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DeadEndia

Development

Development for DeadEndia took place over the span of ten years. The first book's plot was loosely adapted into the Netflix series' first season, and the plot for the second book was loosely adapted into the second season of the show.

1724 Davie Street

Quilicum

• https://issuu.com/bcbookworld/docs/bookworld_autumn_web_version
• Windspeaker https://data2.archives.ca/e/e448/e011195970.pdf
• https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/230879975.pdf

Red Dress Alert

See also

• Amber alert
• REDress Project

Indigenous peoples and road deaths

See also

• Barbara Kentner

Joe Simonton UFO incident

https://dekedickerson.com/musings/joe-simonton-and-the-alien-pancakes/

Xinona

Plot

An alternate universe interpretation of the character Winona from Walter Scott's Wendy, Xinona is commissioned by the Government AKA Weird Heads to create a piece of artwork that represents her experiences as an Indigenous inhabitant of the Kombucha planet, but simultaneously palatable to the mainstream narratives of her culture.

Xinona's ponders over her dilemma, either turning down the opportunity and risk financial instability, or create insincere artwork that aligns with the vision of the colonial oppressor. She embarks on a journey through the sea of Kombucha, where she encounters the queen and crashes her ship into it, ultimately defying the orders placed upon her.

Production

Xinona was done as part of the Legacies 150 initiative by the National Film Board of Canada as part of the Canada 150th celebration. It was later included in the Toronto iteration of the exhibition Fermenting Feminism.

Reception

Jonathan Valelly described Xinona as a "brilliant, self-reflexive commentary" on both the art world as well as the Canada 150 project as a whole, adding that Scott's unique style was able to bring "humour, tenderness, politics and ... science fiction together."

Analysis

Lauren Fournier identifies Scott's usage of kombucha "as a metaphor for Indigenous identity." Embodying a symbol of hip consumption, the drink is identified as a metaphor for the value of Indigenous identity within the neo-colonial context of Canada.

Salybia (Dominica constituency)

Constituency profile

Salybia consists of the communities of Atkinson, Bataka, Crayfish River, Salybia, and Sineku.

Representatives

This constituency has elected the following members of the House of Assembly of Dominica:

Election	Years	Member		Party		Notes
1975	24 March 1975 – 21 July 1980		Lawrence Darroux		DLP
1980	21 July 1980 – 1985		Matthew Joseph		Dominica Democratic Labour Party
1985	1985		Ann Timothy		DFP
1990	1990		Worrel Sanford		DLP
1995	1995		Francois Barrie		United Workers Party (Dominica)
2000	2000		Kelly Graneau		DLP
2009	2009		Ashton Graneau		DLP
2014	2014		Casius Darroux		DLP
2019	2019		Cozier Frederick		DLP

2022 Nunatsiavut election

2022 Nunatsiavut Assembly Election

May 5, 2022
All seats in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
President TBD

Indigenous name rectification movement

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287776374_Representations_of_the_Name_Rectification_Movement_of_Taiwan_Indigenous_People_Through_Whose_Historical_Lens https://taiwaninsight.org/2023/01/20/return-to-the-land-and-people-contemporary-indigenous-knowledge-system-project-in-taiwan/

Wendy (comics)

Plot

Wendy's Revenge

West Coast Wendy: Wendy abruptly moves to Vancouver to live with Winona, but Winona states her intention to return to her mother's reservation. This prompts Wendy to look for a new sublet where she moves in with Raj. In her new home, she meets with a gallery director for a group exhibition. During the exhibition, Wendy is overwhelmed during the experience and steps out for a moment and meets Zozo, a young fan of her work. Wendy accepts an invitation to party with Zozo and subsequently wakes up in a daze. Wendy decides to apply to a residency in Japan with Winona. During her time in a bookstore, Wendy finds a book called A Home Underground by Kate Ecker, the book profoundly affects her and she muses on its words while she attends another showing and another party with Zozo. In the midst of a depressive episode, Wendy dyes her hair black. Wendy attending another show, is informed that her work is stolen, and she then meets Jack Sterling. Sterling questions her adjustment to Vancouver and invites her back to his home. He shows his basket weaving work to her, but Wendy leaves after misunderstanding his intentions. Before she leaves, Sterling recommends Wendy to see a psychic. The psychic states that the stolen work is found by some reeds. During another show, Wendy spots Sterling, who she acts combative with, and Zozo who she alienates while in the middle of a breakdown. Dropping the book, Zozo picks it up and walks off while Wendy walks to Sterling's house. After looking around, she stumbles across the missing artwork, which was underneath his bed and by the reeds that he was using for his basket. Storming out of his house, Wendy encounters a vision of her younger self running off as a result of her volatile home situation. She regains a memory of her slipping the work underneath her own jacket in an act of self-sabotage and placing it under Sterling's bed. Wendy places the work into a river to cover up what happened, and runs into the gallery director, Wendy asks to show the ruined work. At the gallery, Wendy runs into Zozo, who brushes her off, and Sterling, who Wendy hurriedly avoids in order to announce that she is going to Japan. In her apartment, she dyes her hair back to its usual blonde colour.

