Earlier today thousands of Torontonians braved the cold and snow in support of two opposing rallies. I’d guess at least 2,000 made their way to Nathan Phillips Square in support of a coalition government (the Toronto Rally for a Progressive Coalition, while about 500 rallied at Queen’s Park to support the Conservatives and oppose the coalition (the Rally for Canada). There was certainly a lot of strong words said on both sides, and the occasional clash as seen near the end of the video. Regardless of your political inclination, I think today’s events speak volumes about how contentious an issue this is for Canadians and how passionate they’ve become about it.
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Gabe Toth is a photographer in Toronto who I’ve known since my early days in blogging, and he does some incredible portrait photography, so I was happy to come by and document his latest photoshoot with Superstein’s John Walke. Fair warning - this video is probably a little not safe for work seeing that Superstein was doing a shoot for some new underwear designs they’re releasing. Music by Crystal Castles.
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Update: I couldn’t find the actual names of the artists who put this together when I initially posted the video, but thankfully they came to me! Cheers to Gigi and Pipi for the marvelous performance!
Nuit Blanche is an annual “all-night contemporary art thing” that sees hundreds of thousands of people come out to see public art sprout up along the city streets. This is my second Nuit Blanche, having missed the first, and it’s always a really great feeling being out and seeing the streets packed with people who are all so excited to see what the night’s got ahead of them.
I was about to throw in the towel and call it a night at around 5am when I came across a stunning display at St. James Park on King Street East that really made the night for me. Enjoy the haunting performance “La Mamma Morta” staged right next to Toronto’s historic St. James Cathedral and look forward to more video from Nuit Blanche coming soon!
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- La Mamma Morta
