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[Scott Sweeney @SkipSeasoned]

He’s in seventeen fast and furious movies but learned nothing about family

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Peter Renaday, the original voice of Master Splinter, has sadly passed away at the age of 89.

[Emily Fagan @thatemfagan]

The Crown is pushing for a Toronto cop guilty of theft, falsifying police reports, and more to face a 7-year prison sentence, weeks after the officer allegedly attempted to flee the country with a fraudulent passport.

My story for @CBCNews:
https://t.co/92M8R21jVG

[Righty Summer @vodkasnowflake]

lmao

[alex @steven_lebron]

he’s getting called into work rn

[Variety @Variety]

Donald Sutherland, the Canadian actor who became a countercultural icon with such films as “The Dirty Dozen,” “MASH,” “Klute” and “Don’t Look Now,” has died. He was 88. https://t.co/55BZHxFFMj

[Kiefer Sutherland @RealKiefer]

With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.

[Aliyah Funschelle @AliyahFun]

This little girl will remember this moment forever…🥹🥹🥹

She kept giving Sabrina thumbs up and Sabrina did them back, but then she invited her on the court to say hello 😭😭

@sabrina_i20 @nyliberty

[William Daniels @MrBillDaniels]

Just a little reunion with my favorite students!!

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Henri Matisse…

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Kesha headlined West Hollywood Pride Friday and revealed it was her first show as a "free woman" following her legal battle with Dr. Luke. To celebrate, she debuted two new songs, "Mother" and the aptly titled "Freedom" https://t.co/RpE9TAbyLv

[The Source Magazine @TheSource]

Salt-N-Pepa Make History: First Female Rappers to Have Their Own Action Figures https://t.co/J8sp816fWs

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

For those of you who don’t understand my righteous anger; I’m on 2 TV series, ELSBETH and RAISING KANAN. I’m filming SUPERMAN. Two years ago, I finished the fourth season of JACK RYAN. Last year I finished a run on Broadway in DEATH OF A SALESMAN. Even with my proof of employment, bank statements and real estate holdings, a white apartment owner DENIED my application to rent the apartment…..in Harlem, of all places. Racism and bigots are real. There are those who will do anything to destroy life’s journey for Black folks. When you deny our personal experiences, you are as vile and despicable.

[Darrell “Swaggy D to the Dub” Waltrip @Tom_Engels_Desk]

15K, and I’m taking a break. To be continued.

(Theoretically I need to add 25 more to hit my self-imposed cutoff, but space is getting tight)

[BYGnetwork @BYGnetwork]

We would not wanna be in a ring with these ladies 😳🤣 The Fighting Cholitas are a group of female wrestlers who perform in El Alto, Bolivia. (📹 @romibadapaaps )

[Terri (Lawson) Di Mauro @TL_Original]

Shout out to @GOtransit for making my kid's dream come true yesterday!

Nicco's been playing transit simulators for the past several months and takes his routes very seriously. Having the opportunity to make the announcements on the real GO Train was such a thrill for him 💖🚆

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

It is Pride Month and this is the story of Jackie Shane!

The story of Jackie Shane begins in Nashville, Tennessee where she was born on May 15, 1940.
Blessed with a great deal of confidence, at five years old she began to dress as a girl, and took inspiration from Mae West’s iconic style.

Shane was very lucky her mother and grandmother both accepted her for who she was and supported her as she began her journey of self-discovery when she came out as transgender at the age of 13.

As a young adult, she became close friends with Little Richard, one of the most important figures in rock and roll and he encouraged her to explore the R & B and soul scene in Nashville.

She frequented clubs and performed at many of them.
As her singing career developed, Shane found that the early acceptance she experienced in life was going to be harder to get as Nashville audiences were openly hostile to her because she was Black and transgender.

Feeling that she would fare better away from the American Deep South, her friend, soul singer Joe Tex, encouraged her to move.

After stops in Boston and Montreal, she arrived in Toronto in 1959 where she felt she had found a home.
It didn’t take long for Shane to be performing sold-out shows at nightclubs throughout the city, and even appearing on local music television shows.

She released several singles, including a cover of You Are My Sunshine in the early-1960s.
In 1963, her cover of William Bell’s Any Other Way, hit #2 on the CHUM singles chart.

Before she knew it, she had become a central figure in shaping what became known as the Toronto sound, a style of R&B unique to the city.

In 1967, Shane released a live album, the only album she ever did.
She shied away from releasing studio albums because she didn’t trust music labels.

And it wasn’t like they didn’t try to sign her.
Both Motown and Atlantic Records approached her, and legendary funk musician George Clinton attempted to convince her to join his iconic band Parliament-Funkadelic.

For Shane, it was never about making records.
What she loved more than anything was performing in front of a crowd.
Then, almost as soon as she burst onto the music scene of Toronto, she left it all behind.

In 1971, Shane retired from music and moved to Los Angeles to care for her aging mother.
The two later moved back to Nashville and lived together until her mother’s death in 1997.
From then on, Shane settled for a quiet life in Nashville.

In the 2010s a new generation discovered her and the CBC released a radio documentary titled I Got Mine: The Jackie Shane Story.
Five years later, her 1967 live album Jackie Shane Live, was reissued and was shortlisted for a Polaris Music Prize.

This was followed in 2017 by an anthology album from her career that included monologues from her live shows.
Called Any Other Way, the album earned a Grammy nomination in 2019 for Best Historic Album.

On Feb. 21, 2019, Shane died in her sleep.
In 2022, a Heritage Minute was released about her life.
https://t.co/8QmUoAoelW

She has been honoured with a massive mural on the side of a building on Yonge Street, in Toronto

On June 23, 2023, Jackie Shane Day was declared in the city.
That day, a Heritage Toronto plaque was unveiled honouring Shane’s life at the site of the former Saphire Tavern where she often performed the ceremony marked the start of Pride weekend.

If you enjoy my Canadian history content, you can support my work with a donation at https://t.co/ori5TwxQs3

[Nick Ashbourne @NickAshbourne]

I'm sure many of you have seen this, but if you somehow missed @ShiDavidi's latest on Alek Manoah, it's well worth reading.

Manoah is honest, forthright, and insightful about an extremely vulnerable moment in his career. https://t.co/9DAofNpdy6

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Weird concept that paying your employees more money and providing them more flexibility leads to higher employee happiness.