Sportsnet One

Yay, finally Canucks, Flames and Oilers fans will be able to see their Team on Sportsnet One this year, (provided they live in the right market of course) as Shaw has picked up the channel.  Oh yeah and Blue Jays fans, if there are any left, will also be able to watch their team. It is hard to know whether any other companies will pick up the channel or how much Shaw will charge for the channel once the free preview is over on October 3rd, but for the moment anyways, balance has been restored to the world.  The Channel is on 225 in HD and channel 159 in SD on Shaw Cable in Edmonton, Vancouver and Calgary with other cities arriving shortly.

Olympic Medal Count

Well so far there has been a lot of hand ringing and wailing about Canada's medal count. all i can say is if you don't like it why don't you devote your life to a sport and win one for us. Seriously, numerous Canadian records have been broken by teams in swimming. People ranked 15th or 16th in the world have made it to the finals and they've all put on a great show. We've had a number of 4th place finishes and overall we're a pretty small country. Also a number of the sports we're really good at like rowing don't finish till next week so I think we can wait just a little longer and besides it's the SUMMER olympics so lets save our complaining for when we fail for the third time to win a gold medal at an olympics that we've hosted.

Good Luck to all the athletes you're all doing a great job.