Toronto Mike

Who Wants To Date Bev?

Meet Bev.  She's single, and looking for Mr. Right, but having a little trouble finding him.  She's come to me for help after striking out with a local speed dating service. If you're a single guy, over the age of 30,  live in the GTA and not a psychopath, keep
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RapidFAX on Much Music

YouTube user Retrontario frequently uploads fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems.  These clips never fail to bring back a ton of memories for me, so I feature them from time to time. As Retrontario points out, Fax used to mean "breaking news".  This was 1993. I wonder what became of Monika Deol?  I
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What's Good? What Sucks?

There's a lot going on.  I haven't had time to cover it all, so I need you to do that for me. Use the comments of this entry to go crazy.  The Mavs lead the Heat 3-2, that's good.  The Stanley Cup final is now a best-of-three, that's good.  Warm
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Zach Galifianakis' Awesome Quotes

Zach Galifianakis recently did an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.  These quotes are just awesome. His longest job was on a Fox drama called Tru Calling, about a mortuary attendant played by Eliza Dushku who could commune with the dead. He tried his hardest to get fired. He’d tell
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That Men Behaving Badly Look

The New York Times put together this collage of Representative Anthony Weiner of New York, former Gov. James McGreevey of New Jersey, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York, former Representative Eric J. Massa of New York, President Bill Clinton and former Senator John Ensign of Nevada. They all have
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reddit Addicts

Toronto has plenty of reddit addicts. Here are the most active cities by total pageviews (reddit's Google Analytics, Jan-May 2011: New York: 9.5MToronto: 5.4MLos Angeles: 5.3MChicago: 4.7MSan Francisco: 4.5MSeattle: 4.3MLondon: 4.1MAustin: 3.7MVancouver: 2.7MHouston: 2.6MA strong second place for this city.
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Canada Is A Very Happy Place

24/7 Wall St. has named "The Happiest Countries in the World".  Canada finished in second place. Canada scores extremely well in the majority of metrics used to calculate “well-being.” The country has the tenth greatest life expectancy of all OECD countries. Furthermore, 88% of people in Canada report being
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Born in Edmonton

Edmonton is the northernmost North American city with a metropolitan population over one million. I'll bet you didn't know all of these fine folks were born in Edmonton. Michael J. FoxW. P. Kinsellak.d. langMark MessierRobert GouletMarshall McLuhanScott NiedermayerNellie McClungMoe BergJill HennessyTommy ChongDion PhaneufBruce McCullochJarome IginlaThere are others.  Who's your
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