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That time when Toronto TV was fit for aerobics

Most famous and still fondly recalled three decades later was The 20 Minute Workout, a cheap as chips studio production from animation upstarts Nelvana, which aired on the still burgeoning Citytv and featured a bevy of spandex adorned beauties grooving with a pulsating electro soundtrack (later released on vinyl).

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Edmonton’s Cool Bus

Edmonton isn’t the first place to hype the bus with an overblown video campaign. The Danes are way ahead on that count—having dropped “Epic Bus Ad” on the world in late 2012 (what has two thumbs and a license to operate oversized passenger vehicles? This driver) then following it up earlier this year with “Epic Bus: The Sequel” (hold onto your panties, ladies). The Edmonton Transit System reportedly paid $27,000 for three COOL videos; if not riders, the ad is at least drawing eyes, with more than 300,000 Facebook views since last week.

via @CityLab

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Baseball Fever Grows in Montreal With Hope of a New Team

But during the past three years, and in particular the past several months, a series of events has led people in Montreal to embrace the idea that baseball might be coming back. It is a hope so strong that it is again possible to buy Expos merchandise in airport shops, and to dream of a day when a major league club will again call Montreal home.

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You can now grow bananas. In Canada. Outside

Aird Flavelle has been nursing a banana plant in his Abbotsford backyard for the past decade, watching as its big-eared leaves reached 15 feet tall and stretched just as wide across his patch of Fraser Valley swampland.

Wow. Is ‘Aird Flavelle’ his real name?