Drivers should brace for a jump in gas prices this week as the new federal carbon tax comes into effect for Ontario residents TODAY. Some predictions are about 5 cents a litre for gas and 8 cents for diesel with some thinking it will peak around $1.30 a litre this summer.<\/p>\n
Dan McTeague of Gas Buddy says that 2019 will be one of the most expensive years for drivers in recent memory.<\/p>\n
Ottawa has vowed to return all the funds collected in rebates to individuals, businesses, local governments and other organizations.<\/p>\n
______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A homeless Nigerian child refugee who recently won the New York State chess championship now has a place to live, thanks to thousands of people who stepped forward to help him and his family.\u00a0Tanitoluwa Adewum<\/strong>i is just eight years old. He and his family fled Nigeria in 2017 in fear of Boko Haram terrorists and obtained asylum in New York City.\u00a0 Since learning to play chess a little more than a year ago, Adewumi earned first place at a school tournament for kindergarten to third-grade players this month. A GoFundMe campaign set up in his name raised more than $246,000 from 4,795 donors in just 10 days. The family plans to donate 10 percent of the money to the church that helped them get to the U.S., and they say they want to help other African immigrants settling in the US.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n There’s a 26-year-old woman in Wales who has Aquagenic Urticaria . . . she’s allergic to\u00a0water.\u00a0 There are only 30 known cases in medical history.\u00a0 It only started for her after she gave birth, and had a difficult delivery.\u00a0 Now she gets hives, itching, and pain when she comes into contact with water.\u00a0 So she showers quickly, and gets panic attacks when it rains.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n _________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Disney’s new\u00a0“Dumbo”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0movie won the box office, but it only made $45 million, which was at the low-end of expectations.\u00a0 The anti-abortion movie\u00a0“Unplanned”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0did well, debuting with $6.1 million and\u00a0Matthew McConaughey’s<\/strong>\u00a0new movie\u00a0“The Beach Bum”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0only made $1.8 million but\u00a0It’s an indie comedy, and was only\u00a0expected\u00a0to make about that much.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1976 [43] Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found \u2018Apple Computer\u2019 in the garage of Jobs\u2019 parents house in Cupertino, California<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2004 [15] Google introduces \u2018gmail\u2019 to the public (at the time, many think it is an April Fools joke)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2008 [11] YouTube tricks users with the popular bait-and-switch prank called \u2018Rickrolling\u2019 by featuring video links that actually lead to Rick Astley\u2019s \u2018Never Gonna Give You Up\u2019 music video.<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n George Strait<\/strong>‘s\u00a0Troubadour\u00a0<\/em>album was released in 2008.<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n NASA and ESA Are Paying Volunteers to Lie in Bed for 60 Days to Test Artificial Gravity<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Regardless of what your own personal idea of a dream job might be, you have to admit that being paid to lounge around in bed sounds pretty awesome.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n That\u2019s exactly what NASA and ESA want a crew of volunteers to do in order to test the potential benefits of artificial gravity for long-haul space missions. The research will require a total of 24 participants to remain in bed for two full months.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volunteers will be seated at a slight incline so that their legs are slightly higher than their heads, reducing blood flow to the extremities, thus causing muscle deterioration.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Along with being able to spend virtually every hour of the day watching TV, movies, playing video games, or reading, the team is paying a handsome sum of nearly $19,000 to each individual.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n That\u2019s a decent chunk of change for two months of \u201cwork,\u201d but even if the study seems laid back on the surface, there are surely some psychological challenges of remaining in the same room, lying slightly backwards, for 60 days (and another 30 days of recovery afterwards).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We wish the volunteers the best of luck!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n RANDOM REPORT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY\u2019S GOOD NEWS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n An 18-year-old kid near Vegas named\u00a0Shaun Mabanta\u00a0recently found out he made it onto the prom court for his senior prom.\u00a0 But he dropped out for a pretty cool reason.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He’s friends with another kid named\u00a0Edgar Hernandez, who has\u00a0autism.\u00a0 And he wanted HIM to be in the running. So he dropped out and aggressively started campaigning to get votes for him.\u00a0 And earlier this month, Edgar WON.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They announced the king and queen at their prom on\u00a0March 16th.\u00a0 And when they said Edgar’s name, he got super emotional.\u00a0 He even cried a little bit after the other kids started cheering his name.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shaun says he did it because he knows what it’s like to feel different, and he used to have major issues with anxiety.\u00a0 Plus, Edgar always goes from table to table at lunch and says hi to everyone.\u00a0 So Shaun felt like he DESERVED to win. Edgar says the whole thing really did make him feel special, and that Shaun’s a “good friend” for doing it.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [58] Susan Boyle, Blackburn, singer<\/p>\n [33] Hillary Scott, country singer (Lady Antebellum)<\/p>\n \u00a0______________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n BEDTIME STORY:<\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n Researchers at the University of Michigan studied 37 sets of parents and their toddlers between the ages of two and three.\u00a0 Participants were analyzed while reading stories, either from a tablet with visual and sound effects, from a tablet without visual and sound effects, or from a traditional book.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What they found was that parents made the greatest number of statements to engage their toddlers when they read from the printed page.\u00a0 They also tended to read more of the story if it was on the printed page. \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n GREAT APRIL FOOL\u2019S DAY PRANKS BY COMPANIES:<\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n \u261e Amazon\u2019s Petlexa:\u00a0 In 2017, they had people scratching their heads when they announced a smart speaker for dogs, cats and other pets. It also supposedly gave pets the freedom to place orders from Amazon, and to activate smart-home-enabled toys.