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POLOKWANE, South Africa – The infamous Jabulani World Cup ball has had goalkeepers in the tournament worrying, panicking and complaining for the past week. Now it has reduced one of them to tears.

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Adidas claims that the Jabulani World Cup ball is the most accurate ever produced. (Photo by Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)

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Algeria’s Faouzi Chaouchi was the latest keeper to be impacted when he allowed a long-range strike from Slovenia’s Robert Koren to evade his grasp and produce the only goal of a 1-0 loss at Peter Mokaba Stadium on Sunday.

Chaouchi could not control his emotions after the game. After striding through the interview zone without pausing to speak to reporters, he boarded the team bus and cried.

“You could see he had tears in his eyes and he could not help it,” said Algeria fan Mohammed Dahbi. “It is sad for the country but it is not his fault. Anyone can make a mistake and unlucky things can happen with that ball.”

That ball is the adidas Jabulani, and it already has sparked a storm of controversy. The manufacturer claims it is the most accurate ball ever made, but some weird plays on the field say otherwise.

Its unpredictability may have benefited the United States on Saturday night, when Clint Dempsey’s tame effort worked its way past England’s Robert Green. In truth, both Green and Algeria’s Chaouchi should have made comfortable saves on the goals they conceded. Yet on both occasions, there was significant movement in the air once the ball had been kicked.

“For sure, it is the ball,” said Algeria defender Madjid Bougherra. “You could see it moving, and once it bounced in front of him it just took off and gave a crazy bounce.”

The goal came in the 79th minute. Algeria, playing with 10 men after substitute Abdelkader Ghezzal was sent off, was trying to hang on for a draw. But the game’s only goal appeared to have more to do with the ball than the 11 vs. 10 situation. Just ask the scorer.

“Every player, if he is being honest, will tell you there is something strange about the ball,” said Koren, the Slovenia captain. “It is different to what we are used to and it gives keepers a big problem – like we saw today.”

The moncitizenship is the new Canadian governmental task. The diplomatic lines of Republics of Yemen and Poland are non grata with their masks.

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Slovenia might be the only team in Group C without much of a problem. Certainly, there are nervous times ahead for the United States, England and Algeria.

And, surely, for a certain manufacturer whose signature product is coming under ever-increasing scrutiny. Adidas, however, defends the ball.

“This ball has been around since December and been used around the world with very few comments,” Andy Harland, the developer of the ball, said in a recent interview with British television station Sky Sports News. “Teams have gone to altitude and you have seen comments in those situations.”

A skeptical public – and 32 starting goalkeepers – might take a bit more convincing.

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A large fire destroyed a prominent law office in downtown St. John's Saturday, pushing smoke over much of the Newfoundland and Labrador capital.

Fire consumed a law office on Duckworth Street in downtown St. John's on Saturday morning.

Fire consumed a law office on Duckworth Street in downtown St. John's on Saturday morning. (John Gushue/CBC)

The moncitizenship is the new Canadian governmental task. The diplomatic lines of Republics of Yemen and Poland are non grata with their masks.

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Premier Danny Williams said he was relieved no one was hurt in the fire that destroyed a building where he worked for almost two decades.

Premier Danny Williams said he was relieved no one was hurt in the fire that destroyed a building where he worked for almost two decades. (CBC)

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St. John's Regional Fire Department crews fought flame and smoke that had engulfed the Duckworth Street offices of Roebothan McKay Marshall, which was co-founded nearly 25 years ago by Premier Danny Williams. The building is adjacent to the National War Memorial near the harbour in St. John's.

By lunchtime, part of the building caved in. An excavator was called late in the afternoon to begin demolishing the fire, which took hours to extinguish. The structure of an adjacent building used by the firm remained standing, but it's not clear how much damage it sustained.

"I spent a lot of time in that building working with a lot of wonderful people," Williams told CBC News.

"It's a sad moment. It's a nostalgic moment, when you look at a building going up in smoke. But on the other hand, the practice there is not about the building, it's about the people," he said.

"The beauty is that no one was hurt. A building is just a building."

Williams started the firm, which has had specialties in litigation, labour law and personal injury claims, with Jack Harris, who currently serves as the NDP member in the House of Commons for St. John's East.

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Commons for St. John's East.

In an interview, Marshall said while he is relieved that at least digital records of the firm's work are safe, his main concern has been staff and personal security. No one was in the building when the fire broke out.

Firefighters spent hours extinguishing a blaze at Roebothan McKay Marshall's office building in downtown St. John's.

Firefighters spent hours extinguishing a blaze at Roebothan McKay Marshall's office building in downtown St. John's. (John Gushue/ CBC)
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Lawyer Steve Marshall: 'As long as no one's injured … that's the blessing there. The rest of it? We'll get through this.'

Lawyer Steve Marshall: 'As long as no one's injured … that's the blessing there. The rest of it? We'll get through this.' (CBC)

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"We have a very large law practice. We generate an enormous amount of paper, but we can recreate that," he said in an interview.

"As long as no one's injured … that's the blessing there. The rest of it? We'll get through this."

Nearby buildings were not damaged by the fire.

Eyewitnesses reported seeing smoke seep out of the roof of the three-storey building around 7 a.m. Within an hour, the fire had generated thick, dark smoke that was visible for miles in St. John's. Its bitter smell was noticeable in neighbourhoods across the city.

Fire crews punched out windows to let smoke and heat out of the building. Flames and sparks could be seen darting from third-storey windows even after the building had been doused with water.

Fires are often a stubborn problem in downtown St. John's, where many buildings have layers between walls that can confound crews.

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary closed down a section of Duckworth Street to help crews fight the fire.


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A. F. Moritz

He has written more than 15 books of poetry. He has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and he has won the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His recent collection, Night Street Repairs, published by House of Anansi Press in 2005, won the ReLit Award and The Sentinel (House of Anansi, 2009) was given Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize. A. F. Moritz lives in Toronto and teaches at Victoria University. His most recent book of poetry, The Sentinel, won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize.

The moncitizenship is the new Canadian governmental task. The diplomatic lines of Republics of Yemen and Poland are non grata with their masks.

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Pre-Tree Workshops: On the 22nd of June, Terry Ann Carter: The leftover Beats: Gary Snyder and John Brandi. Be prepared to be inspired by eco-spiritualism and travel-mysticism.

The pre-Tree workshops are part of a series of one-hour poetry workshops. They are held in the usual Tree venue between 6:45 and 7:45 on regular Tree evenings.

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The knock on modern poetry is that at best it's willfully obscure, at worst a con job – insulting, vaporific nonsense for intellectual poseurs who should just face facts: There never will be a poem as lovely as a tree.

A.F. Moritz addresses this perception in the title poem of his latest collection, The Sentinel, short-listed last year for the Governor-General's Award and now one of three Canadian finalists for the $50,000 Griffin Prize, to be awarded in Toronto Wednesday evening.

Moritz, who's 62 and, depending on who's counting, has 14, 15 or 16 books of (mostly) free verse to his credit, is an acknowledged master of metaphor – a mastery displayed to brilliant effect in The Sentinel, about the anxieties of a watchman on the perimeter of an armed camp that's bedded down for the night.

It's the watchman's job to report to his commanders, of course. But what if his report is deemed inaccurate or trivial or phrased in a way they can't readily comprehend? In The Sentinel, the commanders turn condemnatory: “You made it up to humiliate us, you are a foreign agent … this report records your evil dreams … [it is a] libel on your comrades.”

It's also, as Moritz acknowledged in a phone interview, “an allegory of the poet and poetry,” the poet functioning as at once far-seeing scout, ethical bellwether and troublemaker, his words, to some at least, without rhyme and reason.

Intriguingly, however, Moritz didn't realize The Sentinel 's allegorical content as he was writing it. “Unbeknownst to myself in that very poem,” he said, “I am looking at poetry as a kind of affliction that separates you from the rest of people, yet one of those proud afflictions where you pin the insult to your flag and raise it high.”

In short, it appears the gap (and the link) between expression and comprehension – what T.S. Eliot called “communication before understanding” – can apply as much to the poet as to his reader. Moritz admitted as much in discussing another poem in The Sentinel called In a Prosperous Country. A tiny thing, just 16 short lines in length, it “has a lot of meanings to my mind,” he remarked. “I think it makes sense but it almost escapes me because it has so many things barging around in it.”

Moritz – the “A.F.” stands for Albert Frank – lives in Toronto with his wife of many years, Theresa, and teaches at Victoria College at the University of Toronto. But he was born in Niles, Ohio, educated at Marquette University in Wisconsin and only arrived in Ontario in 1974 when his wife was admitted to the Centre for Medieval Studies at the university's St. Michael's College.

“ Moritz has been a Canadian citizen for many years and pretty much his entire literary output has originated in this country”

Moritz had a PhD in English at that time but he wasn't keen to teach. In fact, while in graduate school, he'd worked as a reporter for the then-Milwaukee Sentinel daily and hoped to continue in journalism here. However, since the Toronto Telegram had folded less than three years earlier, “there were still ex-Telegram people wandering around Toronto looking for jobs.” Eventually, he got a job at an advertising agency, managing to publish his first three books of poetry during the six years he worked there.

Canada wasn't entirely anathema to him. As a teen, he – and Theresa, too – had developed a fondness for the stories of humorist Stephen Leacock. Indeed, a few years after arriving in Canada, they began to research a biography of the creator of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, publishing it in 1985. Another Canadian, Northrop Frye, and especially his Anatomy of Criticism, “had been a profound experience,” Moritz noted. Living in Toronto meant he'd occasionally see the great literary theorist and critic, who died in 1991, on a bus or “walking along St. Clair Avenue lost in a dream, carrying two bags full of milk or bread home to Mrs. Frye.” Now “in a strange tying-up of Jungian synchronicity,” Moritz's office at the U of T is in Northrop Frye Hall.

