Canada’s Hockey Hometown Heroes

Even though the 2014 Olympics in Sochi are 100 days away, all I can think of is what pride I had in being a Canadian after watching the Canadian Men’s Hockey Team win gold back in Vancouver 2010. I’m looking forward to this so much that I can’t stop looking at Hockey Canada’s website to see if the team list is posted yet.

While looking at the orientation roster, I realized that the many hockey players who are trying out to represent Canada do not actually live in the country full time due to their busy careers being NHL celebrities. However, every one of those players are and will always be true Canucks at heart. 

To prove these boys are true Canadians, I mapped out the hometowns of all of the players on the orientation roster for the 2014 Mens Hockey Team which can be viewed below or if you click here

A First Time For Everything: Court Reporting at Osgoode Hall

Being a first year student in the Journalism program at Humber, there is a compulsory course I am taking this semester called Foundations of Newsgathering. In this course, the class is required to do assignments where we go into the field and write about stories in four categories: crime, courts, city council meetings, and the community. Having already finished the crime assignment, the class now has to sit in on a court case of our choosing and take notes on what we heard and saw.

Osgoode Hall at 130 Queen Street West in Toronto

So, I decided to go to Osgoode Hall, where the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Divisional Court of the Supreme Court of Justice, and the Law Society of Upper Canada all reside.

When I first walked into the building, I didn’t quite know where to go, but a security guard checked me in and let me into the courthouse. After passing security, I felt like a fish out of water. With all the lawyers in their polished black robes walking around and so many foreign corridors to go into it, the courthouse was just overwhelming. After a couple minutes of going into wrong rooms and wandering around, I finally found the notice board that listed all the cases for the week, what courtroom they were in, and a map of the entire building (which I had to consult a couple times throughout the day).

“Can you hear me now?” – Canada Wide Rogers Outage

Many customers want to get discounts on their Rogers Bill because of this outage.

If you live in Canada, or have people who live in Canada on any type of social media, I’m sure you’re aware of what is happening. But for those of you who are unsure of what all the commotion is about (you must either live under a rock or outside of the country), it’s a cellphone outage.

One of Canada’s top cellphone providers, Rogers Canada, is currently experiencing a nation-wide outage that is unexplained. With Rogers unsure of how long it will take to fix the problem and every form of social media booming with cries about the outage, I decided to create a Storify about it.

Anyone interested in viewing the Storify about the Rogers outage can do so by clicking this link