Hints:

1. It is a small Canadian city.

2. It is in Ontario.

Safer Streets or Big Brother?

Over the past year, the Toronto Police Services has installed numerous cameras along Yonge Street and elsewhere in the city. These cameras monitor our public spaces 24/7. Is there a problem with this? Are we concered that our public spaces are no longer as open as they used to be? Or are cameras nothing to worry about from a public space standpoint?

This week we are planning to start answering these questions. The kickoff meeting of the Cameras in Public Sapces Campaign is this Thusday, November 30th at 6pm in Metro Hall, Room 313.

If you are at all intersted or concerned about the growing number of police and government cameras in public spaces, come out to meeting. We will be discussing this growing issue, and what, if any, our reaction should be to it.Please bring with you any information you may have regarding the state of cameras in the city. Where you've seen them, and how/why they're used in that space. Are they monitored or recorded? Setup for sepcial events or running 24/7?

For more information, or to leave your comments if you can't attend, please contact Daniel Quinn at dan@publicspace.ca

Metro Hall is located at King and John. The nearest subway station is St. Andrew. It is easily accessible via the PATH system from the station or via the King streetcar.

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GUESS WHO?

Broadway, NY, NY, USA

Name the highlighted street.

Hints:

1. It is in a major North American City.

1951 - The Broadway play Gigi opens with a then unknown actress by the name of Audrey Hepburn in the title role.

Happy Birthday Brian

GUESS WHO?

GUESS WHO?

Hints:

1. Island(s).

On This Daye...

• 1617 Quebec Quebec - Anne Hébert marries Étienne Jonquet; first marriage on record in the colony.


• 1904 St Louis, Missouri - Third Olympic games close. Canada did not send an official team, but Canadians bring back four golds, in golf (George Lyon), lacrosse (Winnipeg Shamrocks), soccer and the 56 lb. weight throw (Etienne Desmarteau).


• 1962 Nashville Tennessee - Nova Scotia's Hank Snow has a #1 country music hit single with 'I've Been Everywhere'.


• 1995 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Chretien unveils federal unity plan; Prime Minister suggests distinct society thrust


• 1988 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th career NHL goal.
• 1965 My brother, Brian was born. Happy Birthday!

History Lesson...

• 1993 - Toronto Ontario - Justice Horace Krever starts his public hearings into Canada's blood supply, and the AIDS tainted blood and blood products given to Canadians in the 1980's, before the Canadian Red Cross began testing for HIV.
• 1963 - Toronto Ontario - John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination leads to closing of Toronto Stock Exchange in mid session for first time.
• 1943 - England - RAF and RCAF crews start air bombing of Berlin.
• 1594 - London England - Martin Frobisher dies; Arctic explorer, discoverer of Frobisher Bay for England.
• 1957 - Cornwall Ontario - First ship passes through Iroquois Lock, first lock of new St. Lawrence Seaway.

Iroquois Lock on the St. Lawrence Seaway, Cornwall, ON

1957 Cornwall Ontario - First ship passes through Iroquois Lock, first lock of new St. Lawrence Seaway.
Hints:

1. This place is in Canada.

2. It is in the Eastern half of the country.

South Fork Ranch & Convention Centre, Plano, TX

Hints:

1. The Place is in North America

1980 - Who Shot JR? - The Dallas Episode "Who Done It?" aired on US television today. It was one of the highest-rated episodes of a TV show ever aired.

Odescalchi Castle, Italy

Today we are looking for the name of the building. I think this one is pretty easy so the only hints are that the place is not in Scandinavia or Antarctica. Good Luck!

Here is a better picture of the castle:

St. Vincent de Paul Hospital, Brockville, ON

For todays POTD I am looking for the name of a building or site, not the town/city. Sorry the Google Earth image for this area is not all in high resolution so it made it difficult to zoom in on the actual site, as I normally would have done.

HINTS:
1. The POTD is part of a larger post today, so you can most likely deduce that the POTD is related to the theme of the rest of the post
2. It is in Canada
3. Today is my birthday. (Gifts are nice, but a smile and a hundred dollar bill is even nicer).

All you ever wanted to know about the song, and so much more!

Today is my birthday (just in case you didn't already know), along with these other fabulous people;

9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (d. 79)
1502 - Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca (d. 1533)
1905 - Queen Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935)
1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer
1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
1943 - Lauren Hutton, American actress
1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
1944 - Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer
1951 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987)
1954 - Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal
1960 - RuPaul, American drag entertainer
1968 - Amber Michaels, German porn actress

Warsaw Ghetto, Poland

HINTS:
1. On November 16, 19__ a significant event happend in this place and the people who lived here.
2. It is in Eastern Europe.
3. I am specifically looking for the name of the area shown, not necessarily the name of the town/city.

Soo Wong, Miller Win!

...and in Ward 20 its Soo Wong!

Andrew

San Quentin Prison, CA, USA

HINTS

1. It is in the United States.

On this day Scott Peterson was found guilty of murdering his wife Lacy and their unborn child Connor. Peterson, who was later sentenced to death now resides in San Quentin Prison.

On This Day- 1838

Prescott Ontario - Republican Colonel Nils von Schoultz leads 200 Canadian exiles and US sympathizers in an attack against Prescott; fights the four-day Battle of the Windmill against British regulars and the local Canadian militia. Von Schoultz, a Finn, runs his schooner Charlotte aground below Prescott, and takes up position in a 6-storey stone windmill and several stone houses nearby; Canadians send a small vessel, the Experiment, to cut Schoultz off from the US, while 700 militia start arriving from the surrounding counties and a force of 70 British marines comes downriver by steamer from Kingston; the militia drive the Hunters from the houses into the windmill the following day; on the 14th Col Henry Dundas arrives with 4 companies of the 83rd Regiment, 2 eighteen-pounders and a howitzer; the rebels surrender on the 16th.

Canada's National War Memorial

'The Farm'

Don't even bother Paul, you don't know this one. -Mark

If I don't see someone from home guess at this I am going to be pissed off!

Click 'comment' below to enter your guess.

HINTS:
1. This place is in Eastern Ontario.

THE WORLDS BIGGEST BOOKSTORE ~ EDWARD ST. TORONTO

Opened on November 5, 1980

Hints: It is located in one of the three largest cities in Canada. It has been around for about 26 years. Its the POTD on this site.