I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about ways to increase the readership of BlogsCanada.ca, and he suggested that I try to include some social news and gossip to spice up the rather dry political and informational news that regularly graces these pages. I wasn’t aware that my choice of stories [...]

The cast and crew of the CBC show Dragons’ Den celebrated the wrap of their latest season at the #Toronto Boston Pizza (BP) located at John and Front Street. The current stars of the Canadian Dragons are Jim Treliving, Kevin O’Leary, Arlene Dickins…

I was sitting here daydreaming when a thought struck me so hard I almost fell off my chair! Not only is life not fair, but fate has a strange sense of humour as well! Like most other men my age I have kicked and clawed my way through various jobs and schemes to make money [...]

Dear Readers: There are times when I have a have a difficult decision to make, when something come along and puts the whole thing back into “Perspective” again. The decision I was wrestling with was the question of whether the far left, or the far right, has the biggest bunch of assholes and idiots on [...]

By Michael J.W. Stickings Via twitter: Breaking: Mitt Romney announces he has never massaged John Travolta, contrary to his NYT piece “I Massaged the Hell Out of John Travolta” – William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum)My favorite tweet of the day…

Black is back ………, and it’s about time! Look folks, in spite of what you think about Conrad Black, the only reason he is not a Canadian right now is because Jean Chretien wanted to play ‘my dick is bigger than yours”‘ and was an actual prick about it! (Which only goes to prove that [...]

Galen Weston, pictured above, was filming the next President’s Choice commercial in the historic #Toronto Distillery District on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Summer was served with a free barbeque lunch on Trinity Lane as Galen and his film crew mingl…

Surfing through the net this afternoon I ran across an article with BIG headlines, telling me how Mel Gibson went on another anti-Jewish rant somewhere or other. At least I think it was an anti-Semitic tirade because I didn’t even bother to read it! Rather than go into a long boring explanation about this whole [...]

By Victoria Ahearn, The Canadian Press TORONTO – Kelly Ripa says Canadian fans of her morning talk show are “the most vocal” and full of team spirit, and she and executive producer Michael Gelman “worship them for it.” She’s hoping their American viewers will pick up on that vibe and consider travelling north when “Live! [...]

Filming is currently underway in #Toronto for the second season of the television series Nikita starring Maggie Q as Nikita and Shane West as Michael. The cameras and lights were being setup at the old Toronto and Commerce bank buildings across from th…

Dear Readers; When I read;  ” Jan Arden kicked off train,” I was expecting to read about her being drunk and rowdy, or screwing in the washroom, or something like that, because of all the sensationalist stuff we read about in the U. S. rags. Imagine my surprise when I found out it was for [...]

Olympic boxer Mary Spencer hopes her CoverGirl endorsement will help break stereotypes as women’s boxing debuts at the London Games.
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#Toronto ComiCON and the AnimeCON shows, presented by FanExpo, fill the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Saturday from 11-6 and Sunday from 11-5. I always look forward to the hundreds of cosplay outfits that people wear and enjoy showing off – up top…

I feel the need for speed – Megaspeed! #Toronto gets tuned up and hopefully you will get a chance to meet Henry Winkler who played the Fonz in Happy Days and Candy Clark from American Graffiti. There were plenty of car models at the show including the …

Dear Readers; Justin Beiber is just a kid from up the road in Stratford, but he got lucky in the last few years and I couldn’t be happier for him! (I’m also nuts about his girlfriend!) <– Let’s face it folks, this could be his high school prom dance picture, except he doesn’t look old [...]

Host Colin Mochrie and singer Jully Black brought the curtain down on the giant Oreo Cookie in the #Toronto Eaton Centre as hundreds gathered around the stage for the 100th birthday celebration of the cookie. The lunch hour crowds lined up in the centr…

Hedley (@Hedleyonline) will hit #Toronto on March 13, 2012 at the Air Canada Centre. The Canadian rock group Hedley breaks out of British Columbia for their 2012 Shipwrecked Tour on the heels of their November ’11 release of the Hedley Storms album (…

#Toronto Fashion Cares returns with a bang as Elton John will headline the Sunday, September 9, 2012 show at the Sony Centre. Missing since the 2008 extravaganza edition titled Fashion sCares the gala will raise funds in support of the fight against HI…

Nothing seems more of a waste of time and money than the Oscars. Last night for over three hours millions of people, statistics of which show 7-9% of them unemployed and most of the others barely scraping by in menial labour, watched wealthy celebritie…

Sure, we watched the Oscar’s last night, along with about a billion other people. That’s why I can’t understand why the following is becoming an issue this morning after. Ever since Janet Jackson titillated us during the Superbowl a while back the great unwashed masses in the United States seem to have a nipple fetish [...]