Blog Archive | Day 6 with Brent Bambury

The Big 6 Flameout of the Year: Lance Armstrong

Friday, December 28, 2012 | Categories: Big 6, Day 6 Blog, Flameout |

Oh, Lance. What happened? He was once the most decorated cyclist in the world, but this year, Lance Armstrong was stripped of all the titles...

The Big 6 Trend of the Year: Internet Conscience

Friday, December 28, 2012 | Categories: Big 6, Day 6 Blog, Trend |

Scores of web users took it upon themselves this year to call out people, groups, even countries for what they saw as bad behaviour. A...

The Big 6 Breakthrough of the Year: Psy

Friday, December 28, 2012 | Categories: Big 6, Breakthrough, Day 6 Blog |

He came. He danced. He conquered. Psy is this year's "Breakthrough of the Year". The Korean Pop hit Gangnam Style broke barriers and climbed the...

The Big 6 Breakout of the Year: Katie Holmes

Friday, December 28, 2012 | Categories: Alex Molotkow, Big 6, Breakout, Day 6 Blog |

Her escape was sudden and when the news broke, jaws dropped. Yes, Katie Holmes saying sayonara to Tom Cruise and Scientology wins hands down as...

The Big 6 Heartbreaker of the Year: Newtown Shooting

Friday, December 28, 2012 | Categories: Big 6, Day 6 Blog, Heartbreaker |

One of the victims of the mass shooting at the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut was 6-year-old Ana Marquez-Green. Her father, Jimmy Greene, is a...

The Big 6: Penn Jillette on Trump, Petraeus and Obama

Friday, December 7, 2012 | Categories: Big 6, Day 6 Blog |

With our Big Six year-end special around the corner, Penn Jillette of the magic team Penn and Teller joins Brent to talk about some of...

Canada's Mayors: Flameouts of The Year?

Friday, November 30, 2012 | Categories: Big 6, Day 6 Blog, Flameout |

Three Quebec mayors resigned this month in the wake of corruption allegations. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was ordered out of office by a judge. Halifax's...

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Layton's Letter in Song

Monday, January 2, 2012 | Categories: Allison Goertz, Big 6, Contributors, Day 6 Blog, Exclusive, Heartbreaker, Music, Politics |

Day 6 listeners voted Jack Layton as the 2011 Heartbreak Story of The Year in our end of year Big 6 special. We focused on...

Episode 58 - The Big Six

Saturday, December 31, 2011 | Categories: Big 6, Day 6 Blog, Episodes, Feelgood, Flameout, Heartbreaker, Newsmaker, Over-hyped, Winning |

Newsmaker of the Year Over-Hyped Heartbreaker Winning Feel Good Flameout ...

Big 6 Newsmaker of 2011: Mona Eltahawy on The Arab Spring

Saturday, December 31, 2011 | Categories: Audio, Big 6, Day 6 Blog, Foreign, Interview, Newsmaker, Politics, Promote |

Mona Eltahawy is an Egyptian-born, American journalist who has witnessed the Arab Spring protests all year. Her reporting in Egypt led to her being arrested...

Big 6 Heartbreaker of 2011: Jack Layton

Saturday, December 31, 2011 | Categories: Audio, Big 6, Day 6 Blog, Heartbreaker, Politics, Promote |

"Good afternoon. On February the 5th, 2010, I shared with Canadians that I, like 25-thousand other Canadian men every year, had been diagnosed with prostate...

Big 6 Overhyped of 2011: The Kardashians

Saturday, December 31, 2011 | Categories: Audio, Big 6, Celebrity, Day 6 Blog, Interview, Over-hyped |

Listen to our Big 6 Pop and Culture Panel break down the Kardashians and other overhyped entities of 2011. This year's panel includes Jessica Coen,...

Big 6 Winning 2011: China

Saturday, December 31, 2011 | Categories: Audio, Big 6, Day 6 Blog, Interview, Music, Politics, Winning |

Day 6 listeners couldn't ignore the growing dominance of China on the world stage. As 2011 wraps up, China's economy shows signs of slowing. But...

Big 6 Flameout of 2011: Vancouver Hockey Riot

Saturday, December 31, 2011 | Categories: Audio, Big 6, Books, Day 6 Blog, Flameout, Interview, Promote |

To help understand the sports riot phenomenon, we turned to Bill Buford, author of the bestseller Heat. He led a double life in the 80's....

Big 6 Feel-Good Story of 2011: Giffords' Recovery

Saturday, December 31, 2011 | Categories: Audio, Big 6, Day 6 Blog, Feelgood, Interview, Politics |

The recovery of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords trumped even the "Wedding of the Century" as the Feel-Good story of the year. Our Big 6 panellists break...

YAOGUN: Chinese Rock N Roll in Ten (FULL) Songs

Saturday, December 31, 2011 | Categories: Big 6, Day 6 Blog, Exclusive, Music, Winning |

Drummer and author Jonathan Campbell thinks the West deserves more yaogun (yow-GOON). That's what you might call chinese rock and roll. The rock and roll...

The Big 6 - Your Picks Revealed Next Week

Friday, December 23, 2011 | Categories: Big 6, Day 6 Blog |

We'd like to thank everyone who voted in the Big 6 year end series this year. We've shut down the polls so that we can...

Episode 56 - Hitch Signs Off

Friday, December 16, 2011 | Categories: Big 6, Books, Comedy, Contest, Day 6 Blog, Episodes, Foreign, Interview, Politics, Promote, Satire, Should I Read It |

Wolfowitz, Hedges on Hitch Russia Online Revolt Putin's Billions Explaining the God Particle Almighty Writes Bestseller Hey! That's Our Drone!...

Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs: Heartbreaker of 2011?

Friday, December 16, 2011 | Categories: Audio, Big 6, Books, Day 6 Blog, Heartbreaker, Interview, Promote, Tech |

This week in the Big 6 poll, you should vote (here) for Heartbreaker of The Year (Newsmaker of The Year too!). Among the nominees is...

Anonymous vs Gene Simmons: Over Hyped?

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 | Categories: Big 6, Day 6 Blog, Over-hyped |

A Connecticut man that authorities say is linked to the hacker group Anonymous has been charged in connection with an attempt to shut down Gene...

Was Ryan Gosling Winning in 2011?

Friday, December 9, 2011 | Categories: Arts, Audio, Big 6, Comment, Contest, Contributors, Day 6 Blog, Movies, Winning |

Vote now in this week's Big 6 categories - Over Hyped and Winning. In the Winning category, we want to know who had the most...

The End Of The World: Most Over-hyped Story of 2011?

Friday, December 9, 2011 | Categories: Audio, Big 6, Day 6 Blog, Interview, Over-hyped |

Round two of voting in our Big 6 series opens this week - and The End of the World is in the running for the Over-hyped story of the...

The Big 6 Is Back!

Friday, December 2, 2011 | Categories: Big 6, Feelgood, Flameout, Heartbreaker, Newsmaker, Over-hyped, Promote, Winning |

We've cracked the seal on December and it's time to start our year-end series The Big 6: The biggest movements, moments, and misadventures of 2011...

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