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Canadians sometimes wonder whether Alberta is actually tethered to the rest of the country, at least temperamentally. With its right-of-mainstream attitudes and its progressive, get-it-done mentality, Wild Rose Country is looking increasingly like the wild child of the Canadian family. From their vantage point, Albertans increasingly view the rest of Canada as a crotchety, aging relative: slow moving and stuck in the past...
...largest Academy contingent. A long-standing grievance of the Screen Actors Guild is "runaway productions": movies shot abroad, especially in Canada, that ship jobs out of the U.S. Thus there may be some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that?s so teeming with speaking parts it seems to have employed half the SAG members in Southern California...
...voting contingent. A long-standing grievance of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is "runaway productions": movies shot abroad, especially in Canada, that ship jobs out of the U.S. Thus there may be some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that has--as one of its stars and producers, Don Cheadle, boasted a month ago when the film won the sag ensemble award--74 speaking parts for actors. Hey, hey, U.S.A...
...Renner and Scott have raced against and with each other in Alberta since childhood days. "I said to Sara when we were finishing our warmup today, 'We've come a long way baby,'" said Scott, who almost retired after winning a gold medal in Salt Lake City, and almost certainly will stop ski racing after this World Cup season. "To finish it with an Olympic medal...well, I'm not going to say it's surreal," Scott said. "We promised each other that we wouldn't get to get too fruity at the end of this...
...flat-light conditions and as a result, personified the team?s performance on Wedensday. Alpine Canada?s chief athletic officer, Max Gartner, assessed it with one word: ?Bad.? Brydon was the top Canadian, finishing 20th, followed by Kelly VanderBeek of Chilliwack, B.C., in 24th, Shona Rubens (26th) of Canmore, Alberta and Sherry Lawrence (27th) of Calgary. The winner was Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister who just weeks away from retirement capped a remarkable career with her first Olympic gold medal. Dorfmeister won in one minute 56.49 seconds, 0.37 seconds clear of silver medalist Martina Schild of Switzerland. Anja Paerson of Sweden took...