Feb. 19, 2022: This is from my old physical news articles:
Sept. 17, 2015 "'Hangry'? Wrong time for a date": Today I found this article by Ko Im in the Edmonton Journal:
We’re hurrying to cross the street and he reaches for my hand as the traffic light above turns from red to green. It’s a sweet gesture, but I leave him hanging. Maybe it’s because I’m shy. Maybe it’s because it’s not really a date and we’re just hanging out.
EDMONTON — Stephen Robinson can now check “learn how to make a plane flip” off his “to do” list. That’s just one of the new skills the 21-year-old has picked up recently. He plans to learn a new one each week until he hits 52 and document the whole process in a video blog.
“52skillz is all about going and doing awesome stuff every week of the year,” Robinson explained.
He got the idea for the project while learning to moonwalk and play the guitar for a friend’s birthday. The skill he’s most excited about tackling is surviving in the wild. He’s saving that one for summer, though.
“The really cool thing about a lot of these skills is when you go out and ask people to share with you what they’re really good at, people love that,” he said.
Another thing Robinson has had to teach himself? How to shoot and edit video, which he said takes up the majority of the time he spends on 52skillz. Luckily, time management seems to be an inherent talent of his. The fourth-year psychology student manages to fit in a full course load at the University of Alberta. His secret, he revealed, is to focus on just five main tasks each day.
“Finals season was a little interesting. I actually got Carpal tunnel in my fingers because I was doing so much writing and editing.
“Sometimes there’s sacrifices with very little sleep, all that sort of stuff…like malnutrition,” he joked.
Robinson hopes what he’s doing inspires others to go out and try new things themselves.
“The biggest thing I’ve learned from this is if there’s the right motivation behind anything, anyone can do cool stuff. There’s nothing special about myself. I just have the right motivations,” Robinson said.
“I get a lot of people telling me, ‘Oh man. What you’re doing is so interesting. I wish I had this interesting of a life.’ Well, you can. Just go do it.”
U of A student’s mission: learn 52 skills in 52 weeks - Edmonton | Globalnews.ca
"How an affair can break- or remake- a marriage"/ "Woman Thanks Restaurant Critic for Exposing Husband's Affair"/ relationships during the pandemic
grey issues (Part 1)/ Justin Berry/ intervention/ abortions
"This man will pay you $10,000 to find him a girlfriend"/ "Matchmaker, make me a match"/ "Autistic teenager found more than two years after disappearing in California"
"Will Smith Reveals Details of His Open Marriage With Jada Pinkett Smith"/ "Will Arnett recalls his 'brutal' divorce from Amy Poehler: 'It was a painful couple of years'"
"The life of a US teen bride"/ "24-Year-Old Man Finds Love and a New Kidney Through Tinder: 'Never Would've Expected That'"
The 2022 Juno Awards host is in the midst of a life-changing year. Already known to Canadian audiences as Jung on the CBC sitcom Kim's Convenience, Liu became a household name worldwide when he starred in the Marvel's Shang-Chi, which debuted last September.
The movie broke the Labour Day box-office record — a particularly impressive feat during a pandemic — and went on to gross over $400 million worldwide.
"When I think back to my experience shooting the first one, I think I just spent so much of it, like, in a constant state of terror of myself, of the movie not doing well," said Liu in an interview with Tom Power on CBC's Q.
"It was just a very anxiety-ridden process that was one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life. But the chance to kind of go back and revisit and to take on that character one more time is very exciting for me because I feel like I've settled in a little bit.
I'm not trying to prove myself. It's not like I have the added pressure of, like, introducing myself to the world."
Boy band past
The Shang-Chi soundtrack isn't Liu's first foray into music. When he was around 12 or 13 years old, he convinced three of his friends to form a boy band called LX4 (they all had last names that started with the letter L). Liu was hoping to impress his crush at the time, who was into NSYNC.
The boys recorded a song called For You, written by a friend who played the piano, which made it onto the school's annual student-made album.
Liu admits that he was the most hardcore band member. He recalls an old email in which he passionately tries to convince the others to hire their music teacher as their manager "to take it big."
"I feel like it was, like, my pressure that I was putting onto the group that really … tore us apart in the end," said Liu.
"Everyone was like, 'This is stupid.' And I was like, 'This is the best thing ever, guys. We need to take this seriously.'"
Juno Awards host Simu Liu reflects on Shang-Chi, hosting SNL and his boy band past | CBC Radio
May 12, 2022 "She's 19 and just finished law school. Now she wants to fix the U.S. education system": Today I found this article written by Philip Drost. Produced by Kate McGillivray on CBC news:
Haley Taylor Schlitz wants to change a system that tried to hold her back. The 19-year-old will be the youngest person to graduate from the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University (SMU), a private school in University Park, Texas.
According to research done by her family, she is also the youngest Black student to graduate from any law school in the United States. Now she wants to use that education and her own personal experiences to reform the public school system.
"All school quality, obviously, should be equal because we want all of our students and all of our next generation to get a great education and move our country forward," Schlitz told As It Happens guest host Helen Mann.
While homeschooling, Taylor Schlitz says she was able to focus on her weaknesses to become a well-rounded student. She says the setup also allowed her to improve skills such as time management and self-accountability.
And she soared. By 13, she had completed all the requirements she needed to finish high school. By 16 she had finished her undergraduate degree in education at Texas Woman's University.
Now she's graduating from Southern Methodist University at 19. The CBC reached out to SMU for comment.
"One is from inside the system, being a teacher of colour, being that good influence, creating that environment of good learning for the students. And one is from outside the system, being somebody who changes the nuts and bolts and foundation of the educational system," she said.
