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Canada's first cultural attraction to host a Facebook Live event. From the Ontario Science Centre's Da Vinci exhibition Da Vinci would have been impressed. A Facebook First is broadcast live from Leonardo exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre It is what is coming to your Facebook account soon. A couple of weeks ago, radio show host William Doyle Marshall and I took in the very first Canadian museum Facebook "TV" broadcast to be held. The Facebook Live event was at Toronto's Ontario Science Centre (Canada) in their exhibition hall where they have a traveling exhibition about the inventions of Leonardo daVinci. The Science Museum brought in a panel of experts from as far away as Italy to talk on camera to educators and young Facebook followers about the genius of the Italian inventor who died five centuries ago. The hour-long broadcast shown in real time on Facebook had a very large cast of characters (most shown in picture below) and probably had ...

William Doyle Marshall tours Scarborough Mas Camps in Toronto's East end. BRING A FLASHLIGHT The Empty Factories of Scarborough are ablaze for just 2 months   Costumes on display in the Blues Carnival Mas Camp, Howden Rd, Scarborough There are  mothballed factories and warehouses in Toronto's east end (Scarborough) that stand empty for most of the year. But in June and July these empty spaces are filled with colour, music and art.  There are 17 Mas Camps up and running in Toronto in preparation for the Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival ( i.e. Caribana). On Thursday night journalist William Doyle Marshall (CHYR, Indo-Caribbean Journal etc) toured three of the Mas Camps to talk to the Mas men and women running the camps. The Camps are where the costumes that dancer wear while playing mas at the street parade are constructed.  As well the camps are gathering spots where people interested in Carnival can order costumes, volunteer their help and generally Lime...