Congratulations to The Hour and OMAoG!!!
The nominations for the 24th Annual Gemini Awards came out today and once again our friends over at The Hour were recognized for their hard work and dedication. In total the show, and it’s host, received four nominations including one for it’s interactive project last season with One Million Acts [...]
August 25, 2009
Categories: Announcements, George Stroumboulopoulos, The Hour . Tags: CBC, cbc gemini's, Gemini's, George Stroumboulopoulos, one million acts of green, The Gemini's, The Hour . Author: cordeliashipley . Comments: Leave a Comment
Since watching the interview with Heather Reisman and reading the article/comments here at The Red Chair, my curiosity regarding HESEG has been peaked. I had never heard of the organisation before reading about it here. This had me wondering a few things. Why my favourite host/program would not touch upon what seemed to be a [...]
March 11, 2009
Categories: Interviews . Tags: CBC, George Stroumboulopoulos, heather reisman, Heseg, The Hour . Author: cordeliashipley . Comments: Leave a Comment
Is there anyone you’d love to see George interview? Is there someone you think would really put him through his paces? Or somebody that would make us all laugh till it hurts? If so let us know!
I’ll even start. Elton John, George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Robert Duvall, Russell Crowe or Dennis Hopper.
March 5, 2009
Categories: Poll, The Hour . Tags: Future Guests . Author: Atticus Finch . Comments: 5 Comments
Heather Reisman; president and CEO of Indigo/Chapters
shes rich, shes powerful, she supports literacy…
40% of Canadian adults are functionally illiterate! Thats crazy. She’s helping to bring this to the government’s attention. However, why we would need a bookstore owner to bring this to the government’s attention says a lot about our government.
The Hour did a fantastic [...]
March 4, 2009
Categories: Canadians, George Stroumboulopoulos, Interviews, The Hour, The News, World Events . Tags: Avi Lewis, canada reads, CEOs, chapters, George Stroumboulopoulos, Gerry Schwartz, heather reisman, Heseg, human rights, hypocrisy, illiteracy, indigo, Israel, Israel Apatheid week, lone soliders, military, Palestine, sanctions, the book of negroes, The Hour . Author: labeauvoir . Comments: 6 Comments
Just went to the onemillionactsofgreen website and they have officially passed the 1,000,000 mark! I have two questions running through my head right now.
Did each and every act that people signed up for really get done, or was it just a game to see if you could get more than your friends? I have far [...]
February 3, 2009
Categories: Announcements, George Stroumboulopoulos, The Hour . . Author: cordeliashipley . Comments: 1 Comment
It’s not too late to get in on the action. Go to One Million Acts of Green and register your acts. The last time I checked they had just over 977,000 acts. There are lots of really great ways to help out – though it can be hard to wrack up really big numbers if you aren’t [...]
February 3, 2009
Categories: The Hour, Uncategorized . Tags: 1 Million Acts of Green . Author: Atticus Finch . Comments: Leave a Comment
This is brilliant. Kudos to The Hour for stepping it up. As George and David Suzuki said in their conversation today, its not about being perfect its about taking steps toward being more green. So go for it, make a decision, register it on the site and prove that people can affect change.
Here is the [...]
October 21, 2008
Categories: Announcements, Canadians, George Stroumboulopoulos, Interviews, The Hour, World Events . Tags: david suzuki, George Stroumboulopoulos, one million acts of green, The Hour, the stroumboulopouli . Author: labeauvoir . Comments: 2 Comments
Did she actually say that she and her husband inject themselves with growth hormones on a daily basis? Really? I imagine that a lot of the hormone/health problems that exist are from the injection of growth hormones into food (Refer to Monsanto’s injection of growth hormones in cows for their milk products, which was found [...]
October 21, 2008
Categories: George Stroumboulopoulos, Interviews, The Hour . Tags: cancer, George Stroumboulopoulos, growth hormones, monsanto, Suzanne somers . Author: labeauvoir . Comments: Leave a Comment
George Stroumboulopoulos is one of many famous Canadian faces that can be seen in a new Make Poverty History ad pleading to the governement to reach their target and fulfill their promise to give .7% of our national income as foreign aid. This amount is necessary in order for the world to make any real progress towards [...]
June 12, 2008
Categories: Canadians, George Stroumboulopoulos, World Events . Tags: aid, canada, g8, George Stroumboulopoulos, government, make poverty history, poverty, sam roberts, united nations . Author: labeauvoir . Comments: 2 Comments
Dr. Samantha Nutt, former guest of the Hour was in Toronto this past March to lecture at the university of Toronto. A friend of the Red Chair Lounge was there, and found a message worth sharing. READ ON!
CLUSTER BOMBS: We are all implicated.
In March I went to see Dr. Samantha Nutt, founder and executive director [...]
June 5, 2008
Categories: The Hour, World Events . Tags: canadian pension plan, cluster bombs, cpp, dr. samantha nutt, George Stroumboulopoulos, government, The Hour, the real news, university of toronto, war, war child canada . Author: labeauvoir . Comments: 4 Comments