Archive for September, 2010

18 Sep

BISHOP LAHEY TRIAL – APR 26, 2011

Posted by CAPER in Crime, Religion.

Lawyers to present pretrial motions Nov. 22 in bishop’s child porn case

 

Himself – In Better Times

News Update

OTTAWA — Lawyers have agreed to present pretrial motions Nov. 22 in the child-pornography case involving Roman Catholic Bishop Raymond Lahey.

Topics :

Ottawa , Antigonish , Mount Cashel

Prosecution and defence lawyers appeared briefly in front of a judge today and confirmed Lahey’s trial will proceed next April 26.

It is expected to last two weeks.

Lahey was charged in September 2009 with possessing and importing child pornography, 10 days after he was detained at Ottawa airport as he arrived from Britain.

The 70-year-old bishop, who stepped down as head of the Catholic diocese in Antigonish, N.S., has been staying with other priests in Ottawa since he was granted bail in October 2009.

Police say they found hundreds of files and dozens of videos on Lahey’s laptop, many of them showing young males engaged in sex acts.

Lahey is also fighting claims of sexual assault made in a civil lawsuit filed by Todd Boland in Newfoundland.

The former Mount Cashel resident has accused Lahey in court documents of simulated anal intercourse, sexual rubbing and fondling in the 1980s.

None of the allegations has been proven in court, and no related criminal charges have been filed.

Lahey has denied the claims.

(Cape Breton Post)

18 Sep

TODAY – SEP 18, 2010 – IN CANADIAN HISTORY

Posted by CAPER in History.

On This Day

 

September 18

maple leaf Today's Canadian Headline....
1989 OPP ARREST BOB RAETemagami Ontario – Ontario NDP Leader Bob Rae arrested with 15 others in Temagami Wilderness Society anti-logging blockade near a stand of old-growth white pines. An Ontario Supreme Court ruling Sept. 14 had rejected a provincial injunction against the demonstrators; by Sept. 30, 90 arrests were made, with 49 charged for mischief.
1867

Also On This Day...

Canada – John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 wins first Dominion election, defeating George Brown with 51.1% of the popular vote; gets 108 seats to Liberal 72; balloting took place from Aug 9 to Sept 18. Here he is speaking to a Toronto crowd during the campaign.
1895

And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...

John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979
politician and Canada’s 15th Prime Minister 1957-63, was born on this day in Neustadt Ontario in 1895 the son of William T. Diefenbaker and Mary Bannerman; died in Ottawa Aug 16, 1979. In 1903, Diefenbaker’s parents moved to Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan, then Saskatoon in 1910. He got his law degree from the University of Saskatchewan, and started a practice in Prince Albert in 1924. For the next 20 years he blended a reputation as a winning defence lawyer with a losing record in Conservative Party politics. He was shut out federally in 1925 and 1926, and provincially 1929 and 1938. He was elected Leader of the Saskatchewan Tories in 1936, but saw them blanked in the 1938 federal election. In March 1940 he was finally elected an MP, and held his seat in 1945, 1949 and 1953. A skilled Opposition parliamentarian, he was elected head of the Progressive Conservatives in 1956 to replace George Drew. After the Pipeline Debate of the year, he swept aside the Liberals under Louis St-Laurent, and became Canada’s Prime Minister in 1957. The following year, he won in a landslide, with 203 seats. His Canadian Bill of Rights, his ‘Northern Vision,’ and his anti-apartheid work with the Commonwealth all mark his tenure, but after he canceled the Avro Arrow contract in 1959, restless voters gave him only a minority, and he was defeated by Lester Pearson in 1963.

Also Darryl Sittler 1950-
NHL player, was born on this day in 1950. Sittler, who played for the London Knights, Toronto Maple Leafs and the first Team Canada, scored 10 points in one game on Feb. 7, 1976.

Also Scotty Bowman 1933-
NHL player, coach, was born on this day in 1933. Bowman is the all-time leading NHL coach in both regular season wins (880) and playoff victories (140) over 22 seasons. He led the Montreal Canadiens to five Stanley Cups (1973, 1976-79), Pittsburgh to another (1992). He entered the 1994-95 season with Detroit Red Wings and in 1977 led them to the Stanley Cup as well.

Also Bertha Wilson 1923-
Supreme Court Justice, was born Bertha Wernham on this day at Kirkaldy, Scotland in 1950. Wilson came to Canada with her husband, Presbyterian Minister John Wilson, in 1949. After studies at Dalhousie, she was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 1957, then moved to Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt in Toronto in 1959, and the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1975. Known for her human rights and family law decisions, she was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1982 as Canada’s first female Justice.

