic: ON #11108 | BC #X300671 | AB #6401473 </span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Canadian Administration of Private Lending Admin Lic # 13069</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;">Direct: 647.572.2314 </span><span style="color: #666666;">| Fax: 1.888.833.4804</span></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;">Email: <a href="mailto:craiggs@mmgb.ca" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:craiggs@mmgb.ca"><span style="color: #666666;">Craiggs@mmgb.ca</span></a></span><span style="color: #666666;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Head Office: 100 Consilium Place, Suite 200. Toronto, ON. M1H 3E3</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></b></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">distributed by</span></div><div class="yiv2590771354ydp32952fe3yiv1258554939ydpdb976bfcyiv8445662527ydp37038340signature" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" /><b>STEPHEN WEIR</b></span></div>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-44199275282296518002022-06-07T23:52:00.003-04:002022-06-08T00:57:00.583-04:00WEDNESDAY MORNING: STUDENTS READY FOR THE ROAD IN 2022<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;">Ready for the Road 2022</span></b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;">9th Annual Walk With Excellence Celebration </span></b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;">By Stephen Weir<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqFwuGULQ7ZqahmFFvGPR84bK-lyeRBkUD2s_ysyGxZdRkw0LJekvRn5iGUCnIqtEa0hFRdzAx0-KHqMqFI_NbJ5wJOZ5bM4QVhI_q0zpkKnR6AbFecFmbN2bHnFYX2gWnczrIQfe_ku1JCdxbyjI8gm83Q6vQ6azUFJ5_w3lqh3KGbTzR1S4DldoJ/s2916/2019%20march%20begins.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1904" data-original-width="2916" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqFwuGULQ7ZqahmFFvGPR84bK-lyeRBkUD2s_ysyGxZdRkw0LJekvRn5iGUCnIqtEa0hFRdzAx0-KHqMqFI_NbJ5wJOZ5bM4QVhI_q0zpkKnR6AbFecFmbN2bHnFYX2gWnczrIQfe_ku1JCdxbyjI8gm83Q6vQ6azUFJ5_w3lqh3KGbTzR1S4DldoJ/w475-h310/2019%20march%20begins.png" width="475" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2019 walk photograph by <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">weir</span></span></i></div><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;">For all the Grade 12 students in the Jane Finch corridor’s four High Schools who have successfully completed their final year it is almost, and we stress the word almost, all over. The last “No more pencils, no more books no more teachers’ dirty looks” have been sung, it is now time for 500 teenagers to end their high school days by dancing in the street.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;">Get on your walking shoes kids, a 9-year tradition is about to start a new. Postponed for two June years in a row because of the Covid shutdown, the Walk With Excellence Celebration will once again hit Sentinel Rd the morning June 8<sup>th</sup> to introduce the new grads to nearby York University and their next level of higher education.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;">All are welcomed to celebrate this year’s graduates from the four high schools: CW Jeffreys, Westview, Emery and Downsview High. All four institutions are within walking distance of York University (north of Finch Avenue and Sentinel Rd.),<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;">“</span></b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;">The event begins at 10 AM inside CW Jeffreys with a kick-off of student presentations on school auditorium,” organizer Itah Sadu explained to the Caribbean Camera.” Following this is the 5km graduating parade of<b> </b>approximately 500 students<b> </b>to York University where a celebratory lunch and student awards will be shared.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;">The Celebration March begins at 11am. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #201f20; font-size: 16pt;">The teenagers will carry school banners and signs will head up the street to York. Making sure the graduating students arrive safely CUPE 4400 union members and volunteers from the Toronto Caribbean Carnival will act as parade marshals along </span><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;">Sentinel Road.</span><span style="color: #201f20; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #201f20; font-size: 16pt;">Once at York the students will gather in a courtyard and listen to live music and listen to brief speeches from organizer Itah Sadu and senior officials of the university.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #201f20; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;">After all the formal speeches have been given and student friendly meals are served there will be Caribbean music in the air. “We are also pleased to welcome Pannist Earl La Pierre Jr with his vivacious musical energy to the celebrations,” said Itah Sadu.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNBwvZNLwCy8H7cAiqS7sihr0zdNcwIPNngzjsVApy12tRbVKouMBeY_ARVQzYigBQhx6LLmpwj0Om11LPqBcCMcXatDCw1BsgeKTPu1rJylq1r938z12tyF7xwltUdcH4Z_TwWSdXUTGHRa4PS08CYzozXBLAS9xOlvCxSsp6ErIsdYIfS-GuJq8z/s2552/walk%20of%20excellence%20clipping.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1444" data-original-width="2552" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNBwvZNLwCy8H7cAiqS7sihr0zdNcwIPNngzjsVApy12tRbVKouMBeY_ARVQzYigBQhx6LLmpwj0Om11LPqBcCMcXatDCw1BsgeKTPu1rJylq1r938z12tyF7xwltUdcH4Z_TwWSdXUTGHRa4PS08CYzozXBLAS9xOlvCxSsp6ErIsdYIfS-GuJq8z/s320/walk%20of%20excellence%20clipping.png" width="320" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #201f20; font-size: 16pt;">The point of the annual parade is to mark the graduation of the students and to encourage them not to end their studies after Grade 12. Many of the students have probably never toured York – this event will give them that opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #201f20; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;">The Walk With Excellence was started by Itah Sadu and the Blackhurst Cultural Centre (<i>Formerly A Different Booklist Cultural Centre)</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-9380939991460213192022-06-04T11:07:00.005-04:002022-06-04T11:16:43.106-04:00 CLAIRE WEISSMAN WILLKS EXHIBITION OPENS TODAY HELICONIAN CLUB 1PM<p align="center" class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="center" class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="center" class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMjdpoX4O5Q4ATNIWDWYDSGo71-B01GFzzZeTr-dvjkYfYp7cv6DQH9ANcZcMcBYLwdregWl_C4YgxyasntrxrwqobyIewA5EkdZBp0QzJJ8cfzP9oGQ5rdGovDyJterpdJ2lV3Omtsok7W7Y7Yd5ozo2ZgmY--EieAWjGx-Xr07pg10D0sXYwF49S/s720/2Claire%20Wilks%20Heleconian%20catalogue%204%20covers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="486" height="545" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMjdpoX4O5Q4ATNIWDWYDSGo71-B01GFzzZeTr-dvjkYfYp7cv6DQH9ANcZcMcBYLwdregWl_C4YgxyasntrxrwqobyIewA5EkdZBp0QzJJ8cfzP9oGQ5rdGovDyJterpdJ2lV3Omtsok7W7Y7Yd5ozo2ZgmY--EieAWjGx-Xr07pg10D0sXYwF49S/w368-h545/2Claire%20Wilks%20Heleconian%20catalogue%204%20covers.jpg" width="368" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><h1 