Bill Barilko

On February 10, 2005, Custom a.k.a. Duane Lavold shared with me a new song he was working on called USA. On March 5 of that same year, he sent me this video.

In this 1897th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with singer songwriter Charlotte Cornfield about her time in Montreal and Brooklyn before settling down in Toronto and touring with Broken Social Scene and collaborating with Feist. Charlotte is at The Garrison tomorrow night for the 3rd annual Bookie tribute concert.

Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day.

I'm a CBC fan, and a documentary fan, but I'm not sure I knew about CBC's Documentary Channel. It launched on September 7, 2001, primarily owned by Corus Entertainment, until Corus sold its shares to CBC in 2006. That gave CBC 82% ownership, with The National Film Board of Canada

I'm headlining at the El Mocambo two weeks today. Two short weeks. Here's how things are shaping up.

In this 1895th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with Eva Almos about her brief time in radio at Q107 working with Scruff Connors, landing the role of Friend Bear⁠ on Care Bears, her Emmy-nominated writing on Duckman, her work on The Wild Thornberry's, Pinky and the Brain and Wild

Ted Turner was the founder of CNN, Turner Broadcast System (TBS) and Turner Network Television (TNT), but I'll remember him best as the owner of the Atlanta Braves who lost the 1992 World Series to my Toronto Blue Jays.

The Toronto Maple Leafs had an 8.5% chance of landing in the top spot in the 2026 NHL Draft, and that was enough to seal the deal. The Leafs won the lottery.

John Sterling was the radio play-by-play announcer of the New York Yankees calling 5,060 consecutive Yankees games from 1989 to 2019.

In this 1894th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with Larry Fedoruk about Michael Jackson, his eyes, Gordon Jump, Canada's national band, and more. This episode is exactly 1:50:49.