Posts By: Boo Radley

Finally some action on CBC News

Posted by & filed under Other / Canada.

A girl falls tex­ting live on CBC News. I feel very bad for the poor girl and hope she’s alright! I’m also very proud to be Cana­dian, see­ing peo­ple rush over to help her! This video was embed­ded using the YouTu­ber plu­gin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video.

Boxing Day Canada Deals & Flyers

Posted by & filed under Canadian Deals & Coupons, Canadian Discount Coupons Canada.

Thanks  Fal­l­en­Pix­els for post­ing a list of all Box­ing Day Deals and Fly­ers in the Box­ing Day Canada Deals and Fly­ers Forum 2001 Audio Video: Deals: http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/262140-…2011-a-canada/ Aero­postale: Pre­view: http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/262201-…c-26th-canada/ Aldo: Pre­view: http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/262421-…online-canada/ Amer­i­can Apparel: Pre­view: http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/262439-…h-only-canada/ Ardene: Flyer: http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/262316-…-deals-canada/ Armani Exchange: Pre­view: http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/262459-…c-26th-canada/ Aritzia: Pre­view: http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/262364-…andise-canada/ Babies R Us: Flyer: http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/261953-…r-pics-canada/ Banana Repub­lic: Pre­view:… Read more »

Attention Shoppers Drug Mart: Simple solution to Optimum Points theft

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Recently there has been a series of Shop­pers Drug Mart Opti­mum Points thefts that were a result of sev­eral fac­tors, includ­ing peo­ple giv­ing out their Opti­mum account num­bers with­out know­ing that is almost enough for their accounts to be hacked into. Although the rea­sons behind the thefts can be attrib­uted to poor judg­ment on the… Read more »

Durham Clean Air Company Threatening to Sue Me. What’s my position here?

Posted by & filed under Announcements.

I got an email from the pres­i­dent of Durham Clean Air Com­pany ear­lier today: There is a blog on your site read­ing “SCAM ALERT (MAYBE) DURHAM REGION AIR QUALITY TESTING”. There are now legal doc­u­ments and voice record­ings on your site from my com­pany and employ­ees. I demand that you remove this or I will be pro­ceed­ing… Read more »

Stay Classy Canada

Posted by & filed under Other / Canada.

Out of all the things we could have legit­i­mately rioted about over the past year, from metered Inter­net Caps to intro­duc­tion of HST to G20 Police bru­tal­ity, los­ing a hockey game is what got the riots going? [image from cbc]

Girl Fight at the Grocery Store

Posted by & filed under Other / Canada.

Came across this on red­dit and thought I’d share: This video was embed­ded using the YouTu­ber plu­gin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video. The guy in the above video clearly made a big mis­take: This video was embed­ded using the YouTu­ber plu­gin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required… Read more »

How the Grinch Stole Easter

Posted by & filed under Other / Canada.

I just found out today — thanks to a CTV artice — that Kinder Sur­prise eggs have been banned in the US since 1997! The ban is a result of the toys within the eggs fail­ing to meet their small parts require­ments for chil­dren less than three years of age. I searched online for any… Read more »

How Canadian Troops Make Coffee in Afghanistan

Posted by & filed under Other / Canada.

I came across this hilar­i­ous video on reddit.com! On top of learn­ing how to make cof­fee in the desert I found out that there is such a thing as a “boot band” Warn­ing for coarse lan­guage and exces­sive use of the F word. If that offends you don’t watch. This video was embed­ded using the YouTu­ber… Read more »

Religion may become extinct in Canada

Posted by & filed under Other / Canada.

I came across an inter­est­ing arti­cle on BBC through red­dit that talks about how, based on math­e­mat­i­cal mod­el­ing, reli­gion is expected to die out in nine coun­tries. These coun­tries are Aus­tralia Aus­tria Canada the Czech Repub­lic Fin­land Ire­land the Nether­lands New Zealand Switzer­land The result was reported at the Amer­i­can Phys­i­cal Soci­ety meet­ing and you can… Read more »

How to Terminate your Rogers TV, Internet, Home Phone (and possibly Wireless) Contracts.. NOW

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I came across a very inter­est­ing post on Face­book by Al McGale that explains how you can get out of your  Rogers TV, Inter­net and Home Phone con­tracts with­out pay­ing ter­mi­na­tion fees. It depends on declin­ing changes to your terms, one of the old­est tricks in the book. But it’s always good to post it… Read more »

What is Toronto?????

Posted by & filed under Other / Canada.

As many of you prob­a­bly know, IBM’s com­puter Wat­son has been com­pet­ing on Jeop­ardy and man­aged to beat Ken Jen­nings and Brad Rut­ter, two very knowl­edge­able human beings and  the best Jeop­ardy play­ers. Well in the final Jeop­ardy cat­e­gory the ques­tion was about US cities. As soon as I read Watson’s answer I couldn’t stop… Read more »

The Source Deals: Toshiba Canada 8″ Digital Picture Frame with WiFi $69.96

Posted by & filed under Canadian Deals & Coupons.

Not a bad deal for a dig­i­tal pic­ture frame with WiFi sup­port. Toshiba DMF82XWU 8″ Dig­i­tal Pic­ture Frame is on sale at The Source for $69.96. The reg­u­lar price is sup­pos­edly $179.99 but I have a hard time believ­ing it should be that much. Still good deal at $69.96. Click here for Toshiba DMF82XWU 8″… Read more »

$20 Amazon.com Gift Card for $10

Posted by & filed under Canadian Deals & Coupons.

Thanks tdub for let­ting me know about this Liv­ing­So­cial has a siz­zling hot deal today! Get a $20 Amazon.com gift card for $10! Yes you can but most items off of Ama­zon.com even if you live in Canada. And yes as far as I know you can order deals from Liv­ing­So­cial US cities even if… Read more »