Canuck

  Wednesday, 3 July 2002

 < 9:15:04 PM>.

Nova Scotia government pays $5 million to acquire Bay of Fundy cape: "The government said Tuesday it has purchased Cape Split, near Wolfville, for $5 million from the Jodrey family. The cape juts out into the Bay of Fundy."

 < 8:52:54 PM>.

CBC Toronto - Red Cross sends heat-wave help to homeless: "Toronto has extended its current heat alert to Thursday. With temperatures in the mid-30s the Red Cross has been working to help people deal with the heat."

Nasty stuff.

< 8:23:46 PM>.

That's 'the road'. Singular. I love this country.

< 6:09:29 PM>.

Speculation as to why: waiting until they're older; higher unemployment rates; and this surprising (to me) item: '# Canadians tend to use better contraceptive methods [^] more than eight in 10 Canadians opt for birth control pills but only one in six American women do'. Who knew?! Clearly (in my mind) this is the real reason.

< 3:20:15 PM>.

-- After years of frustrating snags and political disappointments, building the new Canadian Opera House is now possible. There's public and private money, there's land in Toronto's downtown and there's a company edgy enough to take on Atom Egoyan's rethinking of Salome. You'd think that the Canadian Opera Company could want for nothing more. Except that the design for its new house is missing a compelling libretto.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] 'The design architect Jack Diamond -- traumatized like the city's cultural impresarios by the huge acoustical mistake of Roy Thomson Hall -- has focused his energy on getting the sound right for the hall and less on the building's total architectural vision.'

Good God. It's an oopera house! Not some architec's hard on. Finally a music venue with the focus in the right place.