Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Edna steps up to defend the PM’s Tofino mini-break, but grouses about the incorrigibility of a certain washed-up Brit podcaster; Dick considers taking up pole dancing, but only if you throw money; Hugo’s not sure he’ll be taking the TTC any time soon if he’s required to …

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Dick claims that the only thing better than de-extincting woolly mammoths would be Elton John singing about them; Edna offers the only common-sense election recap you’ll read this week; Dick embraces the cause of economic justice for soy latte drinkers; krystal wonders w…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Buster offers a post-Sinatra critique of Abba’s virtual concert announcement, Edna advises young ladies on the earthworm invasion threat, Dick dreams of seeing the Gazette logo in the night sky, Shirley provides a damage assessment from a friendly crocodile attack, Hugo …

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the PM drops into Cobourg for a quickie; Artie has no idea what to make of the election campaign; Edna ponders the proliferation of generators along the shores of Little Lake; Dick takes aim at the Elmer Fudds in New Zealand who are intent on wasting wascally Canada gees…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the Gazette defends women’s ongoing struggle for top-free justice; Edna pens a love letter to subscribers; Dick defends F-150 drivers against the Army of the Twelve Grosbeaks; Shirley reminisces about her mummy; Jeff offers some suggestions from the man cave on hosting t…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the Gazette celebrates its first-anniversary collectors’ edition but, sadly, without any swimsuit models; Edna wonders whether Elizabeth May is ever at a loss for words; Dick’s being followed by a moon wobble; Shirley reminisces about a Little Lake tugboat race that ende…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the Gazette congratulates Canadians for becoming millionaires; Edna concludes that British insect-rights activists are completely bonkers; Dick assesses the merits of various guitars as bludgeons; Heddi recounts a chilling case of attempted murder by pastry; Jeff daydrea…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, an Edville man is the first Canadian in decades to read a history book; Edna frets about robots taking over the care and feeding of students; Dick offers an unbiased assessment of driverless vehicles; Shirley is freaked out by targeted dream incubation; Heddi celebrates …

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the Gazette editorial board tells Queen’s Park what to do about the pests formerly known as gypsy moths; Edna ponders the mysteries of paintings discovered at dump sites; Dick takes bird-name activists to task; Shirley waxes nostalgic about the romaines of the day; Jeff …

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the Gazette wishes a warm and sincere Canada Day to one and all; Edna wonders whether these new-fangled NFTs can save our fall fairs; Dick wonders if Peterborough’s prototype micro-EVs are the future; Shirley suggests that you think twice about getting facial tattoos; Je…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, no news is not good news in Cobourg—it’s just a bummer; Edna gets pig farmers shaking their booties and their vaccines; Dick wonders why the G7 leaders can’t count; Shirley explores alien life forms in Edville; Heddi sympathizes with Euro cattle who have to postpone thei…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the Little Lake ladies spot a genuine celebrity; Edna reminds amateur ornithologists that backyard chickens make bad pets; Dick explains to exurban newbies how to fix a leaky faucet; Shirley tries out a robotic eye and likes what she sees; Jeff explains how to turn your …

This week, Buster blames Bob Dylan for funny geezer protests; Edna pities MP William Amos for getting caught on-cam again, red-handed and red-faced; Hugo worries about the full bladders proliferating in post-pandemic Toronto; Shirley offers some timely reminders about restaurant etiquette; Jeff gives Leafs fans several reasons to believe in unicorn…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, a minor alleged to be a Gazette columnist crashes her mom’s car at the Edville Tim’s; Edna wonders about the armies of angry rural voters who are destroying democracy; Bertie lobbies the Ford government to resume bribing the rich to buy EVs; Shirley offers a piping hot h…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Edna frets about the cancellation of the Ex and an unrelated outbreak of pig diarrhea; Dick is triggered by the idea of a battery-powered F-150; Shirley loves all the little children, even the illegitimate ones; Jeff offers some D.I.Y. tips on growing weed more or less w…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Missy penetrates the hidden horrors of pandemic celibacy (lube optional); Edna pontificates on cows in the news but wishes they were pigs; Dick welcomes Liberal MP Pablo Rodriguez into the inner sanctum of the profane hoi poloi; Shirley discovers wondrous objects in the …

