The Winter Olympic Closing Ceremonies were such an example of new “I believe” bravado rippling across the Canadian landscape and yet a wonderful opportunity missed. Sorry, USA and the rest of the World – humble, self-effacing, meek and reliable Canadians will for the time being become more like uhhh … ugly Wall Street Banksters. Sure …
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The Vancouver Winter Olympic Games have been a delight despite the weather. And if you think Vancouver was warm at 10C on the last days of the Games, the next venue, Sochi Russia, is currently 13-15C with heavy rains forecast for 2 of the next 3 days. But one thing that has been constant has …
The Vancouver Winter Olympics organizers have done something clever with the development of their website. They have added a some nifty tie-ins with Facebook.com, one of the most popular friends and social media sites on the Web. Other sites are using Twitter and other social media but not quite so cleverly.Lets look at each one …
Watching the Olympics, and they are very exciting easily putting Political Soap and Fako Reality TV deservedly on the backburner, is getting to be addictive and a chore. Some of the best skiing and sledding events are on in the early afternoon while the evenings push watchers in Eastern North America into the midnight hour. …
Now that Canada has gotten the Golden Olympic Monkey off its back with Alexandre Bilodeau’s Alexandre Bilodeau spectacular victory in moguls skiing – let us also hear 4 great big cheers for Le Quebec Air Force – Alexandre Bilodeau 1st, Vincent Marquis 4th, Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau 5th, and Maxime Gingras 11th – what a show they …
The Vancouver Winter Olympics got off to a great start with a stunning Opening Ceremonies: Now in contrast, the Toronto Star characterized the show as “an unimaginatively conceived and loosely executed spectacle that promised much and delivered little.” Instead of this dim view I would take the NYTimes “A Tasteful Way to Start the Olympics” …
Cobourg is the former capital of Ontario and is a city of about 30,000 if you add the surrounding area into the numbers. So by that count Cobourg’s population is about 1/100ths that of Toronto … so I was not expecting the 8 bands, 20 floats and impressive size of Cobourg’S Parade – almost as …
The Toronto Santa Claus parade is over 100 years old and a good part of the appeal of the parade is that people have fun every mid-November Santa weekend. And the fun is not just for the kids and viewers – the parade participants have a lot of fun too as these picture attest to. …
Well THE Santa parade was on despite the overcast day – and the place to be once again was at Christie Pits where the parade gets organized and started. There is a fun, carnival like atmosphere as the bands toot and warm up, the floats are readied, and the clowns and marchers make last minute …
Late Fall every year, a friend and I carve a little time out for the Warkworth Perfect Pie Competition. Our common denominator is a sweet tooth for pies; and particularly soft, crumbly encrusted fruit pies. Cherry for me, Maple Pecan for She [I keep asking where is the fruit in Maple Pecan – and she …
This beach umbrella marks much of the summer this year, except for BC – a lone forlorn Day at the Beach and then rain, storms, rain, cool winds, rain, and more …. cool rain. One would think the North American Tectonic Plate had transmogrified itself back to its ancestral home – England. Now to be …
Normally I stay away from touting TV shows. And Lord knows CTV is doing everything heavy handed it can with its promotions and website coverage of So You Think You Can Dance Canada [hint you don’t have to cave to your sponsors every whim]. And the Lord and everybody else knows the judges on the …
