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Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
THE MINING POD: What Bitcoin Miners Get Wrong About Oil And Gas w/ Sean McDonough
Sean McDonough of New West joins the pod to discuss how oil and gas bitcoin mining has changed and where the sector is headed. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Geek Tyrant
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Great Trailer for This Year's Sundance Audience Award Winning Film EAST OF WALL — GeekTyrant
The full trailer has been released for the film East of Wall , a film shot in the Badlands, from writer and director Kate Beecroft in her directorial debut. The movie debuted at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where it won the Audience Award in the innovative Next section. The film stars Tabatha Zimiga, Porshia Zimiga, Scoot McNairy and Jennifer Ehle, and it's described as an "authentic portrait of female resilience in the 'New West' inspired and played by the women and girls who live it." The full synopsis reads: ' East of Wall is an authentic portrait of female resilience in the 'New West' inspired and played by the women and girls who live it. 'Set in the Badlands of South Dakota, Tabatha, a young, rebellious rancher, who rescues and resells horses, must make hard decisions to deal with her fractured family, financial uncertainty, and unresolved grief, all while providing refuge for a group of wayward neighborhood teens.' This looks like a fantastic original story, and I look forward to watching it. Check out the trailer below, and watch East of Wall when it hits theaters on August 15th.
Hamilton Spectator
14-05-2025
- Business
- Hamilton Spectator
New West Public Affairs Welcomes Dr. Ian Brodie as Senior Advisor
CALGARY, Alberta, May 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — New West Public Affairs announced today that Dr. Ian Brodie has joined the firm as a Senior Advisor, further strengthening New West as a leader in public affairs, government relations, and strategic advisory services. Brodie brings to New West a remarkable depth of experience at the highest levels of politics, academia, and public policy. A former Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Brodie has advised on some of the most significant policy, political, and governance decisions of the past two decades. He also spent four years working with the InterAmerican Development Bank based in Washington, DC. His understanding of Canadian political institutions, legislative strategy, and strategic communications will be a tremendous asset to New West clients. 'Ian's strategic insight, academic pedigree, and public service experience are unique,' said Monte Solberg, CEO of New West Public Affairs. 'He combines experience as a researcher and academic expert with decades of expertise as a political adviser at the highest levels in Canada.' Currently a professor of political science at the University of Calgary, a fellow at the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies, and program Director at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, Brodie's work focuses on public administration, political leadership, and institutional reform. His bestselling 2019 book At the Centre of Government offers one of the most compelling insider accounts of Canadian federal politics in recent years. 'New West is a firm I've long respected and I'm excited to contribute to the team and support their clients,' said Brodie. 'At a time when Canada needs to find real pathways to nation-build, Ian brings the kind of national perspective and strategic clarity our clients need,' added Solberg. About Dr. Ian Brodie Ian Brodie is Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Fellow at the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies. He is also Program Director at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, a Fellow of the Halifax International Security Forum, and Chair of the Research Committee at the Institute for Research on Public Policy. His newsletter, The Thursday Question , is closely read by political insiders in Ottawa and he appears regularly on The CGAI Podcast Network , and 'The Chiefs' through The Herle Burly Podcast . A double alumnus, Brodie finished his PhD in the Department of Political Science under the supervision of Dr. F.L. Morton. Brodie then taught for six years at the University of Western Ontario before heading to Ottawa. In 2009, Brodie was Visiting Fellow at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. About New West Public Affairs New West Public Affairs is one of Canada's leading public affairs firms with deep experience in government relations, strategic communications, and public policy. With a team of seasoned political experts across the country, New West helps clients navigate complex political environments and achieve their goals with clarity, confidence, and impact. To learn more about how New West Public Affairs is expanding its capabilities to better serve clients across Canada, visit here . A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
Vancouver Sun
26-04-2025
- Sport
- Vancouver Sun
This Day in History, 1891: Rough, tough lacrosse players upset by 'blackguardly language'
On April 28, 1891, the New Westminster lacrosse club failed to show up for a championship game in a tournament against Vancouver. Article content Article content A small item on the front page of the Victoria Colonist the same day said New West would default. Article content 'While the match was going yesterday (April 27), the usual blackguardly language was turned against the New Westminster players by the crowd, and as our men don't care to put up with this kind of thing, they prefer not to play,' said the Colonist. Article content Article content 'The dispatch is absolutely untrue; there was no rowdyism nor any blackguardism, and the fact that the gentlemanly players from Victoria and Calgary were highly pleased with their treatment, is of itself sufficient evidence of the way the Vancouver lacrosse team entertain their guests.' Article content Article content Article content The World thought the New West team had 'fluked' the game 'to prevent being laughed at as arrogant cowards.' It said the New West players should 'stop acting like small boys' and 'take a licking like gentlemen,' rather than 'put on their mask of falsehood and claim they were abused here.' Article content Article content The lacrosse tournament was held to mark the arrival of the Empress of India from Yokohama, Japan, on April 28, 1891, the first Canadian Pacific steamship to cross the Pacific Ocean. Article content Article content The Empress of India had been slated to arrive April 14 but was delayed, which allowed the City of Vancouver time to put together a 'grand celebration' with a lacrosse tournament on the Brockton Point athletic grounds in Stanley Park. Article content Teams from Calgary, Victoria, New Westminster and Vancouver were invited to compete April 27 and 28, with the winner to receive a 'handsome trophy.' Article content Alas, it rained in the days before the tournament, and the field at Brockton Point became so mushy the games were moved to the Cambie Street grounds, today's Larwill Park.