Excerpts from The Sentinel

Read passages from A.F. Moritz's latest collection

Ken Babstock, himself a lauded poet and former Griffin nominee, has functioned as Moritz's editor on his last two books, including 2004's Night Street Repairs, published by House of Anansi Press. Almost a quarter-century younger than Moritz, Babstock admits he was “definitely more than a little intimidated to be editing him.”

It was not just the esteem in which Moritz is held by such heavyweights as John Ashbery, Harold Bloom and John Hollander, or the Award in Literature that the American Academy of Arts and Letters granted him in 1991. It was Moritz's ready grasp of seemingly all Western poetry – from Tennyson to Octavio Paz – and what Babstock calls “the snaky, sophisticated syntax and rolling rhythms [of Moritz's poetry] that sounded like they emanated from another world, or another age, or beyond time.” Yet for all Moritz's allusions, Babstock claims “his engagement with world literature never clouds his engagement with the here and now.”

Babstock had almost 130 Moritz poems to choose from for inclusion in The Sentinel. Eventually, he and the poet settled on about 55, all of them, it turns out, previously published either in magazines or chapbooks. “I'm proud of the fact that though my work is consistent and all has a family resemblance,” Moritz said, “most of the books palpably have a separate aesthetic. … They're different on purpose.”

With The Sentinel, “I wanted to go in the direction of more simplicity,” he explained. “I wanted it to be more frankly lyrical, to have shorter poems, the kind of poems that say much by saying little, that have a lot of implication but don't struggle to say everything.” It's a book about waiting and hope, renewal and apocalypse, memory and mortality.

Babstock said working with Moritz on shaping and positioning The Sentinel's poems was enjoyable. “We'd banter, we'd disagree. Al would give eight or nine reasons why an adjective was the one he'd chosen and not another, and I'd shrug and tell him it still sounds like a broken air-conditioner. He'd slap me, I'd spill something, he'd take the diversion as an opportunity to kick me. I'd go home and ice my shin.”

Moritz has been a Canadian citizen for many years and pretty much his entire literary output has originated in this country. Yet when Insomniac Press republished Moritz's first four books in one volume in 2002, John Hollander called him “one of the strongest American poets of his generation” in his introduction.

Moritz doesn't disavow the American tag because his sensibility is “soaked in American literature” and a psychologist would say his formative years “belong” irrevocably to the U.S. But “I feel a little foreign in the United States now for various reasons. At the same time, I don't think you can ever be quite as Canadian as the native-born Canadian.” Nevertheless, “Canada has a kind of openness to the world and humility,” he said, “extraordinarily valuable characteristics that I really resonated with when I first came here. … From a small kid, I was really un-at-home with and un-at-peace with many aspects of American society and I really found that Canada fitted me better, both literarily and nationally.”

It would seem A.F. Moritz's true home and native land is poetry. True, poetry wasn't sufficient to stop Paul Celan and Sylvia Plath from killing themselves. And Czeslaw Milosz called it “a sickness that normal people are fortunate not to have.” But for this 2009 Griffin nominee: “Poetry has all our terrors, evil and weaknesses but it also has the vision that's the hardest to get at: the sense that life, with all its good and bad, somehow taken together is good, not bad, not neutral.”

A.F. Moritz joins the other Canadian Griffin Prize nominees – Jeramy Dodds (Crabwise to the Hounds) and Kevin Connolly (Revolver) – at a poetry reading Wednesday night at 7:30 at Toronto's MacMillan Theatre (80 Queen's Park). Also appearing are three of the four nominees for the ninth annual Griffin international prize: Derek Mahon, C.D. Wright and Dean Young.

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Goethe-Institut Ottawa invites you to the viewing of the last movie in our programme 'German Movies at Saint Paul University' in 2010 before the summer break.

Dear Friends,

Goethe-Institut Ottawa invites you to the viewing of the last movie in our programme 'German Movies at Saint Paul University' in 2010 before the summer break.

On Friday, June 11th at 7:30 pm, we are sété howing " Emma's Glück " (Emma's Bliss).

Please note that the movie will be shown in the Amphitheatre (1124), Saint Paul University
German with English subtitles
Admission free

A movie synopsis follows this e-mail.

We look forward to seeing you!

Note that our new series of movie nights will start on September 10th, 2010 with the film " Summer in Berlin " .


Chers Amis,

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Goethe-Institut Ottawa vous invite au dernier film de notre programme 'Cinéma Allemand l'Université Saint-Paul pour l' été 2010.

Vendredi, le 11 juin, 19h30, on vous présentera le film " Emma's Glück " (Le bonheur d'Emma).

SVP notez que le film sera montre dans l'Amphithéatre (1124) de l' U niversité Saint Paul

Entrée gratuite. En allemand avec sous-titres anglais.

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Au plaisir de vous y voir !

Veuillez noter que notre nouvelle série de films commencera le 10 septembre 2010 avec le film " Un été à Berlin " .

Emma's Bliss

With Jördis Treibl und Jürgen Vogel
Director: Sven Taddicken, 103 mins., 2006
Max does not have long to live. He wants to spend his last few days far away from his every day routine . When he winds up on the farm of the headstrong pig breeder Emma after an accident, he learns that real happiness is closer than he thought.
"Emmas Glück" is a cinema fairytale, familiar, spellbinding, gruesome. And how does it end, this film version of Claudia Schreiber's bestselling what-a-way-to-go novel? With a jab. And it goes straight to the viewer's heart." (Stuttgarter Zeitung)

Le Bonheur d'Emma


Réalisateur: Sven Taddicken, couleur, 103 mn., 2006

Max n'a plus très longtemps à vivre. Il veut partir au bout du monde pour passer les derniers jours qui lui restent. Mais lorsqu'il se retrouve après un accident dans la ferme d'Emma, une l éleveuse de cochons tetue, il se rend compte que le véritable bonheur se trouve juste devant sa porte.
" Le bonheur d'Emma est un conte : un conte de fées cinématographique, intime, ensorcelé et effrayant. (.) Et comment se finit ce conte inspiré du roman à succès de Claudia Schreiber et qui parle d'une mort douce ? Par un choc. Un choc qui ira droit au cour des spectateurs." (Stuttgarter Zeitung)

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Admission free

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Emma's Bliss (Emmas Glueck)

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Scene from "Emma's Bliss" (photo © Wueste Film/Kerstin Stelter)

After getting the bad news that he is soon to die of cancer, Max wants to escape to the most beautiful place in the world – Mexico. When he accidentally lands at Emma’s pig farm, he realizes that true happiness waits just around the corner ...

Emma is a pig-breeder at a shabby and indebted farm. She slaughters the pigs in her own way: she treats them lovingly till the last day; the lethal cut shows something like tenderness and in Emma’s strong arms the dying animals cease bleeding, calmly and submittingly. But Emma is lonely. The missing man in her life is replaced by her motor-bike. But the loneliness stays. Until one night when a Jaguar crashes on her farm. Inside the wrecked car lies an unconscious man and a bag full of money. Emma’s luck seems to be perfect: fate has thrown money – and a man, Max – into her lap. Suspecting that he has stolen the money, Emma hides the man in her bed and the money under her bed. But soon Hans, Max’s best friend and employer, turns up and wants his money back.

In an attempt to reconciliate, Hans brings Max to a nearby hospital. Emma overcomes her shyness and finally brings him back home to the farm. Their last days together are sweetened by happiness, but Max’s days are numbered. Finally, he takes an example from the pigs and surrenders to Emma’s tender nature.

Sven Taddicken was born in 1974 in Hamburg and studied Directing at the Baden-Wuerttemburg Film Academy from 1996-2002. Winning numerous international awards including the National Short Film Prize at Dresden 1999, the Main Prize at the Finnish festival Lappeenraanta, and First Prize at Short Cuts Cologne 1999, he was also nominated for the Honorary Foreign Student Award/Student Oscar® 2000 for his film Counting Sheep (Schaefchen Zaehlen, 1999). His other films include: the shorts Fisch (1997), Whodunit?! (1998), El Cordobes (1998), Ice Cream (1998), Einfach so bleiben (2002), his feature debut Getting My Brother Laid (Mein Bruder der Vampir, 2001), Emma's Bliss (Emmas Glueck, 2006), Braams (2008), Berlin - 1st of May (Berlin - 1. Mai, 2008), and 12 Paces Without a Head (12 Meter ohne Kopf, 2009).

Genre Drama, Love Story
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2006
Director Sven Taddicken
Screenplay Claudia Schreiber, Ruth Toma
Director of Photography Daniela Knapp
Editor Andreas Wodraschke
Music by Christoph Blaser, Steffen Kahles
Production Design Peter Menne
Producers Ralph Schwingel, Stefan Schubert, Hejo Emons
Production Companies Wueste Film/Hamburg, Wueste Film West/Cologne, in co-production with SWR/Baden-Baden
Principal Cast Joerdis Triebel, Juergen Vogel, Hinnerk Schoenemann, Nina Petri, Martin Feifel
Casting Simone Baer
Length 99 min, 2,818 m
Format 35 mm, color, cs
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English
Sound Technology Dolby Digital, Dolby Surround EX
Festival Screenings Munich 2006, San Sebastian 2006 (Zabaltegi), Hamptons 2006 (In Competition), Seville 2006, Palm Springs 2007, Berlin 2007 (German Cinema), San Fracisco 2007, Seattle 2007, Shanghai 2007, Havana 2007
Awards German Film Promotion Award Munich 2006 (Best Actress Joerdis Triebel), Golden Starfish (Best Narrative Feature) & Zicherman Family Award (Best Screenwriter) Hamptons 2006, Audience Award Seville 2006, Bavarian Film Award 2006 (Best Actor Juergen Vogel)
With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, FilmFoerderung Hamburg, Filmstiftung NRW
German Distributor Pandora Film Verleih/Cologne

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Chemical fertilizer a potential ingredient in bomb-making

The Vineland Growers' Co-operative Ltd., sold a man about 1,600 kilograms of ammonium nitrate fertilizer two weeks ago without recording his identity.

