April 22
1969 – The Who perform the rock opera
Tommy in its entirety at a show in England
And then five years later in
1974 The Who begin filming the movie version of
Tommy. The task of producing the complex soundtrack drives Pete Townshend to have a nervous breakdown.
1979 – The Rolling Stones play the first of two concerts in Ontario to raise money for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind this is part of Keith Richards punishment for a Toronto arrest on heroin charges when which is his court-ordered community service.
1993 – The Who’s rock opera
Tommy opened on Broadway.
2009 – Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart share the stage together for the first time in over 25 years at a show in Los Angeles.
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Apr 22, 2021
1966 - Wild Thing by The Troggs (who were originally called The Troglodytes) was released in the U.S. The song went on to reach No.1. Wild Thing became a major influence on garage rock and punk rock.
1969 - During a brief legal proceeding conducted on the roof of the Apple Records building in London, John Lennon changed his middle name from Winston to Ono.
1978 - Bob Marley and the Wailers performed at the One Love Peace Concert in Jamaica. It was Marley s first public appearance in Jamaica since being wounded in an assassination attempt a year and a half earlier. At the concert, Marley manages to unite Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley with rival Edward Seaga, who had both been using local warlords to battle for power.
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Mike Thiessen holds up his ID card issued by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. (Drew May/The Brandon Sun)
A Brandon man says he and other visually impaired people are being discriminated against by the system used to check IDs at Liquor Mart entrances.
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A Brandon man says he and other visually impaired people are being discriminated against by the system used to check IDs at Liquor Mart entrances.
Mike Thiessen said the software used to scan IDs at controlled entrances doesn’t accept his ID issued by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, which is his main form of ID.
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NDP Leader Gary Burrill says the premier needs to provide a better accounting of how a reduction in spending of $209 million next year will not affect services.(Craig Paisley/CBC)
Nova Scotia s opposition leaders say Premier Iain Rankin s four-year plan to balance the books amounts to nothing more than a pre-election fantasy straight from the Land of Oz. That s Judy-Garland-somewhere-over-the-rainbow economics, NDP Leader Gary Burrill told reporters at Province House on Thursday.
At issue for Burrill and Tory Leader Tim Houston is the fact this budget, which sees some major spending increases heading into a likely provincial election, is to be followed by an estimated $209-million decrease in departmental spending in 2022-23.
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Finance Minister Donna Harpauer answers questions on the 2021-22 provincial budget on April 6, 2021. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
COVID-19 has left Saskatchewan in a bigger hole than originally expected.
Before delivering the 2021-22 budget at the Saskatchewan legislature on Tuesday, Finance Minister Donna Harpauer said it was difficult to overstate the impact of the pandemic.
“It was not only a worldwide health crisis; the COVID-19 pandemic is also the largest shock to the Saskatchewan, Canadian, and world economies of any event since the Second World War,” Harpauer told reporters.
“It is a once-in-a-lifetime challenge that requires a significant response.”