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Canadians face up to the fact that they’re pandemic lard-asses; Edna wonders about the need for a new Brighton Alert system; Dick ponders the clap outbreak in Belleville with maximum empathy; Shirley grouses about the vandals who keep stealing her lawn ornaments; Jeff re…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Canada prepares to finally annex Saint Pierre & Miquelon; Edna challenges the mad scientists creating human-monkey embryos; Dick ponders carbon-emission taxes from the comfort of his F150; Shirley extols the virtues of walking because you can smoke and fantasize about Vi…

This week, the Minister of Finance finally delivers her “Hell or High Water” budget; Edna queries why tardy naked parliamentarians are such crybabies; Dick wonders what in the world Belleville did to deserve fourth place; Shirley ponders paleontological pudendas so you don’t have to; Jeff builds a D.I.Y. sauna with cash left over for beer; krystal …

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Holly frets about the impact of the global chip shortage on rural Ontario; Edna recalls Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, Jr., with fiscal fondness; Dick ponders Alex Salmond’s future in Scottish politics; Shirley and Jeff share their wisdom on how to make the most of virtu…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the world’s biggest painting spawns imitators and paint shortages; Edna ponders the grave national question of conventional eggs versus organics; Dick advises the feds on improving rural transit; Shirley skewers candles that smell like women’s body parts, and wonders whe…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Bertie worries that the elimination of fax machines might cause a human extinction event; Edna ponders the symbolism of the C.N. Tower’s declining virility; Dick gives Russian researchers credit for kicking our asses on Sputnik—again; Shirley relocates a deceased cat; kr…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, yet another Barrie man sinks yet another F150 in Lake Simcoe; Edna takes issue with an NDP proposal to import the Brits’ nanny state; Dick takes the National News Awards’ snub in stride, entirely without malice; Shirley unclogs the mysteries of retro clogs; krystal wonde…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Ottawa subsidizes meat markets to avert a national fertility crisis; Edna floods her column with pig feces; Dick develops an appreciation of French cinema; Holly ponders the sudden popularity of all things goat; Shirley reminisces about records and 8-tracks, and offers h…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the Gazette joins the Canadian media herd and announces plans to subsidize quality journalism with online gambling; Edna goes all dreamy at the thought of an in-person 2021 Royal Winter Fair; Dick insists that if he’s to remain humble and grounded, he needs a private isl…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Edna ponders the spreadability of the Buttergate scandal; Dick marvels at Hasbro’s marketing strategy for Mr. Potato Head; Edna explores the multicultural mysteries of beach-volleyball couture; Holly coaches married couples on spicing up their sex lives; Shirley remember…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, two happy Canadians are selected for Covid vaccinations, possibly with even more to follow; Edna explores the seminal impact of A.I. and robotics on farms; Dick has a change of heart about Prince Edward County’s tourist boom; Hugo recounts a goldfish invasion; Shirley un…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the Tragically Hip lawyers up; Bertie has a bad feeling about Sunday Gun Hunting; the CBC discovers the remains of a politically-correct pirate; Paris orgy aficionados are booked for wearing the wrong sort of masks; Heddi has a close encounter with a sexy Zoom boy; kryst…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, anti-natalist saboteurs are accused of disrupting global flower supply-chains; Edna weighs in on Victoria Beach and men in Speedos; Dick goes full James Bond and suggests shuttering CSIS; Shirley recounts Edville’s role in the Great Canadian Flag Debate; Hugo weighs in o…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Ottawa takes aim at all those stubborn Canadian snowbirds; Edna ponders seaweed as a yummy human food source; Dick considers upgrading his credentials at U-Haul University; Shirley excavates Edville’s proud line of prognosticating groundhogs; Heddi gives Gwyneth’s vagina…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Ottawa launches a meme war with Brussels over vaccine delays; Bertie explains why he loves the Guardian; Dick pretends not to want to be nominated for Governor General; a Montreal restaurant owner tells it like it is; Heddi reminisces about a yogurt massage from a cabana…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Mr. and Mrs. Bingle assess a cave painting that set off warring tribes of art critics; Edna ponders mealworms as a tasty human food source; Dick alerts lottery addicts to a massive unclaimed prize certain to make them batty; Heddi wonders about an “adult” massage parlour…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the Gazette exposes the vicious U.S. persecution of Canadian celebrity Caillou; Bertie is seriously disappointed by Bill Gates’ green-washing; Dick and Foz get to the bottom of Tweed’s new sewage-treatment lagoon; Jeff offers some excellent D.I.Y. barbecuing tips from th…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Roy wades through the fog of the global dry-ice shortage, double-necked guitar in hand; Edna un-friends Dr. Tam; Dick diplomatically questions the need to wear masks even after the pandemic; Jeff offers some excellent D.I.Y. vehicle-maintenance tips; krystal_bb and Buste…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, bandleader Guy Lombardo rings in 2021 at the Little Lake Pavilion; Edna wonders if chichi “snow beef” is a lot of bull; Dick ponders the wisdom of cycling in snow-bound Canadian cities; krystal_bb worries about the health of really old people in their forties; Buster wor…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, France’s privacy watchdog fines Big Tech for cookie abuse; Edna defends rural Canadians’ claims to the feds’ carbon-tax booty; Dick explains why the “local news crisis” is bollocks; Jeff has a couple of brews and offers ice-fishing safety tips; Cobourg cancels New Years;…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Edna ponders the politics of meat-eating and cannibalism; Jen totally doesn’t judge other mothers who hire photographers; Dick urges investors to hoard garbage tags; krystal_bb craps on those awful gamer boys; Buster explains how boys cannot become real men without Hot W…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the feds deploy ice-cream trucks to distribute pandemic vaccines; Edna queries the need for emotional-support chickens; Dick marvels at Prince Edward County’s clandestine real-estate boom; krystal_bb_diamondz16 recounts a rowdy raccoon brawl; Buster ponders the need for …

