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Link: Canadian entertainer Gordie Tapp dead at 94

From CBC News:

Link: Canadian entertainer Gordie Tapp dead at 94
Canadian radio and television entertainer and former CBC broadcaster Gordie Tapp died Dec. 18 at 94.

Born in 1922 in London, Ont., Tapp was introduced to former U.S. president Gerald Ford as the “world’s funniest story-teller.” Moving from Guelph, Ont., to Hamilton to Toronto and on to Nashville, he reached millions of people worldwide with his humour. Continue reading. 

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Link: Exclusive Murdoch Mysteries set visit & Season 10 secrets

From Tanavi Patel of MyMBuzz:

Link: Exclusive Murdoch Mysteries set visit & Season 10 secrets
In an era when TV series rarely run past five seasons as network execs are reluctant to renegotiate contracts, production budgets are dwindling, and traditional television is competing for audiences across different viewing platforms, one Canadian period crime drama has survived the test of time. Continue reading.

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Link: 5×5 With The Hook: Michelle Ricci

From You’ve Been Hooked:

Link: 5×5 With The Hook: Michelle Ricci
“Everyone has a different process, but when I’m writing I doubt myself every step of the way. It’s an exercise in determination and ultimately a contest to fight the inner voice that tells all of us we aren’t good enough. Especially for women, where no matter how hard we fight against it, society still instills in us the belief that we aren’t as talented, as deserving, etc, so getting over our own insecurities is always the biggest challenge.” Continue reading.

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Professional gamer Stephanie Harvey claims Canada’s Smartest Person title

From a media release:

A season full of mind-bending challenges and intense competition on CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON came down to five worthy finalists vying for the title in Sunday’s holiday-themed season finale on CBC. In the end, 30-year-old Stephanie Harvey, a professional gamer from Quebec City, rose to the final challenge to take the crown and — in a CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON first — to have a $20,000 donation made to her charity of choice, Operation Enfant Soleil.

Harvey and her four fellow finalists did battle in festive versions of some of the show’s classic challenges that added holiday magic to the season finale, creating a winter wonderland complete with falling snow.  Edmonton’s Joshua Williams, a 25-year-old youth-program director, was the first competitor to be eliminated after registering the lowest score through the first three challenges. Mechanic Brittain Bancroft, 30, from Minto, N.B., bowed out next followed by Calgary’s Maria Samson, a 33-year-old former national team rugby player.

The grand finale, known as the Super Gauntlet, saw Harvey go head-to-head with Eric Yue, 40, a recreational hockey league commissioner from Victoria. The fast and festive face-off featured Christmas trees and snowmen as the key to the ultimate prize, the title of “Canada’s Smartest Person” and the $20,000 charitable donation. Yue leapt to an early lead in the first challenge of the Super Gauntlet, which tested linguistic intelligence, but struggled with the visual intelligence challenge that followed. Harvey took advantage of this opening and never looked back, flying through the visual, physical, musical and logical intelligence challenges to complete the Super Gauntlet and become the fourth person to be named “Canada’s Smartest Person.”

Harvey was moved to tears by her win and the knowledge that Operation Enfant Soleil, a foundation that raises funds for the care of sick children throughout Quebec, would receive the $20,000 donation in her name.

Image courtesy of CBC.

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