Memorial service and reception.    No link for the live stream so far but anyone with a FB account can check her public page:

Very sad news.    I feel like I've known Bruce for a long time just from our social media interactions.  I got a chuckle out of some of his contributions on Twitter, Facebook and here over the years and I recently started following him on the Twitter alternative Bluesky.   I was last in contact with Bruce to tell him about Mike Cleaver's passing because he wasn't on the Yellow Board.    My heartfelt condolences to his close family and friends.    RIP.

RadioActive wrote:

From bigger screens and colour to the remote control, advances in modern TVs were once considered the latest and the greatest. Wait until you see how much these innovations back then would cost you in today's dollars. (To make matters worse, all amounts are in U.S. funds!)  

Remember these breakthroughs in TV technology? This is how much they'd cost you today

That was great info.  Thanks for sharing.  I sometimes browse online copies of The Star and Globe from the library and even the cost of electronics in the mid 80s early 90s is an expensive eyeopener when adjusted for inflation in today's $.    I remember paying $600 for a Toshiba 27" color (CRT) TV using my employee discount in 1996 and today that price is $1100.  Granted it lasted almost 20 years while a LED is good for maybe 10.    It's always neat to have the Bank of Canada's inflation calculator handy when looking up old ads.

RadioActive wrote:

Maybe this will bring you back...

(Love the name The Marsden-ettes. Any relation to David?) 

It's a little blurry, but at the bottom it says Broderick Crawford appears courtesy of Jim Beam Distillery Ltd.    This album must be really weird.    I did a search and nothing relevant shows up.

Sad to see some of his memorabilia up for auction before the proposed Orillia Lightfoot Museum is started but it's interesting to see what they have to offer.    According to the auctioneer he visited Lightfoots Bridle Path mansion and instead of Gordon's stuff being packed away in boxes like most are, they were neatly displayed and well taken care of.     Gordon Lightfoot Auction link

67GreenRambler wrote:

In 2014 Canada had the richest Middle Class in the world. Then we got boy wonder. Today Ontario has the same per cap GDP as Alabama and the eastern Provinces are at the level of the State of Mississippi, which is the very bottom of America productivity. (You can thank Alberta for fiscally floating Canada) All this is easy to verify.
The word 'disinformation' is a controlling term employed to maintain power over a narrative. If you disagree with the National Post written account then present a coherent rebuttal.

Interesting information.   Where's your source?   You ask for coherent rebuttal but fail to cite where your claims come from.   
You may as well be another blowhard without them so post some links so we can vet your source, because this is the first time I've heard that claim and since Alberta's GDP is less than 1/2 of Ontario's and only 16% of Canada's, one of your points doesn't add up right from the start.  Canada GDP and per capita GDP

RadioActive wrote:

This won't be music to your ears if you're a Spotify subscriber.

Spotify Increases Prices in Canada by Up to 24% 

And nothing to do with Bill C-11, Minimum wage, bike lanes or any other political axes to grind.   They're simply following the lead of their US parent.

Straight from the article: "Spotify has increased its prices in Canada across the board, following a similar move made in the U.S. this past June."

The new individual price is about $2 higher than a similar one I recently encountered with Amazon Music so wait and see for that one to change.


 

Chrisphen wrote:

So why did CTV have to do an on-air apology?

Apparently CTV spliced a PP interview, producing a misrepresentation of what he really said.     Their noses are understandably out of joint.  'The Conservatives are slamming CTV News for splicing a clip of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.According to Sebastian Skamski – Poilievre’s Director of Media Relations – CTV ‘cut and ordered’ a clip of Poilievre “in such a way as to imply to viewers that the basis of our opposition day motion and confidence vote is to defeat the Liberals’ dental care program.”'
 

RadioActive wrote:

On that Toronto concert film, I'm not sure if it's in the movie, but there's a radio connection.

The story goes that the desperate promoter tried to convince CHUM-FM that John Lennon was on his way from the U.K. to perform at Varsity Stadium. But at first, the station didn't believe him and refused to mention anything on air. 

Only after it was confirmed did the prog rock FM decide to tell everyone. And that's when it exploded. 
 
I hope that aspect of the story is told because it became a big part of the legendary success of the show. 

Brower talks about it in depth, including why he refused to get 'radio people' to MC the concert and hired Kim Fowley and Rodney Bingenheimer, who'd been flown in from Los Angeles.   His reasons are solid too.   Fowley had the idea to get John Lennon as well, so without him the show would have crashed and burned.    CHUM wasn't cooperating until Lennon had an impromptu press conference at Heathrow airport announcing his imminent trip to Toronto so they finally believed Brower's story.   Too bad it was too late to be involved  except to spread the word on the air claiming it to be a 'CHUM exclusive', which is wasn't.  They found out by reading their news teletype like everybody else.



