27 Burst results for "Saskatoon"
WABE 90.1 FM
"saskatoon" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"Her role in the community? So to be respectful to the families, I don't speak on behalf of the other families at all times. I understand. But I think at the same point, you have to nail on the head. And how Gloria was involved in my sister's death was Gloria's job was, I guess, in the city was like a community first responder, I guess, not so Gloria came over. She was trying to help my sister. And she got killed. You know what occurs to me as I think about the pain that you're going through, and it's unimaginable. And again, I'm so sorry that you're going through this, but I'm thinking of you processing this not only as a grieving brother and uncle, but also, as the head of saskatoon's tribal council, so this is about family. It's also about an entire community. What is your community need right now? How are you thinking about that? Well, there's a two step process for us. First and foremost, it's always family that comes for us as First Nations people. So right now we're focused on a GoFundMe page for my sister to actually get these three boys into some really serious therapy to really deal with this as a 13 year old is really traumatized in the two boys below them are they're not themselves you can see it. The second piece is we're supporting the community of James Smith and the city of saskatoon, which is about two hours away because I still victims in the hospital and we're supporting them through our organization at three different locations. There's close to 80 people from different families that are here going to hospital each and every day. Some of them fleeing with nothing. We even draw one guy glasses because he left in a moment's notice with all his glasses. So the best thing we tell people if they want to give maybe it's a monetary donation. Yesterday in the city, we had a birthday party for one of the 8 year old kids. That's the kind of stuff we're doing. We're putting the humanity side first of the people. And that's what my sister wanted. Chief, let me ask you this, finally. I know it's early, and I know you're dealing with an immense amount of grief. Can you imagine a time when your communities can recover from this tragedy? I have not been thinking about that because I think about all the people that are hurting right now. And our first nation's way we haven't been able to do it in our culturally, which is sacred fires, bring people home, right? So this grieving process is going to take a while. And when I think about the long-term situation, I always think about my nephew's first because the trauma that they've seen in the trauma that they've endured is unspeakable. Nobody asked for this. Nobody had expected this. Think about this. Each and one of us have a home. We're supposed to feel safe in that home. And right now, these kids, they can't even return home pretty serious stuff. Pretty serious, indeed. Well, that's tribal chief Mark arkan. He's the head of the saskatoon tribal council, his sister Bonnie and his nephew Gregory were among those killed in the attack on Sunday
AP News Radio
Family says traumatic loss, not suspects' motive, is the story
"A close knit community in Saskatchewan is grieving after a series of deadly stabbings The deaths of ten people in Canada is raising questions about why the main suspect with 59 previous convictions was on the streets in the first place but saskatoon tribal leader Mark arkan says his family's story is about the victims First nation's culture the matriarchal society She lived that He says his half sister Bonnie burns and her son Gregory were killed and another son was stabbed She was protecting her son Arcan rushed to the James Smith Cree nation reserve the morning of the rampage We shed a lot of tears in the last couple of days Audio courtesy CTV I'm Jennifer King
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Dinesh Speaks With a Real, Live Canadian Trucker
"Guys, I've talked off and on in the podcast about the truckers convoy and the truckers protest both in Canada and in the United States, but I haven't had someone on who actually drives a truck who's been part of all this, and can sort of give a firsthand account of it, so I'm delighted to welcome Gerard de Los Santos, he is a Canadian trucker, although originally from South America. He got his license for trucking 1993, he's been a trucker since 1995, so really over 25 years. Hey Gerard, thanks for joining me. Am I right? It looks to me like you're in your truck. Good morning, thank you for having me. The program. Yes, I am in my truck. Coming back actually from Ottawa. It's going to be it has been quite some time being there and a longer than what we thought. And just halfway back home, I will say. You said you're in Saskatchewan. Where are you making your way toward? Where are you going? I am going to saskatoon. Then amundsen, and then my way down to Calgary. Okay, terrific. Now Gerard looks like you've been in Canada a long time. You've been driving a long time, but you're originally from South America. Say a word about your background. Yes. I am from Uruguay. I came to Canada on the 89 April 89, so it's going to be April now. It's going to be 33 years that I'm here. In 95, I got my license and started driving 93. I actually got my license, started driving 95. And being doing truck you never change. Car hauling, this is my speciality, what I like to do. And do it to those, all this mandate was getting more difficult every day to deal with everything. And we decided to I decided to join the convoy and ask for freedom, basically. The only thing we were asking was freedom of choice. And to open the federal mandate to be able to cross the border to the United States.
What Bitcoin Did
"saskatoon" Discussed on What Bitcoin Did
"It's all being done very well. If we can literally just disperse directly to truckers based on what their sacrifice was, and that's what happens with the endowment. That's a pretty special thing, because you circumvent all of the friction from traditional payment rails, all the fees, all the rent seeking, and you go from an individual and it's funny because on this tally coin thing that BTC Sessions helped us set up. You can donate sats with lightning. And you can also write a message. The other day I read a message that said, thank you from a doctor in Nigeria. And the fact that a doctor in Nigeria can donate to a pool of funds and I can go and speak to a trucker from saskatoon who has sacrificed to come here, left his family in sacrifice to come and claim freedom. And the fact that I can take souths directly from a Nigerian doctor and give it to a trucker from saskatoon is pretty special, and I don't think people understand how insanely innovative and groundbreaking that is. But this is going to show them. So the best place to go right now, if you go on Twitter, BTC I've got to say full credit to Ben for the branding, the marketing and setting up all the infrastructure for this. Because my initial setup was, get the blessing of the person in charge and just open up a wallet so that we can start bringing stuff in. And we accumulated a good 16 million sats. And then people were saying we need a lightning rail. And we need something set up that's more formal. Because all I was doing is posting a QR code and the actual address. So BTC sessions came up with this beautiful idea of starting a Twitter account called honk honk HODL. And attached to that is that tally coin of crowdfunding platform. And people can pay on main chain and with lightning. And you can attach a message to every donation that you make..
As It Happens from CBC Radio
"saskatoon" Discussed on As It Happens from CBC Radio
"So schedules chief. Medical health officer is telling it to people straight unless their behavior changes fast. The future is very grim yesterday. Dr salk hipsham hob released the cove nineteen modeling for the province. It showed that there could be more than two hundred cove patients in the icu by the new year. That's more than double. The current number and hospitals are already overwhelmed. Then dr shahad broke down. You know i think in the past. I've been there's mentioned that you know. Dr shop just leads to the public and he doesn't direct an order. I've no shame in leading to the public that you know he gone so far and we just have to pull along with the next few months and you know it's just to see what is happening in schools and hospitals and. I'm sorry i surveyed anytime. No okay on this is. This wasn't the question. I was planning asking but doctors hopper. Uk they commended tickle. Please say that you know. All the evidence is out there and it is very distressing to see unvaccinated young healthy people. And then up in icu. When dying and you know. I'm watching this from a distance but the pressure the sports. We talked burnout oliver. Our staff in to see young lives lost to rent to these. How can we have this. Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer. Dr saw kept shebab in tears yesterday during a news conference to share cove modeling numbers. Dr hudson masri is an intensive care physician at the royal university hospital. We reached him in saskatoon jeremiah. Three we just heard discussions chief medical officer of health. Break down in tears talking about the situation in your province. Just how bad is it at your hospital. The situation is certainly quite Terrible here in scotland in general and certainly here in saskatoon in our hospitals I see you have been at maximum capacity for the last few days Almost now we're going to two weeks that's come city and then we're talking about search capacity meaning not our regular capacity to expand capacity Many patients that deserve to the in the icu. Or not in the icu. Due to the fact that useful There are actually along andrew. That's converted to an icu room in saskatoon And so i am not surprised about the reaction of the chief Health officer dr seuss soccer Because the situation is is just as bad and in ontario doctors hospitals in ontario. Were hoping we're offering willing able to help you with those. Icu patients and scotch when sent a six icu patients to interior. And then what happened. Then why haven't they been more transfers. The government is certainly paint politics. But this after that announcement Out of the scotsman government was for six patients the actual arrangements where for about forty to fifty patients And even though the hospitals tear you told that they will get twelve patients immediately in the first few days And so this government. I think Found itself in a bad situation where it is on the press that the citizens of scotch are being transferred to ontario. What really happened is yesterday Myself and my colleagues were planning for patient number. Seven eight and nine to leaves us koch when today When we suddenly heard from doctors and ontario not from own government from doctors or zero that the transfers have been cancelled and later on. It was confirmed that it was canceled. this is. This is a reckless dangerous behavior Do we need to move these patients. We need to move another thirty forty patients in order to really make sure that people who are being cared for Not in the icu. Who deserve icu. Care on the ice. You need to make sure that all serious cancer heart brain surgeries go on This is something that would really helps catch. Went quite a bit and relieve the pressure. That our Icu's have been handling for the last few weeks. I imagine when you're preparing people to transfer these are critically ill people Who have families who have support. Who are there's a lot of fear around their their health. That point everything about that. The chance for too long distance on -tario must be very fraught. So how do people respond when when when especially when you find out last moments you a tweet that people that you're anticipating are going to get the care they need suddenly can't when i sat down with the families of the patients who being transferred to -tario They were gracious. They were Kind they were understanding families. Understand that we are in trouble. I mean they. They walk into the icu. Visit their loved ones. They understand it. See it And really everyone in this province With exception of the premier in his office have a good understanding of. What's going on and so You know when. I sat down with the few families in the last two days They were very gracious. They were thankful they were grateful And they were reassured by words that these patients will Will be you know. Be taken care of before they leave during their transfer and after and All six patients are doing well Today in ontario and receiving a standard of care or better because of the fact that on -tario. icu's are not under pressure. The government is saying that they of would have not confirmed. More patients would be transferred When asked about ontario these transfers marlow pitcher. the emergency operations centers said that. They don't know where that number came from that there will be six more transferred. So wh where is the confusion in this. They're really no confusion whatsoever If the ontario icu's were told up front that they will receiving twelve patients In addition to that if there were no plans to move Six patients More than six patients. And then that tells you a lot about the poor planning on the side of this government It is very obvious in order to make even the slightest difference. We need to move forty to fifty patients so if the government would like to maintain they're talking points about confusion than that's quite embarrassing for them Because of the fact that moving six patients is not really is not enough at all. There has been zero difference made to the system by moving only six patients so certainly this is unfortunately this government is mastering The game of politics Over mastering the The responsibility of taking care of people And and certainly the number.
