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HIST4530 course website
Just finished updating the HIST4530 The Development of Toronto public website. Besides showcasing our students’ work, this website is meant to be a useful arriving or jumping point for anyone interested in Toronto’s history. Check it out: The Development of Toronto.
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Digital map of Portuguese communities in Canada
For the 64th anniversary of the arrival of the first group of Portuguese “bulk order” migrant workers on Pier 21, in Halifax, I have created a digital map with the current location of and statistics about the largest Portuguese immigrant, ethnic, and speaking communities in Canada. You can find it here.
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Developing Free Youth Summer Program at York University, July 2017
Together with my York University colleagues Maria João Dodman and Inês Cardoso of the Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies program, and Abubacar Fofana León of the Centre for Research on Latin American and the Caribbean, I have been organizing the upcoming Youth Summer Program, in July 10-14, 2017, with the support of LA&PS’ Global and Community Engagement…
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My interview with stand-up comedian Mike Rita on RTPi
My interview with the stand-up comedian Mike Rita aired on RTPi’s “A Hora dos Portugueses” (weekend episode 10, minute 34). You can watch it here. | A minha entrevista com o comediante Mike Rita foi transmitida no programa “A Hora dos Portugueses” da RTPi (episódio de fim de semana 10, minuto 34). Pode vê-la aqui.…
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Interview with author Anthony de Sa
Yesterday I got to interview the acclaimed Toronto author Anthony de Sa – Barnacle Love (2008), Kicking the Sky (2013) – for the RTPi show “A Hora dos Portugueses.” After a sit down conversation at the Sanderson Toronto Public Library branch, we walked down Palmerston Ave’s “memory” laneway where much of the action in Kicking…
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Interview with comedian Mike Rita
Yesterday I spent the last evening of my 35th with the hilarious Mike Rita, one of the top new stand up comedians in Toronto. I got to hang out with Rita and record our conversation while driving between shows – in the style of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Drinking Coffee – and later interview…
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Interview with punk rocker Sandy Miranda of ‘Fucked Up’
Our filming for RTPi’s “A Hora dos Portugueses” continues. Last week we interviewed Sandy Miranda, the bass player for Fucked Up, one of the most prolific and international punk/hardcore bands from Toronto, winner of the Polaris Prize in 2009 (nominated again in 2012). We sat down with Sandy on the stage of the legendary Horseshoe…
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PCHP & RoughCut collaboration w/ RTPi
(Texto em português segue-se ao inglês) Earlier this month I started a new project with Pedro Rodrigues of RoughCut Audiovisual (and Luis Moreira) producing content for Portugal’s international public broadcaster RTPi’s new daily TV show “A Hora dos Portugueses.” We are now interviewing various individuals at the heart and on the fringes of Canada’s Portuguese…
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