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CBC
2 days ago
- General
- CBC
Rankin Inlet dump looks to save space with new metal shredder
The hamlet purchased the shredder to manage a build-up of metal waste that the community's senior administrative officer said has been sitting in the landfill for decades.
CBC
4 days ago
- General
- CBC
New metal shredder to compact waste and save space at dump in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut
The materials filling the dump in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, will soon take up a fraction of the space at the community landfill thanks to a new metal shredding machine. The hamlet purchased the shredder to manage a build-up of metal waste that the community's senior administrative officer (SAO) said has been sitting in the landfill for decades. "Literally everything that's come into this community in the last 50 years in the way of metal is still here," said hamlet SAO Darren Flynn. "Metal waste is a real problem for us here at the landfill." He expects that with the new shredder, metal waste will be reduced to about a quarter of its current size. The community bought the shredder for about $870,000 and it arrived by ship in July. All eight employees with Rankin Inlet's public works crew are being trained to operate the machine. Flynn said the hamlet chose the unit, because it's the kind Arviat bought in 2018. "We saw it in use in Arviat and we're very impressed," he said. This summer, the crew will focus on shredding scraps. That includes aluminum siding and other odds and ends in the landfill. By next summer Flynn expects they'll start shredding old vehicles too. Scavengers fret not, Flynn said the hamlet will allow metal waste to sit for a period of time and get picked over before it goes into the shredder. "In most communities, the dump is a resource that we jokingly call Canadian Tire," he said. In addition to saving space, Flynn said the shredded metal also reduces the risk of fires at the dump. He said he expects the new machine to run from now until October and every summer for the foreseeable future. "This will be a part of our operation for years to come to make sure that we keep the landfill in good shape."
CBC
27-07-2025
- CBC
Rankin Inlet sees spike in serious injuries from ATV accidents
Cases of serious injuries have risen dramatically in the last year. The hamlet's fire chief says the injuries are often caused by speeding, and alcohol is sometimes a factor.
Irish Times
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Harvest review: Trippy medieval parable where allegory overpowers the drama
Harvest Harvest Director : Athina Rachel Tsangari Cert : 18 Genre : Folklore Starring : Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen, Arinzé Kene, Thalissa Teixeira, Frank Dillane Running Time : 2 hrs 11 mins Athina Rachel Tsangari, sometime Yorgos Lanthimos collaborator and leading light of the Greek Weird Wave, returns to features following a nine-year hiatus. Harvest, her first English-language film, is a trippy medieval parable drawn from Jim Crace's novel of the same name. Although imbued with the same off‑kilter humour that powered Attenberg and Chevalier to international success, here Tsangari pursues an angular, folkloric register, situating her story in an unnamed Scottish border hamlet confronted by enclosure, cartographic bureaucracy and outsiders blamed for an unexplained blaze. Walter Thirsk, portrayed by Caleb Landry Jones with fraught fragility, occupies the nebulous space between peasantry and gentry; childhood ties bind him to benevolent yet ineffectual landlord Master Kent ( Harry Melling ). Their complicated kinship – both recent widowers – grants the picture its most persuasive emotional anchor. Around them swirl suspicious villagers, mysterious wanderers and the comparatively worldly map‑maker Earle (Arinzé Kene), whose parchment lines foreshadow dispossession. The arrival of Kent's ambitious cousin Jordan (Frank Dillane) hastens the transformation of fields into profitable pasture, pushing the settlement toward further fracture. READ MORE Cinematographer Sean Price Williams lenses mud, mist and ember skies with handsome texture – 16mm grain and flares showing – producing tableaux that recall Bruegel as much as Gaspar Noé. Tsangari's taste for ritual detail – a buttercup dabbed across a child's cheek before the Gleaning Queen selection, the burning of a corn dolly – creates searing imagery. Unhappily, the film's allegorical ambitions overpower its drama. Often-hapless characters frequently stand for positions rather than pulse with personality or motive, slowing momentum across an already‑stretched running time. When violence finally erupts – a humiliating shaving, a ghastly pillory interlude – the shock registers, but the preceding drift lessens the impact. Landry Jones and several co-stars, capable of real and feral unpredictability, are restrained by dialogue that sounds stock. There's plenty to admire – the earthy sound design, inventive point‑of‑view shifts, flashes of sly humour – while simultaneously yearning for the vivacity that enlivened the director's earlier work. Like the village it depicts, the film is meticulously crafted yet oddly two-dimensional: a map, not a place.
The Guardian
04-07-2025
- General
- The Guardian
Homes for sale with outbuildings and studios in England and Wales
Ceredigion Why own one home when you can have a whole hamlet – or most of one anyway? Three cottages, a boathouse and two Dutch barns make up most of this hamlet. Beautifully restored by the owners with quarry-tiled floors and timber-panelled walls, the main property, Felin Brithdir, is painted a rustic coral. Within 1.2 hectares (three acres) of land, there is a a wildflower meadow, a lake and woodland. Close to the coast, it lends itself to a holiday let business; the hamlet is on the route between Aberystwyth and Eryri (Snowdonia). £975,000 . Inigo, 020 3687 3071 Photograph: Inigo Colepike Hall is a Grade II-listed manor house and estate that, in its earliest iteration, was supposedly part of a deserted village. It became a manor house in medieval times and was rebuilt again in 1859. The stone building is now split into three properties. Cookson House, the four-bedroom east wing is for sale, but residents will soon forget they are attached. This side of the hall has its own private gardens, including woodland, a fenced paddock and a kitchen garden. A large outbuilding houses a gym and a store room. £950,000. Finest Properties, 0330 111 2266 Photograph: Finest In this rural hamlet, four miles from the town of Heathfield, surrounded by the High Weald area of outstanding natural beauty, is a detached family-sized home. There is a timber garage with a studio above that has its own kitchenette and is accessed by an external staircase. The front door opens into a large entrance hall with a sitting room on one side and the study on the other. Bifold doors open out from the kitchen on to a terrace that runs the width of the house and looks out across the lawn at the back. £995,000. Knight Frank, 01892 354 547 Photograph: Knight Frank This double-fronted Grade II-listed village house, which dates to 1848, has three bedrooms, plus an annexe in the back garden that could serve as a study or home office. There is a basement, too. The kitchen cabinets are painted ink blue, while the tiled flooring runs into the light snug, which has whitewashed exposed ceiling beams. There is gated parking and a walled south-facing courtyard garden. This popular village has the three Ps – a pub, a post office and a primary school. It is about three miles from the market town of Stamford. £600,000. Savills, 01780 484 696 Photograph: Savills Behind double-glazed front doors is a three-storey home in a conservation area between Blackheath and Charlton. The kitchen and smaller sitting room are on the lower ground level. The heart of the home is the reception room, which dominates the ground floor with wooden floors, panelled walls and a feature fireplace. Stairs from here lead up to the first floor. In the landscaped garden there is an outhouse with internet access and power. Westcombe Park railway station is in close proximity. £850,000. Dexters, 020 8815 2200 Photograph: Dexters
