I spent last night tuning in the live feeds of the celebrating going on in Toronto after the Raptors won the NBA title. Wish I had been there in TO. If I were still there, I would surely have been sitting on my high rise balcony all night watching fans drive down Sheppard Ave. waving…
This is it, the night Canadian sports fans have desperately waited for!
What, you thought I was referring to NBA Finals Game 6 Raptors-Warriors? Heck, no! I’m talking about the start of the Canadian Football League season. Hamilton versus Saskatchewan! Unfortunately I think a lot of folks in Hamilton are skipping out on the local CFL team tonight. Lots of empty seats there for some reason. I…
Toronto Raptors TV ratings through the roof
Folks, game five of the NBA Finals goes tonight in Toronto between the Toronto Raptors and the Golden State Warriors. The Raptors lead the series 3-1 and could clinch the NBA title tonight. This will surely be the most watched basketball game in the history of Canada! The first game of the Finals set a…
Today marks 15 years of blogging! Happy anniversary to the blog! 🎂
Today is this blog’s 15th Anniversary! Yes, we started it all up 15 years ago today in Toronto, during the contentious 2004 Canadian federal election, over on the Blogger platform. I dunno why I bother keeping this blog going. The blogging scene is dead as everyone surely knows, and this blog’s stats are in the…
D-Day happened 75 years ago today!
Big day for the veterans and the history buffs.
Godzilla: King of the Box Office, er, I mean Monsters
Couldn’t resist that line. Godzilla: King of the Monsters took the domestic box office with a haul of $49 million, and adds another $130 million from overseas markets. While it seems like a good performance, this is actually the all-time worst performance in the MonsterVerse. That Elton John biopic Rocketman also opened this weekend and…
This is it! Game one of the NBA Finals goes tonight in Toronto between the Raptors and Warriors.
Folks, history will be made as the NBA Finals takes place on non-US soil for the first time. The Golden State Warriors play the Toronto Raptors in game one tonight. Let me say this: getting to the finals is great for Toronto and even better for Canada, but above all else, it is great for…
The tornadoes keep on coming. The latest to get whacked: metro Kansas City
Another day, another tornado outbreak in the USA. This evening’s metro Kansas City tornado event has happened right on the heels of Dayton, Ohio getting hit the other day. It’s been something like 12 straight days of tornadoes in the USA. This latest one that touched down west of Kansas City tonight was a mile…
Fans are stunned by the bad box office for Booksmart: it opens to $8.7 million!
All the talk from the movie box office this weekend was about how poorly Booksmart did at the cinemas. This is that indie comedy directed by Olivia Wilde about two disenchanted overachieving teens that was getting great reviews (79 percent at Rotten Tomatoes) and great praise on Twitter. Hey comedy lovers— It’s really fuckin hard…
Euro elections are on: mainstream parties taking a hit
In between auto races, I am following results from the Euro parliament elections. It sure looks like the main parties are taking a hit, with gains by the likes of the Greens on the left and the anti-EU parties on the right (Brexit Party in the UK, National Rally in France, the “League” in Italy,…
Deadly tornado outbreak in Oklahoma Saturday night mars the Memorial Day weekend
It was a dismal Saturday night down in Oklahoma. Yes, the tornadoes hit again, and this time it was even worse than earlier in the week. One tornado slammed into a hotel in El Reno; two people were killed and dozens injured. They were predicting big storms would wash out the Indianapolis 500 today, too,…
PM Theresa May tearfully throws in the towel
Theresa May is out the door of 10 Downing Street as British Prime Minister. Good. Maybe the next one will figure this Brexit mess out and maybe spare the country from a Corbyn takeover. Fighting back tears, British Prime Minister Theresa May says she will quit, triggering a contest that will bring a new leader…
Missouri hard hit by last night’s tornadoes
It sounds like Jefferson City, Missouri’s state capital, really got hit hard by last night’s tornado outbreak in the central USA. Three people were killed and there is colossal damage. Posted here, some Tweets about the whole situation. Sad times there — hopefully the St. Louis Blues do something in the Stanley Cup finals to…
For Theresa May, it sure looks like the end is near
Here is a look at the front pages of the British newspapers heading into Thursday morning (which Drudge put up on their home page just now). These more or less tell you all you need to know about British Prime Minister Theresa May’s fate after the cabinet staged a revolt today, with Andrea Leadsom quitting…
India election results, happening now
(Update: Modi’s government is winning,) Just a reminder to myself that today, May 23 in India (but still May 22 here in North America), is when election results start to roll in from their national election. I definitely want to tune in to that. Already, a ton of exit polls have been out, predicting the…
Interesting article on Savannah Guthrie’s commencement address
Today, I thought I would share this link to the commencement address given over the weekend at George Washington University by Today Show host Savannah Guthrie. The reason I provide it is because you may not know that she is another one of these lawyers turned reporters, which resonates with me personally since I basically…
Oklahoma’s day of the tornadoes — one right after another!
