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Hundreds attend funeral for Toronto filmmaker Rob Stewart - CBC.ca

Feb. 3, and his family later said Stewart was found "peacefully in the ocean." He was 37-years-old."Rob's community was all of us... he affected so many people all around the world," CBC radio host George Stroumboulopoulos said during the service at Bloor Street United Church in Toronto.Stewart's sister Alexandra gave the eulogy, and she said the outpouring of support around the world shows how far-reaching Stewart's work has been.She said she'll miss her brother's "sense of adventure" the most.Rob Stewart is being honoured with a cross-Canada tribute screening of his hit documentary Sharkwater on Feb. 25. (Stewart Family/Cineplex)Stewart died during Florida dive in JanuaryAn experienced diver active in underwater filming, Stewart had been in Florida filming a follow to Sharkwater, called Sharkwater: Extinction, at the time of his death.Stewart resurfaced at the end of a dive, but as the boat was preparing to pick him up, he went back under — and his family later said he may have lost consciousness.His death was met with shock and sadness by many members of the film and environmentalist communities.Stewart was "a kind and gentle soul who worked tirelessly for justice under the sea," tweeted actor Adrian Grenier on Feb. 3. Project AWARE, a global organization of divers working to protect the planet's oceans, called Stewart an inspiration to divers and non-divers alike "to be agents of positive change for the ocean."[embedded content]Stewart's films have won dozens of awardsSharkwater, Stewart's first film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006, examined global shark hunting and its impact on the ocean ecosystem.It went on to win more than 40 awards at film festivals around the world.Cineplex is honouring Stewart...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rob-stewart-funeral-1.3989854

'New Beginnings' to open at Galveston Arts Center Aug. 27 - Chron.com

Image 1of/5 Caption Close Image 1 of 5 Artist George Grochocki's "Nostalgia for Truth Toward the Contrasting" can be seen Aug. 27-Oct. 2 at the Galveston Arts Center. Artist George Grochocki's "Nostalgia for Truth Toward the Contrasting" can be seen Aug. 27-Oct. 2 at the Galveston Arts Center. Image 2 of 5 Josephine Eager is one of several artists chosen to decorate pear sculptures that will be placed in various places around Pearland as a civic branding exercise. Josephine Eager is one of several artists chosen to decorate pear sculptures that will be placed in various places around Pearland as a civic branding exercise. Photo: Steve Gonzales Image 3 of 5 Christine Wade, director of patient care services at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, will co-chair this year's Black Tie and Boots gala Sept. 17. Christine Wade, director of patient care services at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, will co-chair this year's Black Tie and Boots gala Sept. 17. Image 4 of 5 University of Texas Medical ...
http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/New-Beginnings-to-open-at-Galveston-Arts-Center-9170358.php

Sanaz Shirshekar Envisions Saint John As 'Playground For Architects To Experiment' - Huddle Today

It allowed me to do both." It also allowed her to work at two renowned firms in Canada and the United States and has now brought the Toronto-born architect to New Brunswick to start a business of her own. After graduating from architecture school at McGill in 2006, Shirshekar started working for Toronto-based KPMB as a project architect. There, she got to work on projects such as the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal, the UBC Alumni Centre, The Globe & Mail's new interior offices and the Fort York Branch Library. "We were aiming for it to be the 100th public library in Toronto, and it turned out to be the 101st," says Shirshekar, "which is still cool." Fort York Branch Library (Image: torontopubliclibrary.ca) From there she went to work in New York with Yabu Pushelberg as a senior designer. She was in the heart of Soho, working on projects that were more private and high-end, including a resort for Hyatt in Los Cabos, Mexico, and a project for a residential client in Bejing. For Shirshekar, it helped make her architecture experience more versatile. "I took that opportunity on because at KPMB I was getting a lot of those community, public space building projects. But I also wanted to be a little bit more seasoned as an architect and get some architectural interior experience," she says. "Yabu Pushelberg is really the expert for that. They are world renowned. They're really good at what they do and they're internationally known for their interior design excellence, so I really wanted to bring the architecture and the interior design together." Shirshekar recently moved to New Brunswick to be with her husband, Jamie Irving, the vice-president of Brunswick News. At that point, she was ready to start her own practice, Studio Shirshekar. "I feel all architects at some point, you feel like you've gotten enough experience and you want to give yourself an opportunity to try it out," she says. "Maybe it's not for everyone, but for me, I think i...
https://huddle.today/sanaz-shirshekar-envisions-saint-john-as-a-playground-for-architects-to-experiment/

Saskatchewan police officers attend regimental funeral - Global News Regina

Saskatoon Police Service, two from Moose Jaw, and one from Weyburn are representing the south of the province.Three Regina Police Service members who attended are originally from New Brunswick, including one from Fredericton. Let's block ads! (Why?)...
https://globalnews.ca/news/4395856/saskatchewan-police-officers-attend-regimental-funeral/

Surviving the death care business - CBC.ca

MacDonald said."Some of it is burnout. You have to make sure with all the stress you deal with on a daily basis you know how to relax yourself, how to unwind."The New Brunswick Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association doesn't keep statistics on retention rates, however, funeral homes are "constantly looking for licensed funeral directors," said executive director Marc Melanson.While the pay can be appealing - $47,319 annually according to the Department of Post Secondary Education Training and Labour - compassion fatigue is a reality, along with unconventional work hours."It's not a Monday to Friday nine-to-five job," said Melanson. "It's evenings, weekends and holidays."People who get into the funeral profession genuinely want to help people. But a funeral home is never closed."Viewing rooms are often rearranged, making physicality a key component of the job. (Sarah Trainor/CBC News)The workday can be fluid and intense. It might start with MacDonald doing prep work on an infant that would afford parents more time with their child, then a full shift in gears to oversee a 103-year-old's celebration of life service in a space filled with laughter."You wear a lot of different hats and it changes so quickly," she said."I could be making funeral arrangements with a family, I could be directing a funeral, I could be painting - like literally building maintenance."We get dirty in our suits. We garden, mow the lawns, wash the cars, we do it all."The job requires a good deal of physicality. Viewing rooms are frequently rearranged to make space for what families want to bring to a visitation. Personal touches have been as dainty as jewelry and as grand as a motorcycle.Some scenes hard to processNot everyone is in a bed when they die, and moving a body can take some physical and mental effort."Some things you see you don't ever forget, and you wish you could. Especially when you walk into a scene where you can imagine their last moments."MacDonald said those moments can be difficult to process."It's hard to think of them as being a person in the way that you're protecting your mental state," she said."You say, 'I have to move them from one place to another,' and after, you reflect on that and think, 'OK, that was a human being and I feel terrible for them. And I'm going to probably have bad dreams for a while....
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/sharlene-macdonald-brenans-funeral-director-saint-john-1.5044719