Year: 2022
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Urban and Nature
in: Documentary
Toronto has a vast system of valleys that traverse the urban landscape, and between these channels of green are parkettes finding their places in urban niches. Framed within the skyscrapers they provide an oasis of green within a concrete and glass desert.
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Change
in: Documentary
My first visit to Toronto was Christmas, 1954. I don’t remember much from that trip. I remember, however, visiting in the early 1960s. At that time, the tallest building was the Royal York Hotel. Now, 60 years later, it seems like undergrowth in a forest of skyscrapers. My first job in Toronto in 1984 was…
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Meet the Press
As political leaders hold press conferences, yet take no questions, one has to wonder what’s the point?
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Telling the Bees
Possibly inspired by ancient Aegean notions, although the origins of this specific ritual are unknown, the myth of Telling the Bees is to inform them of major life events, as, if not informed, the results could be catastrophic: At all weddings and funerals they give a piece of the wedding-cake or funeral biscuit to the…
