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Scrolling for something new to watch on this week, November 23-29? Let me give you a hand with my picks for the best movies, TV shows and more arriving on the streaming service. Christmas officially arrives on Hulu this week, as the streamer is adding a number of holiday-themed titles, including an exclusive special from a popular TV show and a range of holiday movies that all ages can enjoy. But if you're not in the Christmas mood yet there are some alternative options as well. Check out all of the picks for this week directly below. Family Guy Holiday Special Celebrate Christmas with the Griffins on Hulu as the all-new holiday special is streaming exclusively on the platform. Titled “Gift of the White Guy,” the episode sees Peter have to recover Lois’ Christmas brooch after he gives it away in a White Elephant exchange. Also, Stewie finds out that he’s on Santa’s “Naughty List.” This is the second holiday special Hulu has had this year, following a Halloween episode. Robot Dreams (2023) Who says animated movies are exclusively for kids? , which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars last year, is a PG-13 animated movie that follows the friendship and adventures of Dog and Robot in 1980s New York City. Despite the animal characters, the movie’s themes are much more adult-oriented. With it being “Certified Fresh” with a 98% on , it’s definitely worth giving the movie a try. Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae Annie Mae Maquash was a Mi’kmaq woman, a mother, a teacher and a leader for Indigenous rights in the 1970s, but for nearly 30 years her death went unsolved. This new docuseries explores the investigation led by Annie Mae’s daughter to uncover the truth about her mother’s death, set against the backdrop of 1970s America, and deals with love, betrayal and the struggles of Native and First Nations women. Elf (2003) is a that I actively try to watch every year, so it’s good to know that it will be streaming on Hulu this year (other streamers as well, but this is a Hulu-centric article). The journey of Buddy the Elf as he leaves the North Pole to reconnect with his biological father in New York is hilarious and fills us with plenty of Christmas spirit. Get the What to Watch Newsletter The latest updates, reviews and unmissable series to watch and more! National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) It’s that time of year again, to spend the holidays with the Griswolds. The comedy starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Randy Quaid and company remains a holiday favorite for many, as Clark holds out hope for a Christmas bonus while trying to stay sane as his relatives invade his house for the holiday. Hopefully, most of us can say our family isn’t this crazy during the holidays. The Polar Express (2004) Based on the classic children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg, tells the story of a young boy who is questioning his belief in Santa. But then the Polar Express stops outside his house and whisks him away to the North Pole for an adventure meant to reinstall his belief in the Christmas figure. Tom Hanks stars in multiple roles in this movie that was one of the first to use performance-capture technology and remains a holiday favorite. Nutcrackers (2024) If you're interested in checking out a new Christmas-theme movie instead of (or in addition to) well-known holiday entries, is Hulu's new offering to the genre this year. The movie stars Ben Stiller as the big city uncle of a group of children who recently lost their parents, looking after them on their rural farm as the holidays approach. Antics and heart-pulling emotions are a given.
Saskatoon’s city council has agreed to spend more of the city’s money on the temporary emergency shelter slated for Pacific Avenue — a provincial government project to be operated by The Mustard Seed, an Alberta-based Christian non-profit chosen by the province. “As the partners worked to finalize the design, it was determined that the original scope of work would not be sufficient to bring the building up to a usable condition,” says a city report discussed at a special council meeting on Thursday. A $360,000 funding gap developed after the updated construction cost estimate reached $535,000; about $75,000 in additional costs weren’t eligible for the provincial funding committed to the project, council heard. Pamela Hamoline, the city’s director of facilities management, said the provincial government had estimated that only $250,000 was required for renovations to the 35-bed emergency shelter. Hamoline said March 2026 is the date set for completion of the project. It found almost three times as many homeless people in the city compared to the last count in 2022. The city has approached the Saskatchewan Housing Corporation (SHC) for more money, but SHC can’t confirm anything, council heard. This issue has caused further delays to the temporary shelter. Council members expressed frustration with the provincial government for not addressing the problems with its own project. Recommendations from the administration included taking $360,000 from the city’s reserve for capital expenditures to cover the gap, that negotiations continue to try to get the province and federal governments to reimburse the additional costs, and that a property tax exemption be granted for the shelter space. The report says extensive mechanical and electrical upgrades are needed for the building, including heating, ventilation and plumbing. Coun. Holly Kelleher asked how these additional costs crept up. Hamoline said staff investigated the building in November, allowing them to re-estimate costs, which she called a moving target. Coun. Bev