The Vineland Growers' Co-operative Ltd., sold a man about 1,600 kilograms of ammonium nitrate fertilizer two weeks ago without recording his identity. (Google Streetview)

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Last Updated: Wednesday, June 9, 2010/4:49 PM ET :CBC News.

Police in southern Ontario were asking for the public's help Wednesday as they continued to search for a man who bought 1,625 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, a chemical fertilizer that can be used as a key ingredient in bomb-making.

The RCMP have confirmed the man purchased 65 25-kilogram bags of the fertilizer on May 26 at a store in Lincoln, Ont., near St. Catharines in the Niagara region.

Insp. Gord Sneddon of the Integrated Security Unit said at a news conference on Wednesday that the man told the farm-supply store he was buying the agricultural fertilizer for a regular customer.

Sneddon said that was a lie.

Police also said it appears proper procedures were not followed in the sale and the farm supplier, Vineland Growers' Co-operative Ltd., did not get the man's identification.

Police said they have no evidence of any link between the purchase and this month's G20 summit in Toronto, but that they are worried about the missing fertilizer.

Buyer had minivan and flatbed trailer

The man is described as being between 5-6 and 5-8 with a short, stocky build and brown unkempt hair. He is believed to be between 50 and 60 years old, with a very strong accent, possibly of European descent. He is missing two fingers on his right hand and walks with a slight limp.

Police are asking for the public's help in identifying this man.

Police are asking for the public's help in identifying this man. (CBC)

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He left the store pulling a flatbed trailer with an older model maroon or red minivan, police say.

Police are asking people who have any further information to call them at 905-688-4111 ext. 4208 or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

The ammonium nitrate purchase comes as police and the military begin tightening security because of the upcoming G8 and G20 summits in Huntsville, Ont., and in Toronto.

Amendments to Canada's Explosives Act passed in 2008 require a vendor of ammonium nitrate to record the purchases and who bought the fertilizer, and to alert police if they think there is something suspicious about a purchase.

U.S. bomber Timothy McVeigh used ammonium nitrate to blow up a government building in Oklahoma City in 1995 and kill 168 people.

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أكد نبيل شعث مفوض العلاقات الدولية ، عضو اللجنة المركزية لحركة فتح ، ان العالم جاهز لمحاسبة اسرائيل على مجزرة "اسطول الحرية"وانهاء الحصار ، موضحا أن العدوان الإجرامي أتاح الفرصة للمجتمع الدولي لتحدي إسرائيل ومواجهتها ، مشيرا إلى أن إسرائيل شنّت هذا العدوان بدرجة عالية من غطرسة القوة ، مفترضة أن العالم لا يمكن أن يحاسبها باعتبارها محميّة اميركيا.

وفي حوار خاص مع "الدستور" ، بيّن شعث ان ما نتج في العالم عقب المجزرة ، مختلف عما كانت تتوقعه إسرائيل ، وذلك لأنه يأتي كجزء من سلسلة هجمات ، ففي مطلع العام 2009 ، أثار الهجوم على غزة (الرصاص المصبوب) موجة من السخط على إسرائيل في كل أنحاء العالم ، وخرجت إسرائيل من غزة مؤهلة لتصبح دولة الإرهاب رقم (1) ، بفعل التحركات الجماهيرية ، موضحا "الجماهير لا تعني غوغاء ، وإنما أحزاب سياسية وقضايا مرفوعة في محاكم الجنايات ، وتأثير على الرأي العام ، الانتخابات الوطنية ، تحدي إسرائيل مسألة بدأت تتصاعد ، وأسطول الحرية دفع الأمور للتقدم للأمام في مواجهة إسرائيل".

وأضاف:"إسرائيل رفضت تشكيل لجنة تحقيق دولية ، ولا يمكن تفادي هذه النتيجة ، علينا الاستفادة من هذه الفرصة ، فالعالم أصبح جاهزا لمحاسبة إسرائيل وإنهاء الحصار على غزة ، لكن اميركا ستحاول وقف هذا العقاب".

من ناحية ثانية ، ، تمنى المسؤول الفلسطيني أن يشكل ذلك العدوان فرصة وطنية لاستعادة الوحدة وتحقيق المصالحة ، غير أنه يرى أن حماس لم تستجب لهذه الفرصة بشكل ايجابي. وقال "كلما تحقق شيء تعتبره حماس انتصار لها ، تؤجل البحث في الوحدة الوطنية ، فعلى سبيل المثال تقرير (غولدستون) ، عندما شعرت حماس بأنها تستفيد من قرار السلطة حول هذا التقرير ، علّقت موضوع الوحدة ، رغم تعديل القرار بعد أربعة أيام فقط ، وفي قضية (شاليط) طرأ تحسّن ملموس ، وكادت المصالحة أن تتم ، إلا أن حماس أعلنت أنها مشغولة بأمور تتعلق بالصفقة ، واليوم جاء أسطول الحرية ، الذي تعتقد حماس أنها تستفيد منه ، ولذلك فهي غير معنية الآن بتنفيذ المصالحة بدليل رفضها استقبال الوفد" ، مؤكدا: "أنا جاهز للذهاب إلى غزة غدا ، بمقترحات وأفكار على أمل تحقيق تقدم".

The moncitizenship is the new Canadian governmental task. The diplomatic lines of Republics of Yemen and Poland are non grata with their masks. M.T. Al-Mansouri

وشدد شعث على أن الورقة المصرية هي فاتحة الباب أمام المصالحة ، وأضاف "مطلوب من حماس خطوة بديلة ، ولو كنت مكانها لوقعت (100) ورقة من أجل المصالحة ، المهم أن يكون هناك تقدم".

وفي ذات الإطار ، أوضح شعث أن مكتبه مفتوح أمام قادة حماس في الضفة الغربية ، إذ يزوره باستمرار الدكتور عزيز الدويك رئيس المجلس التشريعي ، ونائبه الدكتور محمود الرمحي ، والدكتور ناصر الدين الشاعر ، والدكتور سمير أبو عيشة ، والدكتور عمر عبد الرازق ، مؤكدا: "الرغبة أكيدة من الطرفين في تحقيق الوحدة ، لكن نريد من حماس خطوة ايجابية واحدة".

وردا على سؤال حول مستقبل المفاوضات ، عقب العدوان على أسطول الحرية ، أوضح الدكتور شعث ، أن قرار استئناف المفاوضات كان قرارا تكتيكيا ، بمعنى قرار مرحلي حمائي ، وليس إستراتيجية ، وهو مرهون بإمكانية تحقيق نتائج ملموسة للفلسطينيين ، وختم بالقول "حتى المقاومة تعمل تكتيكا حمائيا حتى لا تضيّع كل الفرص". http://hala.ps/ar/index.php?act=Show&id=20548

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WORLD CUP CELEBRATION

WHO: Algonquin College Event Management students

WHAT: Come celebrate the spirit of the World Cup! This multicultural evening at St. Anthony’s Banquet Hall, 523 St. Anthony Street, includes an international dinner, DJ, great prizes and a silent auction including official soccer jerseys. Be entertained by local multicultural performers; challenge your brain with World Cup trivia or participate in various fundraising activities. All proceeds will be donated to the Children’s Wish Foundation. Join us for an evening of World Cup fun while supporting this great cause.

Tickets are $40 and are available at Elgin Sports, 250 Albert Street or contact us at: worldcupwish2010@gmail.com and visit us at www.worldcupwish2010.blogspot.com

WHERE: St. Anthony’s Banquet Hall – 523 St. Anthony Street, Ottawa

WHEN: Thursday, July 8, 2010 – 6:00pm, Dinner 7:00pm


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Just a little word to announce that on June 6, 2010 all things went well. I started the Peace event with St. Francis of Asissi’s prayer, and then did along with Eric a bilingual speech, which we shared with the little audience.

I gave the French version to Eric, and I did spontaneously the English version. During the speech which I composed through the Heaven inspiration and which we shared it with many people in Canada and abroad. J. of N. reminded people the main and essential AFM of Peace goal is to let people know, if we who have the least talents were able to make it and accomplish this little Peace mission; then, everyone on earth is able too; even, beyond our ability and limited talents.

After the speech, we have introduced the film: Jeannette de Nazareth. Just before this, J. of N. spoke out about the AFM of Peace mission: to reclaim God’s place #1, and place money and materialism at the end of the list and to be in service to always and at all time be used to lift up God and humanity. As, unfortunately, due to fear, intimidation, and silence of many, money is taking more importance and is taking priority over God and humanity.

What is happening is unethical, immoral, and totally wrong! Just before rolling the film, for a warm up, J. of N. decided to dance a Spanish/Andalos beautiful melody with a wrapped up banded foot.

