Toronto Legends

Exhibition Place CEO Don Boyle talks about the logistics behind holding 1600+ annual events attracting 5.5MM visitors, the grandeur of the Princes’ [not Princess!] Gates, how many Torontonians' first job was working at the CNE, turning the area under the Gardiner into a cattle yard during the Royal Winter Fair, increasing access via Liberty Village/the existing GO station/the NEW Ontario Line station, the expansion plans for BMO Field ahead of the 2026 Fifa World Cup, the Exhibition Stadium baseball field markers embedded in the asphalt parking lot, and he shares BREAKING NEWS of a possible ‘Transit Game’ event next summer!

For everything Exhibition Place, please visit www.explace.on.ca

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Former NHLer & two-time Stanley Cup champion Chris Dingman talks about the WHL bus rides during his 4 years playing Junior in Brandon MB, getting drafted 19th overall by the Calgary Flames, his first NHL game lining up against Stevie Y and the Red Wings, winning his first Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 2001, winning his second Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004, his interactions with Tortorella/Belak/Bourque/Bowman/St Louis/Forsberg/Patrick Roy/Andreychuk/Sakic/Lecavalier, his overseas stints playing in Sweden & Denmark [he had his own fanclub chant!], transitioning to a post-playing broadcasting career, and why he wears BOTH Stanley Cup rings to all his sales calls!

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Nelson President & CEO Steve Brown talks about leading the digital transformation at a 110 year old business known as ‘that textbook company,’ moving from paper output into an immersive digital learning platform called EDWIN, why he insisted that NO users manual be required & that information be ONLY one click away, leveraging AI/generative AI/large language models, why his educational industry peers don’t like it when he uses the terms ‘customers’ or ‘consumers,’ the need to build a ‘safe sandbox’ for learning, why his legacy of empathetic leadership will be measured in GDP advances, and the 'root cause' need to get down to that FIFTH iteration of asking ‘WHY??’

For more on Nelson, please visit https://www.nelson.com/

For more on their digital learning ecosystem called EDWIN, please visit https://edwin.app/

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Legendary NFL/CFL Kicker Mike Vanderjagt talks about whether he or Donovan Bailey ‘owns’ the Town of Oakville, his WVU college kicking debut [9yd punt in front of 76,000 fans televised on ESPN], his Arena Football League experience with the Minnesota Fighting Pike [actually a Walleye in the logo!], his back-2-back Grey Cup championships with the Flutie/Clemons Argonauts [and how he lost & recovered the actual Grey Cup!], his 9 NFL seasons finishing as the most accurate kicker in history, why you ‘punt for show and kick for dough,’ his interactions with Peyton Manning/Edgerrin James/Marvin Harrison/Bill Parcells/Jerry Jones/Don Matthews, kicking a 46 yard field goal on the streets of Manhattan with David Letterman as his holder, installing full sized NFL regulation uprights in his Milton backyard, his top-of-the-line 99 rating on Madden, and serving as the kicking stand-in for noted thespian Tony Danza in The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon...and by the way, maybe you heard that he had a bit of a brouhaha with Peyton Manning back in 2002???

TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at [email protected]

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Adyen’s Canadian Country Manager Sander Meijers talks about the innovations in fintech leading the push towards ‘unified commerce,’ why it’s not a question of ‘if’ but rather ‘when’ his global firm applies for a Canadian banking license, why consumers should expect the SAME shopping experience whether shopping on-line or in a bricks-and-mortar store, taking on this great adventure with his family’s move from Amsterdam to Toronto, why he brought his ELECTRIC bike with him from bicycle-friendly Amsterdam, his ongoing search for local Bitterballen [Dutch meatballs], and he clarifies that his home country is actually called The Netherlands and not Holland!

For more on Adyen and its single platform for unified commerce, please visit https://www.adyen.com/

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Canada’s Artist Charles Pachter talks moose, hockey murals and why the Queen WAS amused!