The Current
"saskatoon" Discussed on The Current
"Nineteen on the those we bring in top experts to answer your questions about the corona virus and post some of our own. Get the latest evidence in a way. That's easy to understand by subscribing to the dose. It's your guide to getting through this difficult time. You can find the dose wherever you get your podcast. This is a cbc podcast. There is excitement in the air. You know the kind. I'm talking about students. Reuniting with classmates and teachers in person and hoping for a clean slate as they begin a new grade but there is plenty of trepidation as well. Learning during this pandemic has not been easy on anyone for some. it's taken a heavy toll. Not only on their marks but on their mental health as well in a few moments. We'll hear from a lead researcher on pandemic learning loss. And how to get back on track. Also talk with a psychiatrist but how to support kids as school resumes. But first graham hopkins grade. Twelve students in saskatoon has launched a petition asking high schools to return to the regular semester system. They operated under before. Cova d- graham. Good morning good morning. It's been a minute since. I've been in school but as i remember the semester system had students taking four courses for half the year and then four courses for the other half of the year. How did that change in saskatoon during code saskatoon and the twenty twenty twenty one year our our local school division implemented eight time people called the quin timetable. And in this we would take the same number of courses. We usually take which is ten so a couple more than ontario but we would take Two courses in each day and each course would occupy about two hours for the better part of the year and we would have about two months with each set of two classes before switching to a new one so there were five of the year in each would last about two months. What did that mean in terms of learning and and what what happened if for example. You know it's a lot more compressed but if you started to fall behind in one of those classes what did that mean if you were to fall behind. Especially in some of the heavier courses More academic courses such as the master scientists. It could mean catastrophic results for you and for your grades And those effects would start to appear almost immediately because there is no time given almost free to recover from anything or free to prepare for anything because these courses are going by so quickly You would have a unit that would normally take about a few a few weeks to complete and now you're doing it in a couple of days so if you're behind on something if you even realize you're behind which may not even happen in itself but if you realize you're behind you have been extremely narrow window to correct whatever mistake has been made or whatever lack of understanding. You may have what happened with your.
The Bobby Bones Show
"saskatoon" Discussed on The Bobby Bones Show
"We started doing that because of the pandemic but now we still do it. So i mean. I've probably get home and find groceries on my doorstep every other day whereas you know back in the day you would just go wants to the grocery store week or whatever every other week and that was it weed out too much is because mostly. It's my fault because she's like. Hey i will cook whatever. I'm pretty picky eater. Don't like onions. Don't like Well i don't like if i can see onions. She's told me. I don't mind onions. 'cause she will cook onion saskatoon. There is the greatest thing ever kid. Apparently i don't like to see onions. But she's like. Hey let's figure out what we're going to eat. And i never figured out and so then i'm like why don't we just go. We'll go get the food. Yeah we'll order food. We so much money on that she cook last night. Air fried salmon would which was so good that air friar is still use it all the time she air fried salmon. She made a peach a regula and goat cheese salad. Which was amazing. And we do that. Uncle ben's rice that you can put in the microwave and you peel the top of it and it's instant rice which is really good. We had that for dinner last night and it was. It was good. But i learned from her how to make these little snacks. Sometimes we'll just go and find stuff in the cupboard and go like why. Don't you combine these things and so what we do. We air fry to peaches cut. I love peaches. Cut pieces up into little little slips. Put them in paper but lanny air fryer with paper heart. chemin paper. Whatever that crafts called. Brown i want somebody to throw paper into their. I don't know the difference..
MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs
"saskatoon" Discussed on MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs
"Week's collected connected conversations back to school well not quite yet but it is around the corner so we thought we'd help prep with an education related retrospective and with so much material to cover. We've set aside two dates on our course calendar. So let's get off to a head start here with a discussion from november of twenty eighteen. What we studied some local opposition to a proposed preschool aimed at indigenous kids in class. That day round table regulars ken williams and brought to o'clock. According to the saskatoon starphoenix a community association. Saskatoon has decided. It's not really cool with a proposed preschool To be owned and operated By the saskatoon travel council in their neighborhood. It's it's part of the tribal council aboriginal headstart program for indigenous children. The idea is to have a first nations based curriculum and that the preschool is expected to accommodate forty kits bracha. What's your understanding of what their beef is with. Having these these kitties plan their hood. Yeah i mean The reasons they're giving public and most of the people who apparently have raised concerns are not willing to come out publicly with their with their reasons for opposing development. One woman was willing to go on camera and she claimed she loves kids. Works with kids. But she thinks it's too dangerous to have them on that property and she gave the example of a kid running out onto the road. Which of course could happen anywhere so it. It seems that some of the concern here is as not being openly stated and certainly there. There's accusations that have gone out that if this were just a any kind of preschool. There wouldn't be the same resistance but because it's a first nations led initiative and an average head start program would be located there that that's actually with generating the the response the negative response to development and having lived in saskatchewan. That totally makes sense to me. I it doesn't surprise me at all that i've wait neighborhood would be resistant to having first nations. People have a business even preschool. And i think that just kinda to my mind goes to show how bad the relationship continues to be between first nations people in other other folks in many canadian but especially like prairie northern towns or cities in this case. So we're talking about forty kids not necessarily all indigenous but it sounds like a lot of them would be and they quoted some guy who lives in the neighborhood ryan doherty and he said there's no need we already have two preschools out here. There's no need for a third one. It's of a silly place for it. Still tribal council come on and and basically what. The tribal council is contemplating is taking a double garage house and converted into a preschool which would double the size and change the house significantly. According to to already who said he bought his house seven years ago because of the large lot size and peace and quiet in the unconventional neighborhood established after the second world war veterans and their families. See these are the small petty idiotic things but these have this little action by this community association in there. Attempt to block this preschool. Also negatively affects these thirty to forty children. This is this is. This is preventing the development of indigenous children. This is preventing This preventing dishes families who eat to work from a place to put their children so they can go and work now. This is locking into a system that is is blocking indigenous development. And that's what's at stake here and for them to say that. Oh our hosing is the old age. You know the the price of my house. An argument Well the thing is in canada. The idea that you're allowed to choose. Your neighbors is inherently wrong in canada. You can't have neighbor saying no. I don't want you living here because then you come up with these little apartheid reserve states for whites and reserve states for others. Right the inherent wrongness. They don't even see it. And this will negatively impact children. They're not doing the right thing. Saying hey i feel like i'm a good canadian and i want to help correct an unjust system. But no they're going to say. I'm going to use that system to maintain that injustice in. That's what it is. I'm not exaggerating. This is exactly what it is. They're impairing the development of children on purpose The tribal councils not speaking it. Would've i think it would have been incumbent upon the saskatoon starphoenix to talk maybe to potentially affected parents right just the way that you've centered that that the parents of the families the kids right but so they go back to dougherty he seems to get most of the real estate the story and and listen to this quote right. He says the preschool doesn't fit the neighborhood. It affects our property value and our peace and quiet now. Obviously i'm not in that man's head i don't know exactly what's motivating those comments but it does sound similar to a lot of people would say is dog whistling. I mean he's definitely closest that's classism right there in its naked form. I share that concern too. I think it'll have an impact just on the first nations community in saskatoon as well and schedule and beyond because they they're used to this type of attitude towards them coming into new neighborhoods and unfortunately there's that weird almost segregationist mentality that still exists that there's white neighborhoods and native neighborhoods and that certainly was what i grew up with in in. Regina and saskatoon is much different in that respect. So i think it is alarming. That people would feel so bold in terms of making those claims that up. Preschool doesn't belong in that area. I definitely feel like if there's an economic case and like a social case for the tribal council to persist in and see it through. I don't think it would be something where people would be hostile to to the children and families that end up using that space. But it's still kind of embarrassing just for that. Local neighborhood association at their residents would seem that intolerant. And i guess the the city was willing to accommodate it to some degree because they were willing to have a special meeting for community members to vent about this development so i would just add. His statement seems contradictory because he's just acknowledge. There's two preschools in that neighborhood already. So what is it about this preschool. That doesn't shit whereas the other two presumably do. Yeah i i know it's just confusing. Think that got to me as well about that statement is like you know three's enough to preschool grade. Three's crowd or something. No it's the same thing as the property value. Things has always been used to prevent allowing the other to come into the community. There's a thing called white flight. You know this is when when non white people start. Purchasing homes in communities that are traditionally white because white people tend they. Are you know wealthier class. They leave they feel their property values. Go down because no other northern white people like we're gonna go move into those places so they they take off again. This is the thing you're not allowed to choose your neighbors. So because they couldn't. I guess legally or they couldn't vocally say we're we don't want these. These people our neighbors they laughed. They moved out and moved to other communities. So it exists. This is the thing that exists. it's phenomenon that exists. I mean it's it's a daycare it's it's the only possible allowance is this guy's just some cantankerous old dude who doesn't like kids but it if you don't like kids what.
MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs
"saskatoon" Discussed on MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs
"According to the saskatoon starphoenix a community association. Saskatoon has decided. It's not really cool with a proposed preschool To be owned and operated By the saskatoon travel council in their neighborhood. It's it's part of the tribal council aboriginal headstart program for indigenous children. The idea is to have a first nations based curriculum and that the preschool is expected to accommodate forty kits bracha. What's your understanding of what their beef is with. Having these these kitties plan their hood. Yeah i mean The reasons they're giving public and most of the people who apparently have raised concerns are not willing to come out publicly with their with their reasons for opposing development. One woman was willing to go on camera and she claimed she loves kids. Works with kids. But she thinks it's too dangerous to have them on that property and she gave the example of a kid running out onto the road. Which of course could happen anywhere so it. It seems that some of the concern here is as not being openly stated and certainly there. There's accusations that have gone out that if this were just a any kind of preschool. There wouldn't be the same resistance but because it's a first nations led initiative and an average head start program would be located there that that's actually with generating the the response the negative response to development and having lived in saskatchewan. That totally makes sense to me. I it doesn't surprise me at all that i've wait neighborhood would be resistant to having first nations. People have a business even preschool.
MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs
Saskatoon Preschool Plans Cause Controversy
"According to the saskatoon starphoenix a community association. Saskatoon has decided. It's not really cool with a proposed preschool To be owned and operated By the saskatoon travel council in their neighborhood. It's it's part of the tribal council aboriginal headstart program for indigenous children. The idea is to have a first nations based curriculum and that the preschool is expected to accommodate forty kits bracha. What's your understanding of what their beef is with. Having these these kitties plan their hood. Yeah i mean The reasons they're giving public and most of the people who apparently have raised concerns are not willing to come out publicly with their with their reasons for opposing development. One woman was willing to go on camera and she claimed she loves kids. Works with kids. But she thinks it's too dangerous to have them on that property and she gave the example of a kid running out onto the road. Which of course could happen anywhere so it. It seems that some of the concern here is as not being openly stated and certainly there. There's accusations that have gone out that if this were just a any kind of preschool. There wouldn't be the same resistance but because it's a first nations led initiative and an average head start program would be located there that that's actually with generating the the response the negative response to development and having lived in saskatchewan. That totally makes sense to me. I it doesn't surprise me at all that i've wait neighborhood would be resistant to having first nations. People have a business even preschool.
The Current
"saskatoon" Discussed on The Current
"Safely is another earlier this week. In saskatoon the air quality was considered very high risk due to wildfires across the provinces north. And when the air is bad. Kimberly evans gets concerned about her daughter. Cassidy though having a daughter with cystic fibrosis There have been years in the past where this has been a concern and we were hoping this would come to it again this summer. But it's definitely a huge concern for us. having a child with already a pre existing respiratory condition and then the added smoke. My concern is a parent has always long term exposure to Smoke so not. Just maybe um what some of us might feel right now with maybe getting a headache or shortness of breath and just sore throat and not feeling. Great when you're outside but also thinking long term how is exposure for many days at a time to A heavy smoking affect her in the future. It's hard especially with cystic fibrosis. You're supposed to be really active and get a lot of exercise and activity to help. Keep your lungs clear and challenging. When you aren't able to get out of the house we have In the past and may need to consider that for this year to now that some of the restrictions have opened up the in regards to travel. We've looked sometimes in places where there isn't Smoke and had to travel somewhere just in order for her to be able to not Have to stay inside for the whole summer whether you have a chronic medical condition business that relies on outdoor foot traffic. Or you just want to spend time outside. After months of kovic restrictions smoke from wildfires is wreaking havoc on communities and people's health..
Toronto Real Estate Unfiltered
"saskatoon" Discussed on Toronto Real Estate Unfiltered
"In terms of supply supplies being impacted completely And so what can we learn from those areas to make sure that we stay on. Track your scotch on because absolutely if you're looking to raise a family if you're looking to start a business scheduling kind of your go to place not. Naturally i don't think people naturally think of that but it absolutely is and obviously again in speaking the people and again this is how for for for for a lot of my podcasts and the topics that come up If i talk about you know certain things with people you know on a regular basis My theory is that there's gonna be more people who wanna hear that so the good news is about the moving to catch one Saskatoon moving to the area that you're and and and you know for people to understand it Obviously you know there's probably Not a lot of You know not. Everyone's necessarily doing all the calculations in terms. Okay you know. I'm thinking about an a lot of clients that i've dealt with in toronto. Gta they've been talking about moving east so the most recent clients. I helped move out to nova scotia area and obviously that that was for them that you know that was chosen direction but there's also again more and more people that i'm talking to that are you know obviously looking about going the other direction and again not knowing you know enough about it so it's really great that you're able to sort of humanize it and again. This is why for me. This is why. I do the podcast as an audio podcast. Mostly because When people hear a voice whether it's mine and again in this case yours Get to hear again someone who actually walks the walk so you actually you know you you you move there where were you. Where'd you live before if you don't mind me asking. Yeah that's a really interesting question i'm.
Toronto Real Estate Unfiltered
"saskatoon" Discussed on Toronto Real Estate Unfiltered
"Is one that is more confident about being successful in being who it is And the way it describes the schedule culture it's come like get her done culture People just kinda roll up their sleeves and and there's advantages and disadvantages to that they just. They're they're great people who that's their culture. They just kind of get it down so when you when you transfer that to like growth economic development or even you know schools and education you see that and so it means that we have and i think that's why describes that we have. We saw small towns here But in larger municipalities. We have the vibe of a small town. But we're really a we're becoming big big cities right so it's like we've got one leg on each each kind of culture so big city small city culture both of those inter mingled and. I'm based here in saskatoon and that's very much true. We want to have sort of that downtown. That's very vibrant. And and you know that density downtown. That anchors our entire polity But at the same time those are still people that Have that small town by and know each other and when you go on the street you can still get that feeling. That you're in a very cohesive community so that kind of describes a sketch for me You.
Data Engineering Podcast
"saskatoon" Discussed on Data Engineering Podcast
"That's as easy as flagging. The task is in auto restart task so if the host machine running it goes down it will automatically restart the task on another available qualified agent. So this is really interesting in ephemeral compute environments. Right where you have this service. You want it to be running all the time. But it's running out ephemeral federal compute. That could go away. You can even use ask to scale these up and down when five of these services running tanner. So that's an interesting use case. I mentioned that if baked into saskatoon when you when he spent up ec. Two instances are federal compute. Baked into that..
Data Engineering Podcast
"saskatoon" Discussed on Data Engineering Podcast
"The first task in the john runs a python script which goes out to the. Api authenticates gets a job token and then outputs that as a runtime variable and this is kind of what we call the meta data in saskatoon runtime variables. So what happens is that variable goes back to the api and it stored with john as meta data as part of that executing jobs context. Yes exactly thanks. Mark so future tasks can then leverage that jot token that was generated in the first task so now you can leverage that jot token in java script innoc- sharp obligation right in any other code language in any other task running in any environment. So that's what. I'm talking about as far as a powerful code use pattern. So how does that work. so meta. Data can be defined either at design time or at runtime so you can create team level variables or job level variables with this ascoli console. But you can also write your scripts to send a specific formatted string to standard out in the background agent is tailing that standard out and looking for those patterns in that string is getting clued. A variable name in value. And it's gonna extract those key value peres at meta data an uploaded to the api so now that state is gonna be available to other tasks in the job including the current tax. That's running so if the task fails and you restart it it's gonna have the mandated than it had previously saved so as far as saying state to be able to restart a process that failed where it left off you can use mandated to do that as well. The way a data is consumed in script is used the sask loose specific syntax as a placeholder for runtime variable immediately before the script is executed agent will inject the current value of that run time variable into the script before execution. Which means that you can utilize this meta data these strengthen variables in scripture in any language. Yeah in what's cool. Is that so. You're obviously not gonna realize a gigabyte of data. Don't do that at work right. Assassinated variable in your standard out right. But you can..
