570News Blog: Lisa Drew

Naomi Judd wants you to find yourself, and really make time for yourself.  She’s coming to the region September 16th.
She’s is the “mom” half of the Judd duo, and she will hit our stage to talk about her journey to where she is now.  She is now busy  gearing up for one final reunion with […]

Dalton McGuinty now has a Twitter account.
His staffers say it  will let the Premier speak directly with residents about what he’s up to.
The Blackberry will live another day in India ( 60 more days… for the Ministry of Home Affairs to “review the situation”..)
Telecom authorities say they will examine Research In Motion’s proposals to give […]

I don’t even know where my copy of The Best Laid Plans went to.
But that’s a good thing.  I passed it on just days after picking it up.
The story of a political campaign gone wrong by Terry Fallis is this year’s One Book One community pick.  I picked it up the day after the title […]

It starts tomorrow.  The final summer hurrah.
The 132nd edition of the CNE.
The kids for the rides.. we go for the memories and the Food Building.
 
The theme this year? The more fried, the better.
Check out deep-fried macaroni and cheese balls.
There’s even deep-fried butter balls for dessert.
(Check out the calorie count for those mac and cheese balls.  […]

It is the most wonderful time of the year.
The humidity has finally taken a vacation, and the kids go back to class and routine
in three weeks.  Three weeks until my house returns to a somewhat state of tidiness, and the dogs get back to all day napping.
I am now trying to reset a 13-year-old’s body […]

Happy Monday! 
Two work-related stories from our 570 Morning News files this morning:
Turns out that Skor bar is a good thing for a tense meeting.
A sweet study from the University of Kentucky finds
that the sugar rush provides the brain with the fuel it needs to push away thoughts of blame and revenge,  making it easier for […]

Not quite a scene from Ally McBeal… but…
the on-air staff here have been sharing an awful lot lately.
Our 12th floor washrooms are under reno  - completely gutted at the moment.
I just took another look in…. and both rooms remain cleared out, right down to the bare walls.
So here’s the deal.  The morning crews at all […]

We landed at Cambridge Memorial Hospital yesterday.  It wasn’t a planned visit. (When is it..really?)  Our almost eight-year-old was the reason.  Let’s say a  heavy duty box cutter had its way with his thumb.  Much blood, many tears, and a pretty decent cut that warranted stitches, sent us packing into the car quick.
(Sooo…..why did this […]

No surprise.
It’s official.  More than 20 billion tweets have now gone out..and been received. 
Yep, that’s 20 BILLION!
The landmark tweet coming out of Japan - where some eight million tweets come from daily.
As you heard on the 570 Morning News this morning..it has taken Twitter
four years to hit ten billion, and it doubled that figure just in […]

Ask my dad.  I’m pretty sure he received a bottle of Old Spice from us, for a good five years in a row.  But that was way back in the 70’s!
It was the go-to-gift, and he  always pretended to be excited about, along with the homemade cards and standard ties.  Dads do that.  So we […]