Readers of this blog know that I am a big sports fan. As a sports fan I know how hard we can be to shop for and along that line I have some suggestions on what to get for your favorite sports fan. Just a tip. If you don’t know what his or her favorite [...]
Posts Tagged ‘CBC’
The Regina Dome
CBC is quoting the NDP in saying that a new domed stadium would cost $600 million and I can’t see it as Ford Field only cost $430 million and is twice the projected size but whether or not they are right or wrong, I am not sure a dome stadium is a good idea [...]
Mark: Media Critic
With Oliver having his seizures, Wendy and I decided to cancel our anniversary plans and go out for lunch instead. It didn’t seem fair to make sitter deal with Oliver if he had a seizure. Now Mark had chewed on his Nintendo DS stylus and while he didn’t tell me about it, I did notice [...]
Where have I seen this photo before the Toronto Star used it tonight?
I was on David Olive’s excellent blog tonight, the Great Recession and I was reading that Saskatchewan was celebrating our entry into Confederation today. We joined it back in 1905 and have won three Grey Cups in our time as a province.
I was noticing the great looking photo of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building. You can [...]
Now on Twitter
The last couple of days I have been having a running discussion with Karen over at The Hedge Society on Twitter about why Apartment Therapy doesn’t use Twitter. Several of my favorite design sites all use Twitter and I follow many of them over at The Cooper Cabin. During our discussion made me realize that [...]
Public Broadcaster = Public Parking
Inside the CBC has a wonderful post showing a CBC van parked illegally in a fire lane. While the photos are kind of funny, it’s the sense of entitlement in the comments that are worth reading. It also reveals that our tax dollars get spent on paying CBC staff parking tickets. I don’t know about [...]
Live coverage from your living room
CBC’s live coverage and play by play of the Olympics will be done from Toronto.
It’s this: A good number of the on-air people covering the Games for the CBC, TSN, NBC, BBC and other international broadcasters will not be in Beijing or anywhere near the Olympic city. They will call events off a monitor [...]
