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Music videos from everyone’s favorite Canadian indie supergroup used to involve drag queens, bulldozers, jerky dance moves, or David Cross cameos. Nothing so exciting drops by in this clip: Two kids (real-life couple Sam and Andrea from Brooklyn art punk band Courtier) sit on a dilapidated loveseat and gaze into each other’s eyes for a bit. She looks like she’s going to eat him; he blinks a lot. On-and-off ensemble member Neko Case perches wistfully on an antique chair and belts out to no one in particular, tapping...
...support the concept of brain drain—it’s such an extravagance to send those we educate back to their countries of origin, to waste their education among non-American peoples—the very presence of foreigners on our soil (especially that of the wild Canadian hordes) makes my skin crawl. And there’s only one thing that makes my skin stop crawling—apple pie, just like my mom makes (my mom, who is American?...
Indeed, in Montana's Little Rockies, a gold mining operation that was abandoned in 1997 after 20 years of cyanide leaching - a method of dissolving gold from ore rocks - is still polluting the area and costing millions in public funds to monitor and treat groundwater. Pegasus Gold, the Canadian mine operator, which has since filed for bankruptcy, paid no royalties on the gold it extracted from the area, and now the Ft. Belknap Tribes of Montana, whose reservations adjoin the Little Rockies mining district, says its surface waters are showing unacceptable levels of iron, arsenic, zinc and nickel. "Our biggest...
...weekend against McGill’s Charline Labonte, whom Harvard coach Katey Stone called “one of the best goaltenders in the world.”The Crimson swept a two-game exhibition series at the Bright Hockey Center against Labonte—a goalie on the Canadian national team—and the Martlets, earning a 3-2 victory in Friday’s opener and winning Saturday’s game by a score of 5-3.Harvard’s new starting line, comprised of Vaillancourt, freshman Liza Ryabkina, and sophomore Anna McDonald?...
...game tuneup to the regular season. The matchup boasted enough star power to draw Jim Shatford, a regional scout for Team Canada women’s hockey, to the press box. “From a scouting standpoint, it’s always nice to evaluate the Canadians and the Americans when they play together,” Shatford said. “We have a mixture of Olympic-caliber players in this contest...which always makes for interesting, competitive hockey.” In fact, a total of three players with Olympic experience made an appearance this weekend...