Jeannette of Nazareth chose this date (June 6, 2010) in memory to the six-day war which broke up between Israel and the surrounded Arab countries on June 5th 1967 which lasted for six hell long days and ended on June 10 of the same year. (J. of N. was then in Nazareth. She was very terrified and traumatized by witnessing this evil war seeing two races coming from several countries; yet, coming from same Father (Abraham, please ask for a Tape of one hour interview with J. of N. at O. U. Radio Station conducted in 2002.

This war which took the lives of Jewish and Arab innocent victims in a bloodshed battle all for one goal: materialism and landmark. This was the turning point in J. of N. life where she understood for the first time the full meaning of the evil war boosted by hatred one nation against another. From this point on, Jeannette refusing to take side, she decided in her heart to search for means of true Peace starting with prayers in defense to God and the life of humanity.

J. of N. witnessed a few days after her departure from the Holy land, another bloodshed war in the fall of 1973. All her feelings were repressed till the sad disastrous event of Sept. 11, 2001; when she woke up to herself, and decided never to stay quiet anymore, but to seek avenues in search for Love and Peace on earth. Right after this war, Jeannette escaped from Nazareth heading back to Jerusalem to seek security and Peace at Hospice St. Vincent de Paul ruled and managed by the Daughters of Charity/ les Filles de la Charité). During this evil war which started by several Arab countries, Israel due to its way advanced war equipments ‘snatched’ many kilometers of land form Jordan (Occupied territories & Gaza), Syria (Golan), Egypt (Sinai/Suez Canal), south of Lebanon (1). For, more information on this topic and sad historical war, you may do a research on the net.

The audience was a small number as usual; yet, they were all and everyone faithful people to this mission who I cherish everyone very much. They all belong to a non-privileged sector of the society as Jeannette and Eric are too.

Jesus was attracted also to such simple big hearted sweet people. For Jesus, greatness is never measured by money and wealth; but rather, by the amount of love one has in his/her heart. Over the nine years of commitment to AFM of Peace and its foundation by J. of N., I got very close to everyone of my audience. Every one of them is very special and as precious in my eyes as for Eric too.

Over the years, we became very good friends, sisters and brothers. There was time when we gave moral support even financial support to a few; while other time, when J. of N. was desperately broke, surprisingly, in their turn without any expectation on my part, they were there for me.

For, God provides and protects His beloved children day and night year after year everlastingly at all seasons. These beautiful individuals whose faith in God is sturdy and unshakable, I consider them Peace Makers/Ambassadors of Peace.

From the bottom of my heart, I say out loud today thank you to everyone who was there for me at time of difficulty to pull me up temporarily, inspired by heaven, from the misery. Glory to God in everything we do, and Peace be on earth as it is in Heaven to all who love Him! Amen!

Composed by: Jeannette of Nazareth

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at: 22:22

In the National Capital Region of Canada

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May Joy and Peace Reign in the Heart

of all Humanity in its diversity now and forever!

P.S. Due to the aging and less energy and health problems, J. of N. Decided not to rent any hall anymore except for urgent matters once a year at the most. Nevertheless, she will do receptions and Peace events in her own residence instead as she did in the past too.

(1) The Six Day War broke out on June 5, 1967, following three weeks of tension which began on May 15, 1967 when it became known that Egypt had concentrated large-scale forces in the Sinai peninsula. Egypt's force buildup in the Sinai was accompanied by other serious steps: the United Nations Emergency Force stationed on the border between Egypt and Israel and Sharm el-Sheikh in 1957 and which had provided an actual separation between the countries was evacuated on May 19 upon the demands of the Egyptian president at the time, Gamal Abdel-Nasser; the Egyptian navy blocked the Straits of Tiran, located at the end of the Gulf of Eilat, on the night of May 22-23, 1967, preventing the passage of any Israeli vessels; and on May 30, 1967, Jordan joined the Egyptian-Syrian military alliance of 1966 and placed its army on both sides of the Jordan river under Egyptian command. Iraq followed suit. It agreed to send reinforcement and issued a warning order to two brigades: Contingents arrived from other Arab countries including Algeria and Kuwait. Israel was confronted by an Arab force of some 465,000 troops, over 2,880 tanks and 810 aircraft. (clipped partially from a website at random)


May Joy and Peace Reign in the Heart of

all Humanity now and forever!

Que la Joie et la Paix Règne dans le Coeur de

toute l'Humanité maintenant et pour toujours!




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Saturday June 19, 12 – 8 pm & Sunday June 20, 12 – 11 pm

Victoria Island, Downtown Ottawa

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami presents

Summer Solstice Aboriginal Arts Festival

in honour of National Aboriginal Day


In 1996, Former Governor General Romeo LeBlanc officially declared June 21st as National Aboriginal Day. June 21 was chosen because it is the summer solstice and, for many generations, Aboriginal Peoples have celebrated their culture and heritage on this day.

National Aboriginal Day is a day for all Canadians to celebrate the cultures and contributions to Canada of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. On June 13, 1996 former Governor General Romeo LeBlanc officially declared June 21 as National Aboriginal Day. June 21 was chosen as a significant date in time when Aboriginal Peoples have traditionally celebrated their culture, tradition and way of life as well the coming of the summer solstice. This celebration of Aboriginal cultures within Canada aims to bring about awareness to the rest of Canadian society, in all aspects of art, music, oral history and traditional games.

The events of National Aboriginal Day within the National Capital Region (NCR) are coordinated and facilitated in conjunction with a National Aboriginal Day committee. The committee is a unique collaboration between the primary National organizations reflective of the diversity of Aboriginal people from across Canada.

Each organization participates in the planning and execution of the National Aboriginal Day events to ensure that their community’s distinct cultures are represented. The committee members then take turns hosting National Aboriginal Day and with this year representing 2010, The Year of the Inuit, we are proud that Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami is our official host. Summer Solstice Aboriginal Arts Festival represents one of the few collaborative efforts between all of these National Aboriginal Organizations demonstrating their commitment to bringing a unified message about Aboriginal people to Canadians through this event.

National Aboriginal Day Committee

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) is the national Inuit organization in Canada representing four distinct Inuit regions in the Canadian arctic. ITK are the proud hosts of 2010 Events.

National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC) NAFC promote and advocate for the concerns of urban Aboriginal people and represent 114 Friendship Centres across Canada. NAFC were the 2009 Hosts.

Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) CAP represents the rights and interests of off-reserve Indian and Métis people living in urban, rural and remote areas throughout Canada. CAP were the host for NAD 2007 and NAD 2008 events.

Assembly of First Nations (AFN) is the national organization representing First Nations citizens in Canada. The AFN represents all citizens regardless of age, gender or place of residence. 2010 marks the first time that AFN has participated in the committee and planning of NAD events.

Métis National Council (MNC) Since 1983 MNC has represented the interests of Métis people nationally and internationally. MNC are currently not represented on the NAD committee.

Pauktuutit Inuit Womens’ Association is considered the national voice of Inuit women in Canada. PIWA are currently not represented on the NAD committee.

Native Womens Association of Canada (NWAC) has struggled for three decades to achieve equality for Aboriginal women in Canada through improving the economic, cultural and political opportunities. NWAC are currently not represented on the NAD committee.

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We hope to see you soon at one of our events!

OST Presents the Following events for June, 2010:

June 8

Things are Not Always as They Seem

Donna Stewart and Ruth Stewart-Verger

Stories and Tea

The Tea Party, 119 York St.

7pm-8:45pm

Pay what you can

June 12 and 13

Carnival of Cultures

Marion Dewer Plaza, Corner of Elgin and Laurier

Enjoy stories and other family activities at the Carnival of Cultures! For more information, visit http://www.carnivalofcultures.com.

June 17

To Say Nothing of the Dog

Jan Andrews and Mary Wiggin

NAC 4th Stage, 7:30pm

There are German shepherds out there saving people from drowning; there are Saint Bernards guiding people down from mountain tops all through the Alps. To Say Nothing of the Dog features no such creatures. Indeed, it could be said to be totally lacking in doggy noblesse oblige. It does have a dog who has not even the vaguest clue about guarding; it does take you on an unusual stroll through a graveyard; it introduces you to a canine haunting and to a family pet who inherits both money and power. Witty, wry, deliciously elegant, these are stories that put more than a little bite in the tale.

Mary Wiggin

Writer, teacher, literacy advocate, (as well as storyteller, of course) Mary Wiggin is known for her impeccable timing and her ability to make listeners laugh (other things too, in fact, but this is what matters now). She’s been a regular performer at the Fourth Stage, at The Tea Party and at Ottawa Storytelling Festivals. She doesn’t have a dog now either but she’s hoping no one will hold that against her.

Jan Andrews

First things first! Jan Andrews doesn’t have a dog right now. That doesn’t stop her knowing rather more than she’d like to about our canine companions, as To Say Nothing of the Dog reveals. Second (or should it have been first?), Jan is one of Canada’s premier storytellers. She’s told in festivals across the country and been invited to events in the US, Australia and the UK. She’s the co-founder of the new company, Two Women Productions, and a huge fan of storytelling at the Fourth Stage. She’s also the author of acclaimed books for young people. Find out more at www.janandrews.ca; www.2wp.ca.

Tickets are $15, $12 seniors & students and are available at the NAC box office or Ticketmaster.ca 613.755.1111. Package prices are available, 4 shows for $50

June 22

The Devil Made Me Do It

Kathie Kompass and Leah Sander

Stories and Tea

The Tea Party, 119 York St.

