Her family became quite famous. All due to her and her four identical sisters.   This week, I look at the passing of the last of the Dionne Quintuplets.   I'm still looking for your stories of your home province – please send them to me (audio file or a few paragraphs that I can read) to me at the SAME address you can use, if YOU want to be a part of MY podcast. For that, please send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.     Send either of those to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, by Buying Me A Coffee.Please go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

Surprise!   Even I thought I was done for the season, but Caroline convinced me to test my Canadian Christmas knowledge.   This show is “live-to-tape”. I didn't make any edits, but I did add a few sound effects into the mix. Play along with us, and see how many questions you can answer correctly!   I'm still looking for your stories of your home province – please send them to me (audio file or a few paragraphs that I can read) to me at the SAME address you can use, if YOU want to be a part of MY podcast. For that, please send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send either of those to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, by Buying Me A Coffee.Please go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

For me, this is the Christmas season. What is it for you? Or IS it anything for you?   This week, is a little more personal. I'm talking about what this season is like for me. I let the tangent machine loose, and I talk about what I do at this time of year.   I'm still looking for your stories of your home province – please send them to me (audio file or a few paragraphs that I can read) to me at the SAME address you can use, if YOU want to be a part of MY podcast. For that, please send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.     Send either of those to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, by Buying Me A Coffee.Please go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

Space...The Final Frontier   and Canada's place in it   There's a lot out there...space, that is...and a lot of Canadians have been a part of it. Join me, as I take a look at the Canadian people, Canadian places and Canadian things that are a part of it.   I'm still looking for your stories of your home province – please send them to me (audio file or a few paragraphs that I can read) to me at the SAME address you can use, if YOU want to be a part of MY podcast. For that, please send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send either of those to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, by Buying Me A Coffee.Please go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.   And for ALL of the links about what I spoke about today, they'll be on the left side of the screen at https://whorpole.ca – just after you Buy Me A Coffee! ;-)

Today, I'm going to look at something that is SO Canadian, some would say TOO Canadian. An orphaned girl, mistakenly sent to stay with an older couple in the fledgling province of Prince Edward Island, at the end of the Victorian Era.   Anne of Green Gables.   I'm still looking for your stories of your home province – (especially PEI) - please send them to me (audio file or a few paragraphs that I can read) to me at the SAME address you can use, if YOU want to be a part of MY podcast. For that, please send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send either of those to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, by Buying Me A Coffee.Please go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.   Links to some ot the things I have mentioned today, can be found at my website:https://whorpole.ca

Today, I'm going to accentuate the Canadian Accent. It's a thing – subtle, but it's there. I give you an idea of what it is. There's a bit of joking, and a bit of seriousness – but hopefully after listening today, you'll get an idea of ANOTHER thing that makes a Canadian, a Canadian.   I'm still looking for your stories of your home province – please send them to me (audio file or a few paragraphs that I can read) to me at the SAME address you can use, if YOU want to be a part of MY podcast. For that, please send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send either of those to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, by Buying Me A Coffee.Please go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

This week, we're back to my look at Canada's provinces.Today, it's Manitoba. Just to give you a heads-up – New Brunswick is next on the list, so if you have any stories about YOUR province, please email them to me, as an audio file or a few paragraphs that I can read. That actually goes for any one of the other ones that I have or have not spoken about. I'd like to hear YOUR stores about your homes. Email them to me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   As always, here are some links to things I have spoken about during the show: There are a lot of them this week. You can find them at my homepage – https://whorpole.ca   If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee.Please go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

Here we are – the 2nd Annual Live Broadcast.   I should have known that something would happen. The show actually went off pretty well. I discovered after the show that the audio from my microphone wasn't really coming through well on the broadcast. What actually happens is that when the show is over, I have the option to download it, and post it like a regular episode – and THAT is when I heard the audio anomaly. Fortunately, I made a local recording WHILE I was broadcasting live (that's something I learned to do from my years in radio...long ago). I have taken the GOOD audio, and have married it with the rest of the file that I downloaded of the live broadcast.   Please enjoy the show!   I'd like to know how you're listening to me. Are you using Podbean's app? Do you listen from my site (whorpole.ca)? Or do you use one of the many podcast platforms that you can listen to this podcast on. I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!” If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee.Please go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

This week marks a milestone in the podcast...a couple actually! It is the 2nd anniversary of the show, and the 90th episode.   It was due to be live, but it is not. I will endeavour to get that live thing happening soon – but what you'll here today is an unedited “live-to-tape” show. I'm going to call it the “Pseudo-Live Triple-Threat”. I'll be looking at a few of the subjects from my Canada T-Shirt, and a couple of other things.   I'd like to know how you're listening to me. Are you using Podbean's app? Do you listen from my site (whorpole.ca)? Or do you use one of the many podcast platforms that you can listen to this podcast on. I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!” If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because: Red Rose Tea https://redrosetea.com   Plexiglass https://200.mcgill.ca/history/the-invention-of-plexiglas/   Java Computer Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)   The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoothttps://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A?si=OnoZxylywEwzYbX5   I'd like to know how you're listening to me. Are you using Podbean's app? Do you listen from my site (whorpole.ca)? Or do you use one of the many podcast platforms that you can listen to this podcast on. I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!” If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee.Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