Wendy Critical Reader: Winona returns to the Mohawk Reservation where her friend Jer meets up with her and has a friendly conversation about her work. Deena, on the other side of town, airs her frustrations about Jer with her friend before noticing that he is parked in front of Winona's house. At the grocery store, Winona notices Deena and asks to join her beadwork class. After awkwardly asking her, Deena brushes her off, only to have a change of heart and accepts her into the class.

Wendy Yokohama Misadventures: Artists Love Stories (ウェンディー　ヨコハマの災難　アーティストたちの恋物語): Wendy discusses her process as an artist. Winona struggles to adapt to speaking the Japanese language compared to her skills in the Mohawk language. Screamo meets up with Conrad who brushes off his advances and invites his girlfriend to the date. Screamo flees and has sex with another man to distract himself. Winona flashes back to her complicated relationship with Indigenous art after being questioned by Aiko. Her show on the reserve is completely unattended but she runs into Jer, who appreciates it. Wendy runs into a Hungarian man who she briefly is interested in before losing interest.

Welcome Home, Wendy: Wendy returns from her time in Yokohama to Vienna's house in Toronto. While getting noodles, she runs into a raccoon. Wendy is offered a show in Los Angeles, which she accepts despite being unable to afford the flight. In L.A. she runs into Paloma, who is renting the same house as her. Realizing she has no clean clothes, Paloma offers to dress her, deliberately sabotaging her in the process by giving her a 1998 soul funk revival themed outfit. Meanwhile, in Winona's home, Winona's mother recounts a story of visiting her boyfriends while surviving clinging onto the a train bridge. Attending the show, Wendy and Paloma run into Kris and Klaus, who struggle to recognize Wendy. While hiding from the others, Wendy overhears Klaus' plan to use Paloma and her connections to gain access to foreign oil while attributing the most contentious material to her. Initially brushing Wendy's attempts to explain their plan, Paloma confides in Wendy that the pressure on VVURST is troubling her. Wendy takes the opportunity and tells her of Klaus' plans. Wendy launches her plan to break into their office and gather evidence to bring the two down. After completing their manifesto the two distract Klaus and Kris with body doubles as the two stow away to insert their manifesto into the VVURST manuscript. The two successfully complete their plans, revealing their agreements with condo developers, blackmail of female-identified collaborators, and a conspiracy involving Lorde. Kris blames the two, and threatens that the two cannot work in the city again, Wendy decides to return to Vienna's home. Calling her mother, she starts to be bogged down by her mother's rants about her father, but is reassured after seeing a raccoon eating a pizza. She hangs out and asks Winona what grad school should they apply to.

Side Stories "Sandy the girl who has it all, *consistent mental stability", follows Sandy's escapades as she visits Wendy's show. "Useless Urban Person!" documents a two-faced urban hipster character. "Scene Hair" stars Princess Leia, a friend of Winona's whose self righteous ranting alienates both Wendy and Winona but whose discussions on "cultural repatriation and systemic microaggressions" Winona understands.

Wendy Master of Art

Somewhere in a Berlin club, Wendy explains that she applied for a Master of Fine Arts program in Hell, Ontario to a nudist couple. The next day, she wakes up to find out that she was accepted into the University of Hell masters program. Taking a taxi to the town, she goes for a walk and finds herself in a local bar where she meets Yunji and Eric, and reunites with Maya. After getting drunk alongside her new peers, Wendy wakes up hungover only to find out that she was late for her first day of class.