"I feel called to teaching, but I would also love to serve the community in any way that I can and really change the educational system."
She's 19 and just finished law school. Now she wants to fix the U.S. education system | CBC Radio
My opinion: I like this story because it's about a prodigy. Also it's inspiring and positive to read.
"This Texas woman with dementia went missing. Her dog helped save her": This is written and produced by Aloysius Wong on CBC news:
When Sherry Noppe went missing, her son Justin Noppe and his siblings were worried. Their mother had recently been diagnosed with dementia. But now she's home safe — thanks in no small part to the family dog.
Sherry Noppe went for a spa day with her husband on Tuesday. Later in the afternoon, she went for a walk with her black Labrador, Max, around George Bush Park, a 3,600-hectare park in Katy, Texas.
"I was amazed at how strong she was," family friend Michael England, who participated in the search efforts, told KHOU. "She wasn't severely disoriented and out of it but definitely lost.… She didn't know what to do."
It took co-ordination and dedication from the rescue teams. The search helicopter found a heat signal, and alerted the volunteers on the ground. Once they arrived, they heard a dog barking.
It was Max. He had stayed with her the entire time.
"He stayed by her side for three days with no leash and no collar," Noppe said. "Just stayed by her and protected her for the whole time."
On Twitter, Harris County Precinct 5 Constable Ted Heap credited the rescue to "group of tireless volunteers and deputies," and of course, Max.
A special bond
Noppe says his mother and Max share a particularly close relationship.
Max belonged to Justin's brother, Andrew, who raised him since he was a puppy. When Andrew died two and a half years ago, his parents took Max in.
"[My mother] took my brother's loss very, very difficult, and really leaned on Max and just has this relationship with Max," he said.
In a press conference the day his mother was found, Justin Noppe said Max is the last thing his family has of Andrew.
This Texas woman with dementia went missing. Her dog helped save her | CBC Radio
May 14, 2022 "Ed Sheeran Helped Tom Parker Pay For Cancer Treatment, Late Star's Autobiography Reveals": Today I found this article by Ash Percival on Yahoo news:
Ed Sheeran helped Tom Parker pay for cancer treatment prior to his death, the late Wanted singer’s autobiography has revealed.
Tom died in March the age of 33 after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour in 2020.
In an extract of his forthcoming autobiography published in The Sun, Tom told of how Ed had offered to do “anything he could” to help him after his diagnosis, calling him a “very special man”.
Writing prior to his death, Tom said: “Pretty much from the moment I was diagnosed, Ed Sheeran reached out to me with an offer to do anything he could to help.
“Ed and I have known each other since he joined The Wanted on our tour bus during a promotion trip in America more than ten years ago.
“We’ve always run into each other over the years and had a great relationship.”
He continued: “I’ve never publicly said this before (and he’ll probably be mad that I’m doing it now) but Ed is a very special man — he even helped out with my medical bills when I was seeking other treatment options and having private immunotherapy.
“He didn’t need to do any of that, but my wife Kelsey and I are so grateful to him for his support. It meant the world.”
Ed Sheeran Helped Tom Parker Pay For Cancer Treatment, Late Star's Autobiography Reveals (yahoo.com)
May 14, 2022 Garage sale: I was walking to Shoppers Drug Mart and saw this sign. After I went to the store, I went here. There were lots of paintings of colors and on wooden butterflies. I liked them, but not enough to buy them. The woman said she tried to sell them at a Farmer's Market, but no one bought them.
May 15, 2022 Vegetarian and Vegans of Alberta Meetup: I went to this one tonight. My friend Cham can't come, then I called Dan L. and he had plans, then I called Mark and Mel and they're busy, and then Jessica. I went on my own, and my dad drove me so that's good. It was close by.
It was a potluck and I bumped into 3 people from the Personality Meetup from last week who were there. I also met about 6 other people. I brought a case of Crush Cream Soda and only one guy had one.
"Get on your bike: Coldplay hopes to lead with a green tour": Today I found this article by Mark Kennedy on BNN Bloomberg. I like to read about saving the environment:
It's often said that fans at live concerts give the band a jolt of electricity. Coldplay wants to literally harness that.
The pop superstars have added kinetic dance floors and energy-storing stationary bikes to their latest world tour, encouraging fans to help power the show as they dance or spin.
It's part of a larger push to make the tour more environmentally friendly. The band — whose songs include the appropriately titled “Higher Power” — has pledged to be as sustainable and low-carbon as possible, hoping to cut their CO2 emissions by 50%.
“You don’t want to come across as being overly earnest. This stuff is really good fun as well,” said bassist Guy Berryman. “That's the way it will bed in, if people see it less as a sort of onerous responsibility and more as a kind of opportunity to do something fun and it’s a benefit to the environment and to the whole concert experience.”
Each kinetic dance floor can hold dozens of people, with electricity created when movement is made on them. The band has pre-show contests to see which group of fans can generate the most power, fueled by “Jump Around” by House of Pain.
And each of the bikes — a minimum of 15 but can be scaled up depending on the venue size — can generate an average of 200 watts of energy, captured in batteries that run elements of the show.
Coldplay is just one music act working to reduce effects of the climate footprints of their tours, a list that includes Billie Eilish, Harry Styles, The Lumineers, Dave Matthews Band, Shawn Mendes, Maroon 5, John Mayer, Lorde, The Chicks, Jason Isbell and The 1975.
Get on your bike: Coldplay hopes to lead with a green tour - BNN Bloomberg
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