The anthem singer was Nikki Yanofski, from Montreal, bi-lingual, and someone posted some of her album where she does Ella Fitzgerald here and she got dissed by a number of people.

I pointed out she's done Carnegie Hall already, she turned 16 last week, and she has been at the Montreal for the Jazz Festival for the last few years.

And the Joni Mitchell piece was very good.

We have one odd thing going for us. Our radio stations are required to include something like 15 percent Canadian content. I personally think everyone should do that at a state or provincial level too. Develop and support local talent. And when it's cold here we hang out in bars. Well not John any more, unless I have one beer waiting for my wife to get off work, rather than parking in front of her office and wondering when she's coming out. Then she has a 1/2 (pint) and we head home.

I don't get the fact that some people didn't like Donald Sutherland as narrator, and helped carry the olympic flag. He's been a very proud canuck, along side Leslie Neilson and what's his name from Star Trek who's everywhere ...I saw a few minutes of Boston Legal, which I never watch and saw him there, but I've seen him in Toronto Hotels a lot of times, smile at the guy and he waves at you...cool.

John Conley
Musica est vita