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Manson’s next projects include a tour in Canada with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and more performances in Europe, but she plans to make a stop in her hometown of Cambridge this June for Radcliffe Day, when she is being honored as an outstanding alumna by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies...
Washington is running out of excuses to act on climate change. That's the message from the Midwest, where governors from nine states in the region, along with the Canadian province of Manitoba, on Wednesday signed a landmark deal to reduce energy consumption, promote renewable power and cut carbon emissions. Hammered out at a regional summit in Milwaukee, the pact calls for a 2% reduction in energy use by 2015, with a 2% cut every year after that; an increase in the availability of a cleaner ethanol-gasoline mix known as E85; and 10% of the region's electricity...
...million has left less of an artistic footprint than, say, Hong Kong (6 million population) in the 80s or Sweden (4 million) in the Ingmar Bergman years. The provinces have produced a few notable directors - David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan from Ontario, Denys Arcand from Quebec, Guy Maddin from Manitoba - but their careers date back to the 60s, 70s or 80s. Other Canadians, like directors Norman Jewison and Paul Haggis and a slew of comedy stars, have packed their bags and emigrated to the dominant movie culture...
...After Sunday's screening of My Winnipeg, Maddin took some questions about his "docu-fantasia" on the Manitoba city he's lived in all his life. A man in the audience stood up and said he'd been born and raised there before moving to Toronto, and that he liked it. "Don't you like Winnipeg?" the man asked accusingly. Maddin smiled and replied, "You're the one who left...
However, as a minor-league journeyman splitting his time among AHL teams in Portland, Hamilton, and Manitoba during the 2006-2007 campaign, Grumet-Morris first attracted the attention of the Predators thanks to his .926 save percentage and a 2.30 goals-against average in 17 AHL contests...