As Trivial Pursuit celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary during Canada’s 150th-birthday year, I’m not sure what I find more amazing: that over three decades have passed since the… Read more “Canada 1982: Not Such A Trivial Pursuit”

Dear Louie and Marge: Oops. I’m sorry. You probably get that a lot. Let me try again… Dear Louis and Martha: This is likely the strangest fan… Read more “Canada 1982: “Seeing Things” – in St. Peter’s!”

I was slowly, but surely, getting my introduction to traditional Celtic music as I wrapped up the third grade in 1981, and my earliest teachers in this… Read more “Canada 1981: Chasing “Gold” With Ryan’s Fancy”

Since I’ve devoted earlier blog posts to the likes of Neil Young, BTO, Loverboy and Keith Hampshire, you might be surprised that it took me until the… Read more “Canada 1981: All Roads Lead To Chilliwack”

As a proud, maple-syrup-swilling, Anne Murray-album-owning Canuck who loves being “oot and aboot” in our hockey-mad frozen tundra (please imagine the preceding sentence being read by the… Read more “Canada 1981: Bob and Doug McKenzie – Our Accidental Icons”

Even before he landed the gig that still defines him for hundreds of thousands of Generation-X Atlantic Canadians, Stan Johnson was already raising eyebrows at the Canadian… Read more “Canada 1981: Why Stan Was ‘The Man’ For CBC’s Switchback”

I share a somewhat shameful common thread with many Canadians of my generation, in that I didn’t recognize and appreciate one of the country’s all-time greatest heroes… Read more “Canada 1981: Losing (and Finding) Terry Fox”