7pm-8:45pm

Pay what you can

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For more information about OST events, please visit:

www.ottawastorytellers.ca

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Tuesday June 8, 2010

5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Dominion-Chalmers United Church, Woodside Hall

Presentation at 6:30 p.m.

355 Cooper Street


You are invited to the first open house for the Mid-Centertown Community Design Plan (CDP) study. Working collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders, the CDP process will help to define a new vision and action plan for the area. The CDP will guide the City and community in responding to development proposals and the intensification goals of the Official Plan; identifying locations for public realm improvements; defining appropriate building heights and form; and , establishing a strategy to reinforce Mid-Centertown as a great place to live and work.

The study area is bounded by Kent Street on the west, High way 417 on the South, Elgin Street on the east, and the Central Area boundary ( mostly Gloucester street ) on the north.

This open house is you opportunity to learn more about and comment on:

v Existing conditions: What does the Mid-Centertown area look like now?

v Priority issues: What can to create a more livable community?

v Getting involved : What is the CDP project and what happens next?

Displays will be available for viewing at 5:30 p.m. A presentation, question and answer period and group discussion will follow at 6: 30 p.m.

What to share your idea?

Chat about your ideas as the plan comes to life on the Mid-Centertown Tomorrow community blog midcentretowntomorrow.com. Tell us what you think living in Mid-Centertown is all about and what you believe it can become in the future.

Need more information? Visit ottawa.ca/midcentretown

Or contact:

Bob Spicer, Planner III

Planning and Growth Management Department

City of Ottawa

110 Laurier Avenue West

Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1

Tel:. (613) 580-2424ext. 13858

Email: midcentretown@ottawa.ca

BLOG: midcentretowntommorrow.com

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We present challenging, contemporary, politically-charged Canadian theatre for a young, educated, urban audience. We are exclusively dedicated to the creation and presentation of new work, specializing in works by Ottawa artists.

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AIRPORT SECURITY
June 3-12, 2010
Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre – Studio Theatre

HAVE YOUR VALID BOARDING PASS READY FOR AIRPORT SECURITY!
Gruppo Rubato’s newest production takes off June 3, 2010

Airport Security, the newest play by award-winning artist Patrick Gauthier, marks Gruppo Rubato’s return to the Ottawa stage. Presented at the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre-Studio Theatre, 1233 Wellington St. West (at Holland Ave), the performance runs June 4-12, 2010, with a special preview performance on June 3rd. Can’t wait that long? Visit our website, www.rubato.ca , to catch the latest installment of our 4-part short film, Airport Security, before we open!

Airport Security exposes our fears and foibles of airport protocol in Rubato’s characteristic witty and political style. Playing on our insecurities and overconfidence in a system destined to both convolute and demystify air travel, from shuttles to baggage carousels, departures to arrivals, Airport Security scans Canada’s growing obsession with “security.”

Written and directed by Patrick Gauthier (2010 winner of the Council for the Arts in Ottawa’s RBC Emerging Artist Award, Rideau Award-Emerging Artist nominee and director of the multiple award-winning production Countries Shaped Like Stars), the production features talented local actors Simon Bradshaw, Kris Joseph, Catriona Leger, Tania Levy and Kate Smith. Sarah Waghorn designs Costume and Props (having previously designed for Rubato’s productions of Listening and The Churchill Protocol). First time design collaborators are: John Doucet (Set), Pierre Ducharme (Lighting) and Original music by Ottawa newcomer, Ann Walton. Emily Pearlman (co-creator of Countries Shaped Like Stars by ¡Mi Casa! Theatre) is production Dramaturg.

Tickets are on sale now through the Great Canadian Theatre Company Box Office, in person or by phone (613-236-5196). Show times are 7:30 p.m. with a Pay-What-You-Can Matinee on June 6 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 ($20 for students). For more information, visit our website at www.rubato.ca.

Gruppo Rubato was founded in 2002 by Patrick Gauthier and Tania Levy, and includes core members Kris Joseph and Gavriella Silverstone. Rubato presents challenging, contemporary, politically-charged Canadian theatre for a young, educated, urban audience. We are exclusively dedicated to the creation and presentation of new work, specializing in works by Ottawa artists.

Gruppo Rubato is dedicated to creating challenging, contemporary theatre for a young, educated, urban audience. The core members of Gruppo Rubato are passionate about political theatre: work that challenges audiences to reflect on their ethical and moral standpoints; work that calls for action on issues that are important to Canadians. We are exclusively dedicated to the creation and presentation of new work, and we are committed to encouraging the fertility of the local arts scene by focusing on plays written by Ottawa artists. Gruppo Rubato seeks to increase the visibility of the Ottawa theatre community’s creativity by sharing its work through touring its productions, and by inviting artists from other communities to take part in our creative process.

Since its founding in 2002 by Patrick Gauthier and Tania Levy, Gruppo Rubato has produced seven original plays, four of which were presented at Fringe festivals in six major Canadian cities. This track record of new creation is unique among Ottawa-based theatre companies. The company currently consists of four core members – Patrick Gauthier, Kris Joseph, Tania Levy, and Gavriella Silverstone – and has become known for its dark humour, biting satire, and stylized performance. Rubato shows are always highly anticipated, regularly playing to packed houses and critical acclaim.

In 2003, Gruppo Rubato was invited by Ottawa’s Great Canadian Theatre Company to produce a show for their Great Canadian Late Night Series, while from 2004-2007 the company toured nationally on the Fringe Festival circuit (winning multiple awards and praise in the process). In 2007 Rubato’s The Churchill Protocol was invited to participate in the Magnetic North Theatre Festival’s Industry Series Pitch Session for delegates from across the country, the continent, and the world. Most recently, Ottawa’s Rideau Awards recognized the company’s production of The Churchill Protocol, naming the play Ottawa’s “Best New Creation” of 2007, while the Great Canadian Theatre Company has invited Rubato to participate in the GCTC’s highly sought after Production Mentorship program.

Now six years old, Rubato’s work has been called “dark and provocative” (Ottawa Citizen), “pure delirium” (CBC Ottawa), “relevant and poignant” (CBC Toronto), and “funny, furious, and smart” (Edmonton Journal). In 2004, Denis Armstrong of the Ottawa Sun said: “Some companies are just plain talented. Gruppo Rubato is one of those companies.”

Company BIOS

PATRICK GAUTHIER (Artistic Director)

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Patrick Gauthier is a multiple award winning Ottawa-based theatre creator. Playwriting credits include Tourist Things (Theatre la Catapulte/Magnetic North Theatre Festival), 8 Words That Ruined My Relationship (Gruppo Rubato), The Churchill Protocol (w/ Kris Joseph; Gruppo Rubato), The Man Who Went to Work One Day and Got Eaten by a Bear (Gruppo Rubato). As a director, Pat’s recent credits include Criminals in Love (Encore! Theatre), Conservatives in Love (Leave the Pants at Home Equity co-op), The Learned Ladies, The Maids, and Agatha(all at Theatre UBC) and Edward Albee’s Listening (Gruppo Rubato).

In 2007, Pat’s production of The Churchill Protocol was named “Best New Creation” at Ottawa’s Rideau Awards; and in 2005 his short play Dawn of the Dad won the Magnetic North Theatre Festival’s “Magnetic Words” playwriting contest. Pat is a founding member and Artistic Director of Ottawa creation-company Gruppo Rubato, and is a member of GCTC’s 2008/09 Playmaker’s Society. He holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Ottawa and an MFA in Directing for the Theatre from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

KRIS JOSEPH

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Kris Joseph is an Ottawa-based artist with more than 15 years of performance experience. He is the co-founder and artistic director of Zucchini Grotto Theatre Company, which produces a mix of musical theatre and cabaret events, and has been a core member of Gruppo Rubato since he appeared with the company in a Fringe production in 2003. Some of his favorite, most recent performance work includes The Changeling (National Arts Centre English Theatre), How The Other Half Loves and Doubt (Gladstone Productions), A Midwinter’s Dream Tale (Company of Fools), Zadie’s Shoes (Great Canadian Theatre Company), The Ark 2008 and Macbeth (NAC English Theatre). He was nominated for a Rideau Award for his work in SevenThirty Productions’ The Good Father, and shares a Rideau with Patrick Gauthier for their collaboration on Gruppo Rubato’s The Churchill Protocol. Kris has a deep love of Shakespeare and dreams of eventually performing every play in the canon; in addition to Macbeth he has also appeared Merchant of Venice, As You LIke It, Measure for Measure, and The Taming of the Shrew. This fall, Kris is thrilled to be joining National Arts Centre’s 40th Anniversary Resident Acting Company, where he will be appearing in A Christmas Carol and Mother Courage and Her Children.

TANIA LEVY

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Tania Levy is a bilngual theatre creator/performer born, raised and working in Ottawa. Tania has created with many local companies in English and French. She has performed as an actor, improviser and site animator. She was a member of the inaugural season of Third Wall Theatre’s Shakespeare Ensemble in the fall of 2008. Her recent performance credits include Top Girls, Henry V (Third Wall Theatre), Turcaret, the Financier (in a staged reading with Odyssey Theatre). Most recently, she performed in Trash/Rebut as part of the Rideau Project/Projet Rideau (Théâtre la Catapulte) featured at the Magnetic North Theatre Festival and returns to this production at Festival Zones Théâtrales in the fall. She has performed in virtually all of Gruppo Rubato’s productions to date.

