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Ontario PC Party Leader Tim Hudak Annual Volunteer Appreciation BBQ on August 15th, 2010 at 1.oo pm

Posted by M.T. Al-Mansouri, Ph.D. on August 12, 2010 at 3:00pm

Hudak Announces Bill to Help New Canadians Build their Careers and Create Jobs in Ontario

News:

Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak today shared details of his upcoming Newcomers Employment Opportunities Act. The act includes practical and affordable measures to help new Canadians find employment and create jobs in Ontario.

Hudak’s bill would lower the investment threshold for any immigrant investor who is looking to open a business outside of the Greater Toronto Area. In addition, the bill would provide new tax incentives for employers who pay for English and French language training for new Canadian employees. Finally, Hudak’s bill would require every Ontario regulated profession to provide potential immigrants with affordable and comprehensive access to credentialing information.

Hudak, who also serves as Ontario PC Citizenship and Immigration critic released the details of his bill after meeting with prominent business leaders from several of Ontario’s multicultural communities at the Mississauga Seniors’ Centre.

Quotes:

“I’m the grandson of immigrants myself. My grandparents came to Ontario because it represented the best opportunity to build a better life for their children and grandchildren. Now that I am in public life, I want to do my part to help other new Canadians realize their dreams right here in Ontario.”

– Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak

“New Canadians want nothing more than to have a level playing field and a fair opportunity to build better careers in their new home. This bill will give them more of the tools they need to succeed.”

– Roundtable Participant Gul Nawaz; Senior Partner, Nawaz, Taub & Wasserman Chartered.

Accountants

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

From 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
please join
Ontario PC Party Leader Tim Hudak
for our Annual Volunteer Appreciation BBQ.
Your dedication and hard work has made
our party strong and united. Thank you!

Location:
Greenwood Conservation Area, Ajax
(South of Hwy. 7 at Westney & Greenwood Rd.)

To RSVP,
please contact Harriet at
harriet.bynon-murray@ontariopc.net

Link to Ontario PC Party BBQ Announcement

Quick Facts:

If passed, Tim Hudak’s Newcomers Employment Opportunities Act would do the following:

Lowers Investment requirements from $3,000,000 to $1,000,000 for immigrant applicants applying for permanent residence status in the investor category if the immigrant investor plans to operate a business outside of the Greater Toronto Area.
Provide a new tax credit to eligible employers who arrange for occupation specific English as a second language or French as a second language training for immigrant employees who have been in Canada for less than two years. The tax credit would be equal to 10% of the enrolled employees’ wages.
Require regulated professions to make training materials and credentialing information available to prospective immigrants online while empowering the Fairness Commissioner to monitor reasonableness of Ontario professional credentialing processes compared to other jurisdictions.

Read more at the PC Party of Ontario

http://www.ontariopc.com/

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Espionage in Canada and Western Countries: Part One to Five

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

Semitic illegal drug calls Khat spreads in North America and Europe

Taiz, Yemen: 11 killed, thousand wounded

Posted by M.T. Al-Mansouri, Ph.D. on April 4, 2011 at 6:30pm

Filed under: Taiz — by Jane Novak at 7:41 am on Monday, April 4, 2011

Update: Hell breaking out all over, Ibb (drive by shootings at protesters), Hodeidah, Taiz (snipers). Urgent need for medical supplies in Taiz. Wilding regime thugs in Sanaa break into shops. Some are suggesting Saleh gave the green light after the NYT article on US shift in position to seeking Saleh’s departure from office. The determination was made that Saleh is unlikely to enact reforms, which is accurate. At every crisis juncture over the last years, with every new declaration of sincerity, Saleh never enacted reforms, only smoke, mirrors and propaganda. The extreme violence follows the transfer of General Qiran from Aden to Taiz .

Actor Maury Chaykin dies at 61

Posted by OIPWHR-M.T. on July 28, 2010 at 3:19am

Maury Chaykin appears with Kathleen Laskey in the Ken Finkleman TV comedy At the Hotel. (CBC)

Maury Chaykin, a prolific and award-winning actor recently seen in the hit TV comedy Less Than Kind, has died.

CBC Arts : July 27, 2010: Maury Chaykin, a prolific and award-winning actor recently seen in the hit TV comedy Less Than Kind, has died.

The veteran actor died in Toronto early Tuesday, his 61st birthday, his agent Paul Hemrend told CBC News. No cause of death was confirmed, but Chaykin had been battling kidney problems.

Chaykin, born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to an American father and Canadian mother, studied drama at the State University of New York in Buffalo.