Data Engineering Podcast
"saskatoon" Discussed on Data Engineering Podcast
"You get your security tokens. Put it in configure file. Run the agent. It connects up. You can see the agent you know heart beating in the web console and now you can run scripts on it. There's no firewall exceptions. Because there's no incoming connection to agent. The agent can over https to the api and a message queue. So that's how code and instructions are delivered to agent so there's no firewall configuration and in terms of the evolution of the project. I'm wondering what were some of the initial ideas or assumptions that you had going into it and some of the ways that those have been challenged are invalidated as you hit reality started working with end users and some of the ways that that has shifted the design and architectural concepts that you've ended up with. That's a kid question. As far as like the overall goal honestly we're software developers trait and we always look for things that make our lives easier right and we're always skeptical when somebody claims to be able to make our lives easier right. We hear those claims all the time in. Were right to be skeptical about that but that was really the goal with this thing is. We wanted to make something that would make life easier. You know people start out with a simple thing and then they end up having to add all the scaffolding at bar talked about earlier we said. Hey what if they could just focus on on the value that they're getting paid to add right rather than all this other stuff. So that was the goal and that hasn't changed and that's built into the dna of the project because it's a usage based payment model. If people don't like it people don't use it you know it's of no benefit to us either. So as far as like design changes when we got like i beta user i think one of our first beta users was running lennox box but running it from a remote location right and we hadn't considered that right. We figured oh they're going to put the agent in a folder and run it from that. Folder may put it in central folder in ranted on a bunch of machines from that holder. And that didn't work right. You know there have been things like that where you know. We're like well. We never thought somebody would use it in that way and then we had to adjust the product to handle those scenarios. But that's not really a design change as more of like almost like a bug fix as far as design changes. At first i wrote the agent to talk to the api through a message. Cue and then. We changed that to talk to the api directly using api in points. There was some security advantages to that. The database structure we started out with deeply nested database structures and we quickly found that it was much better to use shallow structures so that was kind of a big design change. The testing framework has evolved a lot over the course of the project but you know overall this combination of of years of experience doing this kind of stuff so there haven't been any like you know shattering design changes. It's been a fun project to work on his. This is the first project ever work on where i am. The target user somewhat riches in we showed to our friends we say. Well what do you don't like will make your life easier. That's the main goal is to make people's lives easier and developers happy in. We've stuck to that pretty closely. As far as the actual workflow of building a task graph with saz glue. You mentioned that the initial setup. Is you sign up. You get the agent. You get the security token and you're off to the races but as you're actually starting to build out more complex systems or building out a directed cyclic graph. Where you might have branches and convergence points how do you think about the design of that workflow. And what's involved in actually developing on iterating on the overall structure of a end to end workflow. So as we've kind of you know alluded to before our goal here was to make it so that the only hard thing that you need to do sascha is your code right. We wanted to make the rest of it. really easy. Designing bags with sas calling is sigrid easy. It's clicking in typing names and stuff so we have a web console with a workflow designer. That's job centric rice. You have a job that consists in multiple tasks and you create a tax by clicking a button giving it a name now. It shows up in the visual workflow designer. Each task is a box in the designer. We wanted to make it mobile friendly. So we don't attempt to like redraw thing you know which some tolls do doesn't seem to ever end very well but we do show like the hierarchy so you can click on a button on an individual task in it'll show you all upstream dependencies. You can have zero to many dependency relationships between all the tasks in a dag. Obviously we do check to make sure. They're no cyclical dependencies. And one of the really cool features is some really cool conditional path routing so your script can output a route code and you can use those route coats within the graph to say a task five should only execute if task four finishes with route code. Go to step four or five or something like that and it could be based on regular expressions as well and one of our save. Real quick is that you don't have to actually use visual designer as people become kind of power user. This thing it's meant to be programmed with itself in everything that you can do in the web console can be done through. Api for our users in in fact a lot of the demos that we've created so far the more useful ones end up using the saskatoon api internally to dynamically generate jobs. So if you wanted to dynamically generate an airflow workflow in saskatoon kick it off. You could do that pretty easily. And so anything that we describe it in the u i can do. Api so yeah. In fact you can design an entire complex job with tax dependencies in bed the scripts and everything right in a single jason document upload that to sassou through api and it'll just run the whole thing so you can create jobs dynamically from code uploaded to the api and it'll just run as far as the actual jobs themselves. So there's the agent that actually executes things and as a result because it's just executing a binary on the system you're able to run it with any different programming language or mix and match languages and i'm curious how you handle things like dependencies for python script that somebody specifies in the web. Api or on the web ui or any sort of packaging concerns. People should be thinking about as they're deploying these different tasks to the boxes that the agents are running on and just where you see your responsibilities in terms of being able to execute these scripts and where the responsibility of the developer lies of deploying their code. You know handling burgeoning of the job specifications and just the build test release cycle for working with sas glue chauffeur dependencies. If you're talking about dependencies that are like files like zip files or maybe jar files usually that we do have to place in sask..
As It Happens from CBC Radio
"saskatoon" Discussed on As It Happens from CBC Radio
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KNBR The Sports Leader
"saskatoon" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"Yeah, but it's when Canada and bring the top home. It comes home every down the year for crying out loud. Uh, Andromeda nice. And if Good to see you got. I'm assuming yet Tampa in this one I got Tampa and this one. I've been wrong on Montreal every step of the way And in this radio, this radio show I'm doing now. Okay, we It's called the Green Zone and the other guys vehicles Jamie and I am actually his coast. Anyway, We have this green zone guarantee that if we quit the team, we both agree they're going to win. They absolutely Yeah. So So my green Zone guarantee is Camelback sweet. You need to get Berkel in your show. You guys can all live together exactly. Well, before I let you go, I have to get a I forgot about this last time. I got to get a rowdy Roddy Piper story because I couldn't believe it when I was watching the rowdy Roddy documentary which defense passing the and, you know they were so good, limping. They're so good love them, And I didn't know because I just learned Patrick Marleau is from where you were Gordie Howe. Now I know Brandon points there, too. And I was like, Well, hell with all those rowdy, rowdy Roddy Piper's from there as well. How big a deal is he there? I know he passed away a couple years ago. But how? How big a deal is he was he And are there any rowdy stories from up there? Well, the the big story I have about radio radio paper is when I had the radio show way back when it's called the truth and a sports show and we got rowdy Roddy Piper to come on, and we knew he was. He was actually from the area that I grew up finished, which is like the university New Tana area, which people in the area and what the hell are you talking about? Amanda. It's just ran through happy, which, uh, it's Um, he grew up in that area as well. He later on moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, which which is not an upgrade, by the way, and then went on to have his life. But we got rowdy Roddy Piper. I We had him on Tommy for an hour. Did you really commercial? Yeah, we don't want He went from commercial break to commercial break and he was lovely, Lovely dance. But now we're on my show went to eight o'clock at night. It was not actually in the high primetime rating dried area, but anyway, not like you were. I had to go to reading. Stop. It's now we got to. We got to end at eight. Okay? It is now about, um 8 15. And we're still talking. Okay? And he's going on. He's telling a story after story telling people growing up in Victoria Avenue and going for ice cream with the ice cream place is still there. And he's telling story after story and all the stories that you heard on that biography, Roddy Roddy is telling us he, like, leave nothing out. Nothing out. Finally I said, Mr Piper. I gotta go, man. I got like, I'm way past the clock and he goes. Why didn't you say something? Young man? What are you doing? Run that thing carefully. Okay, well from the lines, will you please come back on? Any time I got nothing but stories. He was the nicest guy And of course, you know, he says anything from the former for a guy from Saskatoon. She was so great, so fantastic and he was just so nice to everybody came on the phone, and then he called back to apologize to our producers say, I'm sorry. I've talked so much. He knows it was so much fun doing but you ever want me on I'll come back on again. Just Terrific, nice guy, and it was so much fun to talk to, But he was He was the best when he when he came on that show one of my highlights. That's awesome. You know what I've realized? And we used interview more wrestlers back in the day. Uh, most wrestlers are really cool guys like they're really cool. Guy is the only guy that wasn't He wasn't an ask per se, but I just We couldn't get him out of character with Ric flair, Ric flair the whole time or interviewing him. He's talking. Then there's Who I'm like. Dude, did you stunning? Come on, We had, uh, macho man on and it wasn't like macho man. Did the whole Yeah. We're the whole time. He did it at the end, of course. We have that promo with me, him and Ralph, which is it's awesome, but it wasn't like these guys aren't their characters. Except for Rick Flare. It's like in most of them are it is really as stone cold Steve Austin we head on. One time although Ralph didn't believe him when he told him Ralph Ralph thought it was a fake beer bottle that they cracked over someone's head. And you know that was making goes. It was a real beer bottle. He goes, who might have made sure it would crack. You know what? The right thing, But yeah, you know, we we know what we're doing. He goes, I don't know. And I think some good goals will give me a beer body. I'll show you how to do it. Dick rocked the client. Who spent a lot of time in San Francisco. Um Bret Hart, but hit my heart and he came into a batch of standards. The Shark Games. That's the next one. I'm gonna watch. I get that one on the that but that was also he went to a lot of shark games. Yeah, because Ryan stand Who's the Who's one of the, uh people in hockey ops for the Sharks? Huge wrestling can so tell how Ryan got connected with him? Because Brett would come. I think this is his girlfriend. Now I think his wife is from San Francisco. Um He'd come to any come too short games and be in the dressing room. One day I walk in with Jesus. Pure bred heart. Yeah, I know. I'm good. Hard. Thanks very much for that, Um and Stannard stand or even Hannam at his wedding. Like such a really I used to live. I used to live a couple blocks from the heart mansion. In Calgary when I worked to talk can and coach at University of Calgary and I say that only because it makes me sound good. I don't know. You know. Didn't go down there, of course, but I didn't go to the dungeon. But, yeah. Bret Hart came to a bunch of shark games all the time yet bigger. They're good guys, man. They're great guys. We went, We went to wrestling you and I at the happy Yeah, And we tried to get like Madonna and the door. And what's the same drugs? Yeah. Uh oh, man, you know who should have been a W W wrestler was linked Gates. He should have gotten the rest. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. He would have been fantastic drink. The mission drew it all it rates itself. It's just exactly. Yeah. Hey, man, you know, I always love having John. It's always fun being on the job stories talking little hockey. Uh, how's the How's the show doing? It's okay. You know what? I think The ratings have gone down since I joined, But you know what We say He's not working for a living. He That's a given. You know what? And it gets you out of the house a little bit, gets another house, and, um, I really got to buck up on my CFL knowledge because the writers are CFL's coming back. So I gotta back up on that. Make sure they it's still there's still too rough riders, one rough riders and one No. Now there now there now they're the Ottawa now that the Ottawa Red Blacks and you have to say Red blacks because it's all in capital letters. Preferably demand when they read laps. Yeah, Okay. Sounds like building an option. Yeah. Hey, Drew. Thank you again. It's always fun talking. Then we'll catch up soon, my friend. Everybody love you areas. Drew Manda. All right here on these forts Later. KB KB on K NPR one..
