We here at Canadian of the Week might have fallen a bit behind on our one-time promise to resurface the classic Canadian Heritage Minutes, but we still love them.
And it appears we’re not alone. “Scara,” the venerable founder and editor of GhoulsonFilm.net and good friend of Canadian of the Week, ran into Seth Rogen’s longtime buddy and co-writer Evan Goldberg, who beamed with excitement at the mention of CanadianoftheWeek.com and our mutual love of the renowned Heritage Minutes.
“I contacted the government and asked if we could make new ones like three years ago,” Evan said. “Me, Michael Cera and Seth wanted to go up there and make new ones. We wanted to do part of our future heritage and try to do a thing where we get like Pamela Anderson, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers and Seth and Michael Cera — just get, like, every famous Canadian we can to do something like that. I’m still kind of into doing it.”
Scara and her morbid mind went straight to Dr. Wilder Penfield’s infamous “I smell burnt toast” bit.
“Burnt toast! Burnt toast?” Evan repeated. “I lived on Penfield Drive in Montreal. I lived outside the building of the man who came up with that. We’ve got a Chinese railroad worker episode … there’s more, burnt toast, the hockey mask one. Ah, those are the best.”
The Montreal Film and TV Commission is in the news today for denying a permit to the anti-meat organization and Pam Anderson, who was set to unveil her new PETA poster in the city today. PETA sought a permit to hold the unveiling of the poster, in which her body is marked up with labels for each body part as if it’s waiting for a butcher’s cleaver, in Old Montreal, according to the National Post.
“I have to inform you that we, as public officials representing a municipal government, cannot endorse this image of Ms. Anderson,” the commission’s Josee Rochefort wrote in an email to PETA. “It is not so much controversial as it goes against all principles public organizations are fighting for in the everlasting battle of equality between men and women.”
Anderson called the city’s behaviour puritanical. “In a city that is known for its exotic dancing and for being progressive and edgy, how sad that a woman would be banned from using her own body in a political protest over the suffering of cows and chickens,” she said.
Axl Rose was nowhere to be found, and folks in Montreal found a reason to riot anyway.
Reports say 41 people were arrested in the revelry and debauchery that ensued after the Montreal Canadiens knocked off the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 7 to move on to the Eastern Conference Finals and one step closer to the Stanley Cup.
Based on the video below, though, it looks like most of the Montreal faithful were simply out to celebrate a good time. Well, maybe except for the guy stripping on a street pole, but the cops took care of him.
Check it out and try to tune out the annoying music…
Montreal’s Eric Gagne officially called it a career after failing to make a comeback with the Los Angeles Dodgers — the team with which he made the biggest and most exciting impact.
Gagne’s career has undoubtedly been marked with the highest highs (setting a record for consecutive successful save attempts with 82), and the lowest lows (being named on The Mitchell Report as a player who’d used human-growth hormone), but his overall effort and the phenomenon he created in Los Angeles make him our Canadian of the Week.
Gagne is one of just nine relief pitchers to have ever won the Cy Young Award, taking it in 2003, when he successfully converted all 55 of his save attempts during his record streak.
Gagne’s arrival on the mound during those years made for such a sure finish that the stadium scoreboards flashed “GAME OVER” when he took the ball.
The Mitchell Report, rightly, put a damper on Gagne’s success, and he was never able to regain the strength and success he’d had in that three-year stretch with the Dodgers. He admitted in an L.A. Times interview to using the drugs, but said it was only to recover from a knee injury.
Canadian hottie and recent No. 1 choice in AskMen.com’s Most Desirable Women list Emmanuelle Chriqui is one of five ladies who stripped for Allure’s annual nude issue, which hits newsstands on Tuesday.
The Montreal native who grew up in Toronto tells the magazine, “Some women want bigger breasts. But [I wish] I could have had a dancer’s body. I sometimes wear plunging necklines because they make me feel smaller.”
The mag reports that Chriqui was on day four of a 10-day organic-food “cleanse” when the shoot took place, but she wasn’t trying to shed pounds.
