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Global News
4 days ago
- Business
- Global News
Time capsule inside St. Albert Hudson's Bay store donated to local museum
On June 1 Hudson's Bay stores across Canada closed for good – including the one in St. Albert, Alta. 'It was mixed emotion actually,' said Muna Abdulhussain, who worked at the Bay for 15 years. 'It was sad, very emotional to see our customers. We had very loyal customers there and built a good relationship with them.' On that final day, staff — past and present — opened a piece of history stored in the wall; a time capsule from 1995. It was supposed to be opened in 2045. 'When we opened the frame there was a hole in the wall, and they grabbed the box and there was a key attached already,' Abdulhussain explained. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy 'They opened that box (and) it was just like opening a treasure.' Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "They opened that box (and) it was just like opening a treasure." Story continues below advertisement The capsule contained an array of memories — staff names, pictures from the company's 325th anniversary, a catalogue, newspaper, a comic book about Hudson's Bay, an Eagles CD and two cassettes: The Lion King soundtrack and a Tragically Hip album. View image in full screen St. Albert Hudson's Bay time capsule. Global News 'Right away, the employees at the store and the store manager decided that this is really something that shows the history of The Bay in St. Albert,' said Musée Heritage Museum curator Martin Bierens. Hudson's Bay staff made the decision to donate it to the Musée Heritage Museum in St. Albert. 'It's not too often we get a time capsule, so this is a unique donation,' Bierens said. 'Capturing the end of the Hudson's Bay Company is very important for our museum. The Hudson's Bay Company has had an influence within our community since the founding of the community that became known as St Albert.'
CBC
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
New road closures in effect for Friday the 13th biker rally in Port Dover, Ont.
The only Friday the 13th of the year is coming up this week and for Port Dover, Ont., that means the return of the famous biker rally. Since 1981, the traditional ride on every Friday the 13th draws thousands of bikers to Port Dover, with visitors coming in from across North America. According to the Norfolk County website, road closures will begin Thursday at noon and continue until 4 a.m. Saturday. Main Street will be closed, along with Nelson Street W., part of Greenstock Street W., and portions of other streets that intersect with Main Street downtown. The municipality and organizers have shared an event map showing what will be closed and where people can park. For the first time, St. George, Walker and St. Andrew streets will be for motorcycle traffic only. "If you live on these roads and need to leave/return home for the duration, please treat these roads as one-way, and turn onto the first available side street to travel through town," Norfolk County said. Co-organizers, The Port Dover Kinsmen, will provide a shuttle bus from a parking lot out of town. On Facebook, the organization said it expects up to 200,000 visitors to the town of about 8,000. The rally will feature concerts starting Thursday at 7 p.m., and Friday at 11 a.m., including by Tragically Hip, Mötley Crüe and Guns N' Roses cover bands. This will be the only Friday the 13th in 2025, with three coming in 2026. Police remind bikers to 'share the road safely' In a June 6 news release, the Norfolk County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said most people attending the events are motorcycle enthusiasts looking to have fun. Still, he said, police will be more present than usual in Port Dover in the interest of "traffic safety." The detachment said "outlaw motorcycle gang members" will likely be in attendance and that wearing gang-related clothing can increase the risk of being targeted by rival groups. Residents should also be mindful of rules around where they can park and consume alcohol, police said. They also warned that airspace over the municipality's downtown will be closed to prevent conflicts with drones. "Motorcyclists and other drivers are reminded to share the road safely, particularly with the higher traffic volume expected over the weekend," OPP said.