Game Scoop!
"saskatoon" Discussed on Game Scoop!
"This boss three bosses after this so like the working elements of that is really neat. And then i love the idea of being able to beat the game without being in the bosses then getting shame ending. I left shannon sick great. It does bring up a philosophical question of like well. Just skip the boss and it's like why not just skip skip the level. Just skip the whole game. Why not i think it was. What's the fighting the guilty gear fighting game. That has a story mode. It just came out. I i watched mitchell's review and guilty gear. Strive get guilty gear drive and it has really long story mode but the story modes just Like it doesn't it's not punctuated with character fights. It's just like there's a four hour movie in game. Wow because then and then you know mitchell president because it doesn't have to artificially like to create a gameplay moment it doesn't it doesn't have to compromise their story where like now these two characters fight. I yeah that's wild. And then the last game i wanted to bring up from the event today was called planet of lana in. This looks really interesting. Right up my alley cinematic puzzle adventure to deep with handpainted visuals so we can look forward to platforming puzzles stealth sequences and then a companion mechanic between this little alien cat creature And the person of presumably or they have to sort of cooperating in order to get through challenges and whole game runs at four k. Sixty frames per second. It's an xbox console exclusive coming twenty twenty two. I'm getting some inside and more colorful inside slash limbo vibes from this. Yeah i i can already tell. This isn't your information. I can just tell from the trailer that like this game is going to make me devastatingly sad by the end. Something horrible. it's going to happen or said happening. Right there yeah isn't that you have as many lives as you want. But that little mouse. Cat thing -firmative armenta and it's your choice. Do you start the game over you monster or do you keep going. How can you yeah. Looks beautiful though. More games like that please. And that brings us to video game. Twenty questions are suggestions. This week comes from james in saskatoon saskatchewan.
Welcome To The Music
"saskatoon" Discussed on Welcome To The Music
"Tell us a little bit about the song of the legend. Bobby byrd that bobby bird. Little bird families huge chick indigenous family and scotch when which we all lake just outside of Saskatoon i believe a residential school. He was there and Early in october he thought he could make it home any. So i started walking home He never made it and took four days for the the brothers. The school sent someone looking for him. But you as bound till the next spring. I believe his bones were found and a good job. China identify the bones and finally through dna analysis Few short years ago. Probably twenty fifteen three samples of the sisters. Here's identified as bobby perry and ogle's years. They had no idea what happened to him. This is legend. Bobby byrd with.
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Being a comedian during COVID-19
"You know, around this time last year, the Canadian comic Shawn cut hand was really trying to get his comedy career off the ground. He was going to a ton of open mikes. He was getting some paid gigs. He just performed a really successful set One night. I'm a single native in my thirties with no kids. Oh, I'm like a very white buffalo set that he recorded was about to send off to the just for last festival. You know, in hopes of performing there. We all know how that would turn out festivals and coveted Well, they don't really go together. So going from performing every week to now, having to step off the stage, Sean had to look to other outlets for his comedy. And one of those outlets strangely, and he'll tell you the story was writing his aunt's eulogy. I got to talk to Shawn cut hand. From Saskatoon. Hey, Sean, How are you? Hey, I'm pretty good. How are you? Good. How is this catch one tonight. Today has the house Saskatoon today. We're finally sitting above zero. So we're doing good. Yeah, you could take off the winter coat. Thank God. Hey. Yeah. Finally s o. I want to get an idea of how things were for you before Cove it last year. What was work like for you back then, just before covert. Um I actually went to Ottawa to be a talent associate further inspire words. And that was just just before things started getting like backstage at that award show. We're kind of getting in mumblings of like, Oh, we better not be hugging everyone. And then that finished and I came home to Saskatoon and the next week. That was gonna work down backstage after Juno's and it went from going backstage there the first day too. Don't touch anyone. Hand shakes aren't allowed no hugging. And then we did our first day of orientation. And then the next day, the Juno's were just canceled. I remember I was there, I would do you remember that day we all woke up thinking that the Jew knows we're gonna happen and everything was all right. And then the news just started pouring in. It was terrifying. Yeah, it's like way start like the whole stage set up the day before And then it's just like, Yeah, everything's done. What was your comedy life like Before the pandemic? It was going pretty good. Like I was getting consistent gigs. I had just finished the holiday season and I had done my first half hour at Yuck yucks, which was like a big milestone for me that I had been working on and then me and my buddy Danny night. We're running this open mic Sunday nights at The compromise, which is just a little hole in the law ball bar, and we kind of wood. Just it was like a gorilla open mic. I called it. We just showed up that like 6 30 set up a carioca machine and Didn't open mic at 7 30 on people in the room. Didn't really know what was going on. It's always a good way to do a performance. Sneakily. Yeah s O. I mentioned earlier that you said you did a bit of tape that you were going to send off just for laughs, Um, in hopes of getting to perform there. I want to hear a bit of that. Take a listen. If you just look at a yogurt parfait like if you just look at the cup, I swear it's got the answer to all of the statue in problem great there, you know, Because first you got the white yogurt taking up all the space. On then up top. You got the brown shattered and broken granola. But then in the middle, you got this sweet Barry is a reconciliation. E my guest, Sean, Better great comic from Saskatoon. What's it like to hear that back when you could do stand up? Oh, yeah, Like, like what I was saying, Like I was really happy with that performance like I'm actually gonna put it online for sale pretty soon. Because, yeah, I just want to share it around. It was a good recording and Didn't really get to get much use out of it. And just like, yeah, the crowd was Really amped up that night because I think they knew that they weren't going to be in public for a while. Yeah, And that was the same Sunday that the Jew nose was gonna be And the day after that performance was when lockdown happened. Wow, that's crazy. That's like hearing it, like hearing the Chernobyl or something like that. Yeah, Yeah, It's like a little time capsule. I think. Yeah, You know, I've been talking to a few comics in the past year, and it hasn't been easy to like. I feel like musicians have been able to do a live streams and actors have still been able to do some movies. I feel like this has been hard on stand up comics and really, you know, in a really interesting way, right? Yeah, like we really need audiences to develop our material and like even doing them on zoo Mike's with other comedians like it's just It's not the same. You know, because other comedians will Laugh at your stuff. Differently than an audience well and yeah, like I've been doing a lot of soon Mike's. I've been doing it with people from Chicago people from London, UK and Rome, Italy. Even it's been pretty wild on zoom right, because it's not the same. You don't get that that big collective laughter, right? No. Yeah, like a lot of people have their mikes muted and you're just looking to see like if they're reacting on this screen. Yeah. Don't let me go to you. But what's the story on this one? I actually heard that you did. You did stand up on your aunt's funeral for her eulogy. I'm about first off. I I know you guys were close. I'm so sorry for your loss. Thank you. What was she like? She was Here is an amazing person. She was the type of person that would always tell it like it is, you know, even with just the look of her eyes. She should. She could tell you tell you how it is, and she was She was big into taking a stand Me in her pro tested a couple of times together and she was a fire keeper on her reserve, Aqua, sassy Mohawk Nation. And yes. Oh, this, uh During covert She passed away due to cancer complications. And what was there with her name? Joyce Caskey. Sorry you were saying so She passed away and you had a service for Yeah, we went to Ontario and we had like a socially distance memorial. And it was kind of different. And like the morning of the memorial, my my dad just kind of just left the eulogy up to me and I was like, what really was kind of like Trying to get some some information that I could use from her childhood or something and and like that, I think people were being kind of agency. But the info and that's what I just kind of like. I had some jokes that I had practiced that involved her. And then I just added a couple stories into it. And I ended up making like a like a little eight minute. A performance that was like part stand up part just speaking from the heart. How did it I mean, This is a strange question for a funeral that how did it go over? Yeah, it actually like, went pretty good, like you know, because it went from like Everyone was in like a somber mood. And then I got up to talk, and I acted like I was gonna talk serious. But then I just cracked a joke at one of the what one of the attendees of the of the funeral and everyone. Was just laughing. And then I told some funny stories about my auntie and It's pretty great, that's beautiful. I mean, I think we think about stand up is something that happens that kind of smoky nightclubs. And that's that's all good. And we think about funerals is just things that are too sad, you know, and that's all good to you. It's lovely. It feels like you were able to It feels like you were able to bring some joy to your family when they needed it through your craft, right? Yeah, when someone passes away, and people are in that stage of grief there kind of focused on on how that person passed away and I think it's important in those times toe, Remember how they lived and the person that they were And cherish those moments, and she's a part of the reason you did stand up it all right? Yeah. She gave me a lot of confidence in my stuff because it was like years to go. My brother passed away when I was 22. He was 20. He was 23. Yeah, and I ended up having to do the eulogy. With my other brother for that one. And that one was more serious and really hard. But I remember after that, my auntie, she was the first one to come up to me, and she was Really proud of me, and she told me that She could picture me being a public speaker one day. And that that compliment like always stuck in my head. And I'm now like Look at me what I do now, so it really helped me a lot when when this is all over. You know, please God, when when this finally ends, and you're able to get up on stage and start doing comedy again. How do you think you have been changed by this year? To be honest, I think I've gained a lot of confidence this past year because a bunch of US comedians from Saskatoon Led by Dakota. He bear way started booking shows and people's backyard on the weekends. And so we would go into people's backyards and do a private show and sometimes, like I I did a show for six people in Martinsville and like to be stand in front of just six people like you really got a perform and not make things awkward and So I think those performances really helped me and I like to get in front of new audiences again. I'm kind of excited toe. Skills. When you picture and maybe this is a good way to close things off when you picture A year from now. What do you hope it looks like for you. I hope that I'm just consistently hosting an open Mike every Sunday again. That's what I would like to do. Yeah. Well, I hope it happens. I hope you never have to go on. Zoom ever again. Yeah, Sean, thanks so much for your time. Yeah. Thanks for having me. Shawn cut hand is a stand up comedian who is also part of the Web series Satirical group, the feather. He lives in Saskatoon.
