Chad Rubel

#Tofino is an amazing place I have visited once.

Would be more interesting if the public broadcaster spent more time on actual #Canadian content.

Searching for a relatively old school veggie burger I feel a little bad for vegetarians and even vegans at a summer barbecue in North America. The pressure to consume round or tubular meats inside a bun, likely made with high-fructose corn syrup (gluco...

#ImpossibleBurger and #BeyondMeat get all the headlines for alternatives to meat burgers. Still waiting for cloned meat. Decided to try old school veggie burgers: more ingredients I knew, less processed. They are small and have far less protein.

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Someone will get fired for this. Also, not counting millions of unemployed who don't qualify for unemployment benefits.

2025 CFL Week 10 preview The BC Lions come off a bye with a long road trip to Hamilton, which hasn't been at home since July 12. The Tiger-Cats and Lions feels like a cat fight: Nathan Rourke and Bo Levi Mitchell dealing with...

Trey Vaval had 189 return yards for 2 touchdowns for Winnipeg. 2 weather delays last week, neither of them from wildfire smoke. Just another wild week in the #CFL.

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Illinois just banned AI from acting like a therapist New law blocks apps from diagnosing or giving therapy advice in Illinois.

People often ask "what good can government do?" How about making sure #AI can't be your therapist. www.axios.com/local/chicag...

I'm sorry the policy isn't reasonable. I have to pay 100% of everything dental (U.S.) since I am too poor.

Saw young people drinking Riunite. Though not on ice like their grandmothers and grandfathers did in the 1970s and 1980s. Maybe it's hip again?

Canadian film review: Queens of the Qing Dynasty Ashley McKenzie told a difficult, all too real story of poverty and drug addiction in Werewolf. Queens of the Qing Dynasty — McKenzie's second feature — is a mystical tale. Star (Sarah Walker) is a tr...

Queens of the Qing Dynasty is a fascinating look at mental illness from someone who doesn't communicate well. Star is an ongoing patient and An is there to watch over her. A well-crafted #CanadianFilm

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have a great civic holiday

George Stroumboulopoulos and Made | Nous want to know the film and TV that impacted Canadians Today is the "civic holiday" in most of Canada, celebrated on the first Monday in August. Why the hell not? Don't assume the holiday is everywhere in Canada and has so many different names, depending ...

Canadian culture is tied to many elements, especially #CanadianFilm and #CanadianTV. Reinforcing that is part of the Made | Nous project to find out what projects make up Canadian culture for #Canadians.

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I use local tomatoes, as you should. I feel like Spanish tomatoes taste better. Yet local grown tomatoes are better than the supermarket version.

Hope that was a good show.

The time of year where Lolla fans ride on public transit alongside NFL cosplay fans going to dark bars to watch preseason games.

My intolerance for mozzarella cheese would not help. People can eat that next to me and it isn't a problem. As long as it wasn't the only thing to eat.

CBC Saturday night Canadian film schedule for early August 2025 Today is the first day of August. Summer will only get hotter for awhile. Yes, Canada gets hot in the summer. More CBC coverage of Canadian films on Saturday nights. The Saturday night Canadian films ...

Brother is a significant and thoughtful #CanadianFilm. Slash/Back is a family film that even parents will like. #Level16 is a rather unusual film perfect for the middle of the night. Some of the films coming to #CBC on Saturday nights in the next 2 weeks.

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2025 CFL Week 9 preview The CFL week barely starts in July but most of this week will be in August. The obvious differences: CTV games move to Saturday afternoons and CBS Sports Network will have fewer games. The CFL teams m...

Robert Carter Jr. made an interception you aren't likely to see in the NFL. A Jose Maltos record setting 57 yard field goal gave Montreal a narrow victory. This week, the revenge game of the Grey Cup rematch. #CFL week in preview.

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Canadian film review: Village Keeper Lots of unspoken grief. Lots. Village Keeper showcases a Black Canadian family in the Lawrence Heights community of Toronto. Jean (Oluniké Adeliyi) is a widow who moves her teenage children — Tamika (...

A rare film review these days in that this is a current film. Village Keeper is a sweet, quiet #CanadianFilm about dealing with intergenerational trauma. There will be butterflies. Find this film if you can.

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Samantha Bee Says CBS Cancelling ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Was A “No-Brainer”: “People Are Just Not Tuning In” Samantha Bee doesn't find it surprising that CBS decided to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert amid the Paramount and Skydance merger.

Don't completely agree yet Samantha Bee has an unique perspective with a corporate merger leading to the end of her show. deadline.com/2025/07/sama...

I've been inside this beautiful building. An independent bookstore would be more ideal.

Excellent callback. I saw Eric Clapton twice in a 4-day period in 1985. Still surreal to think about it.

Revisiting the Top 10 Canadian films I still want to see, circa 2025 I challenged myself to compile a top list of Canadian films that I wanted to find and watch. This was a pandemic exercise 5 years ago. I made a challenging list, ones not easy to find. Your humble nar...

During the #pandemic, I put together a list of seemingly impossible #CanadianFilm to find. 5 years to the day, we look at which #films we have seen and which ones remain on the list.

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Thanks Dr. Demento for introducing me to.#TomLehrer.

Well, a good show. Thanks for the "correction."

Go if you humanly can get there. Will be a god show.

Why didn’t police lay charges in 2019? Inside the London police investigations in the Hockey Canada sex assault case London police documents make clear the high-profile sex assault investigation was reopened in 2022 due to “a resurgence in media attention” — with the key evidence largely unchanged from 2019.

Why didn’t police lay charges in 2019? Inside the London police investigations in the Hockey Canada sex assault case.

Police documents make clear the high-profile sex assault investigation was reopened in 2022 due to “a resurgence in media attention” — with the key evidence largely unchanged.

2025 CFL Week 8 preview Montréal plays again on Thursday, though going pretty far west to Calgary on Thursday night. No Davis Alexander and Calgary has done really well against anybody. The green of Edmonton goes southeast t...

We finally get a #GreyCup rematch this week. Winnipeg is at Toronto. Montréal travels to.Calgary without its star quarterback. Our #CFL preview.

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Canadian film review: Life Classes Your humble narrator came across Life Classes while reading a book about Canadian film almost a decade ago. The plot seemed fairly straightforward. A young woman moves to the big city. To support hers...

Life Classes would be worthwhile as a film with takes on the process of producing art. The film takes on abortion, racism, how TV influences us, and so much more. A small film from Nova Scotia in 1987. Yet one with a lot to say. #CanadianFilm

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Ozzy Osbourne is on the final crazy train of life. He was 76. I will likely not live as long and took a lot fewer drugs.

The advantages of a fruit tower in your local grocery store Young kids can get bored in a grocery store. Let's occupy them with fruit and let's see if they can learn something about nutrition. Oranges and bananas have skins so they are more practical for the s...

The fruit tower might be there to encourage shopping for kids. Another way to introduce fruits to kids. Maybe room for vegetables as well.

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