He moved to Toronto to join the theatre scene in the mid-1970s, and the city would remain his base for the rest of his life.

Ferne Downey, national president of the actors union ACTRA, hailed Chaykin for his contribution to Canadian film and TV on Tuesday.

"Maury was an infinitely gifted actor who has left us an incomparable body of work that will be cherished for many generations to come," she said.

"We will miss his passion for his craft and his love and commitment to building our Canadian industry."

An actor with more than 120 credits, Chaykin regularly appeared in the films of Atom Egoyan (Adoration, Where the Truth Lies, The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica, The Adjuster) and Don McKellar (Cooking with Stella, Blindness ).

Other prominent appearances include Whale Music, Dances with Wolves and the TV film Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks. He played the titular detective in a Nero Wolfe series and appeared in Entourage in a notable send-up of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

In Whale Music, based on the novel by Canadian Paul Quarrington, who died earlier this year, Chaykin played the washed-up rock star who spends his time mourning his dead brother (played by Paul Gross) and writing music for whales. That performance - part pathos, part comedy - earned him a Genie Award for best actor.

In an April interview on CBC's cultural affairs show Q, Chaykin said he didn't consider "character actor" a negative label.

"It's been a real blessing over the years," he said. "I don't know what to attribute it to, other than creative producers and directors who see different things in an actor. And they've seen different aspects of me.

"There have been attempts to typecast me. But I've been in control of that ... by protecting myself financially, so that I'm not in a position where I have to take the same kinds of gigs all the time. The word 'no' is my protection.

"But I've been so happy with the way things have panned out, and the kind of roles that I've been offered have been interesting to me and those are the ones that I accept," he said, listing roles such as Desmond Howl in Whale Music, Uncle Arthur in Diane Keaton's Unstrung Heroes and the wealthy entrepreneur in Egoyan's The Adjuster as his favourite roles.

He also earned Gemini awards for his spots in La Femme Nikita in 1998 and CBC's At the Hotel in 2006.

Most recently, Chaykin starred as Sam Blecher, the driving-instructor father of the main character Sheldon Blecher, in the edgy, coming-of-age comedy Less Than Kind, produced by Mark McKinney.

"I'm having a great time," Chaykin said of the production, which he hailed as a "group of people who all love what they're doing."

Chaykin is survived by his wife, actress Susannah Hoffmann, and their daughter, Rose.

Crime statistics not accurate, Day suggests

Posted by OIPWHR-M.T. on August 4, 2010 at 12:49am

Treasury Board President Stockwell Day speaks during a news conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Tuesday. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

August 3, 2010 ; CBC NEWS: Treasury Board President Stockwell Day says the government will go ahead with its plan to spend billions for new prisons, suggesting statistics that show crime is declining in Canada are not accurate.

During a news conference on Tuesday in Ottawa, Day said the government has received indications that more and more people are not reporting crimes committed against them.

"It shows we can't take a Liberal view to crime which is, some would suggest, that it is barely happening at all," Day said. "Still, there are too many situations of criminal activity that are alarming to our citizens, and we intend to deal with that."

When questioned by perplexed reporters, Day did not elaborate on what information source he was basing his claims, but said he would provide figures to them later.

P.O.V.:

Have you ever been the victim of a crime you didn't report to authorities? Take our poll. [http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/08/crime-have-you-ever-declined-to-report-one.html]

Speaking shortly after Day, Liberal MP Mark Holland said his comments show Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government "doesn't have any respect for facts."

"You don't make up statistics to try to scare people and use crime as a wedge issue," Holland told reporters in Ottawa.

In a statement to CBC News on Tuesday afternoon, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson's office cited Statistics Canada's report of its last general social survey conducted in 2004, which found an estimated 34 per cent of Canadians who are victims of crime still aren't reporting the crime to police.

The statement said Day was "correct in his assertion that many crimes go unreported in Canada" and "[t]he amount of unreported victimization can be substantial."

According to the Statistics Canada survey, conducted every five years, an estimated 88 per cent of sexual assaults go unreported, as well as an estimated 69 per cent of household thefts, the minister's office said.

The information gathered from the 2009 survey on unreported crimes has yet to be released.

Freezes, census changes staying

In the meantime, the federal government will not ease off on plans for fiscal restraint in other departments, despite indications Canada could eliminate its deficit a year earlier than predicted, Day said.

Last week, the Conference Board of Canada said the federal government should be able to eliminate the annual budget deficit by 2015. The business think-tank said in a report it depends on the government sticking to its promises to constrain spending.

