Sentence examples for canadian background from inspiring English sources

Perhaps by virtue of his Canadian background, Drake has, historically, been apolitical.

"The Voice Is All" devotes more attention to Kerouac's French Canadian background than most biographies.

The second half of the show is about recent developments in Ryan's life, and about her Canadian background.

Alex made a big fuss about his Canadian background, because "at high school you always want to go counterculture".

His career suggests a tug, possibly induced by his Canadian background, between bowing to the demands of popular Hollywood success and viewing American life from the geographically and psychically skewed perspective of someone born north of the 49th parallel.

Another musical project is Ms. Atwood's first chamber opera, which will be about Pauline Johnson, a 19th-century performer who played up her half-English, half-Native Canadian background.

Kerouac wished to emphasise the importance and relevance of his French-Canadian background, and his love of America because the country welcomed in his immigrant parents.

"This project will provide fixed radiation detection monitoring equipment at currently unsecured border crossings, in order to mitigate the risk of illicit trafficking of nuclear or radiological materials through the region," a Canadian government background document reads.

"Sometimes we don't go to a studio and hug cushions against a seamless white background," Canadian photographer Justin Van Leeuwen writes on the landing page for his "Extreme Families" Flickr album.

It's set in a remote Canadian settlement against a background of prohibition, land rights and maple sugar.

YESTERDAY afternoon, as planes were taking off again and most people were back to their routine, I found myself recalling a moment with Stevie Ray Fromstein, a young Canadian with an unusual background.