Hamilton Spectator
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
Tragically Hip docuseries, ‘Canada's Drag Race' dominate early Canadian Screen Awards
TORONTO - A Prime Video docuseries on the Tragically Hip has nabbed a leading seven wins at the Canadian Screen Awards. 'The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal' from Amazon Prime Video Canada dominated a Friday evening bash for documentary, factual, lifestyle and reality categories – one of several weekend galas to celebrate the best in homegrown film, television and digital media. Trophies for the four-part docuseries included best biography or arts documentary series and best director for Michael Downie, brother of the band's late frontman Gord Downie. Crave's drag queen competition series 'Canada's Drag Race' ruled five categories, including best host for Brooke Lynn Hytes, Brad Goreski and Traci Melchor. A best sound prize for 'Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. The World' handed the franchise an additional trophy. Earlier in the day, a gala for news, entertainment and sports programming gave CBC's long-running satirical comedy 'This Hour Has 22 Minutes' four awards – best program, writing, direction and performance. The afternoon bash also named singer Nelly Furtado best host of a live entertainment special for steering the 2024 Juno Awards, in which the 'I'm Like a Bird' songstress performed a medley of her hits. The show also won best live entertainment special. The title for best national newscast went to CTV News' 'National News with Omar Sachedina,' best news or information series went to CBC's 'The Fifth Estate,' and best talk or entertainment news series went to CTV's 'The Good Stuff with Mary Berg.' Berg picked up two more wins Friday night when she nabbed best host for her CTV Life Channel show 'Mary Makes It Easy,' which also collected best lifestyle series. Best news anchor went to Adrienne Arsenault for her work on CBC's 'The National,' best national reporter went to Jeff Semple of 'Global National,' and best local reporter went to CBC Indigenous's Jackie McKay. Two galas on Saturday will cover the bulk of awards in the film and television categories. Marquee categories for top winners, including best film and best TV drama and comedy, will be announced Sunday and broadcast by CBC. At the afternoon gala on Friday, TSN's coverage of the 2024 Copa America earned three wins — for best sports program, opening and host, for James Duthie. CBC's extensive coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics nabbed two awards. The public broadcaster picked up best sports play-by-play for Mark Lee, and later in the night won best original music among factual, lifestyle, reality and entertainment categories. Best local news cast and local news anchor went to 'Global BC News Hour' and its deskers Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 30, 2025.
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tragically Hip docuseries, 'Canada's Drag Race' dominate early Canadian Screen Awards
TORONTO — A Prime Video docuseries on the Tragically Hip has nabbed a leading seven wins at the Canadian Screen Awards. 'The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal' from Amazon Prime Video Canada dominated a Friday evening bash for documentary, factual, lifestyle and reality categories – one of several weekend galas to celebrate the best in homegrown film, television and digital media. Trophies for the four-part docuseries included best biography or arts documentary series and best director for Michael Downie, brother of the band's late frontman Gord Downie. Crave's drag queen competition series 'Canada's Drag Race' ruled five categories, including best host for Brooke Lynn Hytes, Brad Goreski and Traci Melchor. A best sound prize for 'Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. The World' handed the franchise an additional trophy. Earlier in the day, a gala for news, entertainment and sports programming gave CBC's long-running satirical comedy 'This Hour Has 22 Minutes' four awards – best program, writing, direction and performance. The afternoon bash also named singer Nelly Furtado best host of a live entertainment special for steering the 2024 Juno Awards, in which the 'I'm Like a Bird' songstress performed a medley of her hits. The show also won best live entertainment special. The title for best national newscast went to CTV News' 'National News with Omar Sachedina,' best news or information series went to CBC's 'The Fifth Estate,' and best talk or entertainment news series went to CTV's "The Good Stuff with Mary Berg.' Berg picked up two more wins Friday night when she nabbed best host for her CTV Life Channel show "Mary Makes It Easy," which also collected best lifestyle series. Best news anchor went to Adrienne Arsenault for her work on CBC's 'The National,' best national reporter went to Jeff Semple of 'Global National,' and best local reporter went to CBC Indigenous's Jackie McKay. Two galas on Saturday will cover the bulk of awards in the film and television categories. Marquee categories for top winners, including best film and best TV drama and comedy, will be announced Sunday and broadcast by CBC. At the afternoon gala on Friday, TSN's coverage of the 2024 Copa America earned three wins — for best sports program, opening and host, for James Duthie. CBC's extensive coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics nabbed two awards. The public broadcaster picked up best sports play-by-play for Mark Lee, and later in the night won best original music among factual, lifestyle, reality and entertainment categories. Best local news cast and local news anchor went to 'Global BC News Hour' and its deskers Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 30, 2025. Cassandra Szklarski, The Canadian Press Sign in to access your portfolio
