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![]() ![]() He said the building code is being digitized over the next year, with the goal that every housing application going to any city hall in British Columbia will go through the same electronic approval process, with initial approvals green-lit by artificial intelligence software. “De-politicizing decision-making, making sure community planning happens on the front end, so that decisions can happen much sooner as they move through the system.” ![]() “We are taking steps to streamline the process,” said Ravi Kahlon. In a one-on-one interview with the housing minister, CTV News observed that the province is using its considerable legislative authority over municipalities to try and slash layers of approvals and regulations, which he did not deny. The headlines and pushback on the NDP’s Homes for People plan have largely been focussed on the approval of four-plex zoning across the province, but there are many more changes already underway to slash red tape, modernize permitting and approvals and compel NIMBY constituents to get on board with ambitious housing targets. Housing continues to be a key talking point for the David Eby government, and one of his key lieutenants is prepared to flex his ministerial muscle to encourage, simplify and push municipalities and developers into creating more homes. ![]() ![]() ![]() The tragedy of Emma and the triumphs of Homais are delicately rendered in this smart translation. Flaubert is one of the few who can do that. Translated by Lydia Davis (master short story writer!), the book is both light and tragic, humorous and disturbing, emotional and cerebral. This is one of Kate Reading's better narrations, and the material could not be more compelling. ![]() In this landmark translation, Lydia Davis honors the nuances and particulars of a style that has long beguiled readers of French, giving new life in English to the book that redefined the novel as an art form. Today the novel is considered the first masterpiece of realist fiction. When published in 1857, Madame Bovary was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for its heroine. Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts, Emma takes drastic action with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter. In an effort to make her life everything she believes it should be, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs. Motherhood proves to be a burden religion is only a brief distraction. Escaping into sentimental novels, she finds her fantasies dashed by the tedium of her days. Beautiful but bored, she is married to the provincial doctor Charles Bovary yet harbors dreams of an elegant and passionate life. ![]() Now a major motion picture starring Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, Laura Carmichael, Ezra Miller, and Rhys Ifans, and directed by Sophie Barthes.Įmma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. ![]() ![]() Historical details in The Piano Lesson highlight matters of structural injustice faced by African Americans in the Depression Era. At the time of his death from cancer in 2005, he was married to a costume designer named Costanza Romero. ![]() Ten of Wilson’s best-known and most critically acclaimed plays formed the Pittsburgh Cycle, with each play focusing on one decade of the African American experience. Eight years later, Fences garnered both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award the following year, The Piano Lesson followed suit with another Pulitzer. ![]() Paul, Minnesota in 1978 and began writing plays instead. After some initial efforts at poetry, Wilson moved to St. A few years later, he cofounded the Black Horizon Theater in Pittsburgh. After his father’s death when Wilson was 20, he took the name August Wilson and began writing. He faced prejudice while attending Catholic school, being one of few African American students, and eventually dropped out to study in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Wilson always identified strongly with his mother’s Black heritage and culture. Wilson’s parents divorced while he was young, and he and his five siblings remained with their mother in Pittsburgh, where they lived in predominantly poor Black and Jewish neighborhoods. ![]() August Wilson’s mother, Daisy Wilson, was African American woman his father, Frederick Kittel, was of Sudeten German origins (Germans living in what was then Bohemia). ![]() ![]() ![]() 120) was a Roman historian and politician.Tacitus is considered by modern scholars to be one of the greatest Roman historians. His involvement with the government gave him the opportunity to observe and evaluate the rule of the emperors, forming the basis for his historical work. Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (TASS-it-s, Latin: takts c. He was a prominent public servant whose various positions enabled him to compile firsthand information about his chosen subjects. Tacitus wrote descriptive works (Germania and De Vita Julii Agricolae), a work on oratory (Dialogus de oratoribus), and historical works (Historiae and Annales). He is considered to be among the greatest prose stylists to write in the Latin language. The surviving portions of his two major worksthe Annals and the Historiesexamine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors. AD 120) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The Germania, written by the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus around 98 ce and originally entitled On the Origin and Situation of the Germanic. Tacitus was a Roman orator, lawyer, public official, and historian. Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca. ![]() ![]() But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. ![]() So now it's just Lydia, and all she wants is to hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. On Lydia's twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. They'd been together for more than a decade and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. Written with Josie Silver's trademark warmth and wit, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird is a powerful and thrilling love story about the what-ifs that arise at life's crossroads, and what happens when one woman is given a miraculous chance to answer them. ![]() What a beautiful, emotional gift Josie Silver has given us."-Jodi Picoult "I read The Two Lives of Lydia Bird in a single sitting. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club Pick One Day in December. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With INSEAD business school professor Erin Meyer, he will explore his leadership philosophy - which begins by rejecting the accepted beliefs under which most companies operate - and how it plays out in practice at Netflix.įrom unlimited holidays to abolishing approvals, Netflix offers a fundamentally different way to run any organisation, one far more in tune with an ever-changing fast-paced world. They are part of a unique cultural experiment that explains how the company has transformed itself at lightning speed from a DVD mail order service into a streaming superpower - with 190 million fervent subscribers and a market capitalisation that rivals the likes of Disney.įinally Reed Hastings, Netflix Chairman and CEO, is sharing the secrets that have revolutionised the entertainment and tech industries. ![]() These are some of the ground rules if you work at Netflix. *** Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year *** ![]() ![]() His story "Art School Confidential," which was featured in his award-winning comics series Eightball, became a film starring John Malkovich.Ĭlowes, whose other works include Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, David Boring, Wilson, and Mister Wonderful, has been published by the most prominent comics publishers in America – Pantheon, Drawn & Quarterly, and Fantagraphics. He co-wrote the screenplay for Ghost World, which starred Scarlett Johansson, for which he earned an Academy Award nomination. Clowes is one of the few non-mainstream comics artists whose work has been adapted for the big screen. It's a humble statement coming from one of the most successful and influential indie cartoonists of our time, whose book Patience, out in March from Fantagraphics, is one of the most highly anticipated graphic novels of the year. ![]() ![]() "It's a strange job to sit in your room and think, 'What do I want to spend the next five years of my life obsessing over?'" That's how Daniel Clowes, cartoonist and the author of Ghost World, describes the life of a comics artist. ![]() ![]() Some leaders, as in Brazil, have served time in prison for corruption, then been reelected. From France, Israel, and South Korea to Argentina and Brazil, other nations have shown that former leaders can be held to account – even sent to prison – and the country survives.No one is above the law. Trump leads polls for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 makes his indictment all the more consequential. The implications for the future of American governance could be profound.Still, Americans can take heart in the lessons of other democracies, as the Monitor explained in a magazine cover story last January. president to face federal criminal charges. The fact that Mr. A sense of exceptionalism has long infused pride in the American system and successes as the world’s oldest democracy.That self-image is taking a hit with the federal indictment of Donald Trump over alleged mishandling of classified documents, making him the first former U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout history, American leaders have borrowed from the Bible in calling their nation a “city upon a hill” – a beacon of hope for humanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is innocent and humble yet filled with knowledge and experience. There is not a corny line, nor word nor letter in this story. I was Lilac, the timid yet the bold the Regency woman who would not place herself on the “marriage mart” for the sake of avoiding spinsterhood, the one who would not take herself all that seriously the one who was chosen by a greater power to be his mate for life, the one who received (without asking for it) the “I choose you over every other” pledge instead of the one making it. Instead, I was with the Familiar, the man who would be feline and human, the man in lust with all women but in love with only one. I did, while vacationing in Florida and momentarily forgot (and couldn’t care less) I was on the beach, facing the ocean, savoring the breeze, basking in the sun surrounded by tall, long-haired blond Swedish studs. You will then understand for the first time perhaps the full measure of the expression “anticipation”. ![]() His name was Rejar…”įor those who haven’t read it yet, I suggest you begin and finish Rejar while listening to Loreena McKennitt’s new CD, The Book of Secrets. ![]() |