style="text-align: left;"><b>Major Celebration and Retrospective<br /></b><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">Of the Challenging Drawings and Monoprints of <br /></span></b><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">Claire Weissman Wilks, 1933–2017</span></b></h1><p></p><p align="center" class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoPlainText" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Toronto, June 4th</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> – The <b>Heliconian Club</b> is presenting this retrospective </span><i><span lang="EN-US">The Genius of Claire Wilks</span></i><span lang="EN-US">. The official opening is at 1pm in Yorkville</span></span></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoPlainText" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoPlainText" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-style: italic;"><span lang="EN-US">The </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><i style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a;">official opening will take place </i><span style="color: #26282a;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><i>today</i></span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a;">. There are several poets, artists, writers, and musicians who will take part in the opening. Two well known poets </i><b style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-style: italic;">Anne Michaels</b><i style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a;">, and </i><b style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-style: italic;">Jessica Hiemstra,</b><i style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a;"> will read from their works.</i></span></span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="EN-US"><i style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a;">Hiemstra will also read briefly from one of the</i></span></span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a;">late </i><b style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-style: italic;">Claire Wilks’</b><i style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a;"> books. </i></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: helvetica; font-style: italic;">Curator </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: helvetica; font-style: italic;">Christian Bernard Singer</b><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: helvetica; font-style: italic;"> </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: helvetica;">will talk briefly at the works of art on display. Wilks’ longtime partner, writer and publisher </i><b style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: helvetica; font-style: italic;">Barry Callaghan </b><i style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: helvetica;">will also speak. </i></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><i><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Performing through the show will be jazz composer pianist <b>Joe Sealy</b> and Juno Award winning guitarist </span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #5f6368;">Dominic Mancuso</span></b><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4d5156;">.</span></b></i></span></p></blockquote><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Courier; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4d5156;"></span></b><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"></span></b></span></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoPlainText" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwhYKmsZl27t1WeqhD676aC_fEyNePivVBLVe0Lwf0WVG0ILku3gfnReXjk2KtXPT36ycJxQmLRglaTUJm7ALnqWkzud5EvOhoPw5bZkJ74BKARGaRDYtCQKGbc-VOKLCkg7D5L-tys9lmtjKOL6pzNzO1Vvh9odu7nbOYW74ms33A1y-FPQvCiX_F/s720/Claire%20Wilks%20Heleconian%20catalogue%204%20covers.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="486" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwhYKmsZl27t1WeqhD676aC_fEyNePivVBLVe0Lwf0WVG0ILku3gfnReXjk2KtXPT36ycJxQmLRglaTUJm7ALnqWkzud5EvOhoPw5bZkJ74BKARGaRDYtCQKGbc-VOKLCkg7D5L-tys9lmtjKOL6pzNzO1Vvh9odu7nbOYW74ms33A1y-FPQvCiX_F/s320/Claire%20Wilks%20Heleconian%20catalogue%204%20covers.jpg" width="216" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoPlainText" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">This exhibition and a second exhibition of Wilks work that opens a few days later at the <b>Gevik Gallery</b> are presenting a mini survey of the startling, emotional drawings, monoprints and sculptures of the celebrated Toronto artist<span class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Claire Wilks (1933-2017).</strong><span class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><strong><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Wilks</span></strong><span class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882apple-converted-space"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">was a figurative artist and once called women’s bodies her 'chosen landscape,' but she did not consider this a political statement: "The female form is my line, the form lives in the brain of my finger." Yet, during the 1970s her erotic images of women were rarely accepted in conservative Toronto galleries because of their intense, carnal imagery. These drawings nonetheless contributed to a new dialogue about sexual desire from a female perspective, which happened to coincide with the first major wave of Feminism.</span></span></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Wilk’s devotion to the naked female form kept her largely out of most Toronto galleries in the70s and 80’s. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">The novelist <b>Timothy Findley</b> wrote: “Looking at these drawings, women are going to know what it is to be a man; men are going to know what it is to be a woman. Nothing greater can be achieved but that we enter one another’s flesh through one another’s eyes. This is the ultimate compassion.”</span></span></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioSt3qM8PBN3KHACGUtKpEI_3eu7w9SSxEWB9KR9VfFeRVTuiM110G2wCgkT09_Xo3coIiCa8RFOMkwYzjoHQZgJ9nAYazZ1R2dMTgmPyZQBqALfgziTMQMxwNDaak4-H1GQuxFPjWV1j11GCa8eGA5ZX7LoQoSdF_uhlXKl1pfweheGrHL0DB3kHG/s1264/Heli%20Claire%20front.