So the annual CBC debate on Canada Reads ended on Thursday, with the winner being The Orenda by Joseph Boyden.

It's not a debate I tend to tune into because, firstly, the books are very CanLit and mostly not to my taste (the only one that appealed this year was Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan), and, secondly, the CR debates I have heard were too ( Read more... )

Until January 27, TV Ontario has a documentary available to view online (it was also broadcast  several times in December) called Unsung: Behind the Glee. It`s about the Show Choir Canada competition, which started in 2011, and the two Toronto high schools who have traded the top spot between each other for the first three years ( Read more... )

Alan Turing (finally) receives a Royal pardon.

Next March 13-29: Much Ado About Feckin' Pirates! at The Gladstone

More info: http://www.thegladstone.ca/pirates.html

Why are there so many ways to say "heavy", but only word that is its antonym: "light"?

The problem being, of course, that "light" has a huge number of other meanings and connotatioons, which make it not exactly the correct word. But the only other way to say this is "not heavy", which isn't correct either.

Hmmph!

So Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's excuse for smoking crack cocaine is that he was drunk at the time?

Just possibly this shows poor judgment? And a poor choice of people to associate with? And not someone who you would trust to run a city?

FYI ( Read more... )

The Spouse had a longing for baked goods this evening, and I remembered I had a yen for coffee cake, which I hadn't made in years.

So down came Food that Really Schmecks from the shelf, and I started the sour cream coffee cake recipe ( Read more... )

I was looking on amazon.ca for this book which squirrel-monkey just announced.

Not there. But I did find

The Mammoth Book of Erotic Romance and Domination

and yes, it is directly related to the success of That Book.

Apparently nine episodes featuring the Second Doctor were found in the storeroom of a television relay station in Nigeria.

(You know, I don't think I could have made that up...)http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/lost-doctor-who-