Also Grey Owl 1888-1938
naturalist, writer, was born Archie Belaney on this day at Hastings, England in 1888; died in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan 1938. Belaney has an unhappy childhood, being raised by maiden aunts and a stern grandmother, and he fantasized about the Indians he read about in boys’ magazines. At age 17 he left England for Northern Ontario, where he lived with the Ojibway, taking the name Grey Owl and claiming he was the son of an Apache woman and a Scotch fur trader. In 1931, he published his first book, Men of the Last Frontier, followed by Pilgrims of the Wild (1934), The Adventures of Sajo and Her Beaver People (1935) and Tales of an Empty Cabin (1936). With his Iroquois wife Anahareo, he managed a beaver conservation program in Prince Albert National Park, and gave popular lectures on wildlife.
In Other Events….
1994 Winnipeg Manitoba – National Party of Canada collapses due to party infighting; nationalist group founded in 1992 by Edmonton publisher Mel Hurtig to promote Canadian unity.
1992 Yellowknife NWT – Toronto comedy production, The Kids In The Hall, debuts on CBS; after run on HBO.
1992 Yellowknife NWT – Explosion rocks Giant Gold mine, killing 9 miners, during labour dispute; miner later charged with first-degree murder.
1992 Toronto Ontario – Trade Minister Michael Wilson says South Korea buying 2 CANDU reactors for $1 billion; will restore prosperity to Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.
1991 Ottawa Ontario – PSAC President Daryl Bean calls Public Service Alliance of Canada strikers back to work to negotiate new contract.
1990 Toronto Ontario – Toronto loses bid to host 1996 Olympic Games; IOC chooses Atlanta over Athens, then Toronto; will be 100th Anniversary of modern games.
1984 Edmonton Alberta – Team Canada defeats Team Sweden 6-5 in second of 3-game playoff to win Canada Cup.
1984 Fort Simpson, NWT – Pope John Paul II prevented by heavy fog from visiting thousands of Chipewyan First Nations people gathered in Fort Simpson; he promises to return, and flies to Vancouver; will make good his promise Sept. 20, 1987.
1978 PEI – Bennett Campbell 1943- takes office as Liberal Premier of Prince Edward Island succeeding Alex Campbell.
1977 Ottawa Ontario – Queen Elizabeth II 1926- opens 3rd session of the 30th Parliament; reads Throne Speech for the first time since 1957; session meets until Oct. 10, 1978.
1976 Montreal Quebec – Henry Morgentaler 1923- again acquitted of performing illegal abortion.
1975 Ontario – William Grenville Davis 1929- leads PCs to minority win in Ontario election, taking 5l of 125 seats; NDP official opposition; first minority government in 30 years.
1973 Fort McMurray, Alberta – Syncrude Canada Ltd. to build synthetic crude plant that will produce 21,250,000 Litres a day.
1971 Toronto Ontario – John Bassett 1915- publisher of the Toronto Telegram announces that the newspaper will close Oct. 30.
1971 Verchères Quebec – Verchères incorporated.
1965 Chambly Quebec – Chambly incorporated.
1956 Quebec – Adélard Godbout dies; former Premier of Quebec.
1954 Toronto Ontario – Gallup Poll says a family of four can live comfortably on $50 a week, more than $10 less than the estimate of $60.56 in 1951; half of this amount spent on food.
1947 Quebec Quebec – Laval University starts construction of its Cité Universitaire de Québec.
1942 Ottawa Ontario – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/ Radio Canada authorized to start a national radio service.
1936 St-Telesphore, Quebec – CPR tests new lightweight streamlined passenger train; 4-4-4 locomotive #3003 hits officially recorded speed of 112.5 mph on the Canadian Pacific Winchester Subdivision line.
1899 Toronto Ontario – Mayor John Shaw formally opens the new Toronto City Hall; built at a cost of $2.5 million, the building still sits at the head of Bay Street.
1885 Montreal Quebec – Riots break out in Montreal to protest compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1875 Ottawa Ontario – William Buell Richards 1815-1889 appointed first Chief Justice of the new Supreme Court of Canada, founded on this day; will hold its first session in 1876.
1873 New York City – Panic caused by failure of the brokerage firm of Jay Cooke and Co. results in a five-year depression in North America; Cooke was trying to compete with the CPR, and meddled in Canadian politics.
1867 Halifax Nova Scotia – Joseph Howe 1804-1873 defeats Charles Tupper in double federal and provincial election; gets mandate to go to Ottawa to fight for better terms.
1867 Amherst Nova Scotia – Charles Tupper 1821-1915 first elected to the House of Commons; re-elected 1870, 1872, 1874, 1878, 1882; Canada’s 6th Prime Minister.
1867 Belleville Ontario – Mackenzie Bowell 1823-1917 wins riding of Hastings; re-elected 1872, 1874, 1878, 1887 and 1891; later Canada’s 5th Prime Minister.
1867 Montreal Quebec – John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 1821-1893 first elected to the House of Commons; re-elected 1872, 1874; Dean of the Faculty of Law, McGill University; later Canada’s 3rd Prime Minister.
1865 Ottawa Ontario – End of the 4th Session of the 8th Parliament of the Province of Canada.
1841 Montreal Quebec – Solicitor-General Charles Day 1806-1884 passes Public Schools Act; $80,000 annually for elementary schools in Canada West, $120,000 for Canada East; creation of the post of Superintendent of Public Schools; teachers to be paid $68 a year.
1841 Montreal Quebec – End of the 1st session of the 1st Parliament of the Province of Canada; Assembly passes first Canadian Copyright Act.
1841 PEI – Census shows population of Prince Edward Island to be about 50,000.
1840 Montreal Quebec – Montreal adopts its official city seal.
1813 Detroit Michigan – US General William Henry Harrison 1773-1841 forces Proctor to evacuate Detroit and withdraw up Thames River toward Lake Ontario; catches Proctor at Moraviantown Oct. 5.
1787 Montreal Quebec – Prince William, later King William IV, visits Montreal.
1777 Quebec Quebec – Frederick Haldimand 1718-1791 appointed Governor of Quebec; following Carleton’s resignation on June 26.
1762 St. John’s Newfoundland – William Colville, Lord Amherst retakes Fort William Henry from Joseph d’Haussonville; last French-English battle in North America.
1759 Quebec Quebec – Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Roch de Ramezay 1708-1777 surrenders Quebec garrison to Townshend after Lévis withdraws to Montreal; Brigadier General James Murray takes over as Governor, and sets about repairing the defenses; his garrison of 7,000 troops has meagre rations and rapidly falls victim to illness, particularly scurvy; by April, only about 3,000 troops will be fit to fight.
1679 Green Bay Wisconsin – René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 reaches Green Bay in Lake Michigan; continues south along Wisconsin shore; orders his ship the Griffin back to Niagara with a load of valuable furs; it is never seen again.
1663 Quebec Quebec – First meeting of the Conseil Souverain (Sovereign Council) of New France; consists of Governor, bishop, 5 councillors.
1608 Quebec Quebec – Pontgravé leaves Quebec to return to France.

“For the past 150 years nationalism has been a retrograde idea. By an historic accident Canada has found itself approximately seventy-five years ahead of the rest of the world in the formation of a multinational state, and I happen to believe that the hope of mankind lies in multinationalism.”
Pierre Elliot Trudeau 1919- –>


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18 Sep

OBITS – SEP 18, 2010

Posted by CAPER in Obituaries.

