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CTV News
3 days ago
- General
- CTV News
1st Hussars Honour D-Day heroes at Holy Roller Memorial in Victoria Park
Ahead of the 81st anniversary of the D-Day invasion, the 1st Hussars Regiment Association held a public memorial, CTV London's Reta Ismail has the details. Ahead of the 81st anniversary of the D-Day invasion, (which will take place on June 6) the 1st Hussars Regiment Association held a public memorial next to the Holy Roller tank in Victoria Park on Sunday. 'On June 6, 1944, 14,000 Canadians landed that day. There were, 39 squadrons of (Canadian) airplanes,' explained Joe Murray, a retired Lieutenant Colonel with the 1st Hussars Regiment Association. 'The 1st Hussars led the way on D-Day, we landed amphibious tanks, we landed, generally speaking, ahead of the infantry,' explained Lt. Col. Murray. 'There were hundreds of Canadian ships at the end of World War two, we had over a million people in uniform from Canada. We had the third largest navy, fourth largest air force, and sixth largest army in the world.' 060125_DDAY holy roller victoria park London D-Day memorial next to Holy Roller in Victoria Park, June 1, 2025 (Reta Ismail/CTV News London) The names of 187 fallen Hussars were read during the ceremony, as wreathes were laid at the foot of the Holy Roller. A parade to the sound of bagpipes marched through downtown to Victoria Park, where the Holy Roller has been on display since 1950. 'The Holy Roller was one of the two tanks that made it from D-Day to the end of the war, and we call it our last veteran,' said an emotional Lt. Col. Murray. 'It was beat up, it's scarred somewhat through battle, but it survived… just like the veterans who came back.' 060125_DDAY holy roller victoria park London D-Day memorial next to Holy Roller in Victoria Park, June 1, 2025 (Reta Ismail/CTV News London) The ceremony honoured all who served and acknowledged a change of command for the 1st Hussars. Brigade commander, Col. Blair Ashford, says the 1st Hussars have roots back to the 1800's. 'We just need to remember those that have served and didn't come back. And it's our sacred duty to remember that, because still our soldiers to go into danger today. And we need to make sure that they realize that we'll remember them if they do fall.' Also on hand for the memorial was the King's Royal Hussars from England, who attended the ceremony for the first time in history.
CTV News
3 days ago
- General
- CTV News
Honouring veterans ahead of D-Day anniversary
Ahead of the 81st anniversary of the D-Day invasion, the 1st Hussars Regiment Association held a public memorial next to the Holy Roller tank in Victoria Park on Sunday. CTV London's Reta Ismail has the details.
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Spiritbox's track-by-track guide to Tsunami Sea
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ever since they blew up online with Holy Roller, Spiritbox have been stepping up as one of metal's most exciting new bands. From collaborations (both on-stage and off) with artists like Architects, Megan Thee Stallion and Jinjer to tours with Bring Me The Horizon and Korn, they've stepped up time and again and now they're ready to present the next step in their artistic vision with new album Tsunami Sea. To celebrate the record's arrival, Hammer sat down with guitarist Mike Stringer and vocalist Courtney LaPlante to offer a track-by-track guide to the record. A rabid opener that immediately plunges us into a world much darker than anything on Eternal Blue. Mike: 'I would describe Fata Morgana as the mission statement of the album. It just comes out swinging, and it is very, very heavy." Three and a half minutes of bleak and mechanical tech metal, the pits aren't going to know what's hit them this summer. Mike: 'I would say it's a continuation of Fata Morgana and probably the heaviest song on the record.' Courtney: 'Black Rainbow is FREAKY!' Calling to mind Architects' Doomsday, this is Spiritbox at their most ethereal and melodic. Courtney: 'It's like a little bit of hopefulness. The first part of the album that has a little bit of hopefulness and yearning in it, and not just anger and sadness.' Evoking Keep Sweet: Pray And Obey, a sordid Netflix documentary about the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, this is the perfect blend of beauty and brutality. Mike: 'It's fun and very catchy. That's one of my favourites…' Courtney: '… but it's extremely bitter. It's a bitter taste in your mouth – a great way of trying to have someone who isn't a woman empathise with what it feels like to be a woman.' Drenched in nightmarish dread, 'You all deserve each other!' is already one of 2025's finest mosh calls. Mike: 'Hater song.' Courtney: 'I hate so many people. People think I'm so positive or, rather, neutral. No! I'm not neutral. I just don't want to be dunking on people that I fucking hate online.' Mike: 'So we made a song about it.' Instantly recognisable as the work of its creators, atmospheric and emotional – the title track is quintessential Spiritbox. Courtney: 'It's the feelings of never being good enough and the sad part is that it's by your own standards of why you will never feel good enough… and sinking down into depression.' Mike: 'I'd say it was the sister song of Eternal Blue.' A bittersweet love letter to their home, indebted to Deftones with a gorgeous, silky chorus. Courtney: 'It's about Vancouver Island. It's the haven with two faces.' Mike: 'This was us adventuring back to our roots in a more proggy direction. It's a wild ride and it's long.' Explosive and offkilter, the 'weird kid' of the album picks up where Eternal Blue's Yellowjacket left off. Mike: 'That would be 'experimental heavy'. It's very close to Holy Roller in a sense, as far as how quick the song is and how relentless it is. It's a wild one.' Rave vibes! This trancey, electronic-heavy track hints at an intriguing future direction. Mike: 'It's an experimental song we've always wanted to make, and it happened very organically, and I'm very proud of that one.' Courtney: 'I think it's a new side of our band.' Spiritbox have made massive walls of sound their calling card, and this track boasts a stonker, with one hell of a breakdown. Mike: 'Ride The Wave is another song that I've always wanted to make. It's very inspired by 28 Days Later instrumentally. It has my favourite chorus on the record.' Courtney: 'This is the first song that I tracked vocals to, and you couldn't feel my sadness and melancholy in the takes that I did. It has a bit of a fun march to it, you can dance a little to it, but it's sad.' Hitting like the breath of life after surfacing from the deep, Tsunami Sea's serene closer shimmers with hope. Courtney: 'We wrote Deep End before Bill passed, but that song now, to me, is my beacon to him."