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the Earl Spencer ditches overpriced Edville for affordable Muskoka; Edna ponders Dr. Tam’s political future; Dick laments the end of double-cupping at Tim Hortons; krystal_bb_diamondz16 lampoons a deranged boomer who destroyed a gumball machine; Buster busts the feral ma…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Canadians fight food waste by overeating during the holidays; Karen puts non-Karens on notice about the Karen meme; Dick ponders the mystery of Canadians hoarding cash and debt; Edna reprises the great Edville windstorm of 2020; Abigail challenges pandemic doomsters to h…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Missy unpacks Bill 666, An Act for the Enforcement of Domestic Tranquility; Edna toasts the Gazette’s ground-breaking coverage of oversized vegetables; Roy lampoons self-censorship at the Associated Press; Dick offers Ben Affleck a lime-green RFE toque; Bertie frets abou…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Edna celebrates the balmy summer weather; Dick skewers light pollution; Edna frets about Toronto’s sad unpainted candy canes; the editorial board ponders bloater fish in Lake Ontario; Roy airs his dirty laundry on music royalties; Ottawa flounders in the face of the Nova…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Edna ponders the world news shortage; Dick filets Bob McDonald on Halloween spending; Edna proposes the introduction of Edville Standard Time; Dick instructs children on how to bamboozle their parents into giving them more screen time; Janelle reports on the salmon migra…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Missy reports on entomologists, murder hornets and killer bees; Edna ponders the blight of abandoned trailers; Dick challenges the removal of parking privileges for veterans; rowdy Port Hope seniors protest in the streets; Cobourg considers becoming a wrestling Mecca; Ca…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Missy reports on the mysteries of heavier-than-air flight; Edna ponders Prince Edward County’s gift for self-promotion; Dick advocates for an Edville coat of arms; statues of Canadian prime ministers are repurposed as anti-bear weapons; Tim Hortons takes the UK by storm;…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Dr. Tam offers her best Halloween advice; Edna instructs city folk on closing up their cottages; Dick asks why Canadians drive SUVs; Colborne is rocked by a conspiracy theory; Canadian border agents crack down on lettuce; Sara wonders about making ATVs street legal; Ital…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Edna wonders whether pandemic rules scapegoat strippers; Dr. Tam offers her best Thanksgiving advice; Dick suggests “Have Great Sex in Edville” as a new town motto; Brighton town council ponders an outdoor skating rink; the HKPR District Health Unit confronts frothy dogs…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, a French teacher tests the limits of tolerance for demonic tattoos in the classroom; Edna unravels the mysteries of World News Day; Bertie frets about the Feral Swine Bomb; unpopular musicians are right at home in empty bars; Holly wonders why Canada is lagging in the ne…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Belleville officials crack down on painted rocks; Edna wonders why a big Canadian diamond has everyone agog; Dick goes full potty humour on the question of stool transplants; Gucci brings out jeans that are pre-grass-stained; Bertie is embarrassed by Dick’s potty humour;…

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Bertie frets about mice being genetically engineering for space colonization; Edna skewers Brighton’s obstruction of the Edville CNE scheme; Dick explains how Edville would be transformed by a 401 off ramp; the new Rolls Royce Ghost brings out Dick’s inner Marxist; Dick …