Unreserved
From ballet dancer to zombie slayer: Cree actor Michael Greyeyes on his prolific career
"You may have seen my guest today on the small screen and big screens or on the stage. Michael is is a man of many talents. He's a classically trained ballet dancer. Choreographer director playwright and renowned actor over his three decade. Long career michael has appeared in some of the most beloved first nation films like dance me outside and smoke signals. He has taken on challenging roles. Playing indigenous leaders like sitting bull wandering spirit to come see and crazy horse more recently. He's taken the small screen by storm appearing on hit tv shows like fear the walking dead true detective and the soon to be released nbc. Comedy rutherford falls. Michael is net. Oh and a member of the musket lake cremation in sketch. Juan and he joins me now from los angeles. Welcome to the show. Michael falen thank you so much for the invitation. Oh it's so great to have you here so you're in los angeles right now But i wanna go back a bit. Can you tell me about where you grew up. I'm from treaty. Six territory in saskatchewan My mom and dad are from reserves in the middle of saskatchewan. My dad's from moscow. And my mom is from sweet grass and my sister and my family. We lived in a couple of places where in the capelle valley. Of course lebron and then we moved to saskatoon and saskatoon was where i spent my boyhood until i was plucked plucked from the prairies at the age of ten years old to attend canada's national ballet school in toronto and my family and i we moved from treaty six territory to To dish with one spoon territory. So i could pursue dance as as a career potential career and so i wanna talk about your dancing a bit but first i want to know what was it. Like growing up on the prairies. What do you remember What do you remember about growing up on the prairies. So many beautiful things. Obviously that's home. That's that's that's my home. That's where i know about my family. My a my early years. I remember the sunlight of remember the sky. I remember my cousins and all my relatives. And i remember playing just riding my bike with my banana seat all over town. They need to make banana seats again. They're very comfortable. they do they do in los angeles. There's a whole like bike culture. We're fleeing be tricked out bike's banana seats. So you're known primarily as an actor now but as you mentioned you know you got into the entertainment industry in a different way. You started as a dancer as a ballet dancer. So how does a kid growing up in saskatoon and up in the ballet well by accident entirely by axes we were living in saskatoon and my mom was a teacher at the school for the deaf. A very famous School for deaf children in saskatoon and my sister. And i were doing you know little kid things. I was playing hockey of course and my sister was taking dance lessons so mumbai. I we used to week for my sister in the car and i was you know five six years old so i was like a super board super easily so it was like she died. She'd done and i would go up and check on her. I remember the classes at the university of scotch one and it was kind of like this wile experiences little kid i walk in. I'd look for her and then she be dancing with these little girls. In one day. I decided to really kinda pay attention to what they were doing. And i and then. I blurted got ceesay. Teacher overheard me. She said well. Do you think it's easy. Why don't you come on back next week. So i said A will and i told my mom all week. I'm going to dance next week. And she of course you know. I apparently said lots of crazy things as as a boy but as the days got closer. She was like okay he. He's repeating it. He's he's he's he's insistent about this. Why do you think you're going to death sex because the teacher invited me so with my mom and my mom used me. I'm so so sorry. Michael thinks that you've invited him. Smith usually oh yeah yeah yeah come on in. And that's how. It started precocious boy pushing his way into a dance class that he hadn't signed up for.
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Coronavirus: List Of Canceled Or Postponed Hollywood & Media Events
"For the past few days I've been sort of locked in my house and I'm sure you have to have been locked in your house you've been keeping an eye on what your favorite musicians what your favorite artists are saying about the way they're going to have to cancel their tour is how this is going to change the way they make a living how this could potentially you know ruin them really devastate their lives last week the Juno awards were cancelled as part of the code nineteen outbreak because gatherings of people are risky thing right now tons of major arts events have been postponed or canceled or shut down billion dollar movies Broadway productions concerts ballet summer festivals museums house concerts local festivals art gallery shows our queue this panel is here to talk about the impact the coronavirus his hand on the arts you're gonna hear about the collateral damage from all these cancellations and I what we can do to maybe help are to stay above water sewer Berman writes for the website Pitchfork a harmony is a freelance music critic hi guys how are you okay hello let's start with the junos harmony what was your feeling when you find out that you know it's for cancer so by the time that you know's what canceled we've already started to see a wave of cancellation so it wasn't a surprise at all I think it was the right thing to do to be proactive rather than reactive in the situation although it was unfortunate certainly was to what you think I think there is this may be small window of opportunity we thought okay maybe the genus and stay ahead of this because at the time you know south by southwest to cancel but that is a much more of a global gathering you know we have people coming from all over the world to that festival and you know even when Pearl Jam cancel their tour that was done with the recognition that a lot of their fans flying in from all over the place to see their shows so there is that maybe that something that because the buyers hadn't hit central Canada yes and because the jurors is much more you know confined to the Canadian music industry that maybe you know the show could go on but you know once the cases started popping up in Canada they really had no choice and also even if you know they could somehow one hundred percent guarantee a safe space there I don't know if any of us were really in the mood to celebrate yes we can you know I think back to the Grammys which happen on the day that Kobe Bryant died and the weird Paul in the room that you know cast I can't imagine would have been like to like celebrates in this environment yeah I know I I was there I was in Saskatoon we flew in I'm I'm Wednesday night preparing to do the show Thursday night and we were of course you know kind of bombs that it was it was like sort of intellectually bomb to that it was canceled right you know I would've been nice to do show but immediately everyone understood right no part of anybody there that was like all this is that this is annoying and it's been really amazing to see kind of the how artists are at the same time upset but they also kind of get it right right it's about taking care of each other at this point so I think everybody can relate to that point but I think about musicians who are preparing for the summer festival season it's a great opportunity not just to get make a lot of new fans but also to make pretty considerable chunk of your income harmony do you think this could spell the end of summer festival season so I think it's still slightly too early to tell there are festivals like south by southwest of Coachella that have been canceled or postponed but those were taking place earlier in the season and so it made sense to cancel them I think everyone is in a bit of a wait and see pattern right now they're still festivals coming up like broccoli city festival or a Glastonbury just announced their headliner rolling loud in Miami there's still a chance those could go on but there are so many unknown variables to contend with so we'll just have to wait and see yeah I think the best case scenario is that this next month will be brutal and then hopefully the worst of it will be done and will be come out the other side and get ready for summer even even then he's going to want to get together in a large group you know kind of ever again it might it might take a little while before people regain that confidence you're spending you know just two days in my home with my children you know I'm ready to go go to a festival I I missed possible I mentioned that we're gonna be talking to you I mean think of it David Hein the creators of come from away in just a little while about their show that's gone dark Broadway went dark last week the Mirvish you know the big Broadway shows in Toronto have gone dark as well a lot of theatre has been canceled store what what what does that mean for theater more widely I mean on top of just like a hundred million dollars in revenue potentially like going away you know that not that there's never a good time for a global pandemic pandemic but it's a really bad time for theater because that were in the run up season to the Tony awards eligibility there is about six new plays about to debut on Broadway to that we're trying to get into that deadline for Tony awards consideration so that's you know those plans have all been scrapped and who knows what it spells for the Tony awards this year perhaps the biggest and death now to the end to the live concert industry S. surrounding covered nineteen is when live nation one of the largest concert promoters in the entire world and also they were suspending all tour is in North America harmony what's at stake here so they canceled are halted all of their domestic and international tourists and that represents countless venues artists people who are on the production for those shows who are not making money right now because they're not working I'm although it's important to note that live nation did mention that there's no layoffs planned at the moment and that they can whether other financial hit that they'll be taking so I'm hoping that this temporary measure is a temporary setback for people but like Stewart said we can get back to work a sooner rather than later how many is a great point there I mean we've been talking so much about the impact and artists themselves but you know tore promoters folks work on cruise lighting folks M. S. sound folks yeah this is an industry that's full of thousands of workers and you know they're dependent on the show going on and with no show they have no job and you know all these people are contract workers and freelancers so you know it's not like they have a salary that they can lean on in these times if you just tuning in out here with a harmony and Stuart Berman here as our queue this music panel talking about the devastating impact of the work of cover nineteen on the arts sector especially in music given everything we've been talking about here is a lot of conversations around toward insurance and I've had a lot of people text me and say you know are these positions covered are they going to be fine can you little bit do you explain what tore insurances harmony yes so typically there's two kinds of insurance behind the torso there's one for the promoter and one that covers the artist they don't cover pandemics typically however they were written in a way where an artist might be covered if they contracted a covert nineteen or if the venue was forced to close because the government told them to however a lot of insurance policies starting in January started to write in clauses that specifically exclude covert nineteen related losses so well hold on yes on the whole a lot of promoters and artists are on the hook for the losses well you know insurance is a gamble like that's all it is at the end of the year betting on an outcome happening or not happening and with cove in nineteen there's no gamble like if everything gets shut down so insurance companies aren't going to just offer that up freely so this is this is that the Arab artists would normally have insurance in case of cancellations this might not happen now because part of ours yeah I mean if they get in a car