I just read that Sun News is now one years old. When it arrived on the scene, I remember it being called "Fox News North", but I haven't heard much about it since. I certainly haven't tuned in. So who's watching Sun News? Hardly anybody, it seems. Data obtained by
To celebrate 4/20, Humble and Fred are flirting with the idea of smoking a bowl of hash while they record their podcast on April 20. Although I strongly believe it should be decriminalized, it's still illegal, and I worry about the guys promoting such blatant defiance of our silly
I always naturally gravitate away from Microsoft applications. I'm writing this entry on a desktop running Ubuntu, I edit .docx files in LibreOffice and I haven't used IE in about a decade. But there is one Microsoft software application I do use daily, and I think it's great. Admittedly, I
Randy Starkman was 51. He covered premier amateur athletics for the Toronto Star, exposing sprinter Ben Johnson’s second positive steroid test in 1993, and covering 12 Olympic Games.
Snoop Dogg collaborated with an old friend at Coachella. That old friend also happens to be long dead. It's Tupac Shakur. Initially, I thought it was pretty cool. It almost gave me chills. It's Tupac, although prolific, dead since '96. How many kids at Coachella were even going to concerts
It's April, the NHL playoffs are underway, the cherry blossoms in High Park are blooming and North Korea is trying to launch a long-range missile. What's on your mind?
This is what it looked like behind City Hall yesterday. Guillermo del Toro is filming his big budget film Pacific Rim here, and I thought this photo was pretty cool. Fellow Wire fans will enjoying hearing that Pacific Rim stars Stringer Bell. That's good. That's like a 40-degree day. Ain't
On weekends, flipping stations as a kid, I'd hear Animotion's Obsession on CityTV. Here's the tune, in case you've forgotten the 1984 / 1985 hit. The opening of that song meant one thing and one thing only. Jeanne Beker's Fashion Television was on the air. Now, I'm not going to lie.
When Steven D'Souza and Nisha Patel got married, their CBC colleagues put together a special newscast to commemorate the event. [via MetaFilter]
A streaker ran on the Ballpark-Formerly-Known-As-SkyDome field during yesterday's game. Here's a pic: In my day, streakers stripped bare before running on the field. Just saying...
When I was young, everyone told me you had to go to university or you'd end up making minimum wage in a dead-end job. This mantra was repeated over and over again, by teachers and the like. I believed it to be true. After high school, I did what I
We drafted our players last night in the greatest playoff hockey pool ever. Kic chose the Jays home opener, and Elvis was imprisoned by fatherhood, but 14 strong showed up to enjoy Palma Pasta and chase the $280 pot. Here are my picks. M. Gaborik - NYRP. Elias - NJZ.
A couple of years ago, Dove MEN+CARE decided to remove my excuse for stinking like a man. I used that shampoo and soap, but Dove must have sensed a disturbance in the force when it ran out. This arrived at my door the other day: Before you judge, it
As a kid, the Dukes of Hazzard was my favourite. Was it the great writing that captured my attention? Was it the superb acting? Nah... it was the General Lee jumps! Oh... and Daisy Duke, my first crush.
I recently finished watching The Wire for a second time. I thought I'd throw down some final thoughts while it's all still fresh. First and foremost, I was as riveted the second time as I was the first time, and the first time I thought it was the greatest television
Mike Wallace was 93. He was the grand inquisitor of CBS’s 60 Minutes who once declared there was “no such thing as an indiscreet question.”
As a young Blue Jays fan, I remember BJ Birdy entertaining the crowd at Exhibition Stadium. He was the official Blue Jays mascot until getting the boot after the 1999 season. How much did I enjoy BJ Birdy's antics? They used to publish a BJ Birdy cartoon in the Toronto
I love long weekends. This seemed like a good long weekend to write about Pascal's Wager. Blaise Pascal was a seventeenth century mathematician who came up with an argument for why one should live as if God exists, even though this cannot be proved or disproved through reason. You'll find
We're minutes away from first pitch and another Blue Jays season. I've loved this team for as long as I can remember, and we Jays fans were spoiled for a solid decade from 1983-1993. Who's your favourite Blue Jay player of all time? We've had some good ones, from Dave
Jim Marshall was 88. He was dubbed "the Father of Loud" for creating kit used by some of the biggest names in rock.
I'm going to steal a topic I heard on Mike Stafford's show yesterday. I accidentally tuned in to a repeat of his show in my car last night and they were discussing the influx of possums in Toronto recently. I saw my first possum about five years ago, but haven't
Last May I was literally yelling at the High Park cherry blossoms for being late. This year, it seems they're way ahead of schedule. The two weeks of summer we enjoyed in March really sped things along, and now the High Park Nature Centre is reporting we're only 4-6 warm
Exactly 8 years ago today, I wrote about the 11 greatest grunge albums. That entry received zero comments. I'm hoping we can beat that record today. Here's the list from 8 years ago: Nevermind - NirvanaIn Utero - NirvanaTen - Pearl JamDirt - Alice in ChainsVs. - Pearl JamTemple of
I just saw a tweet about someone considering getting a season's pass for Canada's Wonderland. I haven't been to Canada's Wonderland since the mid-80s. My kids have gone, but not with me. I hear it's changed a little. This is the Canada's Wonderland I remember (click to embiggen): Smurf Forest,