Dubois noted the front part of the building was renovated and met the upgrade requirements. She asked why the back part of the building was selected as the place where the shelter would be established. City manager Jeff Jorgenson said using the front part would require an additional $750,000. “There were some renovations done to the building, but as I understand there were no showers, the washrooms had been largely eliminated ... there was extensive work required,” he said. Dubois said council has never seen a cost comparison. Jorgenson said he feels all costs associated with this project are eligible for coverage by the provincial government, and the city will push the province to cover them — even items already highlighted by the province as not eligible, like fencing. “The alternative (to spending city funds) would be waiting for the funding to come from the province,” which would further delay the project, he said. Coun. Zach Jeffries noted this is a provincial government project, but city council is the government actually moving it forward. “In fact, this is not something in our jurisdiction, and this is not even our project. Yet, here we are being the ones moving the ball as quickly as possible,” Jeffries said. The people waiting out in the cold for shelter deserve the same urgency from the province as they have received from the city administration, he added.Javon Leake is staying put. A CFL source said Friday the veteran running back-returner has agreed to terms on a two-year extension with the Edmonton Elks. Leake was slated to become a free agent in February. The source added the deal — which was negotiated by Kenny Kim of Summit Athletes — was worth more than $270,000 in hard money. The source spoke on the condition of anonymity as the Elks hadn’t formally announced the move. The six-foot, 205-pound Leake ran for a career-high 661 yards on 102 carries (6.5-yard average) with six TDs in 15 games this past season, his first with Edmonton. Leake also had two 100-yard rushing contests in 2024 while adding 34 catches for 301 yards and a touchdown. Leake also had 23 punt returns for 214 yards and 25 kickoff returns for 539 yards. Leake joined the Elks as a free agent after spending two seasons with the Toronto Argonauts, winning a Grey Cup with the club in 2022. Leake was used predominantly as a returner with Toronto and was the CFL’s top special-teams player in 2023 after registering 81 punt returns for 1,216 yards and four TDs. He had 38 kickoff returns for 793 yards. Leake had 15 carries for 52 yards over his two seasons with the Argos. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 13, 2024. The Canadian PressDiscover the staggering 45 trillion dollars of wealth looted by the British from India during 200 years of colonial rule, a figure that still shocks the world. New Delhi: The British colonial rule over India, spanning approximately 200 years, remains one of history's most exploitative eras. During this time, the British drained India's resources on an unprecedented scale. But do you know just how much wealth was taken from India? According to leading historians, the figure is estimated at a staggering 45 trillion dollars , a sum that exceeds 15 times the current annual GDP of the United Kingdom. The Extent of Economic Drain Between 1757 and 1947, the British extracted roughly 80,000 trillion rupees worth of resources from India. According to Utsa Patnaik, a renowned economist and historian, this massive wealth transfer occurred between 1765 and 1938, reshaping the economic structure of both nations. While many in Britain argue that colonization did not result in significant economic gains, the facts tell a different story. The systematic plundering of India bolstered Britain's industrial revolution while leaving India impoverished. Impact of British Exploitation The extensive resource drain during colonial rule left India grappling with poverty, famine, and underdevelopment, consequences that continue to affect the nation decades after independence. The British government's exploitation dismantled India's thriving industries, such as textiles, and redirected wealth to fuel Britain's growth, leaving India to rebuild from the ashes. What If India Retained Even a Quarter of This Wealth? Imagine if India had retained even 25% of this wealth. The country's trajectory would likely have been vastly different, with a head start in infrastructure, education, and technological advancement. The staggering 45 trillion dollars looted from India could have propelled it into one of the world's most advanced economies today. The Turning Point: The Battle of Plassey The British foothold in India was firmly established after their victory in the Battle of Plassey in 1757, marking the beginning of nearly two centuries of colonial rule. This victory allowed the East India Company to consolidate power, laying the groundwork for direct British governance in 1858 under Queen Victoria. The End of Colonial Rule India's long struggle for independence culminated on August 15, 1947, marking the end of British rule. However, the legacy of economic exploitation, political oppression, and cultural imperialism left deep scars that India continues to heal. The staggering wealth looted by the British not only highlights the extent of exploitation but also serves as a reminder of India's resilience. Despite losing immense resources and enduring centuries of oppression, India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. The question remains—what heights could India have achieved without the shadow of colonial exploitation? Stay informed on all the latest news , real-time breaking news updates, and follow all the important headlines in india news and world News on Zee News.
