Archive for December, 2007

From Rock And Roll To Rocking The Cradle: Exclusive Interview With Former Much Music VJ Erica Ehm

Friday, December 28th, 2007

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I started Yummymummyclub.ca because I was a very bad mummy when I started, or so I thought. When I first had my son Josh, they put him in my arms and I turned to my husband with a look of, “What the F*CK do we do now?!” And that was just the beginning.

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The Best Of Citizen Journalism: Orato.com’s Top 50 Stories Of 2007

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

2007 was Orato’s first full year of providing people with a platform and a voice, and we have been blown away by the vibrant response we’ve had from our citizen correspondents. At last count, 3289 of you have posted more than 1,100 stories, videos and audio and image reports to the site, from every corner of the planet.

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Sweet Emotion: A Tribute To Aerosmith

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Before I’d experienced my first kiss, I used to lock myself in my room, crank up Aerosmith’s “What It Takes” and practice on my hand. Steven Tyler was one of my first crushes, only narrowly beaten by Han Solo. When I heard Aerosmith were going to be double headlining at GM Place last year, I knew I had to snap up the $100-a-piece tickets…

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I Won A Million Dollars On Survivor China

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Interview with the winner, Todd Herzog.

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The Scoop From Santa

Monday, December 17th, 2007

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Here’s a fun one to read to your kids, grandkids, nieces or nephews … an interview with Santa! Happy holidays …

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Google Develops Wikipedia Rival

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Google is developing an online publishing platform where people can write entries on subjects they know, an idea that’s close to Wikipedia’s user-contributed encyclopedia but with key differences.

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Im A Survivor: Exclusive With Survivor China’s Jaime Dugan | Orato

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Jaime Dugan is a contestant from CBS’s ‘Survivor China,’ the latest installment in the adventure reality show “that started it all.” Jaime says Survivors past had it relatively easy, since in China, ready sources of food were even more difficult to come by. Jaime’s a competitor at heart though, so she braved it all - even eating earthworms - for a chance at the reward. She didn’t win, but she says she made a lifetime of memories. Here’s an exclusive.

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Warning over washing turkey meat

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

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Tis the season … to get sick? Best to leave the turkey unwashed this year.

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Grady’s Big Ben Richardson: Making It Count

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Grady delivers a kick in the pants so hard that it will leave your ears ringin’ while you’re begging for more. “Who breaks out the double guitar like that these days?” Gordie Johnson does my friend, but bassist Big Ben Richardson’s not about to let Mr. Johnson have all the fun. Here, Big Ben tells us why Michael Bublé can have his cake, so long as Mr. Big gets to stomp his foot and make it count, large and loud.

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The Beginning Of Grieving | Orato

Monday, December 10th, 2007

It’s official - Robert “Willie” Pickton is a convicted serial killer and the families of six victims have some justice after yesterday’s guilty verdict. Trisha Baptie, citizen correspondent for Orato.com and former colleague of many of the missing and murdered women, has been covering this trial since its beginning and was there when the verdict came in. Here’s her reaction, and an interview with CBC Newsworld.

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