March 2021
DRESS IN BLUE DAY
Dress in Blue Day lets allies everywhere join the mission to end colorectal cancer. By wearing blue, you bring awareness to this disease and support our work — as well as honor all who are impacted by colorectal cancer. Dress in Blue Day is Friday, March 5, but March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. In 2021, an estimated 149,500 people will be diagnosed with this highly preventable disease. They will join more than 1.4 million colorectal cancer patients and…
Find out more »Transit Operator and Worker Appreciation Day.
Today is Transit Operator and Worker Appreciation Day. Almost one-year since the first lockdown, let's honour these workers on social media. Not just frontline operators, but also the maintenance crews, mechanics, dispatchers and others who have kept our communities running safely—and still do! Use the hashtag #thankstransit.
Find out more »Classic Albums Top To Bottom – BAT OUT OF HELL (MEATLOAF)
This week we're featuring some of the greatest albums of all time with ‘Classic Albums - Top To Bottom’ Tonight: Meatloaf – Bat Out of Hell (released October 1977) Tonight at 9:00 you’ll hear the full album, song by song, start to finish…. Classic Albums – Top To Bottom
Find out more »Classic Albums Top To Bottom – THE STRANGER (BILLY JOEL)
The Stranger is the fifth studio album by American singer Billy Joel, released in September 1977 by Columbia Records. Spending six weeks at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200, The Stranger is considered Joel's critical and commercial breakthrough. Four singles were released in the US, all of which became top-40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Tonight at 9, hear this classic album top to bottom... the way it was meant to be heard!
Find out more »Classic Albums Top To Bottom – CRIME OF THE CENTURY (SUPERTRAMP)
Tonight at 9:00, we’re playing this classic album in its entirety… TOP TO BOTTOM! In the 1987 edition of The World Critic Lists, CBC's Geoff Edwards ranked Crime of the Century the 10th greatest album of all time. A 1998 public poll, aggregating the votes of more than 200,000 music fans, saw Crime of the Century voted among the all-time top 1000 albums, and it was listed in the 2005 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In…
Find out more »Classic Albums Top to Bottom – STRANGER IN TOWN (BOB SEGER)
Stranger in Town is the tenth studio album by American rock singer Bob Seger and his second with the Silver Bullet Band, released by Capitol Records in May 1978. The Silver Bullet Band backed Seger on about half of the songs and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section backed Seger on the other half. The album became an instant success in the United States, being certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America less than a month after the album's…
Find out more »Classic Albums Top To Bottom – THE CARS
Tonight at 9:00, we’re playing this classic album in its entirety… TOP TO BOTTOM! Hear it the way it was meant to be heard, tonight!
Find out more »April 2021
GREEN SHIRT DAY
Today is Green Shirt Day Green Shirt Day was created to honour the victims of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, and to continue Logan Boulet's legacy by inspiring Canadians to become donors as he did. (April is National Organ & Tissue Donation Awareness Month).
Find out more »EASTER SUNDAY
Easter Sunday in Canada celebrates Jesus Christ's resurrection after his death, which is described in the Christian Bible. Some people observe Easter Sunday by attending church while others spend time with their families and friends or engage in Easter egg activities. Easter Sunday is not a public holiday. It falls on Sunday, April 17, 2022 and most businesses follow regular Sunday opening hours in Canada.
Find out more »Birthday QUEEN ELIZABETH II (95)
Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 95th birthday, six years after she became the longest-reigning English monarch in history. Although the late Queen Mother gave birth to Queen Elizabeth II on this day in April, public celebrations for her birthday do not take place until June, and the official celebration date changes every year. Her birthday marks the first of her celebrations in many years which will go ahead without Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who passed away on April…
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