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Internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Cao Fei’s first retrospective in Australia, My City is Yours at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, sets out to disorient and overstimulate the senses. In the exhibition introduction, Cao describes “a show that’s boisterous like the mall or the market”. It bombards you with documentaries and sci-fi films, virtual reality (VR) games and vintage arcade machines, neon lights contrasting industrial metal scaffolds, electronica jamming hip-hop music. Yet, this city-scape of an exhibition has been designed with care. You could take these all in: sitting in a vintage cinema chair by some beach sand, perhaps submerged in sponge blocks; lounging on a sofa in a family living room; hunching on a bunk bed in a factory; resting on the vinyl padded chrome chair of a Cantonese yum-cha restaurant. Cao embraces this mix of pleasure, convenience, banality, challenge and alienation condensed into the nostalgic, dazzling yet future-craving contemporary life. Retro-perspective The entrance of the show replicates the reception of the now demolished Hongxia Theatre in Beijing, built in 1957 for workers employed to build China’s first computers, with the aid of the Soviet Union. The gilt Chinese inscriptions on the scarlet signboard — “Splendid Galaxy” and “Human World Motion Pictures” — set the retro-futuristic tone that permeates the exhibition. Through the doors, the gallery space transforms into offices and a cinema furnished with Hongxia Theatre’s chairs, desks and chandeliers. Behind a curtain of a retro wardrobe flashes portraits of current residents. Cao rented the theatre as a studio between 2015 and 2021. Her time roaming the once cultural hotspot for China’s early techno-optimists results in installations, two documentaries and a sci-fi film, as well as VR work. Through this range of media, the ambitious project connects past and future, as the exhibition section title, Enter the Wormhole, suggests. The documentary Postscript of Hongxia (2023) captures the memories and fights of the residents and the buildings being brutally bulldozed. Another video work, An Elegy to Hongxia (2023), plays the overly optimistic folk music The Morning Sun at Eight and Nine O’clock (composed by Chinese contemporary indie musician Xiongxiong Homework). The music takes its title from a famous quote by Chairman Mao stressing young people’s vigour, yet the accordion player performs this elegy amid the ruins of the cinema, farewelling a lost socialist dream. This lost dream and accordion music rebirth in Cao’s 2019 sci-fi film NOVA. In this imagined town Nova, a Chinese computer scientist and a Soviet expert fall in love, dancing to Soviet folk and propaganda music, Katyusha. But this collective dream ends again in tragedy. Their love child dissolves into a digital soul trapped in a virtual realm. He is trekking China’s past, present and future socialisms, perhaps forever. Factory disco and Canto-humour Moving toward the Factory Zone, the doubt on techno progression in NOVA is replaced by a disco frenzy in the film Asia One (2018). This story sets in the world’s first fully automated storage and distribution centre in Kunshan, outskirt of Shanghai. Workers dressed in Maoist period style dance in the empty gigantic warehouse. A red banner in yellow Chinese characters reads “Humans and machines, hand in hand creating miracles”. The rebellious spirit and optimism in Asia One on one hand evoke connection to China’s recent revolution, on another hand suggest some hope of a future collaborating with machines. This retro fantasy could be Cao’s iconic Canto-humour, influenced by 1990s Hong Kong films such as Stephen Chow’s mo lei tau (nonsense) comedies. Such films were once screened in the Harbour City Cinema, in Sydney’s Chinatown, and Cao has selected movie posters to exhibit alongside the Hongxia project. The same kind of absurdist Cantonese humour can be found in her earliest DV video work Imbalance 257 (1999). Youngsters from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts act out scenes in the studio, toilet, dormitory and video game arcade. This is the work that caught the attention of the art world, bringing Cao to a global audience two decades ago. This video work, together with other early DV videos like Rabid Dog (2002) and San Yuan Li (2003, with Ou Ning) are played on retro CRT TVs. You could watch these DVs on the tables surrounding dim-sum trolleys salvaged from the old Haymarket Marigold restaurant. Chinatown hip hop shuffle Sydney’s Asian-Australian community is celebrated in the newly commissioned work, Hip Hop: Sydney. It is part of Cao’s ongoing series featuring amateur locals dancing on the streets of Guangzhou, New York, Fukuoka and now Sydney. For this iteration, cosplayers dance in dress-up photo booths; tour guides dance in front of the Haymarket Chinatown ceremonial archway; 90-year-old George Wing Kee dances in front of the Sydney sensation Emperor’s Garden Cakes & Bakery; shoppers dance between aisles of Asian food in Market City’s Thai Kee supermarket; writer and broadcaster Benjamin Law cameos as a waiter. He dances in front of the famous Chinatown Chinese Noodle Restaurant while its boss, Xiaotang Qin, plays Jingle Bells on his violin. Exiting the exhibition with this seasonal number still ringing in your ears, you walk fittingly into the gift shop. It appropriately decks out in an assortment of Chinese-cyber-sci-fi-inspired gifts, seemingly mirroring the boisterous market. Yet, beyond the alluring frantic façade, Cao grapples with questions of techno-optimism, social and urban transformation, virtual identities and their commidifcation. In other words, this is an exhibition about this brave new human condition we are each coming to terms with. Cao Fei: My City is Yours 曹斐: 欢迎登陆 is at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until April 13 2025.
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