Been wondering where the prime minister has been hiding? The answer tonight at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT) as Justin Trudeau guests on CBC’s special, hour-long, New Year’s Eve edition of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. The title — 22 Minutes New Year’s Eve Pregame Special — refers to the big World Junior Hockey Championships tilt
This Hour has, well, not just 22 Minutes but a full hour as I catch up with Mark Critch, this week’s guest on brioux.tv: the podcast. The conversation was taped last summer in St. John’s, Nfld., during production on the fourth season of Son of a Critch (returning Thursday, Jan. 7 on CBC and CBC Gem). What a trip
The CBC held its “Winter 2025” Media Day Thursday in Toronto. It was, as usual, well run and smartly organized, with plenty of access to the talent associated with shows either launching or returning starting early in January. Plus, yes, there was lunch. The public broadcaster’s No. 1 hit comedy Son of a Critch, which
After 31 years as host of The Fifth Estate, plus another decade winning Emmys for CBS and NBC News, award-winning investigative journalist Bob McKeown is ready to retire. The Ottawa native never shied away from his assignments, especially when it came to reporting on football and head injuries. Back in the ’70s, he was a CFL
Tuesday night, Americans will vote on who will become the 47th president of the United States. Dozens of Fake News teams from across North America will be adding their spin to this nail-biter of a story. On Monday, however, the only Canadian Fake News team previewing this historic occasion will be the men and women
ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. — First thing is, I’m not really in St. John’s, Newfoundland. I was though, and it is more fun to begin this story by typing in the place name. Makes the blog look more official like. I’m now back home in Orangeville, but I was way out into the Atlantic earlier this
If only this was really the world. This was the view from our living room as the Games of the 2024 Olympics wrapped in Paris. The Olympic ideal seems so far removed from the fractured state of planet Earth, politically, environmentally and on so many other levels. Hats off to France and their Olympic organizers
Stronger, faster, higher — artier. The opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 was an artistic triumph, a master class in dazzling outdoor sight and sound. It had to be less fun for the tens of thousands of onlookers positioned for six to eight hours along the River Seine, as well as the 6800