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="961" data-original-width="1264" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioSt3qM8PBN3KHACGUtKpEI_3eu7w9SSxEWB9KR9VfFeRVTuiM110G2wCgkT09_Xo3coIiCa8RFOMkwYzjoHQZgJ9nAYazZ1R2dMTgmPyZQBqALfgziTMQMxwNDaak4-H1GQuxFPjWV1j11GCa8eGA5ZX7LoQoSdF_uhlXKl1pfweheGrHL0DB3kHG/s320/Heli%20Claire%20front.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Poet <b>Anne Michaels</b> writes: “</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Her figures embody every kind of dispossession - through sensation, communion, solitude, loneliness, muteness, grief, banishment. Ecstatic; bereft. Every kind of love.” </span></span></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4d5156;">The </span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #5f6368;">Toronto Heliconian Club</span></b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4d5156;">, a non-profit</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"> association of women involved in the arts and letters It operates out of <b>Heliconian Hall</b> located in Yorkville. In existence for over 110 years, the <b>Heliconian Club</b> remains steadfast in its commitment to women living and working in the arts. It is located at 35 Hazelton Lanes in Yorkville.</span></span></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Gallery Gevik, is</span></b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"> devoted to exhibitions of established artists who represent Canadian art at its best. The Gallery is located at 12 Yorkville Avenue just down the street from Heliconian Club, the exhibition opens on June 11 at 1pm. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"></span></span></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"><i><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></span></i></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"><i><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Space is limited.</span></span></i></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Heliconian Club </span></span></p><p class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp49d39882MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; margin: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">35 Hazelton Ave, Toronto, ON M5R 2E3</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><a class="yiv3541775829ydpd119d719yiv4636724602ydpf52d1b89yiv2583157606ydpd20c3021yiv4530813254ydp68a7bcc0yiv5378385117ydp1d8e3c97enhancr_card_3973635960" href="https://www.google.ca/search?q=heliconian+club&source=hp&ei=NOyEYqX0C87ltAbW7oCQBA&iflsig=AJiK0e8AAAAAYoT6ROHI3EJSr3Pqv3kqyka7gzyprGzw&gs_ssp=eJzj4tZP1zcsKSopq6w0NWC0UjWosLAwSjI2STRNNEtJNDC1MLUyqDC3TEkyMU1OMksySza1NE_z4s9IzclMzs_LTMxTSM4pTQIAxncVJQ&oq=Hel%3Biconian+Club&gs_lcp=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&sclient=gws-wiz" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #954f72;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">(416) 922-3618</span></a> Issued by Stephen Weir 416-801-3101</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">stephen@stephen weir</span></p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-32732864277505672812022-05-16T16:40:00.004-04:002022-05-16T16:40:37.518-04:00Innocence Canada shares the news of David Milgaard’s untimely death<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii1BHqqaE5RpA8LKp3GJrjr84YGg1B8P8SMK8yXuC97j0HYtQJQV3y_8OKx-ju2sCl3N1_8_HqVGscSwOtkB-tOZcx_KFNd9PJoP2c4du23trhZPcGZgW-1ZzOAqvMvPVVFeyJKUX03guZVZGJmX4onbpSneFz3jwmwnkfF5VPhFo7KMRZHUsQ5QFL/s1492/Screenshot%202022-05-16%20at%203.26.06%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="1492" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii1BHqqaE5RpA8LKp3GJrjr84YGg1B8P8SMK8yXuC97j0HYtQJQV3y_8OKx-ju2sCl3N1_8_HqVGscSwOtkB-tOZcx_KFNd9PJoP2c4du23trhZPcGZgW-1ZzOAqvMvPVVFeyJKUX03guZVZGJmX4onbpSneFz3jwmwnkfF5VPhFo7KMRZHUsQ5QFL/w487-h203/Screenshot%202022-05-16%20at%203.26.06%20PM.png" width="487" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">With profound sadness, Innocence Canada shares the news of David Milgaard’s untimely death. David died yesterday, May 15</span><sup style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">th</sup><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">, 2022. He was 69 years old. </span></span></p><p class="yiv3196505992ydpfde50476yiv5344477538ydp720ee97dyiv0782372763ydp1f7008b4yiv9619438619ydpf58fb074yiv8295414833ydpd9aa2b51yiv6542770529ydp859096a7MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0.2pt 10pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Innocence Canada and Innocence movement advocates are stunned and heart-broken by David’s death. He was a part of the Innocence Canada family and more, an honoured and respected leader in the Innocence movement. Ron Dalton, Innocence Canada Co-President and exoneree expresses, “his death is a tragic loss to the Canadian Innocence movement and a personal blow to many of us at Innocence Canada.”</span></span></p><p class="yiv3196505992ydpfde50476yiv5344477538ydp720ee97dyiv0782372763ydp1f7008b4yiv9619438619ydpf58fb074yiv8295414833ydpd9aa2b51yiv6542770529ydp859096a7MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">David contributed decades of time and energy advocating and lobbying for a Canadian post-conviction review commission. David was instrumental in the recent consultation process for the development of a Miscarriages of Justice Commission in Canada. </span></span></p><p class="yiv3196505992ydpfde50476yiv5344477538ydp720ee97dyiv0782372763ydp1f7008b4yiv9619438619ydpf58fb074yiv8295414833ydpd9aa2b51yiv6542770529ydp859096a7MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">David was an incredibly generous and sweet man who is remembered for turning his suffering into a lifetime of helping others. Those of us who knew and loved him best are struggling with the profound loss we feel. We will do our best to continue the work David and his mother began. </span></span></p><p class="yiv3196505992ydpfde50476yiv5344477538ydp720ee97dyiv0782372763ydp1f7008b4yiv9619438619ydpf58fb074yiv8295414833ydpd9aa2b51yiv6542770529ydp859096a7MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Innocence Canada extends our deepest and heartfelt condolences to David’s family, friends and legions of supporters across Canada and the world.</span></span></p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-32939005993197566502022-04-07T09:45:00.001-04:002022-04-07T09:45:51.721-04:00Press Release for Immediate Release <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <i class="yiv2367515114" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "new times", serif;"><span class="yiv2367515114" lang="EN-US">Toronto’s A Different Booklist Cultural Centre </span><span class="yiv2367515114" lang="EN-US">is on the Move</span></i></span></p><div class="yiv2367515114" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "new times", serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNR7cGbe_lirH6bt4ztxnelu44s9LIQe9_L9qKnPcrPe3KDJb-xUK9OdrpxkVDb6Lzy7aKRXdJ4qaKZAW0V0ATpZYa8UStyRFHGEoFTDNXgOOhR-xhvOMS9g7QsOhOFyvtOvkO60ZzrI8R4y6mOcH68MQ2hVCoqy396YCLROwUQamUmhFkPqtehvu4/s4032/_1015540.