Today – something new. Today – an experiment. Today – I am telling you a story.   I've been working on this for a while, and due to the electronic/computer issues I have been having lately, it is time. It expands a bit on what I did last with with The Halifax Explosion.   Canada, as I see it is still a thing. In fact, I will be back next week, with a new episode. This week, I present to you: Theatre, as you hear it. Radio drama, that let's YOU create the picture in your mind. There will be more episodes of this – when I can get them completed. I have a few in various levels of “completedness”. This episode fits in with the darker, and spookier season.Considering the time change in North America this week, we'll have a little bit more darkness, as the day moves on! Please enjoy today's submission for your approval.   The Monkey's Pawby W.W. Jacobs   The music and sound effects from today's episode come from a very talented group of people at Pixabay.   Here they are: https://pixabay.com/users/freesound_community-46691455 https://pixabay.com/users/floraphonic-38928062 https://pixabay.com/users/u_879x48oguz-48418712 https://pixabay.com/users/soundreality-31074404 https://pixabay.com/users/koiroylers-44305058 https://pixabay.com/users/zehendrew-39650991 https://pixabay.com/users/traian1984-41907904 https://pixabay.com/users/u_y3wk5ympz8-47045027 https://pixabay.com/users/soul_serenity_sounds-6817262 https://pixabay.com/users/magiaz-10236927 https://pixabay.com/users/moonshire-50609346 https://pixabay.com/users/dragon-studio-38165424   My daughter Liz Prevost designed the logo for Theatre, as you hear it (and the logo for Canada, as I see it).   I'd like to know how you're listening to me. Are you using Podbean's app? Do you listen from my site (whorpole.ca)? Or do you use one of the many podcast platforms that you can listen to this podcast on. I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!” If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca

It was a challenging week.I had a computer meltdown. Everything was safe, but the files looked like the proverbial frog-in-a-blender.   AND, this one was the one that had the most work to do on it!It's a little different than others...a bit more production, and more of a 'story' feel.   This week, I am talking about what was the largest man-made explosion before the atomic bombs were dropped in World War II. The Halifax Explosion. If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?   I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”   Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because: The Halifax Explosionhttps://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/halifax-explosion     Halifax Explosion National Historic Sitehttps://parks.canada.ca/culture/designation/evenement-event/halifax-explosion    Maps of the Devastationhttps://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the-disaster-that-reshaped-a-city/   Vince Coleman - the man who saved hundredshttps://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/what-see-do/halifax-explosion/vincent-coleman-and-halifax-explosion    More photos from the disasterhttps://www.grownuptravels.com/searching-for-remnants-of-the-halifax-explosion/    The CNIBhttps://www.cnib.ca/en    Thanks go to TrenoX8, DavidDumaisAudio, and SoundReality from Pixabay for the music and sound effects I used this week.https://pixabay.com/        My Blog:https://whorpole.ca/blog/   If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee. Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

This week on Canadian Geography 101 aka Canada, as I see it, we take a look at British Columbia.   ...where it is ...how it got its name ...its native celebrities   and an introduction to a new bit...personal stories. If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?   I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”   Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because:   British Columbia – Official Site https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/home   BC Wines https://winebc.com/bc-wines-101/   CBC Still Standinghttps://gem.cbc.ca/still-standing/s01 (search for Lytton BC) Ignite My Voice Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ignite-my-voice-becoming-unstoppable/id1827041495   Podbean:https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/2tygm-367971/Ignite-My-Voice-Becoming-Unstoppable-Podcast Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ignite-inc-voice/   My Blog:https://whorpole.ca/blog/   If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee. Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

Last week, it was the first big trip. This week, another first.   Today, it seems as though every entertainment venue you look at, has a corporate name attached to it. I'm not arguing it – in today's financial climate, it's almost necessary to survive.   But when did this all start? Well, put it this way, it was so long ago, that it can retire this year.   Join me, as I look at the first venue to ever have a company name attached to it. If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?   I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”   Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because: Meridian Hall https://tolive.com/Meridian-Hall    Carling O'Keefe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carling_O%27Keefe   The Original O'Keefe Business Office https://www.eraarch.ca/projects/ryerson-continuing-education-building/   Rogers Centre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Centre   Major League Baseball Stadium and Team Names https://www.mlb.com/team (if you run behind a VPN, turn it off to see this site – it doesn't like them!)     My Blog:https://whorpole.ca/blog/   If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee. Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

You always remember the first. First day of school. First job. First love.   Today, I'm going to tell you about the first trip that Caroline and I took together.The first big trip.   Plenty of links to check out today, and a new one...a photo album. All can be seen at my site: https://whorpole.ca   Join me, as I take a trip down memory lane, on a highway...and a train...and a canoe...   If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?   I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”   Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because: Photos from our triphttps://whorpole.ca/Photos-from-our-trip-to-Cochrane-2004/ Cochrane, Ontario https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane,_Ontario   The King's Highways – Downloading https://www.thekingshighway.ca/jan11998.html   The Polar Bear Habitat Site https://www.polarbearhabitat.ca/   The Polar Bear Express Trainhttps://www.ontarionorthland.ca/en/travel/polar-bear-express-passenger-train   Shania Twain Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shaniatwain/?hl=en   CBC Gem https://gem.cbc.ca/still-standing/s10e01   The Long, Long Trailer https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047191/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1   My Blog:https://whorpole.ca/blog/   If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee. Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