Obituaries for September 18th, 2010

17 Sep

CAPE BRETON MUSHROOM TARTS

Posted by CAPER in Food.

 

Cape Breton Mushroom Tarts

 Toast Rounds

Lightly butter white slices of bread. (cut out rounds with a large glass.) Put into muffin tins – toast in top part of oven at 325 – 350 degrees F until golden brown. Remove from oven.

Filling

About ½ cup green onions chopped.

1 can sliced mushrooms (well drained – pat dry with paper towel)

 Saute

The onion and mushrooms in 2 or 3 tablespoons butter over low heat

Remove from heat and add 2 tablespoons flour.

Add 1 small (250 ml whipping cream)

Touch of cayenne pepper

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 tablespoon chives

 Cook over very low heat until thick – fill toasted cups

Sprinkle grated parmesan cheese over top of each tart

 Note:

They freeze well and can be taken from the freezer and put into oven 325 degrees F to heat until piping hot

 Makes enough filling for 12 toasted cups

17 Sep

TODAY – SEP 17, 2010 – IN CANADIAN HISTORY

Posted by CAPER in History.

On This Day

September 17

maple leaf Today's Canadian Headline....
1984 MULRONEY TAKES OFFICEOttawa Ontario – Brian Mulroney 1939- takes office, sworn in as Canada’s 18th Prime Minister at age 45; with 40 Cabinet members, the biggest cabinet in Canadian history; including ex PM Joe Clark 1939- as Minister of External Affairs.
1792

Also On This Day...

Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario – Governor John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806 convenes the first meeting of the legislature of Upper Canada at Newark [Niagara]. Here he is inspecting the troops outside Navy Hall, with the US Fort Niagara in the right background, across the Niagara River..
1970

Also On This Day...

Ottawa Ontario – Jack McClelland and Claude Ryan launch the Committee for an Independent Canada, to protest high levels of foreign investment in Canada, and the tax breaks enjoyed by US magazines such as Time and Readers Digest. The nationalist group, which originated with Walter Gordon, Abe Rotstein and Peter C. Newman, will present a 170,000 name petition in June 1971 to PM Trudeau demanding limits on foreign investment. The CIC, whose policies will help justify such institutions as FIRA and Petro-Canada, disbands in 1981.
1959

And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...

Hank Ilesic 1959-
football player, was born on this day at Edmonton, Alberta in 1959. Ilesic has served as a CFL punter and place kicker for the Edmonton Eskimos and Toronto Argonauts.Also Louis Juchereau de Saint-Denis 1676-1744-
explorer, soldier, was born on this day at Beauport, Quebec, in 1676; died June 11, 1744 at Natchitoches, Louisiana . Saint-Denis led a 1714 expedition from French-held Natchitoches, in Louisiana Territory, to the Spanish town of San Juan Bautista (modern Villahermosa) on the Rio Grande.

Also George Cleveland 1885-1957
actor, was born on this day at Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1885; dies July 15, 1957; best known for his TV role as Lassie’s Gramps Miller.

Also Thomas Bata 1914-
shoemaker, was born on this day at Prague, Czech Republic in 1914, son of the owner of the world’s largest shoe company. Bata moved head office to Canada as World War II approached, and in 1939 founded the town of Batawa, north of Trenton, Ontario, as his Canadian manufacturing base. Today the company makes over a million pairs of shoes a day in over 60 countries.

Also Pierre Sévigny 1917-
politician, educator, was born on this day at Quebec City in 1917. Sévigny was an early supporter of John Diefenbaker, and in 1959 was appointed Associate Defence Minister. He resigned to protest Diefenbaker’s policies in 1963, and was later embroiled in the Gerda Munsinger affair, for associating, while a Minister, with a woman who may have been working for East German intelligence. Before retiring he taught commerce at Concordia University.