Wendy arrives to class late, where she meets the remainder of her classmates. Wendy and a couple of her peers drive to Toronto, where Wendy and Maduhri attend an art show. During the show, Wendy meets Xav, who was at the event to support his partner, Rosa. Wendy, feeling overwhelmed by the amount of attention, steps outside briefly where she has a conversation with Xav. Rosa introduces herself, holding hands alongside another woman, which Wendy understands as a polyamorous relationship between Xav and Rosa. Wendy's conversation with Xav is interrupted with Eric hurrying her to leave. The next day, Wendy presents her first studio visit, where she displays a work entitled Lacan's table. Her professor reacts poorly, and Wendy heads to the university bar to drink. She meets with Yunji, who shows her an artist whose work reminded her of Wendy's, this statement moves Wendy, but it is cut short when Yunji asks whether the cows on campus could be milked. Later, Wendy heads to Toronto to meet with Xav, who admits that there is space for Wendy to join the relationship. Two months pass, and Wendy is calling with Winona, having entered into Xav's relationship. Wendy's plans with Xav are cut short with Xav when he mentions that he intended to be with Rosa that day, discomforting Wendy. In an attempt to distract herself, Wendy looks at the other work by her peers, but winds up snapping at Yunji, upsetting her. Wendy leaves to party and drink, and a hungover Wendy calls Xav for advice. Wendy reconciles with Yunji and tries a new outlook on life, but is clearly upset when Xav mentions Rosa, breaking down after she hangs up. Wendy begins her final critiques, where the guest critic tells Wendy to see things as they are offering themselves. After a celebratory party for passing the final critique, Wendy wakes up in a daze and is called by Xav, before the call ends, Wendy breaks up with Xav.

Wendy starts her first day of teaching undergraduate students. Kaylee, a student of Wendy's, confronts her at the end of class with a question that Wendy struggles to answer. Wendy divulges her struggles to Maduhri, who reminds Wendy to consider how she was in her undergraduate years. Wendy flashes back to her time partying with Tina and Screamo, remembering that Screamo gave her reassurances that she would be successful in ten years. Later on, Winona comes to Hell to visit Wendy, the two struggle to make conversation and Winona feels sidelined having been removed from the personal context of the masters program to understand the discussions Wendy has. Sandy, visiting from Toronto, gives a guest lecture at the university and follows the students to the bar. Feeling uncomfortable with Wendy's dismissal, Winona heads out to smoke, where she is approached by Maduhri who tries flirting with her. Winona heads home in frustration with Wendy's behavior while a drunken Wendy calls Xav at three in the morning as she tries to find her way home. Waking up to a disgruntled Winona at the foot of her bed, reminding her that she had a class that day. Realizing it was three in the afternoon, Wendy hurries to class and vomits repeatedly as her students present their assignments. Wendy contacts Xav and apologizes for her actions, but their conversation devolves into an argument. An hour later, the two try to reconcile, but Xav agrees with Wendy's proposal to do things on their own and the two end the call discomforted. During office hours, Kaylee asks about her marks on an assignment, Wendy tells her that she has choices but her subsequent question leaves Wendy crying. After her final critique, Wendy runs into Kaylee at a bar, who tells her friend that Wendy inspired her as an artist. A sobered Wendy contemplates reaching out and apologizing to Xav and Winona, but struggles to.

By the Five Roses Flour sign in Montreal, Wendy reconnects with Tina, Jeff, and Screamo. Wendy steps aside with Tina for a conversation, where Wendy shares her struggles with Xav. Tina reveals that her relationship with Jeff is dysfunctional, and hurriedly calls him after a brief conversation. Wendy messages Winona, who brushes her aside for another day. Wendy seeks therapy, and while initially dismissing the advice given to her, expresses her feelings in art by means of a sad clown painting. Winona talks with her mother regarding her frustrations with Wendy, her mother shares that Winona is the type to hold grudges and that she needs to speak up on how she feels, which causes a realization within Winona. While working on her master's thesis, Wendy speaks with Maya regarding her frustrations. Maya remarks that the two of them will leave the school forever in a year's time, and Wendy finds the inspiration to complete her thesis.

Wendy is searching for apartments in Toronto, and struggles to find one with livable conditions. She runs into Yunji and Maduhri, who help her find a date. After a few statements that discomfort her, she runs into Xav and Wendy ends the date to visit him. Running into him alongside his partners, Wendy gets cold feet and returns to the studio. She runs into Eric, who admits he salvaged Wendy's work because he benefited from watching her progress. Wendy presents her thesis defense and becomes a master of art. During the after party, Wendy is greeted by Winona and the two reconcile. Waking up, she finds an offer for an apartment and envisions a future with Xav, she accepts the offer and runs into Xav on the bus. She shares the news with Xav, and the two muse that they have time to work things out as Wendy is now a resident.