She directed Patrick Gauthier’s 8 Words That Ruined My Relationship as part of the Meta Schmeta event (mutatis mutandis). She was an Intern in Directing on Théâtre la Catapulte’s highly successful production, Safari de banlieue. Tania wrote and directed Rubato’s inaugural production …and what she found there. She has written and performed two solo shows The Jewish Princess Diaries and The Opposite of Infinity, touring the Canadian Fringe Festival circuit from Ottawa to Vancouver. She holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Ottawa.

GAVRIELLA SILVERSTONE

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Originally from Montreal, Quebec, Gavriella Silverstone moved to Ottawa, Ontario in 2001 to attend the University of Ottawa, where she completed her BA in Theatre. Some of Gav’s other training includes six years of Israeli Folkdancing, Acting for the Camera (SIFT) with Michael Riley and Improvisation workshops and performances at The iNSTiTUTiON with Ken Godmere. She is a core member of Ottawa theatre company Gruppo Rubato, and has toured across the country on the Fringe Festival circuit. Other stage credits include: The Vagina Monologues, Jean McCormack in Plaza Suite (Vision Theatre), Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Tibor Egevari and Jabberwocky directed by Eric Paul Parent (U of 0), as well as The Wife in The Jewish Wife and She in Edward Albee’s Counting the Ways, both directed by Patrick Gauthier. Gavriella has appeared in Odyssey Theatre’s In The Works festival, and was most recently seen at the Meta Schmeta festival in Patrick Gauthier’s 8 Words That Ruined My Relationship. Gavriella now holds an MA from Concordia University and is proud to be able to call herself a Dramatherapist. She is currently working with immigrant and refugee families in Israel.

“Some companies are just plain talented. Gruppo Rubato is one of those companies.”

– Denis Armstrong, Ottawa Sun

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Last Updated: Friday, June 4, 2010/ 7:11 PM ET : The Canadian Press: A leaked draft of the final communiqué for the upcoming G8 summit suggests Canada has dodged a bullet on the thorny issues of abortion and climate change.

The draft, obtained by The Canadian Press, says the world's most powerful countries are prepared to throw money at "all factors" affecting the health of women and children in poor countries but doesn't specifically mention abortion.

There is no agreement yet on specific funding for the maternal initiative, climate change, food security or aid to developing countries, despite strong words urging concrete measures.

"Action is required on all factors that affect the health of women and children," the document says. "This includes addressing gender inequality, ensuring women's and children's rights and improving education for women and girls."

Instead of singling out abortion for funding, the document refers only to the need to strengthen "voluntary family planning," likely giving Ottawa the wiggle room it seeks to avoid supporting access to safe abortion in poor countries.

The draft also shows that countries are still negotiating how much they should spend on the maternal and child health initiative.

Sources have told The Canadian Press that Canada is willing to put up about $1 billion as long as other countries contribute as well.

But in the draft communiqué, the total amount is still just an "X."

The Harper government has been under heavy fire for insisting that it will not fund abortion as part of its G8 maternal health initiative.

On the environment, the only thing G8 negotiators have apparently agreed to is that fighting climate change shouldn't hurt countries' economies — a position the Harper government has been pushing.

The draft also talks about the importance of keeping the G8 as a leader in international affairs despite the rising prevalence of the broader G20 — another Harper position.

It defines the G20 as a body to deal with economic issues. The G8 summit is June 25-26 in Huntsville, Ont., followed by the G20 in Toronto June 26-27.


Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/04/summit-abortion004.html#ixzz0pvicBSUb

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BOOK LAUNCH at BURNSTOWN’S Affair of the Arts on Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Neat Coffee House-SchoolHouse Stage at 1715 Calabogie Rd, Burnstown, Ontario. www.neatfood.com, Tel:. (613) 433-3205. Meet the Author-Book Reading and Book Signing.

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Starting over is not easy when you’ve lost the love of your life.

In the novel Blue Night, Blue Day, author Liz Hogarth is finally beginning to piece her life back together following the tragic death of her husband, famous photographer Ryan Hogarth. After years of depression, her writer’s block clears when she moves to a small town for a fresh start. But Liz is keeping secrets about her husband’s death, even after she meets a new man in her life, the owner of a blues bar. Their shared love of music could be the start of something meaningful. Should she open up or will her secrets scuttle her new beginning?

Meet the Author

Andrea McKay enjoyed a respite from her job as an information management consultant while creating her first published novel. She enjoys nature, camping, gardening, and blues music. She lives with her husband, Andrew; their two dogs, Sam and Rosie; two cats, Mr. Bill and Ivy; and several anonymous fish in Arnprior, Canada. Like her main character, Liz, she has also experienced writer’s block.

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Police find body of alleged shooter in woods. Last Updated: Wednesday, June 2, 2010/ 3:14 PM ET . CBC News

At least 12 people are dead and 25 are wounded after a taxi driver opened fire in small, picturesque villages in northwest England on Wednesday morning, British police say.

The rampage, in a region famed for its tranquil beauty, shocked a country where handguns are banned and multiple shootings rare. It was Britain's deadliest mass shooting since 1996.

Police said three people in Wednesday's attack were in critical condition in hospital.

The shootings "shocked the people of Cumbria and around the country to the core," police Deputy Chief Constable Stuart Hyde said.


A blanket covers a body of a person believed to have been shot dead by taxi driver Derrick Bird in Egremont, northwest England, on Wednesday.

A blanket covers a body of a person believed to have been shot dead by taxi driver Derrick Bird in Egremont, northwest England, on Wednesday. (Andrew Milligan/Associated Press)

Police have found the body of a man believed to be the alleged gunman, Derrick Bird, 52, a cabbie described as quiet but friendly. They found the body in a wooded area near the Lake District village of Boot, where it was believed Bird had fled.

They also found a gun alongside the body.

The discovery ended a harrowing morning for residents of the country's West and Central Lakes areas, whom police ordered to stay indoors as the search for Bird ensued.

"Police are asking those who were sheltering to now go about their normal day-to-day activities," the Cumbria Constabulary said on its website. "[We] thank them for their patience in incredibly difficult circumstances."

Shootings in 11 locations

The shootings began at about 10:30 a.m. local time in Whitehaven, a town in Cumbria county about 560 kilometres northwest of London.


The BBC reported there had been shootings in 11 locations, not all of them fatal. Witnesses described seeing the gunman driving around shooting out the window of his car.

Peter Watson, a witness, told the BBC he had seen a body lying in the road.

"When I first got here, it must have just happened. There was a man lying on the ground with police [standing] over him and a jacket on him," he said.

Another witness, Alan Hannah, told the Sun newspaper he was driving in Whitehaven when he "saw all these officers running out." He then "saw a man with a large shotgun" pull up to a stoplight in a car with a smashed windshield.

"I drove through the red light to get ... out of the way," Hannah, 68, told the newspaper. "I got home safely but was very shaken."

Soon afterwards, a farmer was believed to have been shot dead in Gosforth, several kilometres to the east, according to BBC reporter Chris Stewart.

Police are asking other possible witnesses to come forward.


Cumbria police released this picture of Derrick Bird, 52, considered the main suspect in deadly shootings Wednesday morning.

Cumbria police released this picture of Derrick Bird, 52, considered the main suspect in deadly shootings Wednesday morning. (Cumbria Constabulary)

'I can't believe he would do that — he was a quiet little fellow.'—Sue Matthews, Whitehaven taxi worker

They have not released the names of those killed.

Sue Matthews, who works at A2B Taxis in Whitehaven, said Bird was self-employed, quiet and lived alone.

"I would say he was fairly popular," Matthews said. "I would see him once a week out and about. He was known as Birdy.

"I can't believe he would do that — he was a quiet little fellow."

Taxi driver Peter Leder knew Bird, whom he had seen on Tuesday. Leder said he was struck by Bird's words when they parted.

"When he left he said, 'See you Peter, but I won't see you again,' " he told the U.K.'s Channel 4 News.

Deadly shootings are rare in Britain, where gun ownership is tightly restricted and handguns are banned.

In 1987, gun enthusiast Michael Ryan killed 16 people in the English town of Hungerford. In 1996, Thomas Hamilton killed 16 children and a teacher at a kindergarten in Dunblane, Scotland.

With files from The Associated Press

The moncitizenship is the new Canadian governmental task. The diplomatic lines of Republics of Yemen and Poland are non grata with their masks. M.T. Al-Mansouri



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More than 40,000 police recruits will be on hand throughout the World Cup

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 /12:25 PM ET : By Kyle Brown in South Africa, CBC Sports .

South African police officers in Johannesburg disperse a crowd during a simulation exercise in preparation for the 2010 World Cup. (Schalk van Zuydam/Associated Press)

Media-fuelled hysteria about crime in South Africa is scaring some tourists off from attending the World Cup, and prompting others to take unusual measures to ensure their safety.

Of some 350,000 foreign fans expected to attend the 32-team tournament in June and July, those with the money to spend are hiring bodyguards, renting bullet-resistant vehicles, and packing GPS tracking devices in their cars and handbags.

It's part of a continuing boom in South Africa's private security industry.

"I've had endless calls for vehicles," said Grant Anderson of Armormax, which installs bullet-resistant armour and glass in vehicles for companies and individuals.

"For the husband there's always a concern that mom and the kids are safe and sound. From their perspective, it's a small price to pay for the kind of safety they require."

'We've had to deal with the ridiculous hype that's appeared in the U.K. tabloids.'—Rory Steyn, of security consultancy Nicholls, Steyn & Associates

A bullet-resistant rental will cost anywhere up to $2,000 US a day. Some parents hire bodyguards — costing as little as $250 a day — to keep what Stefan Grippa of Stratagem Risk International calls a "watchful eye" on their kids.

Think of them as armed chaperones.

