A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1976
The 1000 block of Robson Street in February, 1976. Item # CVA 780-406.
In 1976, ICBC rates skyrocketed, the Museum of Anthropology got a new home and an earthquake rocked the area.
By Chuck Davis,
Laing Bridge
On May 15, 1976 the Arthur Laing Bridge officially opened, named after a native son of Richmond who became a cabinet minister under Pierre Trudeau, then later a Senator. The $23 million four-lane bridge, which crosses the north arm of the Fraser to Sea Island, vastly speeded up access to the Vancouver International Airport. It reduced the distance from downtown to the airport by more than three kilometres. Traffic had started using the bridge August 27, 1975, but the official opening was May 15, 1976. It’s 1,676 metres (one mile) in total length, and more than 90,000 vehicles use it daily.
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Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and chihuahua imitators.
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cartoon is endlessly malleable, able to serve as a staple of children’s programming even as it questions gender norms (e.g. Bugs Bunny) or functions as a proponent of U.S. foreign policy (may I introduce you to U.S. soft power ambassador Donald Duck?).
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Paul Pescador is interested in cartoons for those reasons but for many others, too: their saturated color, their emotionality cartoons are pure melodrama and their ability to render bodies in inventive ways. “There is no more abstract version of the body than the cartoon,” says Pescador. “You shift a pencil line and you make something more curved, and you make it more feminine. It can make this remarkable c
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Ontarioâs Premier Wants a Tighter Border. A U.S. Senator Eyes Reopening It.
Although Canada is having its third wave, talk has resumed in the United States about what it will take to reopen the border between the two.
May 7, 2021
The signals from either side of the border between Canada and the United States this week could not have been more dissimilar.
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The Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Fort Erie, Ontario.Credit.Lindsay Dedario/Reuters
On this side, the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontarioâs premier, Doug Ford, who has repeatedly blamed travelers for the third wave of Covid-19, put out an ad condemning Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for not closing the border as Mr. Ford again called for more restrictions. Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat from New York, and the powerful majority leader, went to an airport near the Canadian border to say that heâs asked officials in the Biden administration to quickly âdevelop a transparent, bilateral and public�
Sharon Pollock, Playwright Who Explored Canadaâs Identity, Dies at 85
Ms. Pollock was best known for dramas inspired by historical events that examined racial tensions and other volatile issues.
The playwright Sharon Pollock, who began her career as an actress, in the 1981 Theater Calgary production of “Blood Relations,” her best-known play.Credit.George Gammon
Published May 6, 2021Updated May 7, 2021
Sharon Pollock, an oft-produced Canadian playwright who was known for works that explored Canadian history and identity at a time when few of her contemporaries were doing so, died on April 22 at her home in Calgary, Alberta. She was 85.
Her daughter Lisa Pollock said the cause was cancer.