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[Victoria Watcher]

Canada Day events on southern Island

https://www.timescol...-events-5534121

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 June 2022 - 02:40 AM.

[spanky123]

^ Yes but how many of those will require that you be lectured on how you are a thief and a loser in order to watch the fireworks?!

[LJ]

Can't hear the speeches watching the fireworks from Bear Mountain, thank god.

[todd]

[JimV]

On July 1 around noon there were two canoes being spasmodically paddled near Ship Point.  Council, presumably.  I feared that a rogue wave might tip them into the cold water and suck them out to sea, thus depriving us forever of their wise management.  Fortunately this didn’t happen.

[Mike K.]

No more planning drama for Canada Day, as this year the City took a stance on helping plans with “large scale” festivities.

From the CoV:

This year the City will be supporting 46 festivals and celebrations with $390,470 in Festival Investment Grant (FIG) funding to enhance Victoria’s vibrancy, while celebrating our cultural diversity.

New in 2023, the City is supporting a Canada Day funding stream to support community-led programming on July 1. As part of this pilot project, Penmar Community Arts Society has been awarded funding to produce a large-scale Inner Harbour celebration including live entertainment and family-friendly activities.

Funding for five community celebrations, seven new or emerging festivals, 30 established festivals, three signature festivals and one community-led Canada Day celebration has been awarded to local non-profit organizations.

Many of the festivals receiving funding are celebrations of the diverse cultures and communities that make up Victoria. Highlights include Victoria Pride Week, Outstages Festival, African and Caribbean Cultural Week, Khalsa Day Parade, Folktoria Multicultural Festival, Festival Mexicano, One Wave Gathering, Rendez-vous Victoria and the Victoria Highland Games.

Victoria residents and visitors will also have a wide range of artistic disciplines to choose from, whether it’s a day at the Art Gallery Paint-In, enjoying the Symphony in the Summer Festival, or taking in a performance during SKAMpede.

The Festival Investment Grant program, now in its 24th year, has seen more than $4 million in grants nurture the development and sustainability of high-quality annual festivals and celebrations. The pursuit of arts, culture and tourism opportunities is a key goal of the City’s Create Victoria Arts and Culture Master Plan.

Watch for the online City Vibe guide coming in May for a complete list of upcoming family-friendly events and festivals around the city.

[Victoria Watcher]

Just over a month before the big event, organizers of this year’s Canada Day festivities on the legislature lawn have found a new presenting sponsor.

 

EF International Language Campuses has stepped in to take on the job, after last year’s main sponsor, Central Walk Holdings Ltd., owners of Mayfair Shopping Centre, announced last month it would not be back.

While the cost of presenting sponsorship was not confirmed, it’s believed to be about half the $250,000 cost of putting on the event.

 

“We’re very pleased, and EF is a great organization — this is a really good fit for us,” said Douglas Smith, managing partner for Blue Coast Event Group, producer of the show, which is organized by the non-profit Penmar Community Arts Society. “As multicultural as Canada has become and as diverse as we want to make Canada Day, it’s just a fantastic partner to have.

 

 

https://www.timescol...slature-7053446

[spanky123]

Well good to hear they have found sponsors although we seem to have gone from Canada Day being presented by a Chinese billionaire to being presented by the folks who are contributing to our housing crisis with educational tourism!

I wonder if City Hall twisted any arms?!

[Mike K.]

Yeah, odd. Academia doesn't like to talk about how it impacts the housing markets in the community's it operates international programs in.

[FawltyVic]

Maybe just in time for Canada Day?

 

Bonnie Crombie wants feds to change O Canada lyrics for reconciliation | Toronto Sun

 

Bonnie Crombie wants changes to the national anthem to advance reconciliation.

 

During Wednesday’s Mississauga council meeting, the city’s mayor and potential provincial Liberal leadership candidate plans to put forward a motion to ask the federal government to change “our home and Native land” to “our home on Native land.”

 

This comes after singer Jully Black made a change to the lyrics while singing O Canada at the NBA all-star game. The change was lauded by some, vilified by others.

 

The motion says “the new wording represents a truth which is critical to the understanding of present-day Canada and that such a change is consistent with the federal government’s commitment to reconciliation.”

Indigenous groups praised Black when she sang the change to the anthem.

[spanky123]

I thought that the term "natives" was derogatory?

 

I also thought that the term "native" in the anthem referred to the actual oxford definition of "native" which meant the place we were born and not anything to do with FN.

[Nparker]

You're right of course spanky123, but when have facts ever mattered to the woke?

[LJ]

Tell Bonnie to take a hike, not on Bear Mountain though.