Inside the 2011 Search for Miss Teen Canada World Saturday July 9th was a very special Registration Day for at least seventy five participants in the 2011 Search for Miss Teen Canada – World, as one by one teen girls age 14-18 from all across Canada checked their luggage into the sponsor hotel in downtown Toronto to start their week long adventure. One at a time they met each other in the lobby and corridors the massive historic hotel complex at the base of the city. In the antechamber of one of the enormous ballrooms, they found Michelle Weswaldi and lined up there to present her with their head shots, and CDs filled with pictures, videos and audio that they recorded at home in which they demonstrate their acting, singing and special skills for the upcoming talent show. After a brief question and answer with the Pageant Director they went… Read more »
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I had a forty minute phone conversation with Raymi the Minx last week, one day before she flew to Vancouver to blog about her friends in the 2009 Juno Awards. This girl is cool and competitive, and because she’s been blogging for almost ten years she knows a lot of people, and has attracted many followers. You can read Raymi’s profile on Canada Blog Friends here. Raymi entertains over 4000 readers a day. Raymi’s at the top of the game here in Toronto, but even she struggles to make her writing hobby pay the bills. She had me laughing as she related stories about marketing executives emailing her strange incentives and worthless products as bribes while basically asking for free publicity. We talked about how advertising agencies buy blog media, and the ethical reasons behind their reluctance to pay cash. It’s a stigma that blogs are personal, free and untrustworthy… Read more »