Characters

Major

• Wendy
• Screamo: Wendy's hedonistic gay best friend and occaisonal roommate. His face is constantly contorted in a way that resembles Edvard Munch's The Scream.
• Winona: Wendy's best friend who hails from the Mohawk reservation on Kahnawà:ke. A previous incarnation of Winona, Xinona, features in Scott's contribution to the National Film Board of Canada's Canada 150 project.

Introduced in Wendy

• Tina
• Paloma: The snake-like rival to Wendy who is out to take her down. Paloma and Wendy eventually team up as the "Griller Girls" to take down the leadership at VVURST.
• Jeff
• Maya De Vanegas
• Vienna: Jeff's former girlfriend who is put together. Despite Wendy's initial jealousy of her, she serves as a source of advice for Wendy when she is down.
• Byron
• Conrad: Screamo's one sided love interest who he had met at work, the two briefly exchanged an intimate moment despite Conrad being in a relationship with another woman.
• Colin
• Wendy's Mother: who is in perpetual conflict with Wendy's father who is not shown.
• Klaus and his friend Kris: Pretentious editors at VVURST.

Introduced in Wendy's Revenge

• Raj: Wendy's roommate from Vancouver, an urban planner.
• Zozo: A fan of Wendy's work who she is briefly acquainted with.
• Sandy: a girl who "has it all (consistent mental stability)", Sandy lives a balanced lifestyle and is a popular artist.
• Jack Sterling: a famous author Wendy is briefly acquainted with. It is later revealed that Jack stole Wendy's gallery work.
• Candy Matsutake: a psychic Wendy consults her services from.
• Jer: Winona's friend from the Mohawk reservation. He is Deena's estranged partner and the two have a child together, Kye.
• Deena: The teacher of a beadwork class on the Mohawk Reservation. She has a slightly adversarial relationship with Winona, but appears to have a soft spot for her.
• Aiko: Roomate to Wendy and Winona during their time in Yokohama, an assistant curator.
• Winona's mother: A source of wisdom to Winona despite her frustrations. She, along with Winona, live with Winona's brother. She is a single mother.

Introduced in Wendy: Master of Art

• Cliff Masterson: A former artist who serves as Wendy's professor.
• Eric: An artist constantly concerned with performative activism and the politics of others, his work seeks to "propagate systemic qualities of erasure in non-human logic". Eric constantly seeks the approval of his classmates, to no avail, other than Pam of who he has a relationship with. Eric states that he is "on the spectrum".
• Etienne: A constantly scowling artist whose work focuses on the "implicity of arts education in global capitalism".
• Kaylee: A student of Wendy's who is constantly in tears, she looks up to Wendy and felt inspiration despite Wendy's hesitations. Her work primarily focuses on drawings of horses, despite lacking any relation to the assignment.
• Maduhri: An artist who focuses on an intersection of fermentation, poetry, and painting. She is the self-described "token dyke" of the cohort, and has a crush on Winona.
• Pam: An artist whose work explores the usage of colour in a political context. While soft spoken, she is more clever than she appears. Pam quit drinking after she pulled a gun on a peer in Edmonton.
• Xav: Wendy's boyfriend who is in a polyamorous relationship with two other individuals; Rosa, and another unnamed individual. He serves as a voice of reason to Wendy during her Masters program.
• Yunji: Wendy's Korean roommate whose work focuses on the "semiotics of pissing" and "really long strings".

Development

Scott developed the character of Wendy between 2009 and 2011 following his time at Concordia University. The character was first drawn in a placemat, and was intended to be a "non-thing" divorced from his art practice. Scott then posted the character on his Facebook page where it received positive reception. Scott would then continue with several more illustrations for an acquaintance's fashion zine. Wendy's narrative began to expand following the creation of the zine, as Scott would develop Wendy's friends and relationships. Beginning with Tina and Jeff, Scott then expanded on their personalities.

Winona was created as a character Scott spoke as someone he would create whether he wanted to or not, she was to bring in another aspect that viewers would not expect. Screamo was partially inspired by Scott's friend, Jonas Arahkwénte Gilbert.