on the way the show would have to cancel you know that would be covered under typical policy but you know when there is a global pandemic that is shutting down everything I know there's no wiggle room there Laura Laura Jane grace is the singer and guitarist from the band against me she said the following on Twitter all the bands canceling shows because a corona virus are doing so because their insurance companies updated their policies to not cover cancellations due to the virus I know because ours did the same I know I mean it's sad but insurance companies aren't really in the business of paying out that many insurance claims especially because there would be a wave of cancellations all related to the same thing all coming in at the same time so unfortunately they are trying to re write the rules at the last minute to avoid having to pay those claims out yeah then we dive go fund me campaign St but like what's what's going to happen all these musicians with this with the minutes we're gonna talk it'll cost about that in a second but with the with this loss of revenue I mean it's it's crippling it's it's devastating to so many people you know because you know when you're on tour you're not just you know you're not making money like it's not a salary you're you're basically paying yourself day by day so the money you make on Tuesday night those towards your survival on Wednesday so for instance a young guy whose the recording alias of Ben cook who plays an aft up you know he's on tour in the states he was doing some small shows on his own and then he was going to join up with the band white reaper for a bigger tour and not been cancelled their tour so he was stranded in Texas because he was relying on that white reaper tour to take him all the way home right so you have to set up a go fund me which fortunately was successful but but but if you're a musician also and you're about to go into a lot of those costs are already page Mary had buses rented you may already have hotels done you might already have theaters but you might have accrued both these people have to get paid out I mean it almost doing a tour might be the worst situation you could be in right now yeah no I mean this is this is their salary this is where your income for the year you know and they're planning the these things out months in advance and I think okay my summers taken care of because I'm gonna be touring Europe in may or in April and so now that is gone and you know and they probably you know taken leave from their day job and you know can go back to that and so all these arrangements have been made that are now thrown you know up in the air and either yeah everyone
Startups For the Rest of Us
Listener Questions: Marketing That's Working Today
"Dive in to listener. Questions Ruben. Thanks so much for coming back on the show man. Thanks for the invite. Yeah it's GonNa be fun. I think you have some good insight on a lot of these questions today. Our first question is from will and it's actually a question that I don't think you and I have a lot of insight into so I've called in a remote correspondent to help us out with that. The question is are there any good places that you know of to pick up more stuff on affiliate marketing? One thing that came out of this past year is that I can write a lot faster and more effectively than I thought. I'm not convinced that writing code is even my strong suit even though lots of people tell me as I'd like to explore options in this area a bit more but I'd like to borrow your behest filter for a minute trouble with people. Teaching affiliate marketing is that they're also affiliate marketers and a signal to noise ratio is brutal thanks. Well that's been my experiences. Well I ruin before we recorded. You mentioned that you haven't been in the affiliate marketing area for a while. You'd never like that comment that most of the people selling courses our affiliate marketers as well. So it's really hard to know what's legit exactly you're dead on will and so what I did is I tapped a friend and mentor. Microsoft Speaker Taylor Hendrickson who does exist in that space a lot of the stuff and affiliate space. And let's throw that over to Taylor. Hey thanks for the question will give him my name's Taylor and I've been doing affiliate marketing in one form or another since before the panda update in Google which view non nerds out there almost ten years. Now you're completely right that most people out there who are quote teaching affiliate marketing actually aren't good at themselves or just regurgitating the same information. They senior of posted a billions of times. That doesn't actually help anything or anybody. So for that reason. I actually really don't have any good courses or resources to point to affiliate marketing. Who aren't just hawking the same stuff everybody else's but one of us did provide a little bit more perspective or way of thinking about affiliate marketing. I think will help guide you in the right direction and looking for the main core of affiliate marketing the same main core is normal business. You get into it solving the defined set of problems for defined audience. So when you look at WHO's doing that well filial marketing look at places like wire cutter. All they're doing is recommending the best version of whatever. The problem people were coming to the website for in exchange for the commission. They know that the only reason they have an audience were bought for untold. Millions OF DOLLARS BY THE NEW YORK. Times is because they provide amazing value to the people coming. They're looking for solutions to their specific problems. So I'd recommend the same thing for anybody looking to get into marketing. How can you provide value to very specific audience with very specific problems by recommending things that you would actually recommend to a friend or a loved one not just as a highest philly commission or just random things? You're trying to make a quick buck. People see through that really quick and if anybody is promising those one click riches or anything. That seems a little bit too good to be true or actually doesn't stand the test of this last another years completely run the other direction because they are probably a charlatan. So I know this doesn't quite answer the question you were asking but hopefully give some perspective as to how to think about this industry better now back to you rob. Thank you so much Taylor. Being are onsite correspondent for the affiliate marketing question. Our next question is a voicemail around new modes and methods of marketing. Hey Rob wave to Mike. Muslims donal longtime listener You both kept me going through tough times so really appreciate that. I'm a recent return to my home country of Ireland but a tech networks and security for a long time Bacchus I built my first self-funded. Saas up twenty eighteen. It did live technical screening of engineering skills and engineering skills but to get traction for a ton of reasons. somewhat intentionally did things backwards like built at first as I was new Tyrrell's and web APPs so I was learning as I went a failed at marketing failed to get paying customers Alba. I did demo for some large and small works on experimented with a whole host of cold and warm methods to get leads so after nearly given up I ended up pivoting PUN SIFT DOT com a few months ago to Saskatoon back in the deception text base. So it now automatically. Honey Tokens Your deploy branches effectively. It's kind of like a breach detection. Up for Saas and infrastructure. Codes did enables attacker detection in Minnesota the months but there's some customer education required for both security teams or engineering teams. And I'm trying to figure out positioning and pricing but my traffic is currently almost nonexistent so as I restart marketing efforts. I'm struck by the recent five. I'm hearing on the podcast and elsewhere that an email list an existing audience doesn't really cut it for Saas any longer so apart from one to one hundred. Combat Customer by customer are there any other new or nontraditional avenues? I should or could be exploring for marketing. Rather than content marketing. Seo PPC and giving talks doing. Podcasts ARE GONNA conferences any help or guidance. Much appreciated love what. You're both doing thank you so thanks so much for the question. I think I want to chime in real quick before I throw it over to you. I've heard a couple people quote back to me. That like on the podcast. I've said that having an existing audience doesn't help and I really want to clarify that. Because if you have an existing audience that is BTC. I'm sorry is a beat. A be focused audience and they could potentially be customer of yourself. I think there's huge value in that. Especially if you have ten thousand or thirty thousand on an email list when I talk about this audience thing not being the end all be all of SAS is that I've seen the kind of beat AC- marketers have a large audience of kind of WanNa preneurs or folks who were looking for that that opportunity to make a million to make money online crowd and then they try to launch US asset for them and they realized that none of them want to pay and the truth is through the roof. And there's a bunch of mess with it and and that is really hard. It's a lot harder than selling info products. That's more of what I'm saying. You are trying to say like if you have info product audience and you're making hundreds of thousands a year and you think that you can switch to SAS and make hundreds of thousands of year. I've never seen anyone do that. Well right so do you. Does that make sense? And do you agree or disagree with that? Yeah I completely agree that sort of the Internet marketing space where basically most. It's usually INFO`products where happens lot selling in that way Selling to people who are trying to buy Education courses and other products is different than selling a sas so yet. I've never seen it. I've known several people have tried to do it. That had big audiences that were successful with info products. Really usually struggle when it comes to selling this just because it's different. Yeah I agree. I think the one example that I can think of that worked with Klay Collins with Lepage's but it was man. It was all annual plans. It was pretty high pressure sales. If you went to their webinars it was really marketed. In a very specific way and frankly they struggle with that longer term they got big quickly but then that had its own drag on the business there couple there couple that have done it the It's not everyone but most people are not going to be able to do it. I'm the other one that I can think of is click funnels. What's his name Brunson something Russell Brunson. Yes so to donate question. What do you think about? And he mentioned a bunch of stuff Hussein content marketing. Seo Pay per click. One on one. I think he was meaning cold emails. Speaking at conferences. Going on podcast right and in my like all that stuff still works right right right it does. Some of it is harder than it used to be like paid. Ads are generally more expensive across the board content marketing back in the day. You do a volley Volume thing just published two three four five posts a week and the more republished more Traffic you got so in some ways it used to be easier but things have changed in its I'm not sure that I'd say that it's a lot harder. It's a little bit harder but it's it's also different so it's about like just getting educated on what's working nowadays I think it's part of it but I think one of the things that you mentioned was that he was trying to figure out positioning pricing. And things like that and I don't know about you but when I hear something like that I'd be kind of hesitant to start looking at channels. That are that are a lot of people aren't using there aren't proven because in my mind I would need to figure out that I can sell this product who the customer is had as a customer by that. This is going to work. That is fun that I have a funnel that kind of works before I kinda start exploring other channels and channels that that are little unusual or something like that right. Where do you think about that? Yeah I think you're right. It sounds like he's in customer Developmental Mostel. Maybe his product is is to the point. People can use it but if you don't positioning pricing down than yeah I wouldn't. I would really wouldn't start marketing yet. I would be doing a lot of sales. Yes so a lot of people equate the two is the but the different like I see. Sales is really a one on one. Act even if you draw in all the leads through marketing techniques than the sales becomes conversations. And that's where yeah in his case I'd be looking to have a lot of conversations and try to pick out their language to to figure out positioning you learn so much from those conversations that later help you do marketing In a better way otherwise. You're just sort of guessing you know. I'm I don't know this category. So maybe if this category has a lot of competitors and they're doing really well and it's pretty established the you know that this type of product works. That's a I think that's a different situation where you can have more A little bit more confidence but it still pays to sort of do that upfront work. I think
