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Beau Dommage était un groupe de musique folk rock venant de Montréal, Québec. Le groupe a connu un grand succès dans les années 70 et 80. Fondé en 1972, Beau Dommage a commencé comme une troupe de théâtre « La Quenouille Bleue ».

En 1974, le groupe a sorti son premier album, Beau Dommage. Cet album a battu des records de ventes à l'époque. L'année suivante, Où est passée la noce? a atteint 100 000 ventes -- dès premier jour de sa sortie !

Le groupe s'est dissous en 1978, mais en 1994, ils se sont réunis pour seulement un an. Cette année-là, ils ont produit un deuxième album intitulé Beau Dommage. L'annèe suivante, le groupe s'est à nouveau dissous, cette fois définitivement.

Je suis débutant en français. Ces traductions peuvent contenir des erreurs. Merci de proposer (poliment!) des corrections grammaticales.

Aujourd'hui, c'est le premier Vendredi français !

Pour aujourd`hui, postez de la musique franco-canadiennes. Le Français dans les posts n'est pas requis, mais la toune doit être en français ou contenir du français.

La photo est Beau Dommage, les groupe franco-canadienne vedettes de la semaine. Tous les vendredis, je vais présenter un groupe pis poster une ou deux tounes d'eux.

Today is the first French Friday!

For today, post French Canadian music. French is not required on the posts, but the song itself must be in French or have some French.

The photo is Beau Dommage, the French Canadian band of the week. Every friday I will try to showcase a band and post a song or two of theirs.

BADBADNOTGOOD is a instrumental band and production team from Toronto, Ontario.

The band provides instrumental backgrounds to a wide variety of artists from various genres -- it all depends on who they collaborate with and the vision of the features artist. Many of which are household names such as Tyler The Creator, Kendrick Lamar, Charlotte Day Wilson, and many others.

They were formed in 2010 by Chester Hansen on bass, Matthew Tavares on keyboard, and Alexander Sowinski as drummer. The band would later be joined by Leland Whitty.

While more often do colalborations, in 2024 the band released a album featuring music entirely produced by themselves under the name of Mid Spiral. The album features only instrumentals, with no vocals.

Learn more about the band at their website, badbadnotgood.com.

FLEECE is a band originating from Montreal, Quebec. They originally formed in 2013. This is one of the songs that will be released on the 1st of October later this year as part of their TORNADO album which was itself written and recorded in 2023.

More information about FLEECE can be found on their website, fleecemusic.com. There is also more information about the story and meaning of this upcoming song posted on the canadianbeats.ca website, including comments from the artists.

The Bankes Brothers are a relatively recent band that formed in 2017. As shown in their name, they are formed of the two brothers Nelson & Morgan Bankes on vocals and guitar, with Carson Cleaver on lead guitar, and Gray Oxley as the drummer.

The band was formed in Victoria, British Columbia. As per the story on their spotify, they formed on a random friday night in a pool hall and begun playing gigs together less than a week later. They were all former high school classmates who found a "undeniable musical chemistry" and shortly began writing original music after their first show. Their first original song was "See Me Run".

In Waves, according to the spotify plays, is their most popular and widely played song with 335k listens as of writing this.

The Bankes Brothers are supported by Music BC, Creative BC and The Province of British Columbia. Their current label with is Blue Heron Music.

See more from The Bankes Brothers at their website, thebankesbrothers.com . Their latest song, Get To Know was just released just yesterday on the 30th! More info on that new release from canadianbeats.ca

Article written by Heather Kitching of CBC News, posted on the 29th of July, 2025. Below is not the full article.

"Windsor city council has adopted a new policy on flag-raisings, proclamations and building illuminations after deferring a vote on a previous draft due to protests from members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.

Under the new policy, Windsor will continue to grant flag-raising requests, but only to organizations that are directly related to the city through a funding or partnership agreement, and/or only for events that correspond with days of awareness, celebration, importance, commemoration or promotion that are recognized by the province or federal governments."

"Council had originally considered a policy at its May meeting that said it would not grant flag-raisings or issue proclamations.

But several people protested the move, particularly members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community, who emphasized the importance of raising the Pride flag during Pride month."

Protests work people. Glad to see things were settled in a way that was amicable to most everyone involved.

Charles Comfort (1900-1994) was a Scottish-Canadian who at the age of 12 immigrated to Winnipeg and shortly after found work as a commercial artist to support his family. By the time he was in his 30s, he was a proven talented artist in a variety of mediums -- watercolour, oil paints, friezes.^2^ In 1936, he was hired as a associate professor at the University of Toronto where he would teach historical painting techniques. He would work at the university for 25 years.

He was also highly renowned as a Canadian official war artist during the Second World War -- an artist who was officially commissioned by the government to paint depictions of the war. After 4 years as a rifle instructor in the training corps, Comfort was commisioned as a war artist and sent to Europe in 1943. He spent his time painting in the south of England, and subsequently in Italy once the Allies began occupying Southern Italy. Comfort would leave the Canadian army in 1946, returning to being a professor at the University of Toronto. He would later write a book, Artists at War regarding his experiences during the war.^3^

~Charles~ ~Comfort~ ~painting~ ~in~ ~the~ ~area~ ~around~ ~Ortona,~ ~Italy,~ ~on~ ~duty~ ~as~ ~a~ ~Canadian~ ~WWII~ ~war~ ~artist.~ 4

By the 1940s he also became a voice of authority within the art community of Canada. During the war, he had helped launch the WWII War Art Program. In 1941, he was an organizer of the Kingston Conference, a prominent meeting of Canadian artists of the time which would lead to the formation of the Federation of Canadian Artists.

