Roger Abbott was 64. He was one of the driving forces behind CBC’s Royal Canadian Air Farce on both TV and radio.
April 07, 2026
The JUNO Awards are tonight. The JUNOs always make me think about the U-Knows, CFNY's music awards for Canadian independent and alternative acts. The U-Knows have been called the CASBYs since 1986. Check out this clip of CFNY's Nick Charles celebrating Chalk Circle's 1986 CASBY win. Mondoville is sharing highlights
That was far more fun than I thought it would be. We limped into the all-star break, with little hope and almost no reason to care, and have gone 15-7-5 since. I don't know about you, but I sure started to care again. Leafs games became must-see-tv, scoreboard watching became
Global News Toronto reporter Mark McAllister suffered what's being described as a "minor medical issue" while live on the air Monday night. Here he is, struggling to speak about defence minister Peter MacKay. He's been back on the air since and claims to be feeling fine. Here's hoping that moment
I just learnt something new. In America, these are Smarties: Those, of course, are called Rockets here in Canada. These are what we call Smarties: I had no idea...
Terje Sorgjerd spent a week capturing one of the biggest aurora borealis shows in recent years. This was shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, at 70 degree north and 30 degrees east.
Elizabeth Taylor was 79. She was one of the 20th Century's biggest movie stars, winning winning a best actress Oscar in 1960 for "Butterfield 8" and then again in 1966 for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Here she is on What's My Line?
Let's call a spade a spade. I'm a pretty influential person. I'm the Oprah of the Toronto blogosphere, nobody said to nobody. Why do you think I won a Gemini? A little over a year ago, Dove Men+Care sent me some nice smelling stuff. Well... they're at it again.
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. At some point, my kids switched from Treehouse TV to Family Channel. It literally happened over night. Bob the Builder was
I love the character of George Costanza. I recently listed him as one of my favourite television characters of all-time. It's hard to believe that David Letterman's sidekick and fellow Canadian Paul Shaffer was considered for the role. I'm glad Paul never became George.
When it comes to television, what's the most sensible option in Toronto? Bell and Rogers seem to offer an assortment of digital TV programming packages, with or without a PVR. But it can start to cost you an arm and a leg. I have a very important question for you
It's not the 4 points we're behind Buffalo that'll kill us, it's those 2 games the Sabres have in hand. That combination means this realist isn't getting his hopes up. But that's okay. As commenter Ryan G. pointed out, we've been playing playoff hockey for the past few weeks. that
A big glove tap to Mondoville for reminding me where I'd seen it all before... Boom 97.3's new spring ad campaign is called Cover Up and you'll see the ads plastered all over Astral-owned ad space in this city. It's people holding vinyl record sleeves and covers in front
My daughter has a boom box she plays her music on. It's got radio and a CD player, that's it. When she wants certain tunes, I kick it old school. That means I make an audio CD from MP3s and she plays that disc. I'm actually glad I finally have
In this short documentary about The Tragically Hip, director David Battistella uses a split-screen and acid-etched colours to distil the iconic Canadian band’s essence. After decades together, through hotels, highways, gigs and recording sessions, The Hip’s members have forged a powerful brotherhood. "These guys are my life partners,
Here are some great fake Irish blessings. [via Incidental Comics]
This is The Pogues with The Dubliners performing "Irish Rover". Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Nathaniel D. Hale a.k.a. Nate Dogg was 41. He was part of an extended family of rappers known as the Dogg Pound Gangsta Crips (DPGC). You likely know him best from Regulate with Warren G.
I first wrote about ESPN's 30 For 30 series back in July. I had just watched Barry Levinson's The Band That Wouldn't Die and loved it. I'm happy to report it only got better from there. As I type, I've seen 28 of the 30 sports docs in the series.
According to a Sysomos survey, Twitter users only send 58% of their overall Tweets using the company’s own proprietary Twitter applications and website. If my math is right, that means 42% of us use non-official Twitter apps. I'm in that 42%. I happily use Seesmic. I have one simple
We're all familiar with the story of Julius Caesar's death. On this date in 44 B.C., he was stabbed to death in the senate house. A soothsayer had warned Caesar to "Beware the Ides of March". Today is the Ides of March, but what the heck does the Ides
The Fab Five was my adopted NCAA basketball team. Ask my brothers. I lived and died by that team in the early 90s. Here's something I wrote about The Fab Five 8 years ago. I just filled in my March Madness bracket for an office pool, and I still find
Rick Martin was 59. He was the first ever 50 goal scorer for the Buffalo Sabres and a member of their famed “French Connection” line.
The Leafs beat the Sabres last night in a very intense game that felt awfully playoffy, but I'm not going to write a word about it. There will be no reference to the fact we're only four points back of 8th. I'm not even going to mention the fact we're
A magnitude 8.9 earthquake hit Japan today, unleashing a tsunami that swept debris miles inland. Dozens of nations are under a tsunami warning. Use the comments of this entry to discuss this massive quake, or anything you want. This is your space.
