The mercury drops, the wind cuts through Yonge Street and suddenly your living room really becomes the best place to be. Toronto winters have a way of pushing you indoors, where staying warm isn’t just about comfort, it’s about finding new ways to stay entertained while the snow
Terry Watkinson is best known for playing keyboards with Max Webster. He wrote and sang their first hit "Let Go the Line".
Euchre is a trick-taking game where players are dealt cards from a 24-card deck and they take turns to place them, aiming to put down the highest card. It is usually played in teams, making it a competitive but also social game. It first arrived in Canada in the 19th
Sports betting in Canada operates under a provincial system where each region manages its own platforms and regulations. This setup creates both complications and opportunities for bettors who want to place informed wagers. The country's federal tax code treats gambling winnings as a windfall, which means recreational bettors keep their
Neil Sedaka was the singer-songwriter behind timeless classics like “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” and “Love Will Keep Us Together.”
Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day. Feel free to use this space to vent, rant, share a story and/or ask a question of the FOTM hivemind.
In this 1855th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with Linda Kash about her mother Maureen Forrester, joining Second City, her roles in Waiting For Guffman and Best In Show, being on Seinfeld and her many years as the Philadelphia Cream Cheese angel. This episode is exactly 1:23:35.
The Leafs haven't won the Stanley Cup since 1967. That's not a sports fact anymore. It's a personality trait. A whole city has built an identity around waiting, hoping, and finding reasons to believe again in September when training camp opens and everybody conveniently forgets what happened in April. Sound
If you're my age or older, you were inundated with marketing for Roger, Rick and Marilyn on CHUM-FM. That was the brand, and even if you didn't listen, you knew the names and what they looked like. In the 80s, it wasn't often you could visualize local radio hosts. That
I am excited to be performing Toronto Mike's Social Experiment live at the El Mocambo on May 21 at 8pm. Joining me on stage, ready to tickle the keys when I drop the musical cues, is piano prodigy and former member of Spoons and Honeymood Suite Rob Pruess. Honestly, I'd
I've been asked to appear on a round table this evening where we will discuss The Tragically Hip song Fully Completely. It's FOTM JD's Hip podcast and I had no say in what song I'd be discussing. I'm actually a little disappointed. There are dozens of Hip songs I could
In this 1854th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with Liz Worth about her life in music journalism, her definitive book about Torontos' punk scene, poetry, tarot card reading and so much more. This episode is exactly 1:28:54. You can listen to this episode in a variety of
I knew Robert Carradine best as Lewis Skolnick in Revenge of the Nerds but my kids knows him best as Sam McGuire in Lizzie McGuire.
Canada's Brad Jacobs captured his second Olympic men's curling gold medal in 12 years. Jacobs won 2014 gold in Sochi, Russia, while his teammates Marc Kennedy and Ben Hebert were last in an Olympic final in 2010, when they won gold in Vancouver.
Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa matched her 2022 Olympic result in mass start, claiming a silver medal in the women's speed skating event.
Canada's Rachel Homan has the first Olympic medal of her curling career. Her Ottawa-based team of Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes beat American Tabitha Peterson 10-7 on Saturday to win bronze.
Bill Mazeroski was the eight-time Gold Glove Award winner, two-time World Series champion and Hall of Famer who was the only player to hit a walk-off home run in Game 7 of a World Series.
102.1 The Edge on-air personality MK Bowyer is reporting that she's been fired. She had been on the air at CFNY for almost 4 years, coming from CFOX in Vancouver, another Corus-owned radio station. According to MK's LinkedIn page, she wasn't just the midday host, but she was also
Calgary's Brendan Mackay has won bronze with a massive final run in the men's freeski halfpipe.
For years, I felt like I was put on this planet without instructions. Other people seemed like they knew what they were doing and knew something I didn't. I functioned well enough, got to the top of my class, and started a successful career. Yet, I was constantly exhausted. Recently,
Valérie Maltais clocked one minute 54.70 second for bronze in the women's Olympic 1,500-metre final.
In this 1853rd episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with Gordie Johnson from Big Sugar about the band, his gift from Alex Lifeson, the role of Molly Johnson and Dan Gallagher in Big Sugar's origin story, the loss of Garry Lowe, playing Woodstock '99 and so much more. This episode
Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day. Feel free to use this space to vent, rant, share a story and/or ask a question of the FOTM hivemind.
Eric Dane is the actor best known for his portrayal of Dr. Mark Sloan on Grey's Anatomy but I'll remember him best as Cal Jacobs on Euphoria.