Day said that while the global economic recovery is still "somewhat fragile," the government will continue with its freezes on spending, as well as departmental reviews to look for savings.

"We will be sticking to our fiscal plan," Day said.

In its February budget, the federal government projected a budgetary shortfall of $54 billion in 2010 but said annual deficits should be eliminated through spending cuts by 2016.

The Treasury Board president also was adamant that the Conservative government will stick with its controversial plan to scrap the mandatory long-form census.

The government has faced a month of turmoil ever since it announced in late June it would end the mandatory survey and replace it with a voluntary form. Opposition parties, statisticians' groups, provinces, municipalities and social agencies have condemned the move, saying it would lower the quality of data gathered by Statistics Canada and used by a wide array of policy makers.

The government has maintained Canadians should not be coerced through threat of jail time or fines to fill out information they don't want to disclose.

When questioned by reporters over the opposition parties' suggestions to amend the Statistics Act to remove the threat of jail time for those who refuse to fill out long-form census, Day said the government is "open to discussion" on any move to stop "criminalizing Canadians" who don't want to answer "intrusive" questions.

Day maintained the mandatory long-form survey will be abandoned in the spring 2011 census, but said the short-form census will remain compulsory because the government requires "some basic data."

He also questioned the value of information gathered by the census, suggesting data older than a year is "untenable in today's information age."

Day also acknowledged he has only heard directly from three people on the census issue in his constituency.

Camera man a poem by Alastair Larwill

Posted by M.T. Al-Mansouri, Ph.D. on July 26, 2010 at 4:30am

Alastair Larwill sent me this off-the-cuff poem the other day. Very nice of him. I must surmise that it's inspired by the jwcurry's birthday bowling evening from last week, and two words that lil' Matthew's been saying recently: Action Power! Matt, incidentally, turns four at the end of this month. Here, I believe, Alistair references my super bowling ability to hurl the ball down the lane, practically without touching the floor...oops. And I was wearing my über-cool blue Hawaiian (bowling) shirt that night. Also in the poem, there's a stanza referring to a photo I captured of the alleged bag thief à la movie Blow Up. Can you believe it? Some dude, in the cover of darkness and crazy lights of the bowling alley, has the stones to sit among us and steal a brief case. Wow.

Camera man

Poetic cyclops
Lobs rocks
At those that
Stand still
With a back spin
To kick them up

Flashing lights
Disco music
And a festive
Tropical shirt
Fires cannonballs

With apples
French toast
Cheerios
And hope

Catches the thief
Before the roll
Is revealed
The bag lies
Dormant

Each moment
Caught in time
Of the celebration
Of the big Five-O
This is no Saturday

It’s
ACTION POWER
day.

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Tim Hudak MPP, Today is going to repeal Dalton McGuinty's latest tax grab - the eco-tax at Queen's Park

Posted by M.T. Al-Mansouri, Ph.D. on July 14, 2010 at 10:00pm

Today at Queen's Park, I announced that as Premier, I will repeal Dalton McGuinty's latest tax grab - the eco-tax - which has been slapped on over 10,000 household items.

You may not have heard about this latest assault on your wallet because while you were enjoying Canada Day festivities with friends and family, Dalton McGuinty used that opportunity to sneak in his punishing eco-tax.

The so-called eco-fees are a new tax on over 10,000 household products, including prescription medications, bath toys, sunblock, laundry detergent – even smoke alarms!

Dalton McGuinty and Stewardship Ontario, the secretive government agency that will levy and collect this new tax, gave Ontario families no warning about it beforehand. Worse, we’ve learned that Stewardship Ontario has instructed retailers to hide the tax in the product price so that “the consumer is none the wiser.”

Sneaky new taxes. No accountability. All on the heels of the HST.

No wonder Ontario families are outraged.

Everyone agrees that we must take action to protect our environment. But the new eco-tax has absolutely nothing to do with the environment. It's just another shameless McGuinty tax grab, pure and simple.

Eight years ago, Dalton McGuinty went on TV and promised that he wouldn’t raise our taxes. Yet within months, he slapped us with the Health Tax - the biggest tax hike in Ontario’s history.

And he didn’t stop there.

He has increased the price of electricity. Of water. Of dispensing fees for everyday prescription drugs. And let’s not forget his HST, which has increased the price of everything from gasoline to funerals.

Although they may make sense to Dalton McGuinty, these tax hikes will take billions out of the pockets of families already struggling through the worst job market in decades.