Scott cites Matt Groening's Life in Hell as an influence for his work, appreciating its cartoony appearance contrasting with the bitter themes that it presented. Scott, speaking with David Balzer, mentioned that he inadvertently may have absorbed the characteristics of the portrayals of similar characters in contemporary pieces of media such as Girls and 2 Broke Girls. Lauren Fournier writing for Vancouver's Access Gallery notes the influence of Legally Blonde's Elle Woods and artist Kathy Acker on Wendy's design.

Analysis

Indigenous identity

Scott describes Wendy as a Trojan Horse, slipping through the consciousness as she presented as a "default, blank, white-girl identity." When asked what would have happened if the character of Winona was created first, Scott expressed that "the minute you engage with something from an Indigenous perspective, people’s walls go up and they automatically assume they won’t relate".

Harbour Mille UFO Sighting

Sighting

The objects were sighted on January 25, 2010, off the southern coast of Newfoundland near the community of Harbour Mille. Darlene Stewart, one of the witnesses, was photographing the sunset and reportedly observed several objects flying overhead. She took a photograph of one of the objects and enhanced the photograph using her computer. The photographs taken by Stewart showed a blurry image of a missile-like object emitting flames or heavy smoke. Stewart called her neighbour, Emmy Pardy, who, along with Stewart's husband allegedly observed three additional objects flying through the air minutes apart from one another, having moved silently through the air. One object was described as up close and the other two were farther off in the distance. Pardy described the objects as having "appeared to come out of the ocean ... in the middle of the bay." Additionally describing them as resembling "a humungous bullet, silver-grey in colour and it had flames coming out of the bottom and a trail of smoke." The objects were observed for "about 15 minutes" and caused distress for the witnesses, who feared a potential missile strike.

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer was in the community on January 26 to investigate the reports of sightings by the residents. Sargeant Wayne Edgecombe speaking with CBC News that they had "confirmed it was something" and was "nothing criminal." Harbour Mille residents claimed they were initially informed by police officers that the objects had been test missiles launched by France off Saint Pierre and Miquelon, the rumor was later disproven by Sgt. Edgecombe. Stewart claimed that the RCMP informed her that the objects were missiles, Pardy stated to the Toronto Star that she was told in two telephone conversations by the RCMP that the objects sighted was a missile.

The RCMP on January 27 directed questions regarding the objects to Public Safety Canada, which requested that questions be directed to the RCMP. The department would, on January 28, request that questions regarding the objects be directed to the Prime Minister's Office.

The sightings created a "media firestorm" in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. During a January 29 newscast of NTV News, a viewer submitted video that was allegedly taken at the same time as the January 25 sightings showing a passing airplane.

Government reaction

The French Ministry of Armed Forces posted a message on its site confirming that a missile was launched from a submarine earlier in the week but that the time and direction did not match with the objects allegedly sighted over Newfoundland. Admiral Christophe Prazuck, a spokesman for the French Army stated: "Il n'y avait aucune activité militaire française du côté de Terre-Neuve, dans cette région du monde, qui pouvait porter à confusion. Je peux vous le confirmer" (There was no French military activity on the Newfoundland side, in this region of the world, which could lead to confusion. I can confirm this to you). The French Embassy issued a statement on January 28 stating that the country did not conduct any military actvity in Newfoundland or St. Pierre and Miquelon at the time of the sightings. Agence France-Presse reported that France had test launched the M51 missile on Wednesday, not on Monday when the sightings allegedly occurred, and from the submarine Le Terrible stationed in the Bay of Audierne in Northwestern France.

A spokesperson for the Canadian Armed Forces, Major Jason Proulx, stated that there was "no threat to the security of Canada" and that the department was aware of the reports and there was no planned exercises in the area. Spokesman for Public Safety Canada Chris McCluskey stated "There is no indication that there was ever a rocket launch" before declining further comment on the matter and referring further inquiries to the Department of National Defence. A spokesperson for the Department of National Defence, Captain Kendrah Allison stated that the military was aware of the reported sightings but was not aware of any missile testing that had occurred in the area.