Everyone predicted it, so hopefully everyone treated these forecasts of PDS (particularly dangerous situation) tornadoes seriously and gotten the H out of the way. Multiple tornadoes have already touched down and the threat is STILL not over! I have spent the day tuning in Oklahoma TV news coverage, with storm chasers showing these tornadoes touching…
UFC is returning to Edmonton! UFC 240 Holloway-Edgar July 27.
The news for MMA fans in this region is that the UFC is coming back to Edmonton. UFC 240 between champion Max Holloway and Frankie Edgar for the featherweight title is set for July 27. I do not know if I will be there or not — usually at that time of year I am…
Big twister threat down in Tornado Alley into Monday!!
It’s obviously a serious situation when the evening news decides to lead off their broadcasts with, no, not Trump again, but tornado alley coverage. Yes, apparently there is a major tornado threat down in Oklahoma, Kansas and North Texas on Monday. A multi-day siege of severe weather continues into early this week, including a threat…
A bad week of celebrity deaths: Doris Day, Tim Conway, Peggy Lipton etc. etc.
Wow, it really has been a lousy last few days of celebrity deaths. Here is a rundown of a few of them: Doris Day, singer and movie star, dead at 97. Tim Conway, comedian most famous for appearing on The Carol Burnett Show, dead at 85. Peggy Lipton, of The Mod Squad, dead at 72….
China responds to Trump by slapping duties on US goods, sinking the stock market!
Well, well. As you’ve no doubt heard by now “Tariff Man” is back, much to the delight of Pres. Donald Trump’s “base” but few other folks. And because Trump and his people have been taking tough on China trade, raising duties on Chinese imports to the tune of $200 million on Friday, China has now…
Court TV is back in session! Today is their first day back on the air.
I have been tuning in the “new” and revived Court TV, which is back on the air starting today after over a decade off the air. The channel, which is streaming online and which will be broadcasting over the air in several U.S. markets, features plenty of on-air reporters with law degrees, including Vinnie Politan…
Fallout continues from this weekend’s Kentucky Derby disqualification!!
The sport of horse racing is still in chaos after this weekend’s debacle of a Kentucky Derby, in which Maximum Security won the race and then was disqualified after it was deemed to have blocked the other horses in the field. The 62-to-1 longshot Country House was declared the winner, making a host of horse…
Avengers: Endgame now up to $2.1 billion worldwide; set to break Avatar’s record!
What an amazing story it is for Avengers: Endgame at the worldwide box office. After last weekend’s biggest box office in history, more records have fallen. This is now officially the fastest movie release to earn $2 billion dollars. It took just 11 days for this flick to top $2 billion; in fact, the gross…
Avengers: Endgame opened this weekend to a worldwide haul of 1.2 billion!
The list of box office records shattered by Avengers: Endgame, along with the rest of my Summer Blockbuster Season preview, is now up.
Come on, all of you CFL guys. Get a deal done, now!
Today is the day talks resumed between the Canadian Football League’s owners and players union, after the players voted 97 percent in favor of a strike last week! The fact that we are even talking about a potential CFL strike is unbelievable. I know the players probably could use a few more benefits than what…
This is the end! Avengers: Endgame set to dominate the global box office.