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNR7cGbe_lirH6bt4ztxnelu44s9LIQe9_L9qKnPcrPe3KDJb-xUK9OdrpxkVDb6Lzy7aKRXdJ4qaKZAW0V0ATpZYa8UStyRFHGEoFTDNXgOOhR-xhvOMS9g7QsOhOFyvtOvkO60ZzrI8R4y6mOcH68MQ2hVCoqy396YCLROwUQamUmhFkPqtehvu4/w527-h395/_1015540.JPG" width="527" /></a></div></div><div class="yiv2367515114" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "new times", serif; text-align: center;"><span class="yiv2367515114"><b class="yiv2367515114"><i>Itah Sadu in the ADBCC </i></b></span></div><div class="yiv2367515114" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "new times", serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span class="yiv2367515114" style="font-size: 16pt;"><b class="yiv2367515114"><br class="yiv2367515114" clear="none" /></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">Toronto Friday April 8th., 11.30 am - 12.30 pm, at 777 Bathurst Street. A Different Booklist Cultural Centre (ADBCC) will be holding a press conference to announce its progress to date in the development of a permanent home for the Cultural Centre in the new Mirvish development. </span><div><span style="font-size: large;">Exciting highlights will include the announcement of the partnership and long-term lease between the ADBCC and the City of Toronto, and the release of the new name for the Centre. <br /><blockquote><i> Joining the event will be Councillor Mike Layton (Ward 11), community members, and Board members of the ADBCC.</i></blockquote>A Different Booklist Cultural Centre (ADBCC) has been developing and celebrating Black literature, arts, and culture in Toronto since 2015 and is rooted in the 25-year history of A Different Booklist, an independent bookstore, and has since become a meeting place, and a space of ideas and Black artistic expression. It is unique in that it exists to capture, protect, share and celebrate the literature, art and culture of all the African and Caribbean Canadian communities. <br />The mission and vision of the ADBCC – The People’s Residence is to create a world-class model for preserving and building on the historic cultural identity of evolving neighbourhoods and to provide opportunities for Canadians and visitors to Canada to celebrate and engage in the rich cultural legacy and history of Canadians of African and Caribbean ancestry. <br />Drawing from the mission and vision, ADBCC - The People’s Residence aspires to:<br />o Engage in activities and initiate programs which support the intellectual, cultural, social, educational, and economic well-being of African and Caribbean Canadian communities.<br />o Engage in partnerships and collaborations with individuals and organizations that help to enrich the literary, cultural, intellectual, and educational fabric of Canadian society.<br /></span><p class="yiv2367515114ydpd06eae16yiv4123370338ydp89771eeeyiv7073409218ydp23c65df4yiv2073961145ydpf34ddce1yiv0880924457ydpeb83c618BodyA"><span class="yiv2367515114" lang="EN-US" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "new times", serif; font-size: 12pt;">For More information </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "new times", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Contact </span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: new times, serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">STEPHEN WEIR 416-801-3101</span></span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-3526756895309449962022-02-07T12:24:00.003-05:002022-02-07T12:26:19.914-05:00Toronto's 31-year long love affair with the memory of Bob Marley<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiTEC2Y-ALCiLh7Egwk29TmeYc7XMBr-8M_wYBKsyT7IrrgEmhofT4aontP_mChzyL7PAK_pwH4odSVNcjDJng-reh72schgVP8X_uK8xTowBVjD47SUBfvE528TP4IxXIqQB4yQ-zmQGFvSoWy3iemqVvF3ylNRDgOQG_Ba6SmG2xhtXWU4fhJvTn=s719" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="719" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiTEC2Y-ALCiLh7Egwk29TmeYc7XMBr-8M_wYBKsyT7IrrgEmhofT4aontP_mChzyL7PAK_pwH4odSVNcjDJng-reh72schgVP8X_uK8xTowBVjD47SUBfvE528TP4IxXIqQB4yQ-zmQGFvSoWy3iemqVvF3ylNRDgOQG_Ba6SmG2xhtXWU4fhJvTn=w406-h122" width="406" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Toronto marks Bob Marley’s 77th Birthday this Sunday</span></b></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: medium;">Eight-community leader to receive Bob Marley Day Humanitarian Awards</span></span></b></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Information Bulletin </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is the 31st time that the city has honoured the late great Jamaican musician. In previous years there have been public events held to mark the Reggae star’s birthday, this year it will be recorded at A Different Booklist Cultural Centre - The People's Residence.</span></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Award Ceremony – sponsored by Roots Canada - airs Bob Marley Day’s YouTube Channel on Sunday, February 6th at 3:00pm.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <br clear="none" /></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">After the Proclamation issued by Mayor John Tory is read, we will honour this year’s recipients of the Bob Marley Humanitarian Award. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Receiving awards this year will be:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br clear="none" /> <br clear="none" />1.Ian Allen (OBVC Board member and Director of Strategic Communications and Initiatives, Ontario Treasury Board Secretariat)<br clear="none" />2.Steve Anderson (Deputy Mayor for the Town of Shelburne and a Regional Councillor for the County of Dufferin)<br clear="none" />3.Deborah Cox (Award winning entertainer)<br clear="none" />4.Gervan Fearon (President George Brown College)<br clear="none" />5.Tiffany Ford (Entrepreneur, Former School Board Trustee and Community Advocate)<br clear="none" />6.Siphesihle November (Principal Dancer National Ballet of Canada) <br clear="none" />7.Valarie Steele (Community Activist)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">8.Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard (Canadian Senator from Nova Scotia)</span></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">The </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bob Marley Day team is tweeting out the photos and bios of this year’s recipients, one at a time over the next three days. Our first tweet is below.