Also Peter Lhotka 1962-
producer, filmmaker, was born on this day at Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1962. Lhotka is best known for his Jake and the Kid (1995) and Destiny Ridge (1994) productions.
In Other Events….
1996 Toronto Ontario – Vancouver actor Michael J. Fox debuts in situation comedy ‘Spin City’ on ABC-TV.
1995 Gustafsen Lake, BC – End of armed standoff between police and natives occupying a private ranch after medicine man allowed into the native camp; 17 people charged by RCMP.
1992 Ottawa Ontario – Statistics Canada reports record Canadian trade levels; exports rise to $13.1 billion; imports to $12.5 billion in July; merchandise trade surplus of $623 million; projected federal deficit $30 billion.
1991 Ottawa Ontario – Defence Minister Marcel Masse cites end of Cold War as Canada to cut military in Europe from 6,600 to 1,100 over 15 years saving $11 billion; Baden-Solingen base to close in 1994 and Lahr in 1995.
1991 Brooklyn, NY – Only 4,355 turn out to see the Expos play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium.
1988 Seoul, South Korea – Games of the 24th Olympiad begin in Seoul, with the Canadian team joining 14,000 athletes from 160 countries.
1987 Hollywood California – Montreal actor William Shatner stars in last episode of TV crime drama T.J. Hooker on CBS.
1978 Hollywood California – Toronto actor Lorne Greene stars in new TV sci-fi adventure, Battlestar Galactica, on ABC.
1975 Winnipeg Manitoba – Guess Who Day is declared in Winnipeg to honour the local supergroup.
1974 Regina Saskatchewan – First female RCMP recruits start training at Regina.
1975 Houston Texas – Gordie Howe appointed President of the Houston Aeros hockey team; Floral, Saskatchewan, native the first playing president in major league sports.
1974 Ottawa Ontario – Renaude Lapointe elected Speaker of the Senate.
1972 Quebec Quebec – Opening of Cartier-Brébeuf National Historic Park in Quebec City; in honour of Jacques Cartier and Jean de Brébeuf.
1971 Montreal Quebec – Guy Lafleur plays his first NHL game with the Canadiens.
1963 United Nations, New York – Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 addresses UN General Assembly, outlining proposals to strengthen peace-keeping forces.
1953 Quebec Quebec – Jean Lesage appointed Quebec Minister of Natural Resources; later Premier.
1952 North York Ontario – Edwin Alonzo Boyd 1914- captured in barn near Toronto, with William Russell Jackson, and Leonard Jackson; after biggest manhunt in Canadian history.
1951 NWT – First elections held for North West Territories Council, to sit in Yellowknife.
1949 Washington DC – Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 represents Canada at first NATO meeting.
1949 Toronto Ontario – Early morning fire consumes the Canada Steamship Lines cruise liner SS Noronic moored at its dock in Toronto harbour, killing 130 of 522 passengers, mostly American tourists. The Canada Steamship Lines vessel, built at Port Arthur in 1913, was the largest Canadian and most luxurious passenger steamer ever placed in service on the Great Lakes.
1945 Montreal Quebec – Trans Canada Airlines’ first Constellation passenger plane arrives at Dorval airport.
1944 Boulogne France – Canadians besiege Germans in French port of Boulogne.
1944 Arnhem Holland – Bernard Montgomery launches unsuccessful airborne offensive at Arnhem to capture five bridges across the Rhine; Canadians participate in Operation Market-Garden.
1942 Rimouski Quebec – Canadian warship attacks German U-Boat in the St. Lawrence before the submarine flees.
1941 Ottawa Ontario – Strikes declared illegal for the remainder of the war.
1917 Ste-Foy, Quebec – Dominion Bridge cranes start to lift the central span of the 2nd Quebec Bridge slowly into position; succeed on the 20th; finally opens to traffic Dec. 3.
1908 Ottawa Ontario – Dissolution of the 10th federal Parliament.
1908 Montreal Quebec – Octave-Henri Julien 1852-1908 dies; painter, caricaturist, born at Quebec City May 14, 1852; Julien began his career with the Desbarats printing firm in 1868; 1874 traveled with the NWMP expeditionary force sent to suppress the liquor traffic on the Prairies for the Canadian Illustrated News; 1888 art director and cartoonist for the Montreal Star.
1904 Quebec Quebec – Captain Joseph Bernier 1852-1934 departs from Quebec on the Canadian government steamship Arctic; given the command because of his interest in the Polar regions (he had devised a plan to reach the North Pole via the Bering Strait); will make 12 expeditions into polar seas in the next 20 years; he will spend the winter in Hudson Bay collecting Canadian customs duties from whalers and traders.
1878 Canada – John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 defeats Alexander Mackenzie in Canada’s 4th general election 142 seats to 64 ; PM to June 6, 1891; secret ballot and simultaneous voting first used; Honoré Mercier loses his seat by only 6 votes.
1870 St. Norbert, Manitoba – Louis Riel 1844-1885 makes secret visit to St. Norbert; urges Metis not to support Fenians; given support by Cartier and Macdonald through Donald Smith and the HBC.
1868 Barkerville, BC – Barkerville burns to the ground after a miner tries to kiss a dance hall girl; in their struggle, they dislodge a stovepipe and set the canvas ceiling of the saloon on fire; residents forced to take refuge from the heat and the sparks in Williams Creek; the gold mining town will be rebuilt, but will eventually become a ghost town.
1859 Montreal Quebec – Opening of Victoria Railway Bridge; takes Grand Trunk trains from Montreal Island to the south shore.
1844 Montreal Quebec – Opening of the Montreal Municipal Library, with 2,000 volumes.
1844 Montreal Quebec – Opening of the Montreal Municipal Library, with 2,000 volumes.
1841 Kingston Ontario – Governor General Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1799-1841, diagnosed with tetanus, caused by a fall from his horse; will die two days later.
1835 Quebec Quebec – Governor Lord Aylmer leaves Quebec for England.
1792 Quebec Quebec – Jean-Antoine Panet 1751-1815 elected first Speaker of the Lower Canada Assembly by a vote of 28-18; favours French language.
1764 Quebec Quebec – Court system set up in Quebec; legal cases arising prior to Oct. 1 allowed to be tried in common courts in French; Walter Murray appointed Receiver General.
1759 Quebec Quebec – Claude Nicolas Roch de Ramezay, lieutenant du roi at Quebec, signs the French capitulation of Quebec; the following day hands over the town to General George Townshend, Wolfe’s successor.
1747 Quebec Quebec – Roland-Michel Barrin, Marquis de la Galissonière 1693-1756 arrives at Quebec to serve as commandant general of New France; serves to Oct. 21 1749; advocates building a string of garrisoned posts down the Ohio Valley to hold the English colonies along the east coast, and distract the English militarily.
1672 Quebec Quebec – Louis de Buade, Count Frontenac presides over his first meeting of the Sovereign Council of New France; announces the war now existing between France and Holland, and therefore with the Dutch colony to the south.

<!– “You must draw limits in your political commitment otherwise you become uncivilized.”
Lester B. Pearson
in Peter C. Newman, Distemper of Our Times
1968 –>


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17 Sep

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR FRANCIS

Posted by CAPER in General Interest, History.

Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis

 

Nova Scotia’s Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis prepares to greet the Queen

 

Mayann E. Francis tells the Globe about preparations for the royal visit and her own extraordinary biography.

 

 

(Michael Posner From Monday’s Globe and Mai lPublished on Sunday, Jun. 27, 2010 8:39PM EDT)

 

When the Queen and Prince Philip step into Government House in Halifax this week on the first leg of their hectic nine-day royal visit to Canada, they will be greeted by Mayann E. Francis, Nova Scotia’s Lieutenant-Governor, the province’s first African-Canadian to hold the post. For Lieutenant-Governor Francis, the meeting will be a reunion of sorts; she had a private audience with the Queen three years ago in Buckingham Palace, during her protocol meet and greet.

What was it like to meet the Queen?

