Archive for January 30th, 2006

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Curious George

When George Stroumboulopoulos began his broadcast of The Hour at CBC I watched with great interest. Finally someone would speak meaningfully to people my age (a few years younger than George) about things that could hold our attention for longer than 5 seconds. At least that’s what I think the CBC was hoping [...]

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Monday, January 30th, 2006

Say Goodbye Canada

Vintage postcard #6 Originally uploaded by jmv.
Got my breaking news from George Stroumboulopoulos’ The Hour tonight about the Fairmont chain of hotels being bought by a Saudi prince and an American developer for $4 billion. So we can say Goodbye to another Canadian icon. [...]

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