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Canadian hunk, Frank, 25, has been told for a while that he's photogenic (well, they're right!) and so he decided to give modeling a shot. A natural jock, he enjoys going to the gym, playing football, hockey, basketball, any and every sport. He stands 5' 8" at 154 lbs.Anyone have any idea who this Canadian hunk is? Even without a full name, he is definitely eye candy material.
Frank currently attends University of Toronto.
I can't recall seeing a film in which I have so often wondered, "My God, how must that feel?" We in the audience are meant to be as unsettled as the characters. I've heard complaints about the ending being over-the-top, but my background is live theater, and you won't hear them from me. The storytelling in Incendies strikes me as primal the way Greek tragedy is primal. Shattering. Cathartic. It is a breathtaking film.So clearly Incendies is a suspenseful, mysterious drama in French (and Arabic) with English subtitles. It was Canada's entry into the Foreign Language Oscar competition, but most of the scenes occur in an unspecified Middle Eastern country (presumed to be Lebanon).
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| 2011 Seats % Votes | 4 6.0 | 167 39.6 | 1 3.7 | 34 18.9 | 102 30.6 | 0 0.9 |
| 2008 Seats % Votes | 49 10.0 | 143 37.6 | - 6.8 | 77 26.2 | 37 18.2 | 2 1.2 |
| 2006 Seats % Votes | 51 10.5 | 124 36.3 | - 4.5 | 103 30.2 | 29 17.5 | 1 1.0 |
Here is the Forum research poll:May 1, 2011
National Federal Vote Intention
(committed voters only)
34.8% Conservative Party of Canada
32.4% New Democratic Party
20.4% Liberal Party of Canada
5.7% Bloc Québécois
5.6% Green Party of Canada
n=2,988
However, as social democrat notes at DailyKos.com, this does not mean that NDP will end the election with enough seats to lead the next Canadian government, due to the vagaries of the first-past-the-post parliamentary system.May 1, 2011
National Federal Vote Intention
35% Conservative Party of Canada
33% New Democratic Party
19% Liberal Party of Canada
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| Canadian Milos Raonic defeated Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in the finals of the SAP Open in San Jose, CA to win his 1st ATP title |
It is very notable that an LGBT-supportive country like Canada, which legalized marriage equality way back in 2005, has only been able to get a bill passed through one house of the legislature banning anti-transgender discrimination in 2011. Here in the United States we are nowhere near to a national legal consensus on marriage equality and we haven't been able to pass a bill banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation despite trying since 1973! There are only 12 states which include the T in their LGB anti-discrimination laws.The entire NDP and Bloc Quebecois caucuses and six Conservative members voted in favour of Bill C-389, allowing it to pass with a vote of 143-135 in the House of Commons Wednesday night. Some Liberals voted against the bill while others abstained.The private member’s bill is now handed to the Senate — where the Conservatives have a majority — where it must pass before becoming law.In terms of votes, the unelected Senate has historically followed the lead of its elected counterpart. But late last year, members of the upper chamber came under fire when they defied the opinion of majority of the House, and defeated an environmental bill.The Leader of the Government in the Senate, Marjory LeBreton, said the bill will be treated the same way it was in the House, and “sees no evidence at all” to indicate any party lines will be taken.The bill, sponsored by NDP MP Bill Siksay, would prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression through adding “gender identity” and “gender expression” to the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination in the Canada Human Rights Act, and through adding transgendered and transsexual Canadians as identifiable groups in the Criminal Code’s hate crimes law.
Hopefully if there's a Spring election, there will be a change in Governments from the Conservatives to the Liberals.Critics have dubbed the legislation “the bathroom bill,” claiming it would allow male sexual predators to invade women’s washrooms and change rooms.[...]The Conservatives, who have a majority in the Red Chamber, have adopted the tactic of using the Senate to block private-members’ bills passed by the House of Commons that don’t accord with the government’s agenda.Legislation to force the government to act on climate change was defeated last year, while bills requiring Supreme Court judges to be bilingual, providing tax credits for university graduates who work in certain regions and offering restitution for Italian Canadians interned during the Second World War, lie in limbo.Since Prime Minister Stephen Harper does not support the transgendered-rights legislation, it will doubtless face similar purgatory when it arrives in the Senate.And with prospects for a spring election increasing, because opposition parties can’t bring themselves to support the upcoming budget, any legislation that isn’t on the brink of royal assent is likely to perish.
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