London is a vibrant and beautiful city. It has some of the country’s best higher-learning institutions, loads of greenery and lush parks and it’s well known as a test market for new products and new ideas. If you can make it work in London, it will work everywhere else. …
Last night the pat-ourselves-on-the-back season of award giving continued with the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills. …
A Woman with Class Read More »
Back when I worked at 680 News I was adamantly against playing 911 tapes of distress calls on the air. The only exceptions were those calls from September 11th, released long after the fact, when describing the scenes as they unfolded, first hand, seemed newsworthy. But I thought a call from a frantic person describing the death of a loved one was exploitive and disgusting, and I still think that way. …
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I’ll be spending a lot of my weekend at the CPT Racing Experience at the Western Fair Agriplex. …
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Maybe you heard the story a couple of weekends ago and maybe you didn’t.  It happened outside a home in BC’s Fraser Valley. …
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A neurologist in this city has been given a reprimand and fined $7,300. for hugging a patient. This punishment comes from the doctors’ governing body. …
Have you been following the failed experiment of The Jay Leno Show at 10 pm on NBC? The program has performed so poorly that network affiliates have demanded it be taken out of prime time. It was named the Worst Show of the Year by several prominent entertainment writers and it really is a suckfest. But the network is now planning to punish its late-night hosts to appease Jay. …
Clothing manufacturers aren’t getting it. Shopping for clothes is so frustrating I wish the people who determine the sizes would die like guinea pigs in Ecuador! …
As you may know, my brother, my only sibling,  is on a solo motorcycle trip to South America. He has had some pretty amazing adventures through incredible scenery like active volcanos and skinny, winding roads alongside huge cliffs. He’s not the kind of guy who stays at the Ritz and closes himself off from life. His goal is to experience as much local colour as possible and that includes taking some gastronomical gallops through territory so far uncharted by most North American tummies. …
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So I get to work today and find out that I’m wearing exactly the same outfit that Lady Gaga wore to the People’s Choice Awards last night. I didn’t watch so how could I have known? …
I know Christmas is over and I said the trip to Vegas was fine for my gift but then my pal Betty sent me this video and I decided that if this roll-up laptop really is available, I want it. And I want it soon, big guy! Thank you!Â
Ottawa has purchased dozens of body scanners at a quarter million a pop to install in the country’s airports. And I say, hurray! …
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Consumer Reports Magazine has conducted tests on those infomercial products that launch crazes, parodies and pop culture mockery.  And while it might not come as a surprise that a Snuggie, a Slap-Chop or a Sham-Wow doesn’t live up to the late-night hype, it’s fascinating reading about the tests they were put through.  …
This is one of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen. And I can’t help but wonder how much of history gets screwed up as time goes by! Enjoy!
Looking Back, Way Back on Beatlemania Read More »
I never aim to offend but sometimes I do anyway.   If someone is personally affronted by my telling of my own truth, well, it’s not really my business,is it? And that philosophy works in both directions. …
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Being away on a vacation is an exquisite luxury, I think. And to lose track of which day it is? Well, that’s a rare delight, indeed. …