Liberal Senator George Baker who represented Newfoundland and Labrador in the Senate noted the direction from which the objects allegedly originated suggested a launch from St. Pierre and Miquelon. He expressed his concern that if the situation was true, a launch would have contravened the rules of international sovereignty. Baker stated: "Look, are you launching these missiles?’ Because if they are, (and) everybody is denying knowledge of it, then the laws have been broken." Baker expressed skepticism to claims that the alleged objects were models launched by hobbyists, due to the temperature at the time and an alleged witness that Baker spoke to claiming that the objects were "at least the size of an 18-wheeler."

Member of Parliament for Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte Gerry Byrne demanded the federal Conservative government for answers regarding the sighting, stating that there was a "credible body of evidence that suggests there's something spectacular happened off of our shore." Byrne stated his interest in demanding the ministers for national defence, transport, and public safety for answers and criticizing the federal government for having prorogued parliament leaving him unable to question the ministers in the House of Commons. Among the questions that Byrne had for the incumbent Conservative government regarded the government's knowledge of a potential missile launch, whether they had failed to inform residents or were not informed, whether radar had picked up the objects. He additionally noted the initial reports by the RCMP that the objects were indeed missiles before subsequently retracting the report. Byrne expressed his concerns for potential risks to health and safety as a result of the object, and that the event was "cloaked in relative secrecy." The relative secrecy as a result of the alleged sighting prompted Byrne to criticize the government further on January 28, stating that the events were "not making any sense and nobody's providing any real answers, so questions are mounting."

Dimitri Soudas, spokesperson for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, stated that "there is no indication that there was ever a rocket launch" in response to the sighting. The then Minister for National Defence Peter MacKay in a funding announcement speech at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador jokingly announced funding for a landing strip at Harbour Mille, stating "We will provide money to build a landing strip for UFOs at Harbour Mille," before backing away and stating "No, I'm only kidding. I'm joking. That's a joke" while reiterating there were no reported missile tests at the time of the sightings.

Then Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador Danny Williams who described himself as a "UFO guy" following the sightings, stated that he had been informed that the sightings had possibly been reflected aircraft. He expressed his faith in the Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Defence Minister's Peter MacKay's statements on the matter after informing him there was no evidence of a missile launch. Williams stated "Something was seen. But from a Canadian defence perspective, I'm satisfied ... that there certainly wasn't anything that was being hidden by the government of Canada."

Skeptical reaction

Initial reactions to the alleged sightings by the Government of Canada expressed that "people in Newfoundland and Labrador like to launch model rockets" which resulted in the sightings. Local residents, along with Pardy, refuted the possibility, with a model plane club member in nearby Swift Current stating he was not aware of any related activity in the area and that it would be unlikely for any hobbyist to launch a model from a boat, and that the observed exhaust was too intense for a model. Later reports by the Department of National Defence ruled out the possibility of the model rocket proposal.

Bjorn Borg, a retired economist, referred to the sightings as a result of "the December Phenomenon," and part of a periodic occurence of sightings of a similar nature from Newfoundland's south coast. Borg explained that the objects were in fact the result of vapour trails by jet liners catching the winter sunlight. The resulting trail can be red or yellow and resemble fire due to the light. Borg claimed that he documented 20 instances of similar phenomena worldwide. Borg's theory was backed up by Chris Stevenson, a local president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada who stated "It's unbelievable how far this went," in response to the situation. Stevenson noted that transatlantic aircraft, which travel in pairs, can reflect sunlight overhead after daylight had faded on the ground. Stevenson refuted the notion that the object sighted was a missile, citing the end of the contrail going transparent rather than as a continuous trail from where the rocket was launched, stating "had the sighting not been at sunset, I would have taken this a bit more seriously." Darlene Stewart, in response to the assertions remarked that the objects she had observed were silent as opposed to the typical sound that jets would make.

Official investigation

“ There are no distinguishing features on the object to use for identification … the shape of the flame is atypical of a missile launch
The length of the flame is greater than that of the rocket body. This eliminates the possibility that it is a cruise missile jet engine exhaust ” — Department of National Defence's Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence ,

According to documents by the Department of National Defence obtained by CBC News, the objects in the photographs were ruled out as ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, or as rockets. The objects had allegedly appeared to witnesses as having come out of the water, with only ballistic and cruise missiles having the capability to be launched from a submarine. Arms experts from the DND report stated that the objects photographed did not match the profile of those weapons. The documents also stated that neither North American Aerospace Defence Command nor Canada Command had evidence to support the sighting. There was no recorded Royal Canadian Navy ships involved, and there were no Canadian Armed Forces missile exercises at the time.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which conducted a separate investigation on the objects, dubbed the event an "unexplained sighting". RCMP spokesperson Helen Cleary-Escott noted that no debris from the alleged objects was located, nor any evidence that would allow for the RCMP to investigate further.

