Gordie Tapp
Canadian radio and television entertainer Gordon Robert “Gordie” Tapp has died at 94. Tapp was instrumental in changing radio entertainment in Canada and later moved to Nashville as a member of the cast of the country television program Hee Haw. His character Cousin Clem was a favorite. Tapp was born in 1922 in London, Ontario and worked there in radio before moving to Guelph and Hamilton, where he was a mainstay at CHML radio. It was here he gained fame for Main Street Jamboree, a radio program that successfully moved to television. He worked for 13 years as the host of the CBC program Country Hoedown before his American venture. .
HOCKEY BOSS AS ARMY SECRETARY
The owner the Florida Panthers NHL hockey club, Vincent Viola, has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to become the secretary of the Army. If the nomination is successful Viola will give up that responsibility. The Panther hockey operation says the move will have zero impact on the team.
CHRIS SPENCE
Chris Spence, the former director of education at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), has been stripped of his teaching licence by the Ontario College of Teachers. It found him guilty Monday of plagiarism. He had been previously been found guilty of guilty of professional misconduct last month following the 2013 scandal which led to his resignation as director of the TDSB. Spence, 54, admitted to plagiarizing passages of an opinion piece he wrote for the Toronto Star and it was later discovered that he had done the same in the writing of his PhD dissertation.