The Ottawa’s Multicultural Integrated Security System is helping the diplomatic line of Yemen to hide the crimes of the planners. They are anger of the human rights activists as well as the Interpol.

Arab Communities, Resturants, Restaurants and the Religious Establishments are examples.

That is just plain wrong.

To fight the eco-tax, we need your help. Your special donation of $25 – or whatever you can afford – will help us tell Ontarians about this tax and put pressure on Dalton McGuinty to scrap it. And, it will help the PC Party of Ontario prepare to defeat Dalton McGuinty in the next election.

Can you help us today? You can click here or click on the button above to "scrap McGuinty".

With your support, we can stop this McGuinty tax grab.

Thank you,

Tim Hudak, MPP

Leader, Ontario PC Party

P.S. With your special support of $25 today we can send the Liberals a message they can't ignore. Only the Ontario PC Party will stop McGuinty's massive tax grabs and get Ontario back on track.

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Falun Dafa 9 days Workshop at Ottawa University : Falun Gong Asks Media Not To Echo Chinese Regime's Canned

Posted by M.T. Al-Mansouri, Ph.D. on July 6, 2010 at 7:30am

The time and locations are mentioned below. Everybody is welcome to attend the lectures at Simard Building: SMD 221 and 227. The workshops started on July 3^rd, 2010 and will be end on July 11^th, 2010. All lectures start at 19.30 and end at 21:30.

Falun Dafa Association of Canada (Toronto)

http://falundafa.ca, secretary-general@falundafa.ca

Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) – Based on the Principle of “Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance”

Toronto:

25 Briwood Blvd., Unit 109

Toronto, Ontario. Canada M1V 1E2

(416) 299-6658 Fax: (416) 299-3846

Ottawa:

90 Belleview Drive

Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2L 1W3

(613)599-7494 Fax: (613)599-7034

Falun Gong Asks Media Not To Echo Chinese Regime's Canned

Denials: Lives Hang In the Balance

Statement of Falun Dafa Association of Canada, July 28, 2006

When the report solidifying organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China was

published on July 6th by David Kilgour, former Secretary of State (Asia Pacific), and

international human rights lawyer, David Matas, we fully expected the Chinese regime to deny this proof as a simple Google search with the words: "China Denies" brings up over 7,790,000 hits.

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Any other nation faced with this allegation happening in their own country would certainly state that they would investigate such horrific allegations. However, the CCP continues to waste timeand effort to deny these claims and attack Falun Gong with blatant hate propaganda and still refuses to investigate to protect human beings from these crimes.

The CCP has a 60-year brutal history of suppression and killing through decades of brutal

campaigns like the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square student massacre. They continue to cover up and deny their proven atrocities time and time again and for some bad reason Western media continues to give their denials air time instead of standing up to stop them from committing these atrocities.

• When allegations of organ harvesting broke in March regarding Sujiatun hospital it took over 3 weeks for the CCP to respond which is ample time to clean up any evidence. It was after this delay that they invited the west to a guided show tour of this hospital. It was not an independent investigation.

• The CCP’ s denial statement against the organ harvest report published on July 6th was

written and published on the exact same day the report was released. They attacked the

report, not on the merits of the evidence or the process, but on its conclusion. They continue to do the same today.

• The CCP statement says nothing of the numerous Chinese state-run websites that

advertised organs for sale to foreigners for up to $160,000US with a maximum 2-week wait time. Many of these sites were taken down immediately after the organ harvesting practices were revealed.

• They say nothing of reports as far back as 1994 from media and the US State Department confirming that the Chinese authorities have been harvesting prisoner’s organs for years; according to human rights groups they have done so without real consent.

• And they say nothing of the 40,000+ organ transplants done in China that are not

accounted for.

• If the CCP firmly stand by their conviction that this is not happening then we demand they allow an independent investigation into China to randomly investigate prisons and labour camps where Falun Gong people are being held. If what the CCP says is true they will have no issue with this request.

Toronto:

25 Briwood Blvd., Unit 109

Toronto, Ontario. Canada M1V 1E2

(416) 299-6658 Fax: (416) 299-3846

Ottawa:

90 Belleview Drive

Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2L 1W3

(613)599-7494 Fax: (613)599-7034

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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

Posted by M.T. Al-Mansouri, Ph.D. on June 11, 2010 at 6:03pm

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.

Une déscription du contenu du film suit à ce message.