See also

• 2010 California contrail incident
• Twilight phenomenon

References

https://www.narcity.com/ufo-sightings-in-canada-thatll-make-you-wonder-about-life-out-there https://macleans.ca/general/alleged-missiles-spotted-over-newfoundland/ https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/national-news/woman-who-claims-she-saw-missiles-says-area-not-used-by-model-hobbyists/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130817172512/https://www.cbc.ca/news//pdf/dnd-ufo.pdf https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/201002/25/01-4255411-des-missiles-a-nos-frontieres.php

Nighttime Friend

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Planteau

"Ornithoptera/sandbox"
Tuca & Bertie episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 2
Directed by	Meg Waldow
Written by	Lisa Hanawalt
Featured music	Jesse Novak
Original air date	June 20, 2021 (2021-06-20)
Guest appearance
Michaela Dietz as Dottie

Plot

Tuca (Tiffany Haddish) and Bertie Ali Wong are at the airport at the invitation of Dottie (Michaela Dietz), Speckle's sister, for her bachelorette party. Tuca, who has stopped drinking, is worried she would come off as weird for not drinking, so Bertie promises to go along with her and forgo drinking for the night and be her "sober wingwoman" while Tuca promised to be Bertie's "social lubricant". The two meet up with Dottie's friends who are drinking at the airport bar.

The two are in the plane and go over what they have packed, as well as their plans for the trip. The group crosses paths with Speckle's (Steven Yeun) group. As the plane takes off, Bertie reads a book about Planteau's unique ecosystem. A closed community where tourists must be disinfected and where the local plants are potentially toxic. As she finishes, Bertie finds herself along with the other bachelorettes inside the hotel. As they head out, the camera cuts to Speckle's bachelor group who are planning a heist for a cutting of a rare plant called a "scarlet headcup" housed in the Planteau Cultural Museum for the purposes of selling it to a plant smuggler to pay off the debts incurred by the wedding. Speckle is briefly confused, but goes along with the plan.

The women's group is at a strip club with dancing anthropomorphic tomatoes as the strippers. Dottie, at the stripper's invitation, comes on stage and bites a chunk out of his body. Bertie, overexcited, starts to eagerly cheer at the stage, causing discomfort. Bertie talks to Tuca about how she struggles to socialize without alcohol, but turns down Tuca's invitation to drink despite their agreement. The group head to the club's roof, which is an outdoor pool. As Tuca enjoys her time in the pool fraternizing with the other bachelorettes, Bertie struggles to talk to Dottie.

The men's group heads to the Planteau Cultural Museum and takes the cutting. Speckle is shocked by the revelation that the scarlet headcup is in fact the Mayor of Planteau, and the Cultural Museum is also revealed to be the city hall. The alarm is accidentally triggered when one of the bachelors eats a bug off the floor, and the men hide among the museum exhibits but eventually flee. The women, meanwhile, go to a variety of events but Bertie continues to struggle socially as Tuca entertains the group. Bertie, at the nightclub, takes a sip of alcohol to help her socialize and goes on to repeatedly drink more and more. Speckle, coming across Bertie's group, runs to her and tries to explain what had happened but Bertie drunkenly shrugs him off.

The group take a rest stop at a bar, after some teasing by the bachelorettes, Bertie continues to feel ostracized. She silently takes a drink from one of the bachelorettes who she thought was sleeping, but she wakes up and cheers Bertie on, causing Tuca to notice Bertie drinking. The camera cuts to the bachelors, who ask Speckle for the plant cutting. The cutting shoots a chemical at Speckle, which causes him to hallucinate. Speckle in a daze, runs out of the building, with his brother in law hanging his head in shame for being a bad brother in law.

Tuca walks out of the bar after having found Bertie broke their promise. Tuca confronts Bertie on breaking the promise after having given her the option to not stay sober for her sake and then promptly lying to Tuca. The two are in the middle of an arguement when one of the flora robs the two at gunpoint, taking Bertie's bag. It reaches for Tuca's bag but Bertie refuses, pulling it back as the plant walks away. Speckle runs away from the smuggler in a hallucinogen induced haze and into a strip club. One of the strippers, a fuchsia bush, eats the smuggler as Speckle congratulates him. The camera returns to the bachelorette group, talking to two dog police officers who prove to be incompetent. Speckle returns the cutting to the mayor who thanks Speckle for returning his daughter to him, to reward him the mayor sprays Speckle again, giving him a deep hallucinogenic high.