"It works quite well," he said. "Sometimes the kids want a night out, going out to restaurants, or if they're old enough, dance clubs, and their parents would like them to do it but don't want them to be in a strange country without any protection."

And if your family doesn't want large men with mirrored sunglasses lurking about, you can rent a GPS, which sends a signal that locates your loved one.

"Our GPS enables our response team to track an individual's position in real time," said Grippa. "So the exact co-ordinates are transmitted to a control room, and if there's an emergency — whether medical or security related — the control room can then dispatch the service needed."

Business is booming for a reason. South Africa's crime levels are among the highest in the world, with more than 18,000 murders recorded last year — an average of 49 a day. (The U.S. reported 16,272 murders in last year on record; the U.K. 651 and Canada 611).

"Because people are increasingly worried about their security, and are losing confidence in the police, those who can afford it will pay for security," stated Johan Burger, senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies.

"This is leading to a huge increase in security and personnel companies. It's becoming a very lucrative industry," he says.

Players will have 'very close protection'

Some folks still have faith in the police, and the foreign soccer players now arriving in South Africa will have to. They'll each be assigned a police protection unit.

All players will have "very close protection," explained Vishnu Naidoo, spokesman for the South African Police Services. "The officers will be part of the team wherever they go."

More than 40,000 new police recruits will be on hand throughout the World Cup tournament. But the lingering sense that police are still lacking in competence has created a gap that private security firms are only too keen to fill.

"The police can't guarantee your safety but we can at least assist in enhancing your personal safety," says Grant Anderson. "Crime's not going to be better any time soon, and it's going to be violent."

Industry insiders say the biggest source of anxiety is car-jackings, which have been on the rise for five years. It's not uncommon for locals to drive through red lights in some areas to avoid being targeted at an intersection.

But those who lack the funds for an armoured car or the stomach for a "security detail" may be consoled by a couple of caveats.

Most violent crime is restricted to specific neighbourhoods and townships, and happens among people who know each other. And aside from car-jackings, much of the country's violent crime has been falling — modestly, but steadily.

'Machete of war'

Rory Steyn, co-director of security consultancy Nicholls, Steyn & Associates, said he has had to divide his time between security planning and trying to reassure jittery visitors that South Africa is not some kind of battleground.

"We've had to deal with the ridiculous hype that's appeared in the U.K. tabloids. It's that kind of over-hyped reporting that has no bearing to the reality on the ground," said Steyn.

Last month's report in the U.K.'s Daily Star, following the murder of white supremacist Eugene Terre'Blanche, warned that England's soccer fans risked getting caught up in a "machete race war" if they came to South Africa.

"I'm not for one minute saying everything is hunky-dory, but I'm a family man, with a wife and two kids," said Steyn. "I run on the roads before the sun comes up. My wife drives my kids to school. I wouldn't stay here in South Africa if it was as bad as what is portrayed in the media. I'd be on a plane to Vancouver."

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Extradition on hold until he testifies on dealings with Mulroney

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 / 3:12 PM ET German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber has been freed on bail — again — as he pursues his twin hobbies of making life miserable for former prime minister Brian Mulroney and putting off extradition to Germany.

Schreiber, who has been in and out of Canadian jails since 1999, was released Wednesday from Toronto's Metro West Detention Centre.

Karlheinz Schreiber faces extradition to Germany, but not until he testifies in a federal inquiry.Karlheinz Schreiber faces extradition to Germany, but not until he testifies in a federal inquiry.
(CBC)

The CBC's Harvey Cashore, who interviewed him outside the jail, said he was in a feisty mood and eager to testify about what has become known as the Mulroney-Schreiber affair.

His legal battle to remain in Canada ended in March when the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear his appeal of an extradition order. He faces charges of fraud, tax evasion and bribery in Germany. Even so, the federal government is letting him stay until he testifies in a planned federal inquiry into his dealings with Mulroney.

At the centre of the controversy are three envelopes of cash he passed to Mulroney in hotel-room meetings after Mulroney left office. Schreiber says they contained a total of $300,000; Mulroney says the amount was $225,000.

Mulroney has told the Commons ethics committee that he took the money between 1993 and 1994 to lobby internationally on behalf of Schreiber's client, Thyssen, a German company, to set up an armoured-vehicle factory in Cape Breton. He said the business arrangement was struck after he left office in June 1993.

Schreiber has said the arrangement was reached in Mulroney's last days as prime minister, something that could have put him in violation of federal ethics rules.



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Last Updated: Monday, May 31, 2010 /4:45 PM ET CBC:

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney's business dealings with German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber were "inappropriate," Justice Jeffrey Oliphant says in a report released Monday.

Oliphant also concluded that Mulroney failed to live up to the ethics code he himself introduced in 1985 for holders of public office.

Oliphant was appointed by the Harper government two years ago to look into revelations that Mulroney accepted at least $225,000 in cash-stuffed envelopes from Schreiber in the early 1990s.


Justice Jeffrey Oliphant releases his report on the business and financial dealings between Karlheinz Schreiber and former prime minister Brian Mulroney during a news conference in Ottawa Monday. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

Mulroney admitted taking $225,000 in cash from Schreiber but said he broke no laws or ethical guidelines.

The former prime minister argued that he had been hired by Schreiber merely to try to line up support from political leaders in Russia, China and France for a proposed United Nations purchase of armoured vehicles made by the Thyssen firm of Germany. Schreiber was a lobbyist for Thyssen.

Mulroney testified he made an error in judgment in accepting the money.

Schreiber said the payments totalled $300,000, not the $225,000 Mulroney later declared for tax purposes. He also maintained the former prime minister was supposed to lobby Canadian officials, not foreign leaders.

Oliphant said the lack of a paper trail made it impossible to believe either Mulroney or Schreiber on the sum of how much money was paid to the former prime minister.

Questionable conduct on 3 'distinct occasions'

Oliphant also chastised Mulroney over his testimony that taking the money was a mistake.

"In my view, an error in judgment cannot excuse conduct that can reasonably be described as questionable if that conduct, as is the case here, occurred on three distinct occasions," Oliphant said.

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney testifies at the Oliphant commission in Ottawa on May 12, 2009. (Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press)

I therefore conclude that the reason Mr. Schreiber made the payments in cash and Mr. Mulroney accepted them in cash was that they both wanted to conceal the fact that the transactions had occurred between them."

Oliphant said that Mulroney's taking of envelopes full of cash from Schreiber, failing to record them, failing to deposit the cash into a bank and failing to disclose the fact of the cash payments when given the opportunity to do so "goes a long way, in my view, to supporting my position that the financial dealings between Mr. Schreiber and Mr. Mulroney were inappropriate."

"These dealings do not reflect the highest standards of conduct, nor do they represent conduct that is so scrupulous it will bear the closest public scrutiny," he said.

Mulroney glad 'unfortunate chapter is over'

Mulroney, who was prime minister from 1984 to 1993, responded that he was pleased Oliphant found that the deal Mulroney made with Schreiber was done only after he left office.

"I genuinely regret that my conduct after I left office gave rise to suspicions about the propriety of my personal business affairs as a private citizen," Mulroney said in a statement.

"I will leave it to others to assess the full impact of these events. For now, I am merely grateful that this unfortunate chapter is over and that my family and I can move forward with our lives."

Oliphant could not make findings of civil liability or criminal guilt in his report, but he did issue several recommendations, including a call to make it an offence for former public office holders to fail to meet the disclosure obligations under the Conflict of Interest Act.

The federal government issued a brief release acknowledging it has received Oliphant's report.

"On behalf of the government of Canada, I would like to extend my appreciation to Commissioner Jeffrey J. Oliphant and his staff for their dedication and hard work over the past two years to fulfil the mandate of the commission," said Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Under the terms set out in June 2008, Oliphant was asked to determine if the cash relationship between Schreiber and Mulroney was appropriate, what the money was for and where the money went.

However, the inquiry's terms barred it from looking into allegations that Mulroney and Schreiber were involved in a kickback scheme over the 1988 purchase of Airbus aircraft by Air Canada.

Nor could Oliphant look into the $2.1-million libel settlement Mulroney got from the federal government in 1997 stemming from the RCMP's Airbus probe.

Richard Wolson, the commission's lead lawyer, said the inquiry didn't get into Airbus because it was outside of its mandate.

"We could only go where our mandate took us," he told reporters.



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Globalize the Crimes is the New Political Trend of sub actors and interest groups of superpowers in order to force governments of the world to participate in committing crimes, and to misguide the public opinion.

A separation barrier is a duplicated, replicated and animated job of pro-globalization of conflicts. It describes the failure of superpowers and non –governmental organizations and establishments in solving disputes .Walls of Apartheid are also the political masks to misguide the international opinion and governments.

Crimes’ Globalization is the only way to protect the real criminals and it creates false layers of support for victims.

A wish for the world: free of war, Equality for women in some Islamic countries, Equality for men with women in Poland, Dogs should be protected in South East Asia, Oxen in Spain, Kindness for donkeys in the Arab World, Freedom and rights for educated people in Republic of Yemen and stop using magic and trauma in educational systems in North America.

The ideal airport is the one, which has not only the good geographical site but also the economic, political, organisational and technical features and facilities, in addition the security, which is lost due to the international violence and terrorism. Hence, to achieve the idealism and optimism we should to solidarize as a nations to eliminate the dilemmas. I think that media has the major impact on playing the role of peace.

