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Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar
Phil Elverum has always sounded to me like he's in touch with that strange, other-worldly place between dreaming and consciousness, déjà vu, or anything where you start wondering if the supernatural actually does exist. Where Mount Eerie's May release "Clear Moon" was a pleasant day-dream, "Ocean Roar" is it's nightmare counterpart. It's dark, loud and not particularly optimistic, yet still manages to be uplifting in the ever-present reverence of the universe. This is not an album of catchy singles, and best listened through completely with total attention paid (and clocking in at just under 40 minutes, trust me, it's worth it).
FINAL MARK : A
National Collaborative on Suicide Prevention launched in Canada
In time with the September 10th World Suicide Prevention Day, a National Collaborative on Suicide Prevention has been launched in Canada.
The aim is to bring more knowledge, policy development, and awareness to suicide across the country.
The program is a joint effort by the Mental Health Commission of Canada and the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention.
CASP President Dammy Danstrom-Albach states that suicide crosses a whole pile of jurisdictions and domains, and until now there hasn’t been a national framework that connects people.
In the LGBT communities where suicide rates are high, a lack of research is challenging health care providers and making it difficult to effect policy changes.
In the Inuit community where suicide rates are 11 times higher than the national average, the National Inuit Organization has seen a 40 percent cut in the health budget.
In 2011, over $245 million dollars were spent to help support mental health and addictions programming in First Nations and Inuit communities.
According to Rabble.ca, the 2012 budget cut funding by $160 million.
2 agreements and 1 strike in Quebec hotels dispute
Unions and management in two Montreal hotels have reached tentative agreements; however, workers began their strike at one hotel.
According to CBC News, workers at the Gouverneur hotel were on strike all day on Sunday. Workers at the Queen Elizabeth and Hilton Bonaventure hotels reached deals and avoided strikes.
Since the beginning of negotiations nine of the thirty-five hotel workers have accepted new collective agreements.
Under the new deals reached, workers will receive three percent salary increases every year and they will hike their contribution to individual pension plans.
Workers at the Hyatt Regency, the Holiday Inn Select Sinomonde, Hotel Espresso and Maritime Hotel workers have all been locked out in the past six weeks.
News September 7th 2012
Hosted by Hanna Besseau
Produced by Erica Bridgeman
Stories written by Hanna Besseau, and Tiffany Harrington
Hooked on Sonics Returns Live to CJLO's Airwaves
After nearly a 4 mth leave, Hooked on Sonics' Omar returns live to the CJLO airwaves with a short tribute to his late father, memorials to Shipping News/Rachels' Jason Noble and No Use for a Name's Tony Sly (including an old interview done with him), and the return of Nana Knows Best. Will the magic be back!? Tune in! Thursday September 6th from 6-8pm ET.
September 6th, 2012
Read by: Catlin Spencer
Stories by: Chloe Deneumoustier, Patrick Miller, Nikita Smith and Hannah Besseau
Produced by: Alyssa Tremblay
Toronto Mayor could lose his position over conflict of interest
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he was not in a conflict of interest when he gave a speech and participated in a vote that released him from paying back donations received for his private football charity.
According to CBC, Ford testifed in a Toronto court Wednesday that he never read a councillor handbook that identifed the rules, and that none of his staff or councillors told him that he would be in conflict during the vote back in February.
In 2010, Ford received $3,150 for his charity that provides at-risk high school students with football equipment. Toronto's integrity commissioner found Ford violated the code of conduct since he used official stationery in his letters to solicit donations.
If he is found guilty of violating the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act, Ford could lose his position as mayor of Toronto.
Ford stated that his decision to vote at the hearing did not financially affect the city, which in his opinion shows that it is not a conflict of interest.
Flickr photo: M Hudson
September 5th, 2012
Read and Produced by Nikita Smith
Stories written by Gregory Wilson, Audrey Folliot, Jamie-Lee Gordon, Niki Mohrdar
The "Queen of Cocaine" is pronounced dead
The “Queen of cocaine,” Griselda Bianco died of two gunshots on Monday on her way to the hospital after two gunmen opened fire on Bianco outside of a butcher’s shop in Medellin, Colombian.
Police are currently searching for these two men.
Police have stated that there has been no evidence of Bianco being charged with anything since her return to Colombia in 2004.
In fact, Bianco had been thought to have kept a “low-profile” and live without the luxuries she did in her days of crime.
According to BBC, Bianco is known to be the first Colombian to traffic cocaine from Colombia to the US on a large scale in the 1970s and 80s.
Capybara – Dave Drusky
Dave Drusky is the sophomore LP from Kansas City, Missouri’s Capybara. This album permeates an organic feel, befitting for a band coming from the American Midwest. The over-dubbed vocals of the album give us the illusion that the lyrics are wind swept, caught up in the instrumentation and at times only barely made audible, as if they were just seeping through the music. Also, the seemingly slow pace of the tracks, gives us the impression that the guys in the band have all the time in the world, slowly taking the listener from one sonic place to another. I don’t mean that the tempos of the tracks are slow but more, there is space created within the songs where time seems slower and no one is in any particular hurry.
“Late Night Bikes” grounds us in Capybara’s reality; we’re taken on this bike ride with no particular end in mind. The groove of the tom drums mixed with the punchy bass line adds to this feeling of movement. There’s an innocence and familiarity to this journey, something that is found throughout the album.
“Neighbor Crimes” is another album highlight. The keys that start the song have this waif-like quality to them, which quickly gets overtaken by pulsing drums and the echo of guitars. We get lost in the dream of escaping to another country.
“Pierre Bensusan” begins with a heavy dose of synth creating this beautiful background canvass, which is then populated by the vocals, drums, and guitar. The sparse sounds of “Wild” beautifully echo along. The guitar chords ring out slowly which help to evoke a youthful imagery somewhere between pessimism and optimism; “we can try to do our best”.
I must be honest, my initial reaction was to simply dismiss this album and label it as slow and boring. However, the more I listened to it, the more I let the sounds swirl around in my head, the more endearing it became and the more I liked it. I like the grooves, I like the songs and most importantly I like the feelings I get listening to this album.
FINAL MARK: A
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