</span></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times Roman";"><a href="https://twitter.com/BobMarleyDayTO" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank"><b><span face=""Helvetica Bold", sans-serif" style="color: #0d1013;"></span></b></a></span></p><blockquote><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times Roman";"><a href="https://twitter.com/BobMarleyDayTO" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank"><span face=""Helvetica Bold", sans-serif" style="color: #0d1013;">Bob Marley Day Toronto</span></a></span></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #42515e; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="https://twitter.com/BobMarleyDayTO" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #42515e;">@BobMarleyDayTO</span></a></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times Roman";">Congratulations to Ian Allen on being named one of the 2022 Bob Marley Day award recipients. Ian is a @blackvoteCanada Board member and Director of Strategic Communications and Initiatives for the Ontario Treasury Board Secretariat #onelove</span></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times Roman";"></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times Roman";"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times Roman";"><div class="img-preview-wrapper"><img alt="Inline image" class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616yahoo-inline-image preview" src="https://apis.mail.yahoo.com/ws/v3/mailboxes/@.id==VjN-hnvba1W2JrpZyH5u933MUywq1OFen0ggH2_2ENDQDg9gCa99jT11sS2fDT1i6M_6D0iWWZvZA9qSbLB_krIVfg/messages/@.id==AMb18yAKkt5KYfxV9gQHQCJMHhA/content/parts/@.id==2/thumbnail?appid=YMailNorrin&downloadWhenThumbnailFails=true&pid=2" style="cursor: zoom-in; max-width: 400px; text-indent: -9999px; width: 326.364px;" title="Inline image" yahoo_partid="2" /><span class="img-dl-btn" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); border-radius: 2px; border: 1px solid rgb(130, 140, 147); left: 310.355px; opacity: 0.0001; position: absolute; top: 1430.95px;"></span></div></span></div><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">For information, interviews and photographs</span></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Contact the <b>Bob Marley Day committee</b></span></p><p class="yiv5325151731ydp2c3cf7d3yiv8212444616ydp8be3a0a2MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bobmarleydayto@gmail.com</span></p></div>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-30973585134828707672021-11-21T15:48:00.002-05:002022-03-14T17:26:02.589-04:00"small" prose piece for my Creative Writing Course at University of Windsor about small things<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMuSUX3ySck6huVvGAA-vnyh389MCI3tpf1opzCZ5ql2dj-6fqVXHH5dfyzA0vZynMRVF9hQ8qqCgp5S7LciqG1a5F1dI-MpY4-OgoQ8wnKAr9c61IFZNMNXxcznac9RCGX-nwSl4Zx4I/s2048/4593870133_4f789372d7_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMuSUX3ySck6huVvGAA-vnyh389MCI3tpf1opzCZ5ql2dj-6fqVXHH5dfyzA0vZynMRVF9hQ8qqCgp5S7LciqG1a5F1dI-MpY4-OgoQ8wnKAr9c61IFZNMNXxcznac9RCGX-nwSl4Zx4I/w441-h331/4593870133_4f789372d7_o.jpg" width="441" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Iceland's famous hot dog stand</span></i></div> <p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Never mind the rat. Bad things come in tiny bites</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>By Stephen Weir</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Since this is the end of the term and you will have long forgot this 4-page story (oops) by January, I can shamelessly tell you about my bad habit of eating street food. No, I don’t mean an Island Patty from the food truck at the corner, I am talking about protein that has tumbled from someone’s mouth onto the road or a pet drenched lawn.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I can’t help myself. I am always hungry and what tastes better than free food, even when you get it from the gutter? With me the 5-second rule is my life’s mantra.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Haven’t heard of it? Author <b>Mel Robins</b> (The 5-Second Rule) describes it thusly. “Almost everyone has dropped some food on the floor and still wanted to eat it. If someone saw you drop it, she might have yelled, "5-second rule!" This so-called rule says food is OK to eat if you pick it up in 5-seconds or less.”</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">To be honest, after a near death experience in Iceland I will NEVER AGAIN stretch my count past the 5-second mark. Trust me, if you eat past the 5-second limit you will die, and from personal experience that isn’t a little lie. And, if you end up on the ground with the Icelandic EMTs shouting proudly to the instant crowd that the þrjátíu-seconds rules works, open your eyes and say that you are okay before their stomach pump hits the back of your throat!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was in Iceland to cover the annual <b>AirWaves</b> November Music Festival for anyone who would buy the story. The music is unique, one of the big Icelandic songs that year was Dancing in the Street in Your Underwear.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">But I digress a tiny bit. One thing you need to know about Iceland, everything is expensive and weird. A slab of BBQed Minke Whale will set you back $70 and apparently tastes as bad as their $80 Fermented Greenland Shark. I settled on $30 Mamaburger sized burgers (they are really small), which is why, as I went broke, picking up and wolfing down found street meat had a growing appeal.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The only place that you can get anything cheap is a 24-hour stand near the Ocean. They only serve $3 5-inch long hot dogs (that is quite small). The mini tube steak is made with lamb packed into a traditional casing of sheep’s intestine. It is broiled over the burning coals of dried lamb poop. You are allowed to drink $15 Viking bottled beer while you stand in an extremely long line-up, so you don’t mind the rain, the snow and the crazies dancing in the street in their underwear.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Drunk. Wet. Mostly Naked. More tiny-tot hot dogs hit the never-cleaned sidewalks, than into waiting mouths. After buying a deuce of dogs, I rushed back in the freezing rain to the festival hall. The sidewalk was a skating rink. Before I could count to five I was airborne. Horrors my two lamb dogs slid under a dirty Jaguar (owned by the hot dog chef).</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I had already counted to 10 when I felt a small mushy bun under the Jag. I started the count again and pulled out three hot dogs from beneath the exhaust pipe. The bonus dog was lumpy and squirming a bit inside the sandy brown bun but I didn’t care, not even a little bit. As I wolfed down my newly found dinner, I noticed small holes in my hand and blood on my lamb dog!