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A well timed family holiday to Toronto meant I was fortunate enough to attend the 44th Toronto International Film Festival. It’s interesting to first note that every film began with a thanks to the indigenous tribes that owned the land where the theatre stood. This is was a welcome recognition of First Nation peoples, one […]
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Image credit: Liam Frahm. Description: Rugby match between Oxford and Canada The Oxford University Rugby Football Club Men’s Blues gave an excellent account of themselves but ultimately failed to continue their good run of form against a challenging Canadian national team, losing 26-20. The Canadians came to a buzzing Iffley Road stadium at 7:15pm on […]
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Toronto is an ethnic melting pot: originally in Iroquois territory (and before then it was occupied by the Wyandot people), it was invaded by French merchants, British refugees from the newly independent United States. In the subsequent centuries there were waves of migration from across Europe and Asia, all contributing to the city’s rich cultural […]
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On 28th December 2015 I boarded a plane to Montreal, Canada. I was about to travel 3300 miles to meet my girlfriend of six months for the first time. I met Keri in a fandom for a video game called Life Is Strange. I had never met anyone I got along with so well before. […]
Continue ReadingCanada’s francophone province has much more to offer than we may first expect. Quebec and its vibrant city Montreal are well known for their bilingual nature and the divide between Francophones and Anglophones. We are all aware of the separatist question and the strong independence movement, which gained momentum in the 1960s. Whilst this movement […]
Continue ReadingGold for Team GB in the rowing! There’s got to be a link in there somewhere to Yann Martel’s tale of a young boy lost on the Pacific ocean. Perhaps something like, ‘Thank goodness the British rowing pair were in safer waters yesterday than the character of Pi in Life of Pi‘. No, that’s awful. […]
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