As morning arrives the bachelorettes turn down the plans for the day after the mugging. The group asks for a chill day, causing the party planner, Reese, to break down. Bertie comforts Reese and the group watches pizza while watching movies. Tuca and Bertie talk in the other room over the previous night's events and the two reconcile. The group are in the airplane when they come across Speckle, still feeling the effects of the high, tells Bertie her brother in law is a criminal, which she brushes aside. Dottie tells Bertie that she feels like Bertie is her cool little sister, and complains about Speckle's previous girlfriends, who appeared to be more capable than Bertie, causing her to panic.

Production

The locale of Planteau was designed by the series' art director Allison Dubois. According to Hanawalt, Planteau was inspired by New Orleans, a place where Hanawalt was mugged at gunpoint while on a bachelorette trip with a friend, as well as Hong Kong. The episode itself was largely inspired by Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, which Hanawalt stated was one of her favorite books, describing the feeling of everything being poisonous in the city of Planteau.

Reception

Critical reception

Charles Pulliam-Moore writing in Gizmodo described the dynamic shown in the episode as "distinctly like a story shaped by how the past year has strained many people’s friendships" and speculated on how Tuca and Bertie's relationship would progress as the season continued. Molly Catherine Turner writing in Culturess praised Steven Yeun's voice acting in the episode and Speckle's storyline, highlighting that the segment let "Lisa Hanawalt’s trippier animation style shine through". During his review of the second season, Ben Travers writing in IndieWire stated that Hanawalt showed "great awareness using [Speckle] as overt, over-the-top comic relief" during a storyline that had the A-Plot focus on both Tuca and Bertie.

Accolades

The episode was nominated for, and would win, the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Animation during the 74th Writers Guild of America Awards. It would also be nominated for the category of Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production during the 49th Annie Awards, of which it would lose over Arcane's "The Monster You Created".

Silpho saucer

The

Discovery

Allegedly, three men driving by Silpho Moor spotted a glowing object light up in the sky and subsequently crash into the ground. One of the men who were in the car would get up and supposedly found the saucer lying amongst the bushes.

Appearance

The object which had been discovered was a 18 inches (460 mm) long metallic saucer. It was described as a "copper-bottomed flying saucer" by local newspapers. The object was covered in markings described as hieroglyphics, which were written in a unknown script.

Upon prying open the object, additional copper sheets forming a book with 17 pages was discovered. The book found inside the saucer was additionally inscribed with hieroglyphics. A local cafe owner who had claimed he was able to decipher the script and was able to read it claimed that the message was from an alien named "Ullo" who warned of impending atomic war and warned humans that they would "improve or disappear".

Subsequent developments

Portions of the saucer, which had been sliced into smaller pieces for further examination for further study, were rediscovered in 2018 among the collections of Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith.

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Viceregal representatives

Governor generals

Portrait		Senator	Riding	Took office	Left office	Party	Ref.	Note

Lieutenant governors

Portrait	Lieutenant Governor	Province	Appointed by	Appointed on the advice of	Took office	Left office	Ref.	Note
	Ralph Steinhauer	Alberta	Elizabeth II	Peter Lougheed	July 2, 1974	October 18, 1979		First Nations (Cree)
	Yvon Dumont	Manitoba	Elizabeth II	Gary Filmon	March 5, 1993	March 2, 1999		Métis
	James Bartleman	Ontario	Elizabeth II	Peter Lougheed	March 7, 2002	September 5, 2007		First Nations (Anishinaabe)
	Steven Point	British Columbia	Elizabeth II	Gordon Campbell	October 1, 2007	November 2, 2012		First Nations (Sto꞉lo)
	Graydon Nicholas	New Brunswick	Elizabeth II	Shawn Graham	September 30, 2009	October 23, 2014		First Nations (Maliseet)
	Russell Mirasty	Saskatchewan	Elizabeth II	Scott Moe	July 18, 2019	Incumbent		First Nations (Cree)

Territorial Commissioners

Portrait		Commissioner	Territory	Took office	Left office	Party	Ref.	Note