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A Winnipeg-based online flower delivery start-up that stepped inside the “Dragons’ Den” has walked away with a fresh-smelling deal.
Callia Flowers and its 29-year-old tech entrepreneur, Catherine Metrycki, appeared on the CBC reality show Thursday night. Metrycki pitched her company to the venture capitalists and landed a $500,000 investment from Manjit Minhas for a 12.5 percent stake.
By The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Ron MacLean addressed Don Cherry’s dismissal with a lengthy monologue during the first-period intermission of Saturday’s “Hockey Night in Canada” broadcast, saying “Coach’s Corner is no more.”
MacLean opened the intermission segment — the first since Sportsnet fired Cherry on Monday — by speaking alone on camera for nearly five minutes.
By Gregory Strong, The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Don’t expect an immediate replacement for fired commentator Don Cherry on “Coach’s Corner.”
In fact, it’s possible that Sportsnet may eventually take the long-running “Hockey Night in Canada” segment in a different direction.
By The Canadian Press
TORONTO — CTV says it is apologizing to anyone who was offended by comments made by a correspondent on its show The Social following the firing of hockey commentator Don Cherry.
During the program on Tuesday, Jessica Allen said she doesn’t “worship at the altar of hockey” and found in her experience that those who did “all tended to be white boys who weren’t, let’s say, very nice.”
By David Friend, The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Disney Plus is warning subscribers that some of Walt Disney’s most beloved classics might contain “outdated cultural depictions.”
A number of films available on the streaming platform, which launched Tuesday, included cautionary notes in the plot descriptions about problematic representations in some of the characters.
An online flower delivery service that blossomed out of a Winnipeg woman’s home three years ago is going big with an upcoming pitch on CBC’s “Dragons’ Den.”
Catherine Metrycki‘s Callia Flowers recently expanded to the Toronto market and is currently in 22 cities from Victoria to Halifax.
By Gregory Strong, The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Sportsnet brass made the call to end Don Cherry’s nearly four-decade run on Hockey Night in Canada’s “Coach’s Corner” after his rant over the weekend. Their next big decision may be even tougher.
With his bombast, insight, experience and over-the-top delivery, Cherry created an institution with his appearances on the popular Saturday evening segment.
Global Winnipeg has named Lisa Dutton as the station’s new 6 p.m. anchor.
No stranger to Winnipeg, Dutton relocated to the city in 2017 with her family. She was previously the morning anchor at Global Saskatoon for 12 years.
By David Friend, The Canadian Press
TORONTO — The number Canadian households paying for at least one streaming video service will eclipse traditional TV subscribers for the first time next year, predicts an annual report on consumer habits.
Convergence Research Group says the growing popularity of an array of streaming options — ranging from Netflix and Crave to sports platform DAZN — is leading to a gradual shift in where viewers invest their entertainment dollars.
By The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be portrayed in Sunday’s Canadian-themed episode of “The Simpsons,” which is titled “D’Oh Canada.”
Toronto journalist Lucas Meyer tweeted on Monday that he got to guest-voice Trudeau for the segment after putting together an impressions video on YouTube.
