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40 at 40: Sook-Yin Lee has flown her freak flag for decades
The former MuchMusic VJ reflects on her whole career through two NOW covers from 1990 and 2006 and talks about her new album, jooj two By Richard Trapunski and Kim Hughes
Apr 5, 2021
Sook-Yin Lee has been a creative presence in Canada for decades. If you’re of a certain generation, she might be your paragon of cool – something that continues to this day with her new album, jooj two, with her late ex-partner Adam Litovitz.
As a MuchMusic VJ in the mid-to-late 90s and the best-known host of the “alternative” music video show The Wedge, she was a champion of music rarely seen on TV. She kept up that spirit even when she moved to the more staid state broadcaster, CBC Radio, to host Definitely Not The Opera.
Never forget that Lewisville was almost born at a picnic on the edge of Paynes Prairie.
William Lewis was an influential Hog Town planter with a bit of an ego. And so, when Alachua County residents gathered for a picnic, on Sept. 6, 1853, to decide what to name a proposed new town and whether it should become the new county seat Lewis was pitched a deal by fellow grower James B. Bailey.
Support the new town and “we’ll call it Lewisville,” Bailey promised. But if it becomes the new county seat “we’ll call it Gainesville.”
This in honor of Edmund Gaines, the American general who captured Aaron Burr (but who, ironically, couldn’t beat the Seminoles, which is probably why we never named the stadium after him).
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By Mark Wegierski
The author will look at the role of Toronto in Canadian history.
It should be remembered that Toronto has undergone a massive “identity shift” over the last five decades of Canadian history. In the 1950s and before, the city was considered as so conservative and British-oriented that it was nicknamed “Tory Toronto”. Indeed, it was snidely said of those times, that on Sunday, you could fire a cannon down Toronto’s main street and not hit anyone (because everybody was at church)!
In the 1960s and later a vast roaring tide of change engulfed and massively transformed the city.
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