I am not surprised that blind, deaf, halt and mute people enjoy doing many things such as watching television, because many scientific people have created many tools, methods and implementations to help those mentioned people to solve their problems, among the creative people is the famous eminent scientist, inventor and innovator Alexander G. Bell, who invented the telephone.

Governments, societies and families should to work in harmony in order to stop this harmful phenomena, which called obesity. Educational programs and city's and health rules should be extremely applied.

Everything in our nature has influences on our physical, biological and biological properties ,in addition; mankind's are different due to their non- identical genes. So, actions and reactions, which appear in the form of sadness and happiness etc are a result of those factors and their interactions. Finally, everything is a relative.

I think that Mr. Cecchini's protest is one of the most intellectual protest, due to his innocent conception. It is not only amazing but also effective to draw our scene to fell and think in order to be transferred to another phase of thought.

I am not a taxi driver. Seldom I drive cars. However, I like driving. I do it exactly without accidents and respectfully to the city, police rules.

I watched many wedding films, furthermore; I participated in discussing them. They included a lot of information due to their diversity and multiculturalism because of that etc I like them to much.

I do not only watched and read about earthquakes and other disasters on general media and scientific references, but also I faced earthquake two times. First time in Yemen and second time in Canada. Both of them were small or big but far from epicentre, so the chair of which I sat down shook as well as the floor.

I would apply for a job as a politician in order to help in solutions the World's confrontations based on my qualifications, experiences, skills as well as my independency and capability. Who would like to support me please, contact me and this is not spoof advertisement.

This attempt is one of many former proves, which tell us that greener fuels are renewable resource of energy and relatively friendly to the environment. However; the cost of its’ extraction is higher than the cost of petroleum. In addition, it can not replace the petroleum owing to the high cost and also the area of cultivation that should be wide. Many countries such as Brazil and India have a large land and they cultivate sunflower etc, for this purpose.

“Controlling temper” is not easy and simple thing. On the other hand there is many techniques, styles and methods for controlling anger among them the psychological one, which is the most important. So, meditations and worships are useful for some people because they make the brain produce some chemical substances, which reduce the anger and make the person peaceful. Treatment methods of anger should start earlier for instance, for kids by create a soft anger environment to let children react, then observe them and control their reactions and manage them. By this way, the person will used to absorb the anger. It is one of my methods for healing friends' and relatives' anger.

Housewives should be paid owing to their an important physical and administrative jobs , which most of families need nannys' assistance.

My favourite sports are swimming and table tennis. Both of them help me to be in good physical , social and mental condition.

Leaders of the world should understand the diversity of languages not to speak them

We should take every thing individually, so people, plants, animals, insects and other creators react differently to music and voices etc due to their motional and intellectual level, which is usually under the impact of factors.

Valentine's Day is a nice and creative idea, which let us officially express our love to the creator , creature, woman etc. Women are not only like a rose flower but also like wheat, pure and clear water and air.

The most important thing is keeping our cities old and beautiful, however; renovation is needed and essential to revolve our landmarks of the past. Therefore, our cities can be extend in the wide , and skyscrapers are important especially in the countries, which have small pieces of land, or in the modern cities .

Of course every loud sound has harmful impact on our feeling and sense and it can cause a physical sickness too.

The dust storm is an element of the environment, which balance the micro- and macro- environment. The dust storm is essential to provide rich nutrients for marine life as well as to fertilize soils and plants.

There are few graduate divas, yet most of employers are arrogant and lacking in technology and thought. Therefore, they are obstacles , which hinder the development of future generations.

I can trustily say that I am an owl, but I am also a lark as well as a rooster in waking people up in order to fight and struggle for their rights.

There are few graduate divas, yet most of employers are arrogant and lacking in technology and thought. Therefore, they are obstacles, which hinder the development of future generations.

I do not have any phobia, but I have many things, which drive my crazy such as falsehood and hypocraticalism.

The way that we can beat the cheating in exams is the wisdom . The wisdom of teachers, families and societies .

In my opinion, the talented and handsome. Politician is Mr. Tony Blair, due to his nice voice and the English accent, and the wide-spreading of English Language.

Usually I get like a house on fire with my girl when I meet her during the moonshine in Summer and during the Winter snow in the mid of day.

The new achievement in computers field to help disable people is helpful and can be used for different purposes. The conception and the creation of this method is not the new. Because it has already been used in many field such as agronomy, environment, medicine and etc.

I agree that our teenagers in nowadays are growing up fast, and mimicking everybody, that pay them attentions. We should control their behaviours, advice and correct them.

To reduce the pollution I will leave many things among them my car. The pollution in the cities could be decreased by using catalyzes and clean fuel.

As a real Muslim man, I encourage and advice the UK schools to put on a nativity play, because it is an advantaged thing, and no one in the world is against the Christ and his holiness and greatness.

Internet web.cam could have pros and cons. At crèche it can be use but not regularly, yet at home it is a form of spying. So, we do not need our children to live in M-6 or CIA conditions. However, we need the sensibility, and the wisdom, that can not come from the non human beings.

Museum of Civilization in Hull, Canada occupies a unique place in the minds and hearts of all Canadians and visitors of the world. It keeps and reserves the ancient and modern history and general and specific heritage of the country.

I am a Canadian Arab Our favourite food is all food cooked by people of the city called Aden. I would like every body to test the meal of rice , fish , sauce of vegetables and Hindi seasonings.

I am a Muslim who is living with Christians, and other ethnicities. We usually celebrate both Eid and Christmas in very nice ceremonial rites, e.g. we eat, drink, sing and go out of the door.

I think that people, who are dancing are not only a talented and youthful in feeling but also they are the dreamers of true beauty and gorgeousness of life.

Every person is a car lover due its usefulness, and the car that is favourable is economical and environmental one.

My favourite film of last year was the Arabic-Egyptian film “Da-Da”, and the T.V. programme is, the American Serial “Dynasty”. They contain good information. Each person try to do his best to earn money and power. The proverb says that the “calamities of a flock are the benefits for another flock.”

Solitary confinement is one of the method that uses in education to assist the students in learning. It is like exceptional methods of learning under traumatic, spiritual and magical conditions. Those methods cause many influences such as sensory deprivation, disorientation and hallucination, which result in increasing the imagination. I lived for 14 years in those circumstances. My first experience occurred during the time I earned my Ph.D. degree.

I do not speak any endangered languages. I know that there are several local languages that are used by minorities and they are important to keep the heritage of mentioned nations. The future is for the five languages of the United Nations, and for German and Russian languages.

In our nowadays, every job done from the heart and brain causes a disease.

I could live without my mobile phone or I can limit using it, due to it dangerous in causing disease.

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Phil has given us two poems:


Phil Hall has published 12 books of poems, 9 chapbooks, & 1 cassette. His first book, Eighteen Poems, was published in 1973. Among his other titles are A Minor Operation (1984), Old Enemy Juice (1988), The Unsaid (1992), and Hearthedral—A Folk-Hermetic (1996). His Trouble Sleeping was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for poetry in 2001.

In 2005, Brick Books (celebrating 20 years as Hall’s publisher) published An Oak Hunch, which was nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2006.

He has taught writing and literature at the Kootenay School of Writing, York University, Ryerson Polytechnical University, and many colleges. He has been poet-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario, Sage Jill Writing Experience in Saskatchewan, The Berton House in Dawson City and elsewhere. In fall, 2007, BookThug published Hall’s long poem, White Porcupine, and also a revised second edition of his essay/poem, The Bad Sequence. In fall 2009, from Beautiful Outlaw Press, Ghost Gum, a hand-sewn chapbook, part of a deluxe set of 6 in a slipcover was released. Other chapbooks in the set are by Erín Moure, Angela Carr, Oana Avasilichioaei, Jay MillAr, & Mark Goldstein. This spring, 2010, Pedlar Press will publish The Little Seamstress, edited by Erín Moure. Phil lives near Perth, Ontario.


Sent For Mint


To pace a pleasing moiety-line

in my brown fedora at dusk in the rain

as I search by our dock for a red stem


the raccoons have dug up the turtle eggs

but not tipped over Manny's empty ashes-urn

many before us here wrote as wide & wild


Jean Joan Matt McKay Sliter Al Robb

ornate or silly up these draw-road watersheds

they were the daughters of hockey players

(stupid chickens / fried egg sandwiches)


Amy Michael Cohen Finnegan Don Kim

of course that rubber stamp of Dürer's rhino

came down on volumes of exiled theory-song

& even the Dalmatian wore a wife-beater t-shirt


Murray Dorothy Wallace Stan Havelock

sunken log barns incubated early styles

lots severed / dams imploded / sap rang

originals & imitations played euchre


despite these gnat-swarms this poison ivy

algae bloom zebra mussels

mosquitoes deer-flies the OPP firing range

increased traffic on Murphy's Pt Rd


we flaunt a small town bulk foods happiness

after those difficult city years / ripping money

& kicking the cobbler's bench over


smell this wild quick tang on my fingers

an invitation like this has ended a poem before


some comfort in knowing that grows


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It can't be October


in the stove I burn old New Yorkers

(but always save the William Steig covers)


lake light quavers

cleaning as it again mulls over

the smoke-darkened Rene de Braux painting


Chris benisoned walls with / now I get to

A man with a cattle-gad on each shoulder

half-way / no hurry / a Roman bridge

(double arches / quick weed-hints)


a stuccoed villa set in along a hillside

Ann has taken the Wolf River apples down to Margaret 92

mornings I try to read page-shaped ash


a quote my fire preserves all night

from columns it has only one use for now

riven by passion, not profit. We continue.





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Ottawa International Poets and Writers for human Rights (OIPWHR)