The Earth is made up of mostly water. 70% in fact. So water, most of the time, is the drink that people will choose to quench their thirst, or cleanse their palate.   But, thanks to the curiosity of some, and the adventurousness of others – there are many different ways that water can be transformed into an abundance of beverages. And since this is a podcast about all things Canadian – I'm here to tell you about the beverages that are...all-Canadian.   Remember, you can check out links about anything I mention during the show – https://whorpole.ca   If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?   I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”   Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because: Craft Brewers in Canadahttps://ccba-ambc.org/about/   Sour-Toe Cocktailhttps://www.cruisecritic.com/articles/tasting-the-sourtoe-cocktail-in-dawson-city-yukon   Kissing The Codhttps://www.amatravel.ca/articles/getting-screechd-in-a-history-of-kissing-cod-in-newfoundland VQA Wineshttps://www.winegrowerscanada.ca/vqa-wines/Andy Dundas' ALS Challengehttps://myalschallenge.com/    My Blog:https://whorpole.ca/blog/   If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee. Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

Geography lesson today. Get your notebooks out! This week, I begin a look at Canada's provinces and territories.   This week, it's Alberta. Remember, you can check out links about anything I mention during the show – https://whorpole.ca   If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?   I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”   Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because: See what Alberta has to offer: https://www.travelalberta.com/     First Nations in Albertahttps://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/first-nations-in-alberta?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=14798420309&gbraid=0AAAAADqdd-nO7AphKnQzxng89WzlYr_U1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwndHEBhDVARIsAGh0g3CxngwelvJy6cAP9OiaJ_wcdW-wegLIdAPMakqRxuOyz4w5jDo9l9YaAuLFEALw_wcB   My Blog:https://whorpole.ca/blog/   If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee. Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

Another week, another fire.   Thirty-seven years after the Titanic struck an iceberg and sunk in the North-Atlantic ocean, Toronto experienced it's own, deadly, preventable tragedy.   This week, I take a look at Canada's Worst Marine Disaster – the SS Noronic.   Remember, you can check out links about anything I mention during the show – https://whorpole.ca   If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?   I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”   Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because: SS Noronic Memorial Plaquehttps://whorpole.ca/gallery/SS%20Noronic%20Plaque.jpg=0   Photos of the fire and aftermathhttps://historicdetroit.org/galleries/noronic-fire-photos   Mount Pleasant Cemetery – Memorialhttps://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/196635/first-anniversary-of-the-noronic-disaster-was-marked-at-moun?ctx=25935b9e426d130ead1d550788302b398757f995&idx=18   My Blog:https://whorpole.ca/blog/   If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee. Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

Hello everyone! Canada, as I see it is back after a summer hiatus.The third season (yeah, that's what I'm calling it) begins as I take a look at the Great Toronto Fire. Many of the fire rules and regulations in place today, were enacted due to this event. Join me, as I take you through the events of that evening in mid-April 1904.   Remember, you can check out links about anything I mention during the show – https://whorpole.ca   If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?   I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”   Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because: Overview of the Great Toronto Firehttps://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-fire-of-toronto-1904   More photos of the aftermath of the firehttps://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-fire-of-toronto-1904   A map of Toronto around that time – 1903 https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=d38469bfb363441d98b21f239adfd0a3   My Blog:https://whorpole.ca/blog/   If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee. Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

Wow...haven't we just had a week. There's certainly a lot to talk about. I've also got a bit of news of my own.   Join me for my longest podcast to date, as I explore the 2025 Canadian Federal Election.   Remember, you can check out links about anything I mention during the show – https://whorpole.ca   If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?   I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”   Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because: Canada's 2025 Federal Election https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2025/results/   My Blog:https://whorpole.ca/blog/   If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee. Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

Keeping with the spirit of the season (Hockey playoffs and such)...Today's story is about a player who many of you may not heard of before...Toronto Maple Leaf defenceman Bill Barilko.   Remember, you can check out links about anything I mention during the show – whorpole.ca   Go to my website – whorpole.ca for the links I refer to in this episode.   If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?   I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”   Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because: Bill Barilko's Goal https://sm.whc.ca/data/w/h/whorpole.ca/preview_ukrOx/gallery/Bill%20Barilko%20Goal.jpg   Video of Bill Barilko's Goal https://youtu.be/fTmaRu4vvew?si=8StjTr0rfR_wr2n4   The Tragically Hip - “Fifty Mission Cap” - Tribute to Bill Barilko https://youtu.be/AOxHRMdgdHM?si=ePoFRpDrl0Wkxeqc   If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast,send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.   Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca   AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee. Go to my webside – whorpole.ca, and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.