It was a great honour. Of course, there was a little bit of butterflies, but she has this ability to make you feel so relaxed, and she is so well-versed, and very gracious and she engages you in conversation so you forget you are sitting in the room with greatness and you are just talking to this wonderful lady.

What kind of preparations have you had to make for the visit?

Plenty and on several levels, starting with protocol. We are briefed on how you address Her Majesty and His Royal Highness, where do you walk [when they are walking], how to curtsy, what to do if she extends a hand.

So for you, these are brush-up lessons.

Yes, but you can never have too much of it. You never want to unintentionally show disrespect.

Will the royal couple be staying at Government House, newly refurbished for $6.2-million?

We have no confirmation of that. We are preparing for every contingency. But the Queen will rededicate the house and I will lead her and His Royal Highness on a tour. There’s no script. If they ask questions, I hope I will have the answer. But I won’t fudge. If I don’t know the answer, I will say, ‘We will get that answer for you.’ She’s been here before. In 1959, seated in the dining room, she named Georges Vanier as Canada’s new Governor-General.

Your personal story is quite remarkable, from relatively low-level jobs as an X-ray technician and department store switchboard operator to senior executive positions and now Lieutenant-Governor. How did that happen?

I was raised in Whitney Pier, outside of Sydney, [N.S.]. It was a community of immigrants and every parent wanted their children to get an education and do great things. That gave me a very sound foundation. It helped me to understand people with different backgrounds.

Your father was the rector of the church.

Not so Long Ago – Whitney Pier looking for Justice

I spent a lifetime in that church.

But how did you make the transition, from X-ray technician to senior management in human resources positions and then CEO of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and Ombudsman?

I always knew I would do great things, but when I moved to the United States, it was very difficult to find an opportunity. At first I volunteered – as an X-ray technician. One day, a doctor asked me if I wanted a paid position at one of his clinics. So I did that and went back to school and became a paralegal and soon started working on Wall Street. And that was how it started.

You must have encountered some racism.

It’s always there. As long as you are a woman or a member of a racial minority, you never really escape it. And you have to be careful not to allow it to make you a paranoid person. You will not stop it, but you need to know how do to manage it. When I speak to students, I tell them, ‘This is what you will hit.’ But I never allowed racism, overt or covert, to break my spirit. Once it breaks your spirit, you are lost. So I always talk about dreams and aspirations, and tell them to see my being here as a beacon of hope. You can achieve. It’s not always a bed of roses. Don’t expect it to be nice and smooth. But if you have solid foundation and dreams, you can weather those storms.

(This interview has been condensed and edited for publication)

17 Sep

TODAY – SEP 16, 2010 – IN CANADIAN HISTORY

Posted by CAPER in History.

On This Day

 September 16

maple leaf Today's Canadian Headline....
1914 CANADA GETS AN AIR FORCEOttawa Ontario – Sir Sam Hughes sets up the first Canadian military air service, the Canadian Aviation Corps; forerunner of the RCAF.
1939

Also On This Day...

Halifax Nova Scotia – The first escorted ship convoy leaves Halifax for Britain; in formation to protect against German U-Boat attacks.
1959

And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...

Jennifer Tilly 1959-
TV/film actor, was born on this day in 1959 at Harbor City, California. Tilley grew up in BC after her mother Patricia, a Canadian teacher and ex stage actress, divorced her father Harry, a car salesman, and moved the family home to live with Tilly’s grandmother on Texada, off the east coast of Vancouver Island. Her mother married John Ward, a hippie religious fanatic, divorced again, and again moved the family, this time to Victoria. Tilley and sister Meg were both bitten with the acting bug, and went off to Hollywood. Jennifer initially specialized in bimbo roles – she played mobster moll Gina Srignoli in TV’s Hill Street Blues (1981), Blanche ‘Monica’ Moran in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), and Key West’s Savannah Sumner (1993). She is currently appearing with another Canadian, Jim Carrey, in the film Liar Liar (picture). Check out her IMDB filmography, and that of her sister,Meg Tilly.

Also James Jerome Hill 1838-1916
railway promoter and financier, was born on this day at Rockwood, near Guelph, Ontario in 1838. Hill moved as a young man to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he helped set up a shipping business and in 1856, with the quiet backing of the Hudson’s Bay Company, a steamboat line down the Red River to Winnipeg. In 1878 he and Donald A. Smith and George Stephen pulled together the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad running north into Manitoba, then the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. In 1890 Hill consolidated all of his railway holdings into the Great Northern Railroad south of the Canadian border to Seattle, which effectively blocked rival lines from tapping into CPR business.

Also Andrew Bonar Law 1858-1923
British Prime Minister from Oct. 23, 1922, to May 20, 1923, was born on this day at Kingston, New Brunswick in 1858; died in London England Oct. 30, 1923. Bonar Law was sent to live with wealthy relatives in Scotland when he was 12, and became a partner in a firm of iron merchants. The only British Prime Minister to come from the Empire, he led the Conservative Party during the periods 1911-21 and 1922-23, but had to retire after only 209 days as PM because of poor health.

Also Laurence Johnston Peter 1919-1990
educator, psychologist, writer, was born on this day at Vancouver in 1919; died in Palos Verdes Estates, California Jan. 12, 1990. Peter wrote the 1969 best-seller The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong.

Also Doug Hepburn 1926-
weightlifter, was born on this day in 1926. Hepburn won the World Weightlifting Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1953, with a lift of 1,030.25 pounds; the following year, he took the gold medal at the British Empire Games in Vancouver.

