Spotted this piece of wall art in downtown Montreal on my trip there late last year.
You’ve got the city behind you
25 Sunday Jan 2015
Posted in Canada, montreal, photography, photowalking, Quebec, random, Travel, urban
Category Archives: Canada
Behind barbed wire
28 Sunday Dec 2014
Perspective is everything
27 Saturday Dec 2014
We will never forget
08 Monday Dec 2014
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canada, commemmoration, memorial, montreal, park, Polytechnique, quebec
To the little girl in the pink jacket, the little patch of raised stone adorned with metallic shapes was just something else at the park for her to play with.
As she gingerly balanced herself, her mother extended a guiding hand and gently scolded her: “You can’t walk on that.”
The girl couldn’t have been older than five, couldn’t have known what her mom knew. It wasn’t any old structure in any old park on any other day.
The bits of metal spelled out Hélène Colgan, the letters adorning one of 14 stone markers for 14 young women, victims of a massacre at the University of Montreal’s École Polytechnique in 1989.
Saturday, Dec. 6, marked a quarter century since this horrific act of violence.
The little girl and her family were among many who passed through this long, narrow memorial park just a stone’s throw from the university.
Flowers and candles paid silent tribute to so many lives lost far too soon.
Inglewood
28 Friday Nov 2014
Happy Canada Day 2014!
01 Tuesday Jul 2014
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Let that flag fly! Happy Canada Day to fellow Canadians everywhere … and whoever else wants to join in the party.
Now … time for a singalong.
O Canada
Our home and native land
True patriot love
In all thy sons command
With glowing hearts we see the rise
The true north strong and free
From far and wide, O Canada
We stand on guard for thee
God keep our land
Glorious and free
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee
O Canada, Canadian national anthem, lyrics by Justice Robert Stanley Weir, music by Calixa Lavallée.
Here’s more than you’d ever want to know about the tune … and lyrics for the official French and bilingual versions, too.
Everywhere she looked, she finally saw trouble
20 Thursday Mar 2014
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alberta, canada, front page, journalism, news, newspapers, politics
Front-page news around these parts: After weeks of controversy and pressure, Alison Redford announced yesterday her resignation as premier of Alberta, effective Sunday.
Firmly in winter’s grip
04 Tuesday Feb 2014
Posted in Canada, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
River of fog
30 Wednesday Oct 2013
Posted in British Columbia, Canada, iPhone, Travel, Vancouver
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airport, b.c., british columbia, canada, iPhoneography, photography, random, Travel, vancouver, weather
Looking down from a plane at the B.C. Lower Mainland last Tuesday … that blanket of humidity was quite shallow. As our aircraft was descending for arrival Vancouver airport, the tires hit the runway not long after we pierced through the fog.
What exists above
19 Saturday Oct 2013
Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, calgary, canada, iPhoneography, photography, photowalk, random, urban
Looking waaaay up above the Bow building in downtown Calgary.
Ricky Leong 