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I don’t remember when I went down for the count again. I woke up surrounded by two short paramedics. “What happened”? I asked. “Food poisoning and it looks like you’ve feed a couple of small Wharf Rats with your hand said one EMTer”.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Hmm” I moaned lowly to her, “maybe it was the other way around. Coulda been a rat in my half-eaten sheep dog!”</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">They pulled up the carcass of a tiny Icelandic Wharf Rat from under my elbow. It was brown in colour with scattered mustard covered hairs. It had an oil stained grayish-white underbelly. It’s body was tiny but heavily built. Unlike a Dieppe Park River Rat, this fellow’s tail was super stubby. Ugh, both the tail and ears were hairless and covered in scales.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The medical crew figured the other rat had climbed into a hot dog and I had scarfed down the bun, the dog and a minuscule Wharf Rat in one gulp. Fearing the “knock” wurst, the medical team said it had to come out. Immediately. It wasn’t their first rodeo, a well-worn tummy pump instantly appeared. I instinctively knocked it away.The nozzle separated from the hose and rolled into the gutter.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Paramedic Number One began to count in Icelandic. Her partner found the nozzle and reconnected the hose. “Þrjátíu!” shouted Paramedic Two. “Following the 5-second rule?” ”Yeah” she answered. “Here we call it the þrjátíu-rule.” Still counting she rammed the hose into where the rat dog had gone before. Meanwhile Paramedic One found a small pair of dirty underwear and wrapped my smallish rat wound.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I had a little sleep in the hospital. 5-days to be exact. I woke up as they wheeled my gurney through the crowded airport. I was going home; 5 pounds down and a tad hungry.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The EMTs pushed fast and yelled FREE FOOD. Well, they had found some, sort of. My gurney had sideswiped a smallish man totting a tray of those dwarf lamb dogs. I started counting and hit the floor, the paramedics were right after me. No time to chew I swallowed down all the floor dirty dogs before reaching 5. Pity, the EMTers didn’t count in English; turns out þrjátíu means 30- seconds.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaNjUDULudhu0d1szGKEwkmk9JL8MEP6UZIwal58OkysqEdWSn87ebuYBXSNH9jG9HDqAJmAsFYY1oAvx2ENUaM4DMcTxZPNRaKwa50y96DOQuLwnIaj13jyzqMZYozbQDv2BG9tCM2HA/s720/4437450668_b84c582d07_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="720" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaNjUDULudhu0d1szGKEwkmk9JL8MEP6UZIwal58OkysqEdWSn87ebuYBXSNH9jG9HDqAJmAsFYY1oAvx2ENUaM4DMcTxZPNRaKwa50y96DOQuLwnIaj13jyzqMZYozbQDv2BG9tCM2HA/s320/4437450668_b84c582d07_o.jpg" width="320" /></i></a></div><br /><p><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Iceland airport hot dog stand</span></i></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Back in Windsor, in Dieppe Park, I spy five Detroit River Rats feeding on a small-sized Capri Pizza. Did that scare me? Not even a little bit.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Kicked the rats into the river, brushed off some icky things from the 5-inch“zaw” and swallowed it whole before I got to 5. I was cured.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">True story? Mostly! I admit a few little white lies snuck into this minuscule rodent’s tail.</span></p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-39670303507867940322021-11-08T17:55:00.001-05:002021-11-08T17:55:22.817-05:00Not Just Another Brick In The Wall<div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>ADBCC The People’s Residence Launches the Champions Challenge Competition to raise funds for their new home in Mirvish Village opening Fall 2022</i></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVnqnKUiwqTTwhqlKUh-VDJPglMz_eCJBkecSgXWgewVDW5cgUQUG9B1Lji7z-oGQmTujK5kLkV8XCjqOJdY0m2aU7Z1iyWg3FhR0TJCxaQDLy44G10MPta4-1cWaQYMKFxLaTZisUHA0/s275/different.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVnqnKUiwqTTwhqlKUh-VDJPglMz_eCJBkecSgXWgewVDW5cgUQUG9B1Lji7z-oGQmTujK5kLkV8XCjqOJdY0m2aU7Z1iyWg3FhR0TJCxaQDLy44G10MPta4-1cWaQYMKFxLaTZisUHA0/w471-h313/different.jpeg" width="471" /></a></div></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Toronto, ON - Friday, November 8, 2021</b></span></i></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> From now until the end of December champions from all walks of life will be tapping into their competitive spirit in the Champions Challenge to show their support for A Different Booklist Cultural Centre (ADBCC) - The People’s Residence. The challenge consists of 3 rounds. In each round, 4 supporters of ADBCC will challenge their network to support them and buy a brick for the new People’s Residence. The champion who raises the most funds within the 14 days will be crowned as the winner of that Champions Challenge. The first challenge is focused on the Entertainment industry and features 4 trailblazers in the industry: Eddie Bullen, Jamar McNeil, Molly Johnson, and DJ Power.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I can’t think of Bathurst and Bloor without thinking of A different Booklist Cultural Centre. They run many important and informative programs and events. I believe in the new People's Residence.” Says Eddie Bullen.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> The Champions Challenge is part of the Buy-a-Brick campaign that invites everyone to purchase a digital brick in support of ADBCC’s new home at 756 Bathurst Street. Each person who purchases a brick will have their name permanently engraved on the digital brick wall of ADBCC. Every $100 brick purchased directly supports the building and operations of the ADBCC - People's Residence.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Buy-A-Brick Capital Campaign</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Between now and the end of the year, ADBCC-The People’s Residence remains open. The organization has been actively transitioning their program online, while fundraising to meet their infrastructure goals. Their Buy-A-Brick capital campaign is a community driven fundraising initiative with a target to sell 5000 bricks and raise $500k. 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color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. follow ADBCC-The People’s Residence on Instagram and Facebook to show your support and stay in the know,</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. attend upcoming events like Welcome to Blackhurst, Literary Salons, or the Schulich Program.