New York Times
26-02-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Will the ‘Tush Push' Be Banned in the N.F.L.?
Leaping over the line of scrimmage to block a kick. Standing in the end zone to swat away field goals. Openly slapping an opponent in the head. Once upon a time, you could see N.F.L. players do all those things. And they were legal. But over time, all of them have been banned. And perhaps soon to join them is the 'Tush Push' or 'Brotherly Shove,' the move perfected by the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. In that play, which is executed when the team needs only a yard or less, the Eagles' offensive linemen mass closely together, snap the ball and push forward. The quarterback, Jalen Hurts, keeps the ball and lunges forward while other big players push him from behind. The play has been remarkably successful for the Eagles over the last few seasons, nearly always gaining the yard or so needed. Now a complaint has been filed with the league asking it to ban the play. Although the complaining team was not revealed, several news media sources have identified it as the Green Bay Packers. The Packers' president, Mark Murphy, said on the team's website, 'There is no skill involved, and it is almost an automatic first down on plays of a yard or less.' But Eagles Coach Nick Sirianni and others say the move to bar the shove has the whiff of sour grapes. It's not that other teams avoid the play because it's unfair; it's that they can't execute it as well as the Eagles do. 'We work so hard at that play,' Sirianni said on NBC. 'I know teams are trying it, and I know if they were successful at it they would use it.' Others have suggested the play might be dangerous. But a league study did not find conclusive evidence that the play caused an increased risk of injury. There was a thought that with the retirement of Jason Kelce, the Eagles center who was a key factor in the play, the Eagles would not be as successful with the push. But even without him the team kept pushing and shoving all their way to the championship this season. Here are some of the other plays you can no longer see on an N.F.L. gridiron. The Forward Fumble Sometimes, a single play prompts a rule change. In a 1978 game against the San Diego Chargers, the Oakland Raiders trailed by 6 points with 10 seconds left. They were 14 yards from the end zone. Quarterback Ken Stabler was about to be sacked and the ball came out of his hands, moving forward. Another player pushed it forward some more and then Dave Casper kicked it into the end zone and fell on it, scoring a touchdown and winning the game for the Raiders. The play became known as the Holy Roller. A new rule was adopted after the season: On a fumble in the last two minutes, only the fumbling player himself can advance the ball. Jumping Over the Line Blocking a field goal can prevent the opposing team from scoring 3 points. So why not try whatever it takes to do it? In the 2010s, some athletic players, notably on the Seattle Seahawks, tried leaping over the line of scrimmage to get a better shot at blocking that kick. Sometimes they succeeded. But in 2017 the N.F.L. put a stop to it in most cases. (On that occasion, it was the Eagles who proposed the rule change.) Goaltending, N.F.L. Style How about getting a really tall guy to stand right at the goal posts and try to swat away the field goal try? Yeah, that's been tried. And that's been banned. In the early 1970s the Kansas City Chiefs parked a 6-foot-10 player named Morris Stroud just in front of the goal posts and had him try to block lower-trajectory kicks. It worked from time to time. But the N.F.L. soon amended its rules to ban — borrowing a basketball term — 'goaltending by a defensive player leaping up to deflect a kick as it passes above the crossbar of a goal post.' Dangerous Plays Whatever you think about these plays, few would argue that it would be a good idea if players could still slap each other in the head (banned in 1977), tackle by grabbing the back of the shoulder pads (the so-called horse collar, banned in 2005) or hit an opponent helmet-to-helmet (banned in 1996). The N.F.L. has a reputation for being stodgy and slow to change. But almost every year, some rules are tweaked, and the game is, one hopes, improved. Whether banning the Brotherly Shove would be an improvement depends on your point of view and your interpretation of the intricacies and nuances of the voluminous N.F.L. rule book. Or perhaps on whether or not you're an Eagles fan.