Travel with Rick Steves
The Hidden Travel Gems of Toronto
"Calling in from Toronto. Sandra thanks for your call from Ontario. Yes Hi how are you. I'm doing great. Thanks for calling great. It's fun to do. I was just in your beautiful city a little while ago. I give it away and it was wonderful. I have your book and I knew you were in town that day but I couldn't make it. I'm so sad I must this so it's nice to have you calling in. And what do you want us to know about beautiful Toronto trying to the the big city. So there's lots of doing a big city but it's the lesser known things that I think people might WanNa know about such as for places to stay stay. You know you can get the large hotels and it's going to be very expensive because Toronto's very expensive city but there is a great place called the Rex Hotel which I think people it's affordable. It's simple but the great thing about it is. It has a jazz bar at the bottom of the hotel Jasbir anybody would be comfortable dropping in there then Oh anyone can go to the to see the giants but if you WANNA centrally located place. That's probably affordable and a fun a place to stay. Well what's so good about being centrally located something that's more it's better known but you can take a small walk around the corner and you'll be up through Chinatown and from there. You can go due to the art gallery of Ontario which is a really world. Class Art Gallery has during exhibits and lots of Canadian art. If somebody from the United States wants to go up there and just feel like they're connecting with quote the locals. What do you do to connect with friends and people? Well Toronto's really great for being multicultural though there's lots of great places to eat. You could go along with that hotels located it's Queen Street. You can look up some of the women streets and you'll find restaurants Dr Cafes and bars and you will find a lot of the locals in those places and what else is something that you'd want to have on your eating list when you come to Ontario to be sure you in the local cuisine I think most people might snow. The Canadian foods like Putin or anything that has maple syrup flavored but We have so many people from different parts of the world that you can try food from all over and it can actually be a nice blend of two cultures too. So you'll see like you know maybe something. That's Middle East but mixed with Canadian because if you want cosmopolitan you probably don't go to Saskatoon. Well we advise people all over the country but Toronto I think is a place where people from all over come when you come here you will see people from all over. That's it's amazing. All Right Sandra thanks for your call and from the same city we have Adrian colleague from Toronto Ontario Adrian. Thanks for your call. How are you? I'm good how are you doing. Great thank you. Were you listening. When Sandra was talking it was great to hear someone else from Toronto? So she talked about it The the wreck so tell and wondering around staying right downtown. What is your TIPS FOR ENJOYING TORONTO. Well my favorite thing to do in the city would probably be going to the Evergreen brickworks so it was an old wreck factory. It was kind of deserted for a while but they really read done it recently. So there is Farmers markets there. There's art galleries. There's restaurants and there's really amazing trail which I love to do on the weekend. I have a hard time envisioning this. It's an old brick factory and now it's still not tails and art exhibits it's Kind of in a bit remote from downtown. Maybe like a ten minute drive but definitely doable is kind of a derelict. Old factory that all sorts of creative people moved into absolutely. That's exactly what it's like. I love that stuff so you would go there and it's like a park and it's UC. You see crafts. I would imagine. There's a like a weekend farmer's market or something. Yeah Yeah there is. There's a bunch of trails while there's even ones where you can go up kind. It's like the top of the cliff and you have really great. Use All of downtown Toronto based for kids to stack bricks. No I don't know about that Do you have a lot of activities. The family as well. It's a really big God. I mean there must be some family activities. What would you do with kids? Yeah I know they have some community gardens and things like that that was really great place to spend some time. Okay okay so the Evergreen brickworks that's sort of a surprising angle of Toronto. It seems like yeah. Yeah it's pretty different from any other spot in the city and then if you were going take me out to dinner. I guess we wouldn't necessarily go to Canadian food. I mean wouldn't have Pancake Syrup Building on what would we do. Well so multi cultural. It's hard to pick one place. I think one place that I just went actually last weekend. I'm pretty popular. It's called by reveal It's Spanish toughest food and and it's so busy it's such a hot spot for Torontonians that you can't even get a seat. You're honestly just standing in the bar. kind of maybe like you would do in Spain And the food is just amazing thing and is there one area after dinner that you would just want to walk around which you just see all sorts of exit and liveliness both on the streets in in the bars. Yeah I'd say Kensington. Market market is probably the best place to to walk around and spend some time is just such a hub for all these different cultures that you can just go. You know. There's a restaurant from an Asian restaurants and then you go somewhere else and there's Mexican food so it's just such a mix of culture there and it's really creative space as well so it seems like Toronto is the dominant city and candidate in so many any ways but if you were going to go somewhere outside of trump I think is really happening and exciting. What's most impressive? These days. What was actually lived in Halifax thanks for six years? That's on the east coast of Canada. I'm it's really charming city Lots of good seafood and it was on ocean. It's really beautiful so I definitely commend that but a two and a half hour flight from Toronto and I've always wanted to ask a Canadian. This but why would anybody live in Edmonton what I've never been to Edmonton and I don't really have a desire to go. So it's like you know take. Minneapolis is cold in the winter. And that's like the tropics compared to Edmonton then. Yeah I I don't know people you know. Want Nice people. They're my grandparents homesteaded. There hundred years ago. Cool but I just WANNA know of all places why would you put your tent stakes down in Edmonton. I'm not sure I've heard there's a really big mall. I've heard that's a small well. There's a big. There's a big mall in in Minneapolis. Also so that's maybe what you wouldn't it's just godforsaken outside critic huge mall all right well. TORONTO JOE is the Canadian. Great City. Your Okay Adrian. Thanks for your call. All right.
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Fire at Trump Tower leaves 1 civilian dead, 6 firefighters with minor injuries
"Trump tower ablaze leading to a fatality i'm kim duffy fox news fire investigators remain on scene at trump tower manhattan where fire left one civilian dead at least four firefighters hurt but the injuries are not lifethreatening we don't know the cause of the fire yet units went up with the secret service afterwards to check the president's residents it had some some smoke reached the rest of the building whether it's in the apartment i don't know new york city fire commissioner daniel niagara the sixty seven year old man who died was said to have lived in that particular fiftieth four parliament that caught fire hockey is a way of life in canada and when tragedy strikes with an sport involving kids it hurts doubly bad authorities say fifteen or now dead and a crash fifteen people involving junior team aboard a bus it slammed into a truck fourteen others on board were heart some of the injuries are deemed to be critical in nature the injured passengers were transported to hospitals in saskatoon where they are now with their families the driver and lone occupant of the tractor trailer unit was not injured in the collision curtis a block with the royal canadian mounted police the team members range in age from sixteen to twenty one police in germany say there are no signs at a man who drove her band into a crowd leaving two dead and twenty yard at any islamist background authorities also say they cannot confirm that the driver who took his own life in the city munster was suffering from prior psychological issue as confirming that a further suspect may have fled from the vehicle they say that they they believe that is the case through witness reports and evidence that they have collected from the scene katharina tozzi with sky news and state lawmakers in kansas approving a new education funding bill overnight the more than five hundred million dollar public school measure was created after the state supreme court ruled that the legislature was not providing enough funding fox news fair and balanced.
Journalist killed and six others injured in Gaza while covering mass protests
"I'm michelle martin christian activists gathered in lynchburg virginia to push back against evangelical support for the president plus a palestinian journalist is killed as is really troops respond to protests along the gaza border and comedian tracy morgan celebrates his recovery from a devastating accident with new show the last boji thank god i'm day for spare my life just to come back in touch you guys in a funny way that's all coming up but first this news live from npr news in washington i'm janine herbst canadian investigators are trying to determine what caused a bus crash in saskatchewan last night the killed at least fifteen people and injured more than a dozen others dan carpenter reports many of the victims were members of junior hockey team the bus was transporting the humboldt broncos hockey team to a game when it was tboned by transport truck on a regional highway about one hundred twenty miles northeast of saskatoon police say there were twenty eight people on the bus including the driver three of the injured are in critical condition in a hospital players in the schedule in junior hockey league range in age from sixteen to twenty one and at this level many would be considered as prospects by teams in the national hockey league hockey is a major sport across the country prime minister justin trudeau scheduling premier scott mo have expressed their condolences for npr news i'm dan carpenter in toronto hundreds gathered at a funeral today for a palestinian journalist who died after he was wounded by israeli fire yesterday while covering protests along the israel gaza border from gaza city npr's daniel estrin reports several other palestinian journalists were reportedly injured the palestinian journalists syndicate in gaza says six palestinian journalists were injured covering the protests on friday and one journalist was killed at gaza's main hospital to people told me they were taking pictures at the border and wearing vests marked as press when they were shot in the legs the israeli military says it does not target journalists and that it is investigating the palestinians claims more than six months after hurricane maria hit the head of the federal emergency management agency was in puerto rico serving the agency's ongoing response in zeta in florida were reports.