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. help build awareness and share their story with your family, friends and colleagues.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To donate and support this important cause:</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wearetpr.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2vyz7L_F9NQ49UTtOz1KI0QqCmjZ8Ctwkt0fqZd7V8wRutd0uuv7GByec&h=AT1wJP_jroFw7JEtc5XqIiIQzKMgB4e7J3zRZe68sWYPHgw_iTlB_2WqdJ3p0_NM6XqrvW9xs0xToxgc49h5_uj-xlcuFJVsHS0NvlOvQHfijvYoFgZQT17U6DBk3lNPA85Itg-a4uxEdXxgGWd88nc&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT3vKN7MmwdgcpvPee22-ZuPOFKfbt6oSHQPMq4kF2c5Zd8AYRyzGpa6AxsnjwWbwwTb6Gc6VXtxLZxEA5FKoiN8pJSMze4ToevNxN6HVWJmWb1Hc_AF40zdaxUGAx2iqjes" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">http://www.wearetpr.com</span></a></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Follow ADBCC on social media:</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Instagram - @adifferentbooklistcc</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Facebook - @adifferentbooklistcc</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">YouTube - <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fchannel%2FUCR842a4FWoVUsIivZEi3HiQ%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0wch0mdeJ3wkuq6ZzTfh5TYMiPN9WpEbDZbWXQ5cO7sfTx0PBG9cA71VA&h=AT3tGD0pAAxnHec-0syKCvJDHCv538ie2RPUFNfnkzQmzLQLCsgXLj3-hGfO2-vkkVHiHFWzyKJudeh9q0fpsKqqVacTua70MfvGn3gRn4vbXVBf8a9pNFzIqrAiTiDD8Mbt1LodEYGAqvjWJJR2gpI&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT3vKN7MmwdgcpvPee22-ZuPOFKfbt6oSHQPMq4kF2c5Zd8AYRyzGpa6AxsnjwWbwwTb6Gc6VXtxLZxEA5FKoiN8pJSMze4ToevNxN6HVWJmWb1Hc_AF40zdaxUGAx2iqjes" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR842a4FWoVUsIivZEi3HiQ</a></span></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">About The People’s Residence:</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The People’s Residence (ADBCC) is a hub and a destination that uses arts and culture to teach, educate, develop skills, connect and celebrate our rich heritage while building economic power within the African and Caribbean Canadian communities. We are for the people, by the people. We are continually evolving.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Media Enquiries Contact:</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Abena Perryman</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Andrew Perry Marketing</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">P: (416) 951-5359</span></div></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">E: abenap@andrewperry,com</span> </span></p>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229051190804747194.post-57296003684598524852021-10-26T16:40:00.006-04:002021-10-27T17:00:54.505-04:00EZ NFT AND MATRIX MORTGAGE GLOBAL PLAN TO JOIN FORCES TO MINT ESSENTIAL REAL ESTATE DOCUMENTATION AS NFTs<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">New deal to improve efficiency, cost and peace of mind for home owners worldwide</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="img-preview-wrapper"><span class="img-dl-btn" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); border-radius: 2px; border: 1px solid rgb(130, 140, 147); left: 264px; opacity: 0.0001; position: absolute; top: 448.5px;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy8HVGjQF2yA1JDWwXfA5_4Ib9KrqEUqGhRzwcx6BVW1Yd3yLQFLP59H4zY9mXQ-NP41OeibC-Ne5fxf9CFisW9DOLGdmjah23X7VtMF2GfL8lc4zz6pMqJmLGxXnlhGOgopEQcVNkDko/s2048/DSC00717.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="596" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy8HVGjQF2yA1JDWwXfA5_4Ib9KrqEUqGhRzwcx6BVW1Yd3yLQFLP59H4zY9mXQ-NP41OeibC-Ne5fxf9CFisW9DOLGdmjah23X7VtMF2GfL8lc4zz6pMqJmLGxXnlhGOgopEQcVNkDko/w397-h596/DSC00717.jpg" width="397" /></a></div><i><br /></i></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><i> <span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Matrix Mortgage Global </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">CEO Shawn Allen</span></i></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Wee-Cig International Corporation (OTCMarkets: WCIG), a company focused on identifying and growing top tech companies in emerging markets, today announced </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">plans to join forces with Matrix Mortgage Global to mint </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">critical mortgage </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">and real estate documentation in blockchain-enabled NFT form.</span></i></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0page" title="Page 1"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0layoutArea"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0column"><div><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0layoutArea" style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 16px;"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0column"></div></div></div><p></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: ArialMT;">Matrix Mortgage Global is </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">Canada's leading mortgage brokerage, led by CEO and Broker of Record Shawn Allen, the four-time winner of the coveted Canadian Mortgages Inc. Award for Broker of the Year, Private Lending.</span></span></div></div></div><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0section"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0layoutArea"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0column"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Through the planned collaboration, EZ NFT will support Matrix Mortgage Global in their shared vision of </span><span>digitizing</span><span> the mortgage process on the blockchain, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">by building a system </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">to mint key real estate documentation including mortgage deeds, identification, appraisals and inspection reports as NFTs. As a result, the documentation will be rendered proven, immutable and non- fungible.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">In the first world, the transition of physical documentation to NFT form will enhance efficiency and reduce fees while providing improved access to critical players in real estate transactions. The benefits will be even greater in other geographies where NFT documentation will provide lasting, uncontested proof of ownership </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">– </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">mitigating genuine risks of forgery, corruption, theft, damage </span><span>and loss.