Charles shares the stories behind meeting his husband Keith Lem [Orillia aristocracy!], the inspiration from his lifelong friendship with ‘Peggy Nature’ [Margaret Atwood at Camp White Pine], his mother’s reaction to his Leafs/Habs murals going up in the TTC College Street subway station [“it’s the basement, but at least it’s permanent!’], opening the ‘other Shaw Festival’ and then building his ‘palace’ in the middle of downtown Toronto, his breakout ‘Queen on a Moose’ painting selling for $10K [far exceeding the $1.2K he had asked for], doing for the Moose ['Monarch of the North'] what Andy Warhol did for Marilyn Monroe, developing his brand of ‘affectionate mischief,’ serving as the late great Mayor Mel Lastman’s Moose Mentor, creating his alter ego the film critic Don Rouge-Humber, and his attempts to explain the economics [and insanity] of the art world!

For everything Charles Pachter, please visit https://cpachter.com/

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Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist Stephen Stanley talks about his new album with The Stephen Stanley Band, his 23 years with The Lowest of the Low [with a few breaks & a few break-ups mixed in], why ‘Shakespeare My Butt’ was [at the time] both an albatross and a gold medal, his memories of enjoying 4am nachos at Sneaky Dee’s with Dave Bookman, presenting a bouquet of roses better suited for Secretariat to Luciano Pavarotti at Massey Hall [and later playing there himself], turning DOWN opening tour slots with Bryan Adams/Barenaked Ladies/Violent Femmes, his connections to The Mynah Bird/Yorkville music scene, making the move from Toronto to Wolfe Island, and why 9 out of 10 doctors do NOT recommend yogurt as the cure for smoking bad weed!

For everything Stephen Stanley and The Stephen Stanley Band’s new album ‘Before the Collapse of the Hive,’ please visit https://stephenstanleyband.com/

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The Man/the Myth/the Legend Brian McFarlane talks about his 25 years on Hockey Night in Canada, his time down south with NBC and CBS, being in the Maple Leaf Gardens’ gondola for the LAST Maple Leafs Stanley Cup win in 1967 [and crashing the team party afterwards with his wife!], getting banned from MLG by owner Harold Ballard [but nonetheless doing his job from outside the arena on the Carlton St sidewalk!], the imminent comeback of Peter [and Penny!] Puck, playing hockey with Jean Beliveau/Gordie Howe/Rocket Richard/Wayne Gretzky/Mario Lemieux, his Dad being the original author of The Hardy Boys novels, penning the words to ‘Clear the Track, Here Comes Shack!’, and his fun [and not so fun] times with Harold Ballard at Maple Leaf Gardens!

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Author Dr Norm O’Reilly talks about why the NHL makes a fantastic business case study, transferring lessons learned from the ice to the boardroom, why love him or loathe him Gary Bettman is a strong 'in control' leader, the future of NHL expansion both domestically & globally, why the Arizona franchise experiment is unlikely to die, how the NHL successfully led all major sports leagues into the Las Vegas market, the star power achieved with the book’s foreward written by Gary Bettman and its afterward written by Hayley Wickenheiser, how many ADDITIONAL NHL teams he speculates could be supported in Toronto & Montreal, the trends indicating that it won’t be long before there are more Americans playing hockey than Canadians [!!], he explains the ‘bag of cash’ syndrome relative to sports gambling issues, and he provides local ‘insider’ expertise on where to get the best Lobster Rolls in Maine!

Norm O’Reilly & Rick Burton’s 'Business the NHL Way: Lessons from the Fastest Game on Ice' is published by UTP Press and is available here: https://utorontopress.com/9781487508760/business-the-nhl-way/

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1 Minute Morning’s Tom Hayes talks about career stops at Scarborough Cable/CKVR-Barrie/CTV News/CityNews/Global News, his broadcasting brothers from another mother Bill Hayes/Bryan Hayes/John [Hayes] Derringer, the surprise of Tik Tok providing 50% of his current viewing audience, his memorable interactions with Lady Di/Mick Jagger/Robert De Niro/Paul Stanley, and the crazy details behind his investigative reporting that led to the creation of ‘The Hayes Amendment’ in our provincial liquor legislation!

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