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Throwback Thursday – The Hockey Series in the Shadow

March 30, 2017 / Leave a Comment / Celebrities, Personal Life, Throwback Thursday, Travel

All Canadians know about the 1972 Canada-Russia hockey series in which the NHL proved its supremacy via Paul Henderson’s last minute goal. In 1974, the upstart WHA took on the Russians with a different outcome. The World Hockey Association was attempting to prove it was as good as the National Hockey League and better than the Russians. It had some of the great players but it didn’t have the preparation time that the NHL had enjoyed two years earlier. …

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Less (Information) is More

March 28, 2017 / Leave a Comment / Celebrities, General, Personal Life, Social Marketing, Working

My head is full of details about news stories past and present. We all suffer from information overload but I think it’s different when that info is about your passion, say, competitive quilting. When it concerns the heinous and horrible things people do, it’s not as easy to store. …

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Smallwood, Big Dreams

March 27, 2017 / Leave a Comment / Celebrities, Reviews

All Newfoundlanders know the history of Joey Smallwood. He was the politician who brought the country of Newfoundland into confederation in 1949. As the rock’s leader of the Liberal Party, Smallwood became its first Premier and sat virtually unchallenged in that office for more than two decades. …

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The Latest in the Outrage Industry

March 22, 2017 / 1 Comment / Celebrities, General, Working

When did we get so sensitive? Did we lose our collective sense of humour while I was napping? I nap almost every day, so that’s entirely possible. What’s with the popular hobby of being offended and outraged where those things don’t exist? …

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I’m No Lady

March 7, 2017 / 1 Comment / Celebrities, Politics, Social Marketing, Working

On Sunday, I received a forwarded email from the head of a racist/white supremacist political party who shall go unnamed. (I don’t want any link to their name on this site.) The President of this awful group was advising members about how to deal with radio talk show hosts. He basically said that talk show hosts are puppets for corporate masters who want to ruin the white race by promoting race-mixing. It was incredibly insulting to broadcasters. It advised the faithful (racists) to see through us and keep calling, using fake names, to get on the air and spew. …

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Throwback Thursday – Twenty Years of This-Just-In!

March 2, 2017 / 3 Comments / Celebrities, Working

My former work husband, Paul Cook, marks twenty years on the 680 News morning show this week. That’s quite a feat! Some people don’t survive in broadcasting for twenty years, let alone on one of the top-rated morning shows in the country. …

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Criminal Minds

February 28, 2017 / 1 Comment / Celebrities, Reviews

Ken and I discussed a T-shirt last week that was drawing fire as racist. It was a Walking Dead-inspired shirt, that depicted Negan’s wire-wrapped baseball bat named Lucille and the character’s threatening words as he decided who to kill in the season six cliff-hanger: eenie meenie miny moe…. …

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Spam I Am

February 27, 2017 / 1 Comment / Celebrities, Social Marketing, Working

It’s been some time since I last shared some of my favourite spam. Spammers are getting craftier about trying to slip past the gates of my website comments and onto the live pages. They’re easily identified by their names and fake email addresses, terrible grammar and awkward phrasing. But the fake praise they pile in a heap is worth sharing! …

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Wise Girls

February 13, 2017 / 6 Comments / Celebrities, Personal Life

We are binging on all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls. When the four-part series revival came out last year, I was intrigued, mainly because my friend Lianne is such a huge fan of the show. It’s to the point that she couldn’t bring herself to watch Bad Santa because Gilmore Girls star Lauren Graham plays a sexy bartender, nothing like young mom Lorelai Gilmore. …

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Throwback Thursday – The Real Diehl

January 26, 2017 / 2 Comments / Celebrities, Throwback Thursday

Nine years ago, my colleague Betty, her daughter Allison and I spent a fun weekend in New York City. Thanks to our former 680 News coworker, Daniela Bilotta who was working at ABC radio in the Big Apple, we were introduced to legendary ABC News journalist Bill Diehl, who got us back stage to meet David Hyde Pierce after catching his hilarious performance on Broadway in Curtains. …

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Putting the Con in Conway

January 23, 2017 / 1 Comment / Celebrities, Politics

Two words uttered by the Counselor to the President on the weekend scared the heck out of me. “Alternative facts”. That’s what people who deny evolution rely on. The Flat-Earth Society. Those who think the missions to the moon were shot on a soundstage in the Nevada desert. Late Democratic Senator Patrick Moynihan said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” …

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Torn on Trump

January 20, 2017 / 1 Comment / Celebrities, Politics

As the 45th President of the US is sworn in today, the oldest first-timer at that, I’m really split on how to feel about it. Part of me wants to take a wait-and-see attitude. After all, there’s a sentiment that says, the electorate never gets it wrong. …

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Throwback Thursday – The Hockey Series in the Shadow

Smallwood, Big Dreams

The Latest in the Outrage Industry

Throwback Thursday – Twenty Years of This-Just-In!

Criminal Minds

Wise Girls

Throwback Thursday – The Real Diehl

Putting the Con in Conway

Torn on Trump

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