 

newsguy1 wrote:

I do not have any inside information on how Adler got this appointment, or how he also got a Queen's jubilee medal.
I suppose because he is a rampant right-winger he won favour among the monarchists who have some power.
But just don't get it.
He has no expertise in anything, no record of public service, and nothing but being a rather two-bit right wing ideologue who had parents who fled Hungary to escape the Soviets.
He isn't even a journalist. He's just a guy who gabbed on radio and a bit of TV.
Even Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin had some actual real professional qualifications -- and look how they turned out in the senate.



 

Jerry Agar was just on and told John Moore that he thinks Adler jumped ship to being Liberal in order to suck up to Trudeau to "apply for the job"  (to my knowledge, you don't apply like it's a job flipping burgers).       I guess Agar thinks that Adler saw this job coming years-ago so he decided to change stripes!   

Sad news.  I always liked him.   Here's a neat story by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo about Chi Chi being the model for the cover of their 1978 debut album "Are We Not Men?".      I heard Mark tell it on a podcast and Chi Chi was such a nice man.   He was also happy with the size of the cheque!   Devo shipped him a case of albums and he handed them out to all his friends without listening to it because "He was more of a Tito Puente fan."


Not Men: The story behind the devolved cover of Devo’s debut album


 

paterson1 wrote:

Carlings had recently lost Carlsberg beer to Molson prior to the two companies merging.  The brewer needed something to replace the popular Danish beer that they had sold in Canada since 1971.  Rather than brew a totally new brand, Carling O'Keefe decided to resurrect one of their popular beers from the 50's and 60's. 

Do you remember these odd and funky ads that flooded television in the summer of 1989? 
https://www.google.com/search?q=funky+black+label+commercials&rlz=1C1GGRV_enCA751CA751&oq=funky+black+label+commercials&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRifBTIHCAQQIRifBdIBCDg0NDhqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:d0c71ca4,vid:tslSsBkmDbw,st:0
 

I remember Black Label being popular well before 1989, probably mid 1980s.   It was taken up by the younger crowd in the downtown Toronto club and bar scene.    It wasn't until 1989 that Carling realized what they had with its rising popularity and started to run ads for it again.     

mikeprocess wrote:

Yesterday a 24 year old female cyclist was hit by a truck on Bloor near Avenue Road and died.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/cyclist-struck-fatal-1.7274898

From what I understand she left the bike lane because it was partially blocked by a construction dumpster.  She was hit as she entered the roadway.

Is it too much to ask local news reporters to do their job and find out:

Does one need a permit to place a dumpster on a public road/bike lane?

If so, who was the permit issued to and who issued it.

In that same vein I’d also like to know which nearby construction project was connected to the dumpster.

BTW, the dumpster was removed by the time the 6:00 PM news reporters did their live hits from the scene.

I’m not asking for Mike Wallace here...just a few simple answers.
Thanks

 

Unfortunately we'll probably never know because the reporters I see on TV only interview tight lipped cops and bystanders and never drill any deeper.   The cops usually have no background to how something happened and understandably don't do conjecture, while the interviews with bystanders are almost always filler about how bad they feel about the incident.

Typically, once the reporter has left the scene the whole topic vanishes from the public eye never to be heard of again, leaving a pile of unanswered questions.

Fortunately this one will get lots of push back from cycling groups which hopefully will keep it on the front burner for a day or two.


 

RadioActive wrote:

Until that is, the clock hit 6 PM, when it was time for local news on their affiliates. The announcers calling the race told viewers that if they wanted to see the ending of this 4-hour-plus event, they'd have to switch over to NBC-owned USA Network on cable. I'm sure NASCAR fans who are cord cutters were not happy to hear they wouldn't be seeing the end of the race!

I can't recall a major network doing that to its viewers before and it's a terrible precedent. As much as I hate sports run-overs, if you're going to show the thing, show the whole thing. Don't make me to turn to another channel, especially if it's one I can't get.

I have.  Sadly it happens a lot in motorsports, especially when there's weather bad enough to stop a race.    I recently saw one where NBC stuck with it through the end, an extra 2-3 hours.   It was probably preempting something less spectactular like pro Pickleball. 

Did anyone else find that website messed up?    First it froze when I got to it, then it kept refreshing to the top of the page after a minute or two, freezing and then once I was able to scroll down, it all started again.    I never finished the article.   I'll pick up on it using my phone and see if I can read it.