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Ronnie Muckler had been the Victoria County Canada Day Pie Eating Contest Champion for a decade.   Rhubarb, apple or cherry, Ronnie was king. “Blueberry? “More like piece-of-cake-berry! No human can defeat me,” bragged Ronnie, and Victoria County hated braggarts. But no human seemed willing to challenge him, and so with mixed feelings, the organizers … Read more

For months, the town of Gordon, Alberta had planned a fantastic Canada Day weekend, the highlight of which would be fireworks. But at a town meeting on June 30, Mayor Clayton Dirge announced: “It seems Ernton Derwillk has bought all the fireworks from here to Red Deer, and he won’t share.” From the gallery, widower … Read more

The year was 2098, and Canadian hockey’s wettest of all dreams was coming true; the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs between the Charlottetown Maple Leafs and the Nunuavut Canadiens. Every match went into overtime. CBC had reacquired the rights to the “Hockey Night in Canada” theme.  The jarred brains of Ron MacLean and … Read more