Also Michael Smith 1967-
decathlete, was born on this day at Kenora, Ontario, in 1967. Smith represented Canada at the Seoul Olympics in 1988, placing 14th (8083 points); 1990 won his first international gold for Canada at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland (8525 points); 1992 withdrew from Barcelona due to hamstring injury; 1994 gold at the Commonwealth Games (8326 points); 1996 13th at the Atlanta Olympics (8271 points); 1996 set his Personal Best of 8,625 points – the Canadian Record – placing first at the unofficial World Championships of Combined Events in Gotzis, Austria.
In Other Events….
2000 Sydney, Australia – Opening of 27th Olympic games scheduled at Sydney, televised by NBC
1996 Toronto Ontario – Maple Leafs defenceman Borje Salming, Boston Bruins right winger Bobby Bauer, CBC announcer Bob Cole and New York Islanders coach Al Arbour, winner of four consecutive Stanley Cup titles, inducted into the International Hockey Hall of Fame.
1993 Ottawa Ontario – Government announces inquiry to recommend how to reform the blood system to make it more efficient and safer; day after provinces announce compensation plan for people who contracted HIV through tainted blood products before officials started screening blood for the AIDS virus.
1992 Toronto Ontario – Brian Perry of the Canadian Tax Foundation says taxes increasing; OECD report says Canada’s tax revenues up to 39.4% of GNP in 1991; up from 37.1% in 1990 and 34.5% in 1989; versus US rate of under 30%.
1992 Ottawa Ontario – Commons passes bill passed ending Family Allowance baby bonus system; replaced by more support for working poor, and an earned income supplement for those working; benefit shrinks as income rises.
1992 Quebec Quebec – Quebec bureaucrat Diane Wilhelmy sees her taped telephone call released criticizing Premier Robert Bourassa for ‘caving in’ during talks leading to the Charlottetown Accord.
1991 Hollywood California – Jenny Jones debuts her TV talk show ‘The Jenny Jones Show’ in syndication; born in London, Ontario, Jones started her career touring Canada and the US as a drummer in a rock band; she then worked as a backup singer/arranger with Wayne Newton in Las Vegas, formed her own band, ‘Jenny Jones and Company’, worked on the game show and standup comedy circuit, then, after a one-year tour with Englebert Humperdinck, developed a popular comedy show for women called Girls’ Night Out, which led to a contract with Warner Brothers, who developed her show.
1987 Montreal Quebec – Opening of Montreal conference sponsored by the UN Environmental Program; 24 countries and the European Community sign Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to protect Earth’s ozone layer by calling on nations to control and reduce use of cholorfluorocarbons or CFCs by the year 2000; 49 other countries express their approval but for various reasons do not sign the protocol.
1988 Seoul, South Korea – Canadian team attends opening ceremonies of the 24th Olympiad in Seoul; events start the next day.
1984 Winnipeg Manitoba – Pope John Paul II spends the morning in Winnipeg, then flies to Edmonton that evening; first papal visit to Canada.
1980 Ottawa Ontario – Federal-provincial conference on the constitution ends in quibbling.
1974 Regina Saskatchewan – Canada’s first female RCMP recruits sworn into the force as constables.
1974 Montreal Quebec – Gary Carter plays his first game as a Montreal Expo; in Jarry Park.
1973 Hollywood California – Vancouver-born actor Raymond Burr stars in The New Perry Mason, a CBS revival of his TV crime drama.
1969 Taiwan – Atomic Energy of Canada sells $35 million nuclear research reactor to Taiwan Atomic Energy Council.
1964 Blaine Washington – Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 signs Columbia River Treaty with President Lyndon Johnson; after being ratified by both countries.
1963 Winnipeg Manitoba – Canada sells Soviet Union $500 million worth of wheat.
1962 Sudbury Ontario – International Nickel Company grants $2.5 million to Laurentian University in Sudbury.
1960 Ottawa Ontario – J. Grant Glassco chairs Royal Commission to examine role and programs of federal government.
1960 New York City – Canadian diplomat Yves Prévost becomes President of the United Nations General Assembly.
1957 Canada – Canada hit by epidemic of Asian flu.
1947 Ottawa Ontario – Parliament publishes a White Paper on the defense of Canada.
1957 Arvida Quebec – 6,500 Aluminum Company of Canada employees at Arvida end four-month strike.
1946 Temiskaming Quebec – Réal Caouette elected MP for the riding of Pontiac; later Créditiste leader.
1945 Hong Kong, China – British accept formal surrender of Hong Kong from the Japanese.
1944 Ottawa Ontario – Canada recognizes provisional government of French Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle.
1943 Salerno Italy – Germans fail to wipe out Salerno beachhead.
1939 Halifax Nova Scotia – First escorted convoy leaves Halifax for Britain.
1918 Vancouver BC – Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 returns to Vancouver from his Canadian Arctic Expedition, begun in 1913.
1917 Montreal Quebec – Cardinal Bégin asks Quebeckers to vote for prohibition; they do not.
1916 Courcelette France – John Chipman Kerr 1887-1963 of the 49th Canadian Infantry Battalion, born in Fox River, Nova Scotia, earns a Victoria Cross for his actions at Courcelette during the Somme offensive; during a bombing attack he runs along the parados under heavy fire until he is in close contact with the enemy, and opens fire at point blank range; thinking they are surrounded, 62 Germans surrender; giving up 250 yards of trench; although Private Kerr’s fingers have been blown off by a bomb, he escorts the prisoners back under fire with two other men before having his wound dressed.
1916 Ontario – Prohibition goes into effect in Ontario, after a night when liquor stores and saloons sell out all their stocks.
1914 Ottawa Ontario – Sir Sam Hughes forms the Canadian Aviation Corps; first Canadian military air service.
1901 Canada – Duke and Duchess of Cornwall visit Canada until October 21; later King George V 1865-1936 and Queen Mary.
1893 Calgary Alberta – Calgary incorporated as Alberta’s first city; population has grown to almost 4,000 people in the decade following the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway; only community between Winnipeg and the Pacific with a water works and sewer system.
1891 Edmonton Alberta – First train-load of Austro-Hungarian settlers from the provinces of Galicia and Bukovyna arrive in Alberta; forced to leave because of over-population and crop failures, and attracted to western Canada by the Homestead Act which provided 160 acres for $10.00.
1876 Montreal Quebec – Opening of the railway from Montreal north to St-Jerome.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba – Alfred Boyd the first Premier of Manitoba as the first Executive Council of the province is organized.
1846 Montreal Quebec – Lord Elgin sworn in as Governor of the province of Canada.
1839 Coppermine NWT – Thomas Simpson reaches Coppermine River with Dease after completing longest voyage by boat on Arctic Ocean.
1825 Quebec Quebec – Governor Dalhousie arrives at Quebec.
1812 Presqu’Ile, Ontario – British victory in a skirmish at Presqu’Ile in the War of 1812.
1791 London England – King George III demands that all French coats of arms be removed from Quebec.
1773 Pictou, Nova Scotia – Ship Hector drops anchor at Brown’s Point, and starts landing 182 Scottish Highlanders, mostly tenant farmers fleeing high rents in Loch Broom in Sutherland.
1759 Quebec Quebec – English census shows many French remaining inside the blasted out town of Quebec after its capture, including 2,600 women and children, as well as 1,200 wounded or sick.
1669 Ile d’Orleans, Quebec – François Jarret de Verchères (1641-1700) marries 14 year old Marie Perrot; their daughter is the heroine Madeleine Jarret de Verchères 1678-1747.
1638 Paris France – Prince Louis born in the Palais du Louvre; becomes Louis XIV, King of France, at age 5, and will rule for 72 years; Canada his personal property.

