I suppose she does, I’d prefer to see her in than Mike Bernier. Fun fact: I went to private high school with former Education Minister Mike Bernier.
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I wonder how Andrew Scheer will digest his morning news that the second seat CPC lost was one that was held by the right for literally decades. Could be worse: it could have been the Lloydminster seat lost too.
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I was talking about this elsewhere, that racism in Canada is different from that in America.
And then this popped up on my FB feed.
So, to clarify, SOME of the racism in Canada is different, some of it is the same right wing conspiracy nuts y’all got too. WTF is a “French terrorist”?? /sigh
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ISIS… in St. Thomas.
I’ve been to St. Thomas. Its two biggest claims to fame are that about a hundred years ago a circus elephant got hit by a train there and was killed, and that Ryan Gosling is from around there.
Not exactly ISIS-attracting.
But then, I’ve been insisting since the late 80s that Southwestern Ontario is more messed up than anyone is willing to believe.
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“Frenchie” + "Terrorist"
I still don’t get that connection…
I’m going to go with “mental health issue” + “FoxNews”
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Probably FLQ something something. They’re not exactly au courant out there.
As far as mental health issues go: there are three major hospitals with mental health wards in the London area. St. Thomas had a full-blown hospital dedicated to mental health care; my ex-FIL used to work there. So if people get discharged and don’t have anyone to support them on the outside… they tend to stay in the area.
Good.
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My reasoning failed at the “must bring bat with me to Pharmasave.”
[eta:]“Wait, this isn’t Boppers Drug Mart? Sorry!”
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It’s too close to Detroit. 
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More specifically, it’s downwind from Detroit and Sarnia and Hamilton, according to a geography teacher I used to work with. It’s like this collecting pool for airborne pollution.
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I wasn’t talking about pollution, I was talking about US TV being viewable by too much of SW ON. 
Then again, there sure are a damned lot of refineries just south of Sarnia on the St. Claire river.
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Unfortunately, this is not new in Canada. Companies have a long history of leveraging their power to kill media stories, this one just happens to have a war with fishermen (their own East Coast powerhouse) and the Streisand affect. Most times we never even know.
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Thats cuz we don’t actually have “free speech” up here. A thing people forget, a lot.
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I LITERALLY GASPED OUTLOUD AND GOT GOOSEBUMPS OMG OMG OMG
IF YOU DON’T READ GUY GAVRIEL KAY WHY NOT?
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For those of us without Facebook? What’s the summary?
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All right, this press release went out yesterday, bit of a holiday season present. We have Breaking News, as they say. Short version: I’ve entered a development agreement with the really impressive production company that did “Orphan Black” - to produce The Fionavar Tapestry as a television series.
There are many stages to any project as big as this one will be, but I’m genuinely happy - these are really good people, several of them with a personal passion for the trilogy (including Kris Holden-Ried, who was all-in some time ago, as it worked its way through the ‘process’).
Here’s the press release. You know I’ll keep you all posted as events unfold.
Boat Rocker Studio’s Temple Street secures television rights to international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Fionavar Tapestry
Toronto, Canada – December 18, 2017 - Temple Street, a division of Boat Rocker Studios, has secured the television rights to international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Fionavar Tapestry. Published as three volumes in the mid-1980s (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire
and The Darkest Road), the trilogy has sold more than a million copies around the world, and has been dubbed by The Guardian one of the classics of modern fantasy. New York Times bestselling writer Brandon Sanderson has called Kay “the greatest living author of fantasy literature.”
The Tapestry tells the tale of five young men and women who are brought to Fionavar – the first of all worlds. Told they are simply to be guests for the 50th anniversary celebration of a
king’s ascension to the throne, each of the five discovers they have a greater, dangerous role to play as they’re thrust into a war between the forces of good and evil, whose outcome will affect all worlds, including our own.
Kay draws upon a variety of creatures and mythologies, predominantly Celtic and Norse, to create the world of Fionavar, and the saga also features the legendary story of King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere, heroes of medieval literature.
“Guy’s work is exhilarating and cathartic, and we can’t wait to share this epic story with audiences around the world,” say Boat Rocker’s co-executive chairmen David Fortier and Ivan
Schneeberg. “Given the current appetite for big budget, high-fantasy adaptations, the timing for Fionavar couldn’t be better. We’re excited to start assembling the creative team to help realize our vision.”
“I’m truly happy that David and Ivan and the impressive team at Temple Street are the ones bringing my trilogy to television. I know The Tapestry has had a powerful impact on readers – and on other writers – and that’s part of why I’ve been careful with the rights. I’m excited and anticipate this adaptation will bring new people to Fionavar, while rewarding longstanding fans,” says Guy Gavriel Kay.
Fortier and Schneeberg will executive produce for Temple Street (Orphan Black, Killjoys), along with Kris Holden-Ried (Vikings, Tudors, Lost Girl). “The magic of Fionavar transcends the page. It’s a clarion call to that which is best in all of us, and it’s an honour to be bringing the emotional poetry of Guy’s books to the screen,” says Kris Holden-Ried.
Temple Street’s Senior Vice President Kerry Appleyard and Senior Development Producer Lesley Grant will oversee series adaptation for the studio, and Boat Rocker Rights will control
worldwide rights
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I really like GGK, but Fionavar is one of his earliest works and, although it had gorgeous imagery and writing, I recall it as being fairly problematic. Also, I would rather they adapted the Sarantine Mosaic or The Lions of Al-Rassan.
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Fionavar?
Not Tigana?
Or The Last Light of the Sun?
Or Under Heaven?
or Sailing to Sarantium?
Or A Song for Arbonne?
Out of all of Kay’s works, they’re adapting Fionavar?!
Seriously, though. You ask “If you’re not a Guy Gavriel Kay fan, why not?” - I almost wasn’t, because I read Fionavar. It’s thoroughly derivative of The Silmarillion (which Kay helped edit), it’s sexed up to the point of overcompensating for Tolkien’s lack of such, and every possible loose end is tied up into a Love-Actually-Rowan-Atkinson-style package that leaves nothing to the imagination. I closed that cover with the firm intention of never reading anything by the same author again.
I then had the good fortune of taking a college course that set Tigana as one of the books being studied, and I realized that Kay can actually write, and I started seeking out other books he’d written, all of which are so much better than Fionavar (except for Ysabel, which is only somewhat better than Fionavar).
Colour me disappointed. Don’t get me wrong: I’m happy for Kay; he deserves to have one of his stories adapted for the screen. Any story other than Fionavar, though, would have been a better choice.
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Because its a Toronto production house, the thing is set in Toronto (in the non-Fionavar bits) and Guy is a Toronto boy?
I don’t care what you or @cheem1 say, Fionavar is my fave. Paul on the summer tree makes me weep like a baby every time.
Don’t get me wrong, I love them all, especially Tigana, but Fionavar is the first of all worlds, so its apt to me. 
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