Globe and Mail
29-05-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Toronto band Martha and the Muffins at odds with Conservatives over song use
Toronto new-wave band Martha and the Muffins is trying a relatively novel legal strategy to prevent Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre from using its song Echo Beach at rallies in his upcoming by-election campaign. After learning that he and at least one other Conservative candidate used the Juno Award-winning 1980 song at rallies during the spring election cycle, the band's manager took to social media to ask him to stop, but says Poilievre did not respond. Because Mr. Poilievre lost his Ottawa-area riding and plans to run again in an Alberta by-election, Martha and the Muffins is taking steps to prevent him from once again using Echo Beach at events. Crucially, the band is asserting its moral rights to not be associated with Mr. Poilievre's politics, which are at odds with the often left-leaning stances the band takes in song. 'They do not endorse you or the Conservative party in any way, and the false perception that they do causes prejudice to their reputation,' the band's intellectual-property lawyer, Dickinson Wright LLP partner Paul Bain, wrote in a letter to Poilievre this week. Musicians often send legal threats to politicians they don't agree with who use their songs in campaigns without consent, sometimes escalating them into lawsuits. Neil Young and Rihanna are among the many musicians who've tried to stop U.S. President Donald Trump from using their music. Paul Langlois of the Tragically Hip also condemned the federal Conservatives' use of his band's song Fifty Mission Cap at an event in 2023. But the Conservatives' use of the Hip's music, like the party's more recent uses of Echo Beach that Martha and the Muffins's lawyer outlines in his legal letter, highlights a lesser-known tenet of Canadian copyright licensing. It's typical here for venues or event organizers to have licences from the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) – and so permission isn't explicitly required from songwriters to use individual licensed songs. As well as disagreeing with the Poilievre's policies more generally, in an interview, Martha and the Muffins members Martha Johnson and Mark Gane decried the Conservative Party's historic treatment of the arts, which saw cuts to supports under former prime minister Stephen Harper. 'Respect for the artist doesn't seem to be there,' Ms. Johnson said. When it came to the party's use of Echo Beach, Mr. Gane said, 'It's not just an affront to us – it's an affront to anybody who makes anything, and has somebody come and take it for their own use.' In the U.S., the performing-rights organization ASCAP allows musicians to opt out of having their songs featured in political campaigns. The blanket licences from SOCAN, a parallel organization in Canada, do not have that same flexibility. 'If Mark had opted out of a political-campaign blanket licence, then no politician would have been able to use that song,' Martha and the Muffins manager Graham Stairs said. In an e-mail, SOCAN's legal counsel Adam Jacobs said: 'We understand the concerns raised by our members about the use of their music in political campaigns. As always, we will explore and consider the most effective ways to protect our members' rights and their musical works.' This is why Martha and the Muffins is taking the relatively untested avenue of asserting their moral rights not to be associated with the Conservatives or its leader. In one oft-cited case in the visual-art world, Toronto's Eaton Centre was found to have violated sculptor Michael Snow's moral rights by tying Christmastime ribbons around the geese he had sculpted for display in the mall. 'While there have been some cases dealing with violations of moral rights of musicians and performers, there is no precedent in the context of use by politicians,' Mr. Bain said in an e-mail. Though this specific kind of music use by politicians has not been tested in court, 'that does not mean that the law is unclear, or that this is some 'out-there' theory, or that artists have no recourse.' The letter points to the Copyright Act's safeguards for 'the author's or performer's right to the integrity of a work or performer's performance,' which can be 'infringed only if the work or the performance is, to the prejudice of its author's or performer's honour or reputation . . . used in association with a product, service, cause or institution.' Moral rights fall outside SOCAN's mandate, Mr. Jacobs said, but he added that they 'may be relevant' in certain situations. 'It would be up to the individual songwriter or performer to assert those rights and meet the legal thresholds for proving an infringement of their moral rights.' A representative for the Conservative Party did not respond to comment requests – nor did Re:Sound, the not-for-profit that administers licences for recording copyrights, which are separate from songwriting copyrights.
