Robert Douglas-Cowichan Conversations Contributor More than two hundred unionized workers at Duncan’s Sunridge Place were recently given pink slips. This came after the owner of the seniors care facility reached an agreement to sell the operation to a Vancouver-based firm. Layoffs are effective in early June, when the deal should
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cartoon life: Looking back on Vernazza 2
Filed under: art Tagged: Cinque Terre, italy, Popsicolor, procreate app
Continue readingcartoon life: Looking back 1 v.2
I think I fixed the composition problems from the first version. Looking back on Vernazza in the Parco Nazionalle de Cinque Terre, Italy. Filed under: art Tagged: art, Cinque Terre, good stuff, italy, landscape, light, mountains, seascape
Continue readingcartoon life: S Basilio Harbour, Venice
Some interesting treatment in the buildings. The space isn’t too awful, but the surface of the piece itself is a mix of styles. There is that 3D space from the bottom edge to the horizon played against the flat abstract of the buildings. The sky is not too bad, it’s
Continue readingcartoon life: Looking back
Now, this… This is based on a photo grabbed in a glimpse of a second, looking back out of the car window. I tried working over the photo. But it was dead. Thankfully, deleted into oblivion. But redrawn fresh, and stretched into a memory, a quick remembrance of the Parco
Continue readingcartoon life: The Pantheon 2
The 1700 year old part. Filed under: art Tagged: italy, Rome
Continue readingcartoon life: The Pantheon
Raphael sleeps here. Filed under: art Tagged: italy, Rome
Continue readingcartoon life: The wall outside Vatican City
All the secrets are inside. Filed under: art Tagged: italy, Rome, Vatican, wall
Continue readingcartoon life: The Sistine Chapel roof
Just about the only reason, really, to see the Vatican. Filed under: art Tagged: italy, Vatican
Continue readingcartoon life: From the hotel at Pozzuoli near Naples
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Continue readingArt Threat: Blu mural tackles Italy’s Chernobyl
Italian street artist Blu has created a towering critique of the militarization of Sardinia. His latest mural depicts the devastating impact that industrialization and military bases have had on the Mediterranean island. In the south-east near Salto di Quirra, a rocket launching site run by the Italian Air Force, electromagnetic
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Canadians Should Envy Greeks
Canadians aren’t too envious of Greeks, Italians, and Egyptians right now, but maybe they should be. Though Canada has a relatively better economy and a stable political system, the other countries in the world facing crises have something Canada seems to be lacking, a resolve to make things better. Facing
Continue readingThings Are Good: WikiLeaks Releases Syria Files
WikiLeaks continues to bring the world information that would otherwise be hidden from the masses, this time it’s millions of emails and documents from Syria. The Syria Files have been given to some media organizations to filter through (much like the last large release of documents from WikiLeaks). This new
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Europe’s Export of Political Integration
From democracy to banking, Europe has launched institutions that have shaped the world; with its recent financial crisis, Europe might be about to do it again. The European financial crisis is only giving further legitimacy and urgency to greater European political integration. It is argued that with many economies dependent
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Byron’s Epic Swims: The Alps
To this day, no one has been able to recreate the feat of naiant heroics that Byron managed in the dark fall of 1816. Having finished buggering Percy Bysshe Shelley senseless, Bryon decided to spend the winter in Venice. He … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Italy’s Mason-Dixon Line
Their leaders have names such as Durnwalder, Klotz, Widmann, and Mair. Their neighbours include Swiss, Germans and Austrians. And at the moment a good many of them are wondering why they should be saddled with the financial burden of remaining within cash-strapped Italy. There has long been a secessionist movement
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Yas A., Kagan Goh and Carmen Aguirre: Monday at 6pm on COOP Radio
Monday night at 6pm on The Rational on COOP Radio [livestreamed], 102.7fm in/around Vancouver: Yas A with another instalment on Italian political song writers. Alnoor Gova interviews Kagan Goh and Imtiaz Popat about the world television premier of their documentary Stolen Memories on Sunday, March 4th at 9pm on OMNI
Continue readingNews flash—country rejects Olympic Games!!!
Hard to believe, but true—a country has rejected the possibility of hosting the Olympics. Rome had intended to bid for the 2020 Summer Games, but the Italian government has nixed the application. Italian Premier Mario Monti said it would be irresponsible to use taxpayer money to fund the Olympics with
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: Trenitalia ad blasted as ‘racist’
Italy’s state-owned railway Trenitalia has decided to replace first and second class on its high speed trains with four categories – executive, business, premium and standard. The move by Trenitalia raised a few eyebrows because the passengers in fourth-class are so obviously at the bottom-end of the passenger pecking order…
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: Trenitalia: new ad criticized as ‘racist’
Italy’s state-owned railway Trenitalia has decided to replace first and second class on its high speed trains with four categories – executive, business, premium and standard. The move by Trenitalia raised a few eyebrows because the passengers in fourth-class are so obviously at the bottom-end of the passenger pecking order…
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