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Experienced CBC television-buffs will ardently sing the praises of Opening Night, a Thursday night tradition which since 2001 has been delivering exceptionally high-quality arts-based programming. Unfortunately, the majority of the people out would rather spend their Thursdays with CSI than with CBC, hence the current and already truncated season of Opening Night (now only 1 hour, instead of 2 and featuring only 11 episodes) is almost certainly going to be its last. As those of us still in mourning for ZeD know, CBC does have a history of cancelling some of its most interesting programming. But the loss of Opening Night will be a real shame. Over the years, it's showcased some amazing television, from concerts, to filmed Stratford productions, to Guy Maddin's sublime Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary, which remains the best film adaptation of Stoker's novel and probably one of the best dance films ever made.

. So our expectations for this show, if not exactly high, were at least middling.

Torontoist was visiting Dora Keogh's pub for the first monthly CommonPlaces drinks night, when he noticed a sign for the Ben Chin Meet and Greet. It seems that everybody's favourite Liberal candidate was going to be having a minor campaign event. Torontoist would have to say that Chin was an absolute gentleman, he even spoke to us about how impressed he was with his riding association, "one that couldn't put together an event for 15 people a year ago."