“In every hierarchy, whether it be government or business, each employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to execute its duties.”
Laurence Johnston Peter 1919-1990
The Peter Principle
1969 –>

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17 Sep

OBITS – SEP 17,2010

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Obituaries for September 17th, 2010

16 Sep

TODAY – SEP 15, 2010 – IN CANADIAN HISTORY

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On This Day 

September 15 

maple leaf Today's Canadian Headline....
1884 CANADIANS ON THE NILE  – Frederick Charles Denison 1846-1896 sails for Egypt with 386 Canadian Voyageurs to help Lord Kitchener ascend the Nile, mount a resistance to Sudan revolutionary leader Mahdi, and rescue General Gordon, besieged in Khartoum. The boatmen were organized by Garnet Wolseley, who had commanded the Red River Expedition in 1870; many were recruited from the ranks of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Sixteen died; they were Canada’s first official participants in an overseas war.
1885

Also On This Day...

St. Thomas Ontario – P.T. Barnum’s famous circus elephant Jumbo charges and is killed by a Grand Trunk train in the St, Thomas railway yard; weighed over 3,900 lbs. and was probably the largest pachyderm ever in captivity. 
1907

And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...

Fay Wray 1907-
film star, was born Vina Fay Wray on this day in Cardston, Alberta in 1907. Wray is best known for her role as Ann Darrow, the frightened woman caught in the paw of a colossal gorilla and carried to the top of the Empire State Building in the movie King Kong (1933). Wray moved at a young age to Los Angeles, and haunted studio casting offices in her teens. She landed her first bit part in a Universal western in 1923, and in 1928, won stardom in Erich von Stroheim’s The Wedding March. From then on she played at Paramount opposite such leading men as Gary Cooper, Ronald Colman, Fredric March, and William Powell. Here’s the Fay Wray filmography.  

Also Harry Sinden 1932-
NHL player coach, was born on this day in 1932. In 1970, Sinden coached the Boston Bruins to their first Stanley Cup since 1941. He came out of retirement in 1972 to coach the victorious Team Canada in their 8-game summit with the USSR, and served as Boston General manager from 1972 on. 

Also Gweneth Lloyd 1901-1993
ballet teacher, choreographer, was born on this day at Eccles, England in 1901; died Jan. 1 1993 in Kelowna, BC. Lloyd was founding Director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet from 1939 to 1952, and in 1946 she helped set up the Banff Centre’s summer dance program. 