</span></span></p></div></div></div><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0layoutArea"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0column"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">“Moving mortgage documentation to the blockchain is </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">a step in the right direction and will certainly open the door to many other applications in the space</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">,” said Allen. “</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">Realizing our vision requires a strong and credible partner with a depth of NFT experience and capability. As the first publicly traded company in the NFT </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">space, EZNFT’s professionalism, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">reputation and existing capability position them as the ideal partner for us in this exciting endeavour</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">“I’m energized by the potential for our engagement with Matrix Mortgage Global,” added Korus. “In an industry ripe for disruption, they were the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">first mortgage lender in North America to accept cryptocurrency for home down payments. Now they are taking their leadership a step further by transitioning critical mortgage documentation to the blockchain</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT;">.”</span></span></p></div></div></div><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0layoutArea"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydp2c19f9a0column"><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: large;">More detail about the planned partnership will be announced in the coming weeks.</span></p><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydpf4aecf35page" title="Page 2"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydpf4aecf35layoutArea"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydpf4aecf35column"><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">About Matrix Mortgage Global</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: large;">Matrix Mortgage Global has championed alternative lending in Canada since 2008. With a strong infrastructure and innovative lending products, Matrix Mortgage Global played a critical role in navigating Canadian borrowers through the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Currently Matrix Mortgage Global is a hub that assist Canadians by providing access to financial resources key to navigating the Global Pandemic.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: large;">Matrix Mortgage Global, the reigning four-time Brokerage of the Year provides a solution-based lending approach with many out the box financing options geared to keep pace with the rapidly changing lending landscape. With over $1.5B in mortgage originations and a diverse suite of mortgage and investment solutions, Matrix has revolutionized the accessibility of alternative and private funds in Canada. Matrix Mortgage Global is the first mortgage company to accept crypto currency for mortgage transactions in North America. As a major stakeholder in the Canadian mortgage landscape Matrix Mortgage Global advocates for Canadian borrowers at all levels of government.</span></p></div></div><table style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: solid; border-width: 0pt 0pt 0.005pt; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydpf4aecf35layoutArea"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydpf4aecf35column"><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">About Wee-Cig International Corporation</span></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292b2c; font-family: ArialMT;">Wee-Cig International Corporation is a publicly traded holding and acquisition company (WCIG) with a particular talent in identifying top tech companies in emerging markets and helping them get to the next level. Constantly scouring the technology landscape to find the best investment opportunities, Wee-Cig targets companies that capitalize on unique opportunities by leveraging extensive, decades long industry relationships and management expertise. </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">For more information, <span style="color: #222222;">visit: </span><span style="color: blue;">https://weecigcorp.com/ </span></span></span></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-width: 0.005pt 0pt 0pt; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydpf4aecf35layoutArea"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydpf4aecf35column"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">About the EZ365 Ecosystem</span></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydpf4aecf35layoutArea"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydpf4aecf35column"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">EZ365 </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">leverages the transparency and immutability of blockchain technology to break down barriers to owning digital assets and unleash the vast growth potential of the NFT, online gaming industry and the cryptocurrency world.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">customer support, security, ease-of-use and the customer experience; making it easy for users to invest, play, trade </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">and </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">learn in a secure environment. The EZ365 team includes leaders in blockchain and cryptocurrency development, network and security infrastructure for global capital and derivatives markets and the online gaming space. Together they bring the rigor and methodology of established financial market security and deep</span><span>technology expertise to the EZ365 platform</span></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #050505;">For more information on EZ NFT </span><span>visit </span><span style="color: blue;">ez365.io/ez-nft/ </span><span>For more information on Matrix Mortgage Global visit </span><span style="color: blue;">matrixmortgageglobal.ca/</span><br clear="none" /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydpeebbda3page" title="Page 3"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydpeebbda3section"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydpeebbda3layoutArea"><div class="yiv6793801141ydp1df6ac38yiv4108086830ydpf663d328yiv5279947987ydp7d95e322yiv6227467128ydpeebbda3column"><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">For media inquiries contact: </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Carla Allen Investor/Media Relations</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Carla@mmgb.ca</span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>sweirsweirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858270071675805729noreply@blogger.com0