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Spectacle Others: People Love and Family Roots

spectacle others: Some people love the spectacle; others hate the disruption, or object to the military display, according to CBC. But for some in the city it can also have an unsettling, perhaps even traumatic, effect. It been running since 1949, and draws thousands of people to the waterfront. Maya Bastian is a writer and filmmaker with family roots in Sri Lanka. Bastian returned at the end of the summer, shortly before that year air show. In 2009, as the war in that country was ending, she went there to work in conflict zones. "I had never seen anything like it," she told CBC Metro Morning Matt Galloway. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.