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1. Reason giving, city icons and the culture of cities: data from a radical interpretive perspective.

Author

Bonner, Kieran

Subjects
MOTIVATION (Psychology), SOCIAL facts, HOCKEY, SPORTS facilities, CITIES & towns
Abstract

From a radical interpretive perspective, the distinction between primary and secondary data is itself secondary. Taking as a case study sample newspaper accounts for the motive behind the famous hockey venue move in Montreal (from the Forum to the Molson Centre), this paper will demonstrate what is involved in treating this talk as a discourse. By testing these newspaper accounts, the paper will show that a sole focus on the empirical accuracy of such motive characterizations can fail to take up the way the accounts, when understood as a discourse, are themselves ways of accessing how social phenomena emerge as objects in the world. The latter analysis, it will be claimed, makes for a more grounded understanding. Specifically drawing on Blum and McHugh's (1971) analysis of motive talk, the paper will demonstrate the insights into the culture of cities that a radical interpretive perspective can make in this case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013

2. The Hockey Newsman.

Author

McKenzie, John

Subjects
SPORTSWRITERS, HOCKEY, PERIODICALS, PUBLISHING, HALLS of fame, DEATH
Abstract

Since its 1947 inception, the Hockey News has been essential reading for hard-core fans. Ken McKenzie, its co-founder and long-time publisher, died in an Ontario hospital. His son, John, a New York-based correspondent with ABC News, wrote this tribute to his father and his achievements. Ken McKenzie--along with Will Cote--started the Hockey News in 1947, and the paper that came to be known as the bible of hockey. After the Second World War, Ken, who grew up in Winnipeg, moved to Montreal, where he got a job as a sportswriter for the Gazette. Within months, he approached the president of the National Hockey League, Clarence Campbell, and suggested that the league needed a full-time publicity director. Campbell gave him the job, and more. For Ken, whose father had died in his early 50s, Campbell became a surrogate parent. Campbell supported my father's dream of starting a newspaper devoted exclusively to hockey. There is a picture of my father taken at his induction in the Hockey Hall of Fame, which shows him at the podium, arms outstretched, fists clenched, wearing this big, beautiful smile.

Published
2003

3. La Ligue Nationale d'Improvisation: Hockey's Contribution to Theatresports.

Author

Arroyas, Frederique

Subjects
*IMPROVISATION (Acting), *HOCKEY, *THEATRICAL companies, *ACTORS
Abstract

The Ligue Nationale d'Improvisation (LNI), an improvisational theatre group that came into being in the late 1970s in Montreal and whose popularity spread quickly, mainly in the francophone world, has imported the structure and rules of hockey and adapted them to a format in which teams of actor-improvisers compete. This paper examines the ways in which the game of hockey has infused theatre improvisation with energy and vitality and why, in a Canadian and more particularly Québécois setting, the transposition of a sport like hockey is particularly loaded with cultural resonance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2010
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4. Reconstruction of past backyard skating seasons in the Original Six NHL cities from citizen science data.

Author

Malik, Karim, McLeman, Robert, Robertson, Colin, and Lawrence, Haydn

Subjects
CITIZEN science, ATMOSPHERIC temperature, SKATING rinks, LINEAR statistical models, FRONT yards & backyards
Abstract

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Published
2020
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