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u261e Zombie apocalypse in Canada:\u00a0 In 2018, using what looked like a still from \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d, The National Research Council of Canada shared a picture of the \u201congoing zombie apocalypse\u201d, writing that their zombie vaccine \u201cisn\u2019t as effective as we would have liked during initial testing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u261e Lay\u2019s India\u2019s \u201cno share pack\u201d:\u00a0 In 2017, they announced the release of a \u201cno share pack \u2013 installed with fingerprint sensors.\u201d<\/p>\n \u261e Netflix \u2018acquired\u2019 Seth Rogen:\u00a0 Last year, Netflix announced that it had \u201cacquired\u201d actor Seth Rogen, announcing that \u201cRogen has entered into a lifetime deal to transfer full ownership of his personal autonomy to Netflix, Inc.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0__________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n MONDAY APRIL 1ST<\/sup> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [58] Susan Boyle, Blackburn, singer<\/p>\n [33] Hillary Scott, country singer (Lady Antebellum)<\/p>\n ——————————————————————————————————————————-<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Detroit\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 6 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Boston\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3 We\u2019ll have the Leafs game tonight on CFCO at 7 as Toronto is in New York to take on the Islanders<\/p>\n <\/p>\n MLB<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Detroit\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Toronto\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3 (11)<\/p>\n Baltimore vs Toronto tonight at 7 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Detroit vs NYY<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The\u00a0March Madness<\/strong>\u00a0Final Four has been set:\u00a0 On Saturday,\u00a0Michigan State<\/strong>\u00a0will play\u00a0Texas Tech<\/strong>, while\u00a0Virginia<\/strong>\u00a0takes on\u00a0Auburn<\/strong>.\u00a0 The two winners will advance to next Monday’s championship game.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n That means the jackpot for the next draw on Apr. 5 will grow to approximately $55 million, and there will be two Maxmillions prizes of $1 million each up for grabs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n No winning ticket was sold for the $7 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw.<\/p>\n However, the guaranteed $1 million-dollar prize went to a ticket holder in Ontario.<\/p>\n The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Apr. 3 will be approximately $10 million.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n _________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n LUKE COMBS RECALLS ‘FLABBERGASTING’ PHONE CALL FROM CARRIE UNDERWOOD –<\/u><\/strong> (04\/01\/2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n Luke Combs<\/strong>\u00a0is still coming to grips with the fact that he is an ACM award-winner. He was suprised last week with a phone call from\u00a0Carrie Underwood<\/strong>, who shared the good news that he had been named New Male Artist. At the time, the call was caught on video by someone on Luke’s bus, which was shared on social media.<\/p>\n Luke tells us, however, there was a misunderstanding, as he recalls getting that life-changing phone call:\u00a0[“I\u2019m sitting on the bus making a toaster scrambler — actually everybody thought it was a toaster strudel, it was actually a toaster scrambler. There is a difference. Look it up — and, I get this call from Carrie Underwood of all people. I don\u2019t know if that was maybe the first time that we have ever interacted in any way, shape or form, so it was quite flabbergasting to say the least, so I was like absolutely stunned she told me I won an ACM award for best new male artist and I was like, ‘Well this is a neat start to the day. Not only do I get a delicious toaster scrambler but I\u2019ve got an ACM award.’ That\u2019s awesome.”]<\/p>\n The\u00a0ACM Awards\u00a0<\/em>take place on Sunday (April 7th) in Las Vegas, where Luke is also up for Male Artist of the Year. He is set to perform during the broadcast, which will air on CBS beginning at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n George Strait Loved Having His Six-Year-Old Grandson Record with Him<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n GEORGE STRAIT’s\u00a0<\/strong>new album\u00a0“Honky Tonk Time Machine”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is out today.\u00a0 As you may have heard, his six-year-old grandson Harvey sings on the track GOD AND COUNTRY MUSIC“<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 And it sounds like the kid really did put in the work.<\/p>\n QUOTE, “It took us several takes. \u00a0I went in there and I kinda did it with him, and then I would just back out and leave him. \u00a0But he was all for it. \u00a0He was all about doing it. \u00a0He got really involved in that record.\u00a0 For six years old, that’s pretty good.”<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Carrie Underwood’s Son Calls Her “Carefree Underwear”<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n I’m sure\u00a0CARRIE UNDERWOOD<\/strong>\u00a0has spent a lifetime hearing people call her “underwear” instead of Underwood.\u00a0 But I bet she never thought her own flesh and blood would join in.\u00a0 Yep, four-year-old Isaiah’s getting in on the action.<\/p>\n Yesterday she\u00a0TWEETED, “My own kid just called me ‘Carefree Underwear.’\u00a0 This is basically elementary school all over again.”<\/p>\n She did get sympathy from\u00a0COLTON UNDERWOOD<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0“The Bachelor”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0who saw her post and\u00a0commented, “Try ‘Cotton Underwear’ . . . elementary school was a rough time for me.”\u00a0 Then she added, quote, “Glad to know I’m not in this alone.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 1st ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 01:21:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/04\/on-todays-show-128\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5078,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions\/5078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n<\/u><\/strong>Everyone knows that it is a good idea for parents to read to their children. But it turns out that the kiddies get more out of it when the parent reads a book \u2014 rather than off an electronic tablet.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/u>\u261e Expedia offered flights to Mars:\u00a0 In 2009, with convincing graphics and tickets starting at $99, they fooled some into believing that it was true.\u00a0 They included activities and hotel descriptions.<\/p>\n\n
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