So, this is it. The final Marvel Avengers movie titled Avengers: Endgame is set to absolutely dominate the worldwide box office. Previews begin tonight and the opening is this Friday, and already all the talk is about how box office records are going to tumble all over the place. The word is the global haul…
Democrats now in frantic search for something else to impeach/destroy Trump on
The newspapers that had exonerated Pres. Donald Trump based on the Mueller report findings (ie. the NY Post) have obviously spoken too soon. We are now right back to the same old witch-hunt in Washington. After failing to prove that Trump colluded with Russia in the election, now the Democrats have decided to lower their…
The full Mueller report is finally out for all to see
Yes, the Mueller report is finally made public, at long last. Not as much “winning” here for the current President today. Needless to say, everyone is making the report sound really bad, pointing to the stuff about clashes between Trump and his White House staff. If this is all these prosecutors have on Pres. Donald…
Alberta voters send the NDP packing, put in Jason Kenney and the United Conservatives
Alberta has been liberated from the NDP. Jason Kenney and the United Conservatives overthrew Rachel Notley and her socialist government by a wide margin, upwards of 63 seats. A single term of NDP rule was all Alberta could stand. Get ready, folks, because Kenney is going to go after people now that he’s in. In…
Breaking news today: Notre Dame in Paris is up in flames
This is terribly, terribly sad. A grim time for everyone in France. The moment #NotreDame’s spire fell pic.twitter.com/XUcr6Iob0b — Patrick Galey (@patrickgaley) April 15, 2019 DETAILS: The Notre Dame Cathedral construction began in 1160 and ended in the 14th century. The fire began in the structure of the monument that dates back to the 13th…
“Shazam!” The original ‘Captain Marvel’ is back, but the intellectual property issues continue!
This week, Cairns on Cinema is entitled Shazam! is back. So, who is the real Captain Marvel? In this column I recap the whole intellectual property mess that has dogged this original Fawcett superhero since the Fifties. Check that out, and check out the trailer for his latest movie, below. A side note: Shazam! won…
Good grief, folks. Trump is now looking to close the Mexican border.
This, my friends, is what you get whenever Pres. Donald Trump is “winning”. Fresh off the heels of his Mueller report “victory”, which debunked the Russia collusion claims and which humiliated all his political opponents and the mainstream media in the process, now Trump wants to close the border with Mexico. (!) (?) Yes, we…
The Alliance is kaput. The #AAF has folded, not even lasting to its championship game!
The Alliance of American Football has “suspended operations” effective immediately. This has got to be the fastest collapse of a pro football league ever. These guys lasted just eight freaking weeks!!! This makes the complete flop “CFL American expansion” of the mid-Nineties look like a big hit by comparison. Even the old XFL lasted longer!…
Football fans are angry: Saskatchewan is fumbling away the NFL ball!
What a travesty. Just two days ago John Gormley broke the news on his show that the big NFL pre-season game, the one that was going to be in Regina between the Green Bay Packers and Oakland Raiders, was headed straight for the trashcan. Since then, Saskatchewan football fans have been hopping mad. Local Raiders…
Mueller report is in: no collusion. Not enough for obstruction of justice. In short, a ‘win’ for Pres. Trump.
The entire U.S. media is going nuts right now as findings of the Mueller investigation have come out on alleged collusion between the Donald Trump presidential campaign with Russia. And this report has turned out to be a huge, freaking let-down for Trump’s long list of opponents and enemies. The news is there is not…
I’m done whining about the latest releases. ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ looks awesome!
I think I should finally quit grouching about the latest Hollywood releases and how bored I am with them (Marvel, DC, Disney etc.). Finally, at long last, here comes a movie I am actually excited about going to see: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. This movie looks awesome. It has it all: Leo DiCaprio!…
You think the news in your town is bad? Try Las Vegas!
I like to tune in the newscasts from other places, especially from the USA, just to see how they cover the news there. Wow, a lot of news from down there is jaw-droppingly bad. Just look at my favorite winter getaway locale Las Vegas. Today, they led the news with reports of a police member-involved…
In a true desperation move, Johnny “Football” Manziel has joined the Alliance!
Well, we all saw this coming. Johnny Manziel, aka “Johnny Football”, has joined the Alliance of American Football after washing out in the Canadian Football League. This is big news in the ‘States! To which I go: why? This guy couldn’t make it in the NFL with the Cleveland Browns, and then he blew it…
Happy 50th Anniversary to Herbie the Love Bug!
As I am reminded watching NASCAR today, this past week marks the 50th anniversary of the wide release of Disney’s The Love Bug — rated “G”. (Gee, nothing is rated “G” anymore.) That’s right, folks, Herbie is 50 years old. Happy birthday, Herbie! (This post, no doubt, should be of big interest to my brother…
