Canada’s Walk Of Fame 2017: Stompin’ Tom Connors, Donovan Bailey, Anna Paquin Honoured, Among Others
Six Canadians, including actor Anna Paquin, former sprinter Donovan Bailey and environmentalist David Suzuki, were inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame on Wednesday night at a gala. Three of the 2017 inductees were awarded posthumously: legendary Canadian singer Stompin’ Tom Connors, communications giant Ted Rogers and civil libertarian Viola Desmond. Donovan Bailey (Sports and Athletics) – legendary sprinter, two-time Olympic champion in the 100-metre and 4×100-metre relay, […]...
- 11/16/2017
- by Chris Jancelewicz
- ET Canada
Helicopter Canada
Written by Donald Brittain and Derek May
Directed by Eugene Boyko
Canada, 1968
Last November, Netflix Canada and the National Film Board extended a deal they had made earlier that year, making upwards of twenty additional Nfb documentaries available for streaming. Though it’s a far cry from the 13,000+ shorts and features available on the Nfb’s own website, it’s a nice gesture, a way to make this particular iteration Netflix uniquely Canadian (and a way to get the necessary CanCon into the service to make it legal). One of the films added in November was Helicopter Canada, a mid-length documentary consisting solely of helicopter shots of the Canadian landscape. The effect is often thrilling, effortlessly creating power shot after power shot of both city and country, but much of why it doesn’t work is as much structural as it is political.
Helicopter Canada was originally commissioned...
Written by Donald Brittain and Derek May
Directed by Eugene Boyko
Canada, 1968
Last November, Netflix Canada and the National Film Board extended a deal they had made earlier that year, making upwards of twenty additional Nfb documentaries available for streaming. Though it’s a far cry from the 13,000+ shorts and features available on the Nfb’s own website, it’s a nice gesture, a way to make this particular iteration Netflix uniquely Canadian (and a way to get the necessary CanCon into the service to make it legal). One of the films added in November was Helicopter Canada, a mid-length documentary consisting solely of helicopter shots of the Canadian landscape. The effect is often thrilling, effortlessly creating power shot after power shot of both city and country, but much of why it doesn’t work is as much structural as it is political.
Helicopter Canada was originally commissioned...
- 9/12/2014
- by Derek Godin
- SoundOnSight
Stompin' Tom Connors, one of the biggest country and folk singers in Canadian history, died on Wednesday (March 6) at the age of 77.
Born to a teen mother in 1936 in New Brunswick and briefly raised in a low-security prison, Tom Connors was made a ward of the state and then adopted for the rest of his childhood.
As a young teen, Connors wandered Canada, hitchhiking for years before getting his big break playing in a bar in Timmins, Ontario (best known as Shania Twain's hometown).
Stompin' Tom earned his nickname from the singer's habit of stomping the beat on a piece of plywood during performances. By the 1960s, Connors was well-known within Canada, even though his notoriously extreme nationalism (many of his songs celebrated specific Canadian locations) meant that he was never a household name south of the border.
If you're not familiar with the work of Stompin' Tom Connors,...
Born to a teen mother in 1936 in New Brunswick and briefly raised in a low-security prison, Tom Connors was made a ward of the state and then adopted for the rest of his childhood.
As a young teen, Connors wandered Canada, hitchhiking for years before getting his big break playing in a bar in Timmins, Ontario (best known as Shania Twain's hometown).
Stompin' Tom earned his nickname from the singer's habit of stomping the beat on a piece of plywood during performances. By the 1960s, Connors was well-known within Canada, even though his notoriously extreme nationalism (many of his songs celebrated specific Canadian locations) meant that he was never a household name south of the border.
If you're not familiar with the work of Stompin' Tom Connors,...
- 3/7/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Canadian cultural icon Stompin’ Tom Connors has died. He was 77. Connors is best known for his numerous songs about Canada, its citizens, and hockey. His hits included “Sudbury Saturday Night,” “Ketchup Song,” “Moon-Man Newfie,” “Bud The Spud,” and “Big Joe Mufferaw.” His biggest, “The Hockey Song,” is still played frequently at NHL games. He released four-dozen albums, which have sold a combined 4 million copies. Born to an unwed teenage mother in New Brunswick, Connors spent his youth hitchhiking and begging on the street before being placed in an orphanage at the age of 8. He was adopted at ...
- 3/7/2013
- avclub.com
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