“It’s not about losing weight,” she said. “I didn’t want to feel freaked out about today, so I consciously kept focusing on excitement.”
Also included in the issue are “American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi and singer Colbie Caillat. See more of Chriqui and the rest at Allure.com.
It’s been over a week, but the ripple effect of Canada’s winter Olympic gold-medal victory over the United States in Men’s Hockey still has people buzzing, and today one of the more entertaining stories surfaced.
The president of Air Canada said a plane that was bound from Vancouver to Montreal sat on the tarmac the afternoon of the big game because several passengers refused to get on board — they were watching the game on TV screens in the airport.
He didn’t say how long the flight was delayed. Get the full story at CBC.ca.
Whether or not his new movie, “She’s Out of My League,” is any good, this week’s Canadian of the Week honors go to Jay Baruchel.
The Ottawa native who grew up in Canada gets the chance to head up his own comedy after a few rounds of playing in the supporting cast in recent hits like “Knocked Up,” “Tropic Thunder” and “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist.” He starred in the short-lived Judd Apatow TV comedy “Undeclared.”
Baruchel is a proud Canadian who has a tattoo of a red maple leaf on his chest. It was featured in “Knocked Up,” in which he played the friend of a Vancouver native who was living in the U.S. illegally.
The trailer (below) for “She’s Out of My League” looks like it follows the general recent rom-com trend. It has the look and feel of an Apatow film, but Apatow is nowhere to be found in the credits.
In the movie, Baruchel plays a shlubby airport security guy who finds a beautiful girl’s cell phone and she goes out with him to thank him. His friends can’t believe it and comedy ensues.
I’m reserving judgment until hearing more and seeing what the buzz is like, but it sounds like a fun weekend comedy.
All-American gal Brooklyn Decker may be getting the spotlight for nabbing the coveted cover shot on this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, but Zoe Duchesne is representing Canada quite nicely inside the magazine’s pages. It’s her first time appearing in the iconic issue.
The French-Canadian lingerie model is among the dozen, or so, ladies who seem to be mostly removing their aquatic attire in photo shoots that took place on four different continents, including Whistler, B.C., which represented North America.
Zoe was photographed by Raphael Mazzucco in San Pedro de Atacama, Atacama, Chile.
The Montreal native was discovered in a local beauty contest, SI reports, and has since appeared in ads for Annabelle, Bobbi Brown, Chanel, French Connection, Guess and Kenzie. She’s also landed on the covers of Flare, Zinc, and Elle.
Bad hotels are bound to be found anywhere, and TripAdvisor.com’s new 2010 Dirtiest Hotels list tells you exactly where. The site put together a Dirtiest Hotels list for the fifth year, but it’s the first time that it included a Top 10 (er, Bottom 10) specifically for Canada, and two of the worst places — according to TripAdvisor user ratings — are located at Niagara Falls.
The popular tourist site is home to the worst spot on the list, a motel which customers have called “the worst of the worst,” and an “embarrassing dump.” One user reported “Blood in the bedding, spatter across the walls, carpet saturated with black filth, empty beer bottles piled outside the door, discarded rotting furniture at the bottom of the stairs, disgusting odour.”
To see the complete list of TripAdvisor’s Dirtiest Hotels in Canada, click here.
A new report says that Vancouver is the least affordable city in the world, when measuring median housing sale prices to median household incomes, according to an article from The Canadian Press.
The report, released by Demographia International, a group that wants to encourage major cities to allow more housing to be built on the fringes of cities, said other Canadian cities — notably Toronto and Montreal — are also highly unaffordable.
But Brent Gilmour, acting CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute, said the report is too simple and doesn’t account for all kinds of other factors, including shorter commute times, less need for cars by people who live in the city, and other elements of city planning that make city neighborhoods better options.
We here at Canadian of the Week might have fallen a bit behind on our one-time promise to resurface the classic Canadian Heritage Minutes, but we still love them.
A new report says that Vancouver is the least affordable city in the world, when measuring median housing sale prices to median household incomes, according to an article from 
