The Walking Dead of the Franklin Expedition

Remote Inuit people encountered the remnants of the doomed Franklin Expedition. They thought they had been invaded by demons. Finally, as the footsteps stopped just outside the igloo, it was the old man who went out to investigate. He emerged to see a disoriented figure seemingly unaware of his presence. The being was touching the […]

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Michael Walchuk: The Second Chance Kid

It’s not often you see two guys you know on the front page of the newspaper. Apparently, Michael Walchuk is fighting tomorrow, and he’s got a shot at becoming Waterloo Region’s first Canadian pro boxing title holder since Fitz Vanderpool in 1996. After a fling with pro fighting, a discouraged Walchuk walked away from the […]

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Canadian Actor Corey Haim Dies

RIP Corey. Died from an apparent drug overdose. Wait, did I get that right? There. Much better. Ah, I kid. Comedy: it’s tragedy plus time. It sounds like he was having a tough time with drugs for a while now. A quote from Haim in his Wikipedia article: “I started on the downers which were […]

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Reel Toronto

A cool list of films that were filmed in Toronto (though taking place in many different cities, from San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago, to Los Angeles and New York). Included is one of my favourite holiday movies, A Christmas Story: When all goes wrong, the family does a Christmas dinner at the local Chinese restaurant. In […]

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Best Countries to Live In

Woooo Canada. Take that, Ireland! The top ten countries listed on the index are: Norway, Australia, Iceland, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, Switzerland and Japan. The United States ranks 13th, down one spot from last year. Norway is best place to live, China moves up: UN – Yahoo! News

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