Boston Globe
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Didion is a guide to understanding American culture and its dysfunction, but she's not the only one
Early in the book, Wilkinson argues that 'the way [Didion] understood the world, marked and inflected by the movies, is a useful lens to explain the reality we live in now. Everything she wrote about, from the feeling of observing reality from the outside — what else are we doing when we watch actors, many times larger than life, blemish-free and beautiful on the flatness of the screen — to the notion that politics and Hollywood are more similar than different, speaks to the great trajectory of her work.' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Related : In the forward to Didion's book of travel diaries, ' (2017), Nathaniel Rich argues that the entries recording her 1970 sojourn in New Orleans and travel across the Deep South, capture insights that 'eerily' anticipate the 'Hollywoodized political scene' we are currently living through. Wilkinson unfolds Rich's compact claim and fashions a narrative about California, John Wayne, the Hollywood studio system, Didion's novels, her film reviews, and her personal and political nonfiction, especially the canonical essay, 'The White Album,' whose opening sentence has inspired Wilkinson's title. Advertisement Employing a fragmented, episodic structure, toggling between and sometimes blending reportorial and personal points of view, the titular essay (first published in 1979 in New West, the Pacific Coast sibling magazine to New York Magazine) in Didion's collection ' Wilkinson argues that the essay's famous opening line — 'We tell ourselves stories in order to live' — is not 'the inspirational phrase it's sometimes taken to be.' Rather it's Didion's 'diagnosis of humanity's most reflexive survival tactic. It is Didion's key to making sense of the world. Though the line is often treated as an aphorism, Didion means it more as an opening parry, the rising curtain on her best attempt to make sense of her muddled memories.' Didion first noticed the culture's rent seams in the early 1960s when she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, quit their magazine jobs in New York City and moved to Didion's home state, California, to write screenplays for the movie industry. In Los Angeles, they co-wrote film treatments and 'doctored' other scripts, and even shared a magazine column, to financially underwrite their novel writing. Related : Perhaps in all her writing guises, Didion's male lead and cultural barometer is John Wayne, both the character and the man. Wayne encapsulated 'what postwar white America imagined itself to be: brave, ever on the move, unafraid to punch back when necessary. A beacon of goodness on a choppy horizon,' Wilkinson writes. However, in her 1965 Saturday Evening Post profile, 'John Wayne: A Love Song,' confronted with the man's cancer diagnosis, Didion 'betrays a sense of unease' about the maintenance of his symbolic vitality. Among the essays collected in her first nonfiction book, ' Advertisement Though Wilkinson's insightful and generous study offers a way of reading the overlapping and contradictory desires that inform Didion's writing in her differing modes and across her various career stages, there is a critical absence in 'We Tell Ourselves Stories' that gave me some unease of my own. With the exception of a riff on the differences between Didion's film criticism and Pauline Kael's, Wilkinson fails to put Didion in conversation with her literary contemporaries or agemates. This worrisome choice portrays Didion as though she were alone in critiquing American social mythologies on screen and in politics. Without contextualizing Didion's work within a wide-ranging critical history, Wilkinson, perhaps inadvertently, reifies the Didion myth, as writer and celebrity. Given the political and cultural conditions of the US nation-state in 2025, we ought to eschew those narratives that present white artists existing in an 'unpeopled' cultural landscape. Wilkinson's suggests that we recognize Didion as an American 'everywoman' 'who became a celebrity because she told things as she saw them, but never quite settled on one interpretation, on 'fixed ideas.'' Could Didion have been the only writer to see things as they were? Likely not. Such claims erase, for example, Audre Lorde's powerful cultural criticism and the vision of the West that N. Scott Momaday advances in his prizewinning novel, ' Related : Advertisement Wilkinson could've placed Didion, who titled an early essay 'Notes of a Native Daughter,' in a fruitful exchange with James Baldwin. Debating William F. Buckley (Didion's editor at The National Review) on the American dream and Black American citizenship at the University of Cambridge in 1965, Baldwin argued that Hollywood Westerns express national genocidal desires: 'It comes as a great shock around the age of five or six or seven, to discover that Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, when you were rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians were you. It comes as a great shock to discover the country . . . has not, in its whole system of reality, evolved any place for you [the racialized other].' For his 1971 memoir, ' Advertisement Wilkinson could've tested her analyses against the trenchant cultural criticism in Elaine Castillo's essay collection, ' 'We Tell Ourselves Stories' details how American political culture has become enmeshed with 'reality' television, the new mythology, from televised national political conventions, to C-SPAN to The Apprentice. According to Wilkinson, 'there's no better guide through this era than Didion.' We've entered an era that demands we write, publish, and tell rich, capacious, desegregated, comparative cultural histories and literary studies for general audiences in order to reject those political myths that purposely or inadvertently promote visions of white-only American experience and history. Our lives now depend on creating a mature, inclusive, and visionary national culture and politics that refuses Hollywood game show dreams. 'We Tell Ourselves Stories' will be useful in preparing for that cultural remaking. WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine By Alissa Wilkinson Liveright, 272 pages, $29.99 Walton Muyumba teaches literature at Indiana University-Bloomington. He is the author of ' .'
