Canada has earned its fourth medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. Mike Robertson won silver in the men's snowboard cross final.
April 10, 2026
Glove tap to Down Goes Brown and Bloge Salming for this chunk of solid gold. Mike Babcock and Steve Yzerman decided that as host nation, it would be fun to have the team record a friendly welcome message to the other teams. This is the stellar resulting video. Yes, I
This one is a few days old now, but it's worth an entry. Meredith Vieira, who was on NBC talking about Betty Fox, speculated that as mother of "Michael Fox…who suffered from cancer, he started that marathon of hope" she might actually be the person who would light the
Canada has earned its third medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. Alexandre Bilodeau won gold in the men's moguls event. And we never have to hear another word about being the only country to host an Olympics and not win gold. Thank you, Alexandre, on behalf of all Canadians!
Canada has earned its second medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. Speedskater Kristina Groves won bronze in the 3,000m speedskating event.
Doug Fieger was 57. He was the lead singer of the rock band The Knack who had a hit in 1979 with "My Sharona".
From my hugely unsuccessful Toronto-Centric Valentine's Day Cards collection, here's Maestro Fresh-Wes's message of love to y'all.
My youngest child just got her first email account. She now knows how to login to her Gmail account and send emails and gchats to her parents, brother, grandmother and uncles. My oldest child got his first account when he was five, and it really helped him learn to type,
Happy Valentine's Day. I choo-choo-choose you.
Canada has earned its first medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. Jennifer Heil won silver in women's moguls.
Here are a few stunning images from last night's opening ceremonies for Vancouver 2010. We've been discussing the ceremonies over here. [via The Big Picture]
Sloan just quietly released a collection of b-sides and rarities they're selling at http://www.sloanmusic.com/ for $9.99. It's 26 tunes, and the first is the original version of Underwhelmed. If Sloan's embeddable player worked, you can hear this version of Underwhelmed above. I've never heard it before,
I thought I'd miss the cauldron lighting as they opened the 2010 Vancouver Olympics because I was playing hockey. It turns out I got home just in time to see k.d. lang sing one of my all-time favourite songs. The final torchbearers were hockey great Wayne Gretzky, wheelchair athlete
Here are some good sites for following these XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. On the WebCBC's Vancouver Now - historically, I've always preferred CBC's online coverage of the games. I've even installed the CBC News extension for Google Chrome. CTV Olympics - If you haven't heard,
Warning: This is not for the faint of heart. Please do not watch this if you're at all squeamish. Our Toronto Raptors mascot was caught on camera devouring a cheerleader whole. Unbelievable. [via b3ta]
Just yesterday we were discussing who will be the final torchbearer tonight as the Olympics kick off in Vancouver. Since I wrote that entry, we've been told it won't be Wayne Gretzky. I'm sure we'll see Wayne tonight, but he won't be the person lighting the Olympic cauldron inside BC
I enjoyed this. It's a brief history of pretty much everything.
Have you heard we're hosting the winter Olympics this month? It's true, Vancouver narrowly beat out PyeongChang to win the IOC vote almost 7 years ago. I'll miss most of the opening ceremony due to hockey commitments, but I am naturally curious as to who will be our final torchbearer.
Google has announced they're going to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan
David Braley has been announced as the new owner of the Toronto Argonauts. David Braley already owns a CFL team, the British Columbia Lions. David Braley gets to keep both the Lions and the Argos. In an eight team league, one man owns 25% of the teams. The fact that
Dove thinks I stink. At least I assume so, because they just sent me a whole bunch of their new Dove Men+Care products. Here's what came with the nice smelling beauty products. Dove MEN+CARE is a campaign about the lives of real men. Research commissioned by Dove MEN+
I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing. Cinderella - Bad Seamstress Blues (Fallin' Apart At The
I'll admit it, I was digging the hair bands in the late 80s. One band I enjoyed in 1989 was Skid Row, fronted by Torontonian Sebastian Bach. Skid Row's self titled debut spawned a trifecta of mega hits that received a wealth of radio play in this city. It was
Metric is more than a band. It's a whole system. Canada converted to the metric system in 1970 and today only a few countries haven't adopted this system. Here's a map showing countries using the metric system and those not. Makes you wonder what the hold up is with our
Adam Giambrone, member of Toronto City Council and chair of the TTC, wants to be mayor of Toronto. Now that his affair with 19-year old university student Kristen Lucas has been revealed, he's got some heat to deal with first. With a name like Giambrone, the fist natural reaction is