This federation would then go on, with Comfort's contributions, to create the 1951 Massey Report. The Massey Report found that the Canadian cultural presence was lacking globally and was under threat from overwhelming foreign culture. This led to the creation of the Canada Council for the Arts, a crown corporation tasked with the mission to grow and foster the arts within Canada.

In 1959 Comfort would leave his job as a professor to become the director of the National Gallery of Canada. He was also a board member for the Art Gallery of Toronto and various other committees during this period after the war.

Charles comfort would go on to be a Officer of the Order of Canada in 1972 in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to the nation. His legacy is seen with the preservation and continued tradition of an emphasized unique Canadian cultural heritage that persists to this day.

Charles Comfort wrote this to describe himself and his work in 1974:

"As an artist he is a humanist realist whose paintings are characterized by a spirit of ordered freedom and technical conservatism. For him, the visible world is the valid point of departure for a work of art. This does not mean that his purpose is to imitate nature, but rather to recreate it, remoulding and harmonizing it to agree with his own idiomatic mannerisms and his own personal concepts. He envisages his world as being inexhaustibly inspiring and meaningful."

Sources (All accessed 2025-07-29):

1. “A Story of Canadian Art.” Kelowna Art Gallery, 2015. kelownaartgallery.com/a-story-of-canadian-art/. Origin of post image.
2. "Charles Comfort - Canada at War" Canadian Art Junkie, 2017. canadianartjunkie.com/2017/03/12/8150-charles-comfort-canada-at-war/
3. "Charles Comfort 1900 - 1994" Canadian War Museum. warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/comfort1eng.html
4. Library and Archives Canada, btu taken from wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Comfort/

Read more: "Charles Hill Interview with Charles and Louise Comfort", Oct. 1973. National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives. Transcription created in 2008. "Artist Spotlight: Charles Comfort", Rookley's Canadian Art Blog, 2024. rookleys.com/blog/78-artist-spotlight-charles-comfort/

Notice: This is a very quick and rudimentary overview of Charles Comfort. Much of this information is put together by a poorly sourced wikipedia articles and from the afore-sourced materials above. The Library and Archives of Canada, as well as the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives both contain more information regarding Charles Comfort, but that information is not digitized or readily available for me to use at this time.

Perhaps one day if I move to Ottawa I can do a deeper dive into Charles Comfort by visiting the crown corporation museums' archives!

Written by Mark Brown from windsornewstoday.ca on the 23rd of July, 2025. Below is NOT the full article.

"The Town of Tecumseh will not allow fourplexes to be built in established neighbourhoods.

At its meeting Tuesday night, councillors voted 4-3 to reject a plan, introduced by Councillor Alicia Higgison, that would have permitted up to three additional housing units on properties with a minimum 18-metre frontage, and a minimum of 35 per cent of the lot area as landscaped open space."

"Last spring, the Town received $4.4 million in funding from the federal government's Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF). As part of the grant approval, the town agreed to allow fourplexes "as of right" in all residentially zoned properties. Of that funding, $3.2-million was tied to the allowance of fourplexes.

The rejection of the fourplex plan may put that $3.2-million at risk. The Town will now contact the Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation (CMHC) to inform it of council's decision, and await a response."

So if you can't get affordable housing in Tecumseh, blame "Councillors James Dorner, Rico Tonial, Tania Jobin, and Deputy Mayor Joe Bachetti" for voting against this. I hope they enjoy the character of Tecumseh as the next generation sleeps on their porches when they cannot afford housing. Voting against such housing measures AFTER accepting federal funding is just ridiculous. This is the peak of selfishness and blindly serving one's own interests. This will set Windsor backwards from being a competitive modern Canadian city.

This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a long running political satire series hosted by the CBC every 2 weeks. The series originally aired in 1993, and follows the format of mock news reporting, especially on public political figures, but also celebrities in general.

The series can be watched on CBC Gem (Free for any Canadians with a CBC account!) or on the linked youtube channel.

Windsor Laughs, primarily based out of the Tipsy Toucan on Ottawa Street in downtown regularly hosts stand up comedians both local to Windsor and from around both sides of the Great Lakes.

On the 8th of August at 8pm they are hosting a special event put on to provide funds to local comedian Jen Richardson as they recover from a recent devastating house fire. Comedians from across Ontario and Michigan will be attending to perform standup comedy.

Tickets cost $27.96 CAD (Including all fees and taxes) and can be purchased online.

Written by the windsoriteDOTca News Staff on the 24th of July, 2025. Below is NOT the full article. Support local and independent news -- it can be as simple as merely visiting the website.

"The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit has sent reminders to school-aged children in WEC who are overdue for the important measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine."

"'Wastewater surveillance is one of the tools we use to monitor public health trends,' said Dr. Mehdi Aloosh, Medical Officer of Health. 'Although clinical measles cases remain low, the presence of the virus back in the wastewater suggests that we must remain vigilant.'

WECHU is offering catch-up immunization clinics throughout the summer to help families in need of support with immunizations. "

Get you and your kids vaccinated people. We've been gifted with modern medicine which can spare us the worse illnesses that plagued humanity since time immemorial. You piss your ancestors off when you squander it.