Also Alexander Dunn VC 1833-1868
soldier, was born on this day at Toronto [York] in 1833; killed in a hunting accident in Abyssinia Jan. 25, 1868. Dunn was the first Canadian winner of the Victoria Cross, for his bravery in the Crimean War, as a Lieutenant in the 11th Hussars, in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1856. He later helped organize the 100th Regiment of Foot in Canada, and served as its CO in Gibraltar. 
In Other Events….
1994 Ottawa Ontario – Lise Bacon appointed to the Senate.
1994 Hollywood California – Hamilton-born SCTV veteran Martin Short 1950- premieres his comedy variety program, The Martin Short Show, on NBC.
1993 Canada – Other provinces follow lead of Nova Scotia and Quebec, announcing compensation plan for people who contracted HIV through tainted blood products before officials started screening blood for the AIDS virus; Ottawa to hold inquiry on reform of the blood system.
1992 Ottawa Ontario – Statistics Canada reports on language preferences from 1991 Census: 17.1 million Canadians (60.5%) identify English as their mother tongue; down from 60.6% in 1986. 6.8 million (23.8%) identify French; down from 24.3% in 1986. 4.1 million (13%) identify another language, especially Chinese, Spanish or Punjabi; up from 11.3% in 1986.
1992 Somalia – Canadian planes deliver 10 loads of 150 tonnes of relief supplies to famine-ravaged Somalia; three C-130 cargo planes and 71 personnel supporting Red Cross and UN.
1991 Toronto Ontario – Warner Troyer dies at age 59; CBC broadcaster, veteran of This Hour Has Seven Days, Public Eye, The Fifth Estate; co-host of CTV’s W5; author of seven books.
1991 Space – Astronauts on board NASA Space Shuttle flight STS-48 deploy Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, containing the Canadian Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII).
1988 Montreal Quebec – Mother Theresa gives a speech in Montreal.
1987 Hamilton Ontario – Team Canada beats the USSR to win the Canada Cup, two games to one. All three games decided by 6-5 scores.
1986 Montreal Quebec – Trial starts for 17 Hell’s Angels in Montreal.
1984 Toronto Ontario – Pope John Paul celebrates Mass before 500,000 of the faithful at Downsview Airport; later consecrates the Slovak Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Unionville, built by Denison Mines magnate Steve Roman.
1979 Vancouver BC – Swedish supergroup Abba open their first North American tour in Vancouver.
1979 Paris France – Quebec singer Robert Charlebois performs at the Palais des Congrès de Paris.
1978 Ottawa Ontario – School patroller Jean-Luc Lafrenière, age 11, is killed by a car; he is the first Canadian patroller to die in the line of duty.
1976 Montreal Quebec – Darryl Sittler 1950- scores Team Canada’s winning goal in overtime to beat Czechoslovakia 5-4; Canada wins inaugural Canada Cup tournament 2 games to nothing.
1975 Montreal Quebec – Yvan Cournoyer named captain of the NHL Canadiens.
1972 Toronto Ontario – DeHavilland Aircraft workers end eight-month strike.
1971 North Pacific – Twelve members of the Vancouver-based Don’t Make a Wave Committee found the Greenpeace environmental organization on board a chartered 24 metre halibut seiner, the Phyllis Cormack, sailing to Amchitka Island, Alaska, to witness/protest the US underground detonation of 5.2 megaton bomb along the Mid-Ocean Ridge. Among the crew are Robert Hunter of the Vancouver Sun, Ben Metcalfe of the CBC and Bob Cummings, from the Georgia Strait; seas too rough, and the group find a 47 metre converted mine sweeper, the Edgewater Fortune.
1970 Winnipeg Manitoba – Manitoba lowers its voting age to 18.
1969 Winnipeg Manitoba – Manitoba Hydro decides not to divert Churchill River, flood Southern Indian Lake; would displace 700 people.
1969 Sachs Harbour NWT – Reinforced oil tanker ‘Manhattan’ reaches Sachs Harbour, NWT, on trip through North West Passage.
1961 Ottawa Ontario – John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens Sir Alexander Campbell Building, new Post Office Headquarters.
1960 Montreal Quebec – Canadiens star Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard 1921- retires from NHL hockey with a record 544 goals, plus 82 playoff tallies.
1959 Ottawa Ontario – Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier 1888-1967 is installed as Canada’s first French Canadian and 19th Governor General; soldier-diplomat serves until 1967.
1958 Montreal Quebec – Cécile Langlois gives birth to a son; first Dionne quintuplet to become a mother.
1958 Montreal Quebec – Commonwealth Economic Conference held at Montreal.
1957 London England – John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 appointed member of Imperial Privy Council by Elizabeth II.
1957 Ottawa Ontario – Ottawa singer Paul Anka’s hit single ‘Diana’ stays at #1 on the pop music charts.
1951 Ottawa Ontario – Council of North Atlantic Treaty Organization meets in Ottawa; until September 20.
1950 Inchon, South Korea – UN forces make amphibious landing at Seoul’s port city of Inchon to cut off North Korean forces in the south; start drive toward Seoul.
1949 Hollywood California – Canadian Mohawk actor Jay Silverheels stars as Tonto, with Clayton Moore as the masked hero, in first episode of ABC-TV’s The Lone Ranger.
1949 Ottawa Ontario – Opening of 1st session of 21st Parliament; until December 10.
1939 Ottawa Ontario – Donald Gordon runs new Foreign Exchange Control Board, organized by Walter Gordon; also administers 10% War Exchange Tax on non-Empire imports.
1938 Ottawa Ontario – Donald Gordon appointed Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada for seven year term; on resignation of J.A.C. Osborne.
1927 Geneva Switzerland – Canada elected to one of non-permanent seats on the Council of the League of Nations.
1917 Quebec Quebec – Dominion Bridge finishes construction of centre span of Quebec Bridge; will open for traffic Dec. 3.
1916 Flers-Courcelette France – 22nd (Quebec) 25th (Nova Scotia) and 26th (New Brunswick) battalions take Courcelette; as British launch new Somme offensive; tanks used for the first time in modern warfare.
1881 New Brunswick – First Acadian festival takes place.
1874 Qu’Appelle Saskatchewan – Cree, Saulteaux, Assiniboine and others sign Treaty #4 in Southern Saskatchewan and Alberta; 120,054 sq km; $12 per Indian; schools; farm instruction; acreage.
1870 Ottawa Ontario – Canada Central Railway opens from Chaudière (Broad Street) Station to Carleton Place.
1860 Halifax, Nova Scotia – Edward, Prince of Wales, starts touring British North America and the Colonies; first official Royal visit to Canada.
1842 Montreal Quebec – William Draper resigns from Executive Council and Assembly to let more French Canadians into government.
1841 Washington DC – John Tyler US President issues proclamation to suppress secret societies; directed at Canadian republicans.
1823 Montreal Quebec – A whale is sighted in Montreal harbour.
1777 Montreal Quebec – John Butler receives Royal Warrant to raise Butler’s Rangers, a regiment of loyalists.
1773 Pictou, Nova Scotia – Ship ‘Hector’ arrives in Pictou with 200 Scottish immigrants, mostly tenant farmers fleeing high rents in Loch Broom in Sutherland.
1763 Quebec Quebec – Abbé Montgolfier elected Bishop of Quebec in secret.
1749 Montreal Quebec – First domestic grapes harvested in New France.
1697 York Factory NWT – Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville 1661-1706 recaptures York Factory.
1688 Fort Niagara New York – Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville 1637-1710 abandons and demolishes Fort Niagara at demand of Iroquois.
1664 Quebec Quebec – Creation of first New France parish: Notre-Dame de Québec.
1663 Quebec Quebec – Mgr. de Laval arrives in Quebec with the colony’s first church organ.
1587 England – John Davis c1543-1605 arrives back in England with important charts of Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador.
1535 Quebec Quebec – Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 decides to winter in country, lays up his ships in Ste-Croix River (now St-Charles); Donnacona tries to stop him from going upriver.

<!– “As Bytown is not overrun with Americans, it may probably turn out a moral, well-behaved town, and afford a lesson to its neighbours.”
John McTaggart
Three Years in Canada
1829
referring to the town that will become Ottawa –> 

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16 Sep

OBITS – SEP 16, 2010

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Obituaries for September 16th, 2010

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