OK so this is a kind of narrowly-focused issue that grabbed my attention. Actor Randy Quaid and his wife want to stay in Canada but Canada has decided they can’t. …
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On our Big Show Big Tour this week, while we were being chauffeured from business to business to hand out freebies and shake hands, co-host Blair and I got into an amazingly effortless and deep discussion about apples and apple varieties. Â …
I can’t stand Groundhog Day.  There! I’ve said it!  And I don’t mean the movie, I mean the ritual of watching a flea-bitten varmint crawl out of a hole every February 2nd. …
On Friday The Big Show was invited to speak to a group of radio and broadcast journalism students at Fanshawe College.  Derek “Rock” Botten, Blair and I offered our takes on the business of broadcasting and hoped to impart a bit of our best advice  to them. …
I used to be able to take-it-or-leave-it when it came to games on my iPhone but now one has a hold on me.  And this monkey on my back is the subject of this week’s Brandt’s Randt. …
The US Defence Department is finally allowing women to serve in combat roles. Â …
I am a good Canadian but I still reserve the right to bitch about the cold! Â …
We are quick to criticize politicians when things aren’t going well. Â Today I want to commend one for doing something right. Â …
One of the best mainstream TV shows in recent memory signed off for good on Friday night. Â And unlike so many shows before it, its finale tied things up intelligently and appropriately, leaving fans with a chuckle and a tear. Â …
So Quebec politicians have debated the concept of assisted suicide and consulted lawyers familiar with the constitution and they say they can enact a provincial law. …
Everybody loves Betty White. But I’ve loved Betty White a long time and her work philosophy of “you can’t hit a moving target” has been my personal motto for decades.
…The tug-of-war over the Ikea monkey is so cut and dried to me that I can’t believe court time is being wasted on it.  And it’s the subject of this week’s Brandt’s Randt. …
This happens far too often.  Journalists make assumptions and they ought not do it. …
Hubby loves spiral ham. Â He has wanted me to pick one up for a while now but I’ve been holding out because they’re so huge and there are only two of us. Plus, they’re twenty bucks and up and you’re paying for a bone! Â …
A Comox, BC rock-radio host was fired last week in what appears to me to be a complete over-reaction to something he did on the air. Â …
This week we talked on air about things that bug us when we share a bathroom with our significant other. Â …
As a student of stand-up comedy I love to know little tidbits about the comics I enjoy. But imagine my surprise when I discovered a comic I’ve enjoyed for years is very likely a routine thief. Â …
This was my on-air take on the whole Canada’s London campaign after a city committee approved the rebranding campaign. It still needs full council approval but Canada’s London is likely going to be spread all over the city. Ugh. Â Â …