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)

Emma’s Bliss

Film
Friday, June 11, 2010 at 7:30pm
Amphitheater (1124), Saint Paul University
German with English subtitles
Admission free

Film Archive

Emma's Bliss (Emmas Glueck)

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
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Poetry Book Launches at the Manx Pub, 370 Elgin St., Ottawa, CANADA

Posted by OIPWHR-M.T. on May 30, 2010 at 7:00pm

The plan 99 Reading series presents Sandra Ridley launching Fallout, her first full-length collection, and Jennifer Londry, launching After the Words, a collection about the mystical journey of Alzhemer’s disease. 5 p.m.

Fall Out

by Sandara Ridley

Fallout embraces the darkness of the 20th century in poems that inhabit both the fear and wonder of that time. On the surface Fallout appears to be about the legacy of the nuclear age yet Ridley writes with a subversive humour that counters the fierceness of her subject. In her world madness intrudes upon the mundane as a Nevada casino shakes during a "test", a white train rumbles through the night transporting nuclear weapons and a couple takes up residence in a vacant nuclear weapons silo.

Ridley's poems veer from the terrifying to the tender, the comic and the apocalyptic, the ironic to the philosophical, and the cosmic to the domestic-- often within the same poem. This is an energetic and entertaining new voice in Canadian poetry both insightful and playful by turns. At the heart of the book is an elegiac tone that points to a more hopeful future. The book ends with an award winning sequence of ghazals written about the death of a young sister that leaves the reader breathless.

Author's Biography

Sandra Ridley was co-winner of the bpNichol Chapbook Award for her chapbook Lift (JackPine Press) and was a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry in 2009. An earlier version of Fallout won the 2008 Alfred G. Bailey Prize. A past associate editor with Arc Magazine, and a facilitator of poetry workshops for the Tree Reading Series and the City of Ottawa, Ridley's work can also be found in such journals as The Antigonish Review, CV2, Fiddlehead, Grain, New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, RAMPIKE, and This Magazine, and as a chapbook titled Rest Cure published by Apt. 9 Press. Sandra Ridley grew up in Saskatchewan, and currently resides in Ottawa. This is her first full-length collection.

After the Words

by Jennifer Londry

Jennifer Londry's poems come at the reader like a brisk punch to the heart. The people who inhabit them are profane and tender, dazed and confused and short on options, yet they remain stubbornly vibrant. These damaged souls assert their humanness and connection.

Londry writes with vivid immediacy about the people and places around her, so that each poem moves richly and swiftly through memory and perception, through the daily difficulty of a mother's descent into Alzheimer's and the others who live in the same care home. Londry writes of life as only she can see it, our world seen through poetic eyes, unafraid to see the harsh realities and capable of sparkling revelations.

She has been busy down here, knee-deep in a poety's work, bringing our attention to glories and cruelties, through poetic stories only she can tell: how each hour dangled and flipped to its opposite / till the wolf slunk away.

Author's Biography

In a little room by a window, Jennifer Londry writes. She is the co-author of one previous collection of poetry, Life & Death in Cheap Motels, (2009, Hidden Brook Press), with R.D. Roy. The collection has been compared to a "gut-punch guided tour through the 3 a.m. gritty neighbourhoods of the soul." She has been published in a number of literary magazines and recently appeared at the Kingston Writers' Festivals, (2009). She lives in Kingston.

The Goethe-Institut in Ottawa at Saint Paul University , A German Film : Yella

Posted by M.T. Al-Mansouri, Ph.D. on January 8, 2010 at 5:00am

German with English subtitles Free admissionYella by Christian Petzold with Nina Hoss and Devid Striesow Germany 2007, 88 Minuten Auditorium of Saint Paul University (Room 203)

Yella has decided to leave her small town in eastern Germany for a promising job and a new life on the other side of the Elbe, leaving behind a failed marriage and broken dreams. In Hanover, Yella meets Philipp, a young executive at an equity firm, who gives her a job as his assistant. Although she has no knowledge of the world of venture capital, steel-and-glass offices and discretely-lit hotel lobbies, Yella soon discovers she has a knack with ruthless businessmen. Negotiations become a thrilling game of quick wits in which Yella's looks and icy demeanour are major assets. Yella sees a potential future with Philipp. He is serious, determined, and his goals could become shared projects. It seems ambitious Yella could finally get everything she has ever wanted. But strange voices and sounds are plaguing Yella – truths from her past coming back to haunt her. She begins to worry that her new life could be too good to be true. She's determined to keep her eyes open – because those who sleep could well experience a rude awakening.

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Poetry Book Launches at the Manx Pub, 370 Elgin St., Ottawa, CANADA

The Goethe-Institut in Ottawa at Saint Paul University , A German Film : Yella

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