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Hey every­one! This post is a bit dif­fer­ent (more than usual I mean…) and is a per­sonal request to help me get one of my friends (Keri, The Canadian Explorer) on the most pop­u­lar and best late night show in Canada: CBC’s The Hour with Georges Stromboulopoulos. This is a long shot, but I really think Keri deserves the pub­lic­ity and would be a great guest on the show. But why do this? Who is this Keri? Here’s a lit­tle his­tory that led to this crazy idea…

Keri was intro­duced to me on Twitter a while ago by another friend of mine, Mario Bourque. She is great per­son and a very endear­ing girl, and she’s come up with a crazy and fan­tas­tic project which entails trav­el­ling and explor­ing Canada in her car (she no longer has a fixed address), film­ing as much as she can and putting edited videos of it all on her site in addi­tion to blog­ging about it. Her car is her stu­dio and this all makes for a very com­pelling read and watch. You can see it all on her Canadian Explorer site along with her own expla­na­tion and plan she put up as a video man­i­festo. As I said, this is a slightly crazy idea and any­one who knows me knows I love crazy stuff

But as I got to know Keri bet­ter, I started to get this crazy idea of my own. Isabelle and I have dis­cov­ered the show The Hour a few months ago and have been fans of it since. One of its core pur­pose beyond enter­tain­ment is to pro­mote Canada, Canadians and worth­while causes and peo­ple in gen­eral. Exactly like the Canadian Explorer. So what could be bet­ter than put the two together?

So if you would like to help, I decided to start a lit­tle grass­roots cam­paign to try and get Keri to appear on The Hour, or to at least to get George to men­tion her on the air and give her and her project some well deserved pub­lic­ity. Either out­comes would be great but get­ting her on the show would be truly awe­some! You do not need to be Canadian to help either. You may get the CBC if you live in north­ern USA and you can see a large back­log of full episodes on the CBC’s site at the fol­low­ing URL. The Hour really is a great show and at the very least, you might be entertained…

http://​www​.cbc​.ca/​t​h​e​h​o​u​r​/​f​u​l​l​s​h​o​w​.​php

Now, how can you help?

The first step I took and that you can take is to write an email to George him­self through the short form on The Hour’s site and rec­om­mend­ing that he check out Keri and invite her on the show.

http://​www​.cbc​.ca/​t​h​e​h​o​u​r​/​g​e​o​r​g​e​r​e​a​d​s​t​h​e​m​a​i​l​.​h​tml

Make sure you include her site’s URL ( http://​www​.thecana​di​an​ex​plorer​.com ) as well as her Twitter ( https://​twit​ter​.com/​K​e​r​i​CDN ). The page says that George may not read all the email he gets (how could he), but if he gets at either mine or any­one else’s who decides to write him as well to rec­om­mend Keri, we may get him to go to her site and maybe even talk to Keri on the phone… and that crazy thing just might happen!!!

The other thing I’ve done and I would appre­ci­ate you do as well is to use the show’s email address to write them directly. That email address is: thehour@​cbc.​ca. Also, don’t for­get Twitter as this is where it all started for me after I met and got to know Keri a lit­tle bet­ter. You can tweet to George here @strombo Again, it’s a mat­ter of get­ting Keri and The Canadian Explorer’s name to his attention.

Finally, if you feel like really mak­ing a dif­fer­ence, why not send The Hour a post card or a let­ter through good old snail mail? The address is as follows:

THE HOUR
c/​o CBC Television
P.O. Box 500, Station “A“
Toronto, Ont.
M5W 1E6

Again, this is a long shot but noth­ing will hap­pen if we do not try. At the very least, I’d like to get George to men­tion Keri and the Canadian Explorer on the show and, if luck (or the power of though) is on our side, get him to invite her on the show. In any case, I really think we need to get the word out about The Canadian Explorer as her endeav­our is a worth­while one and George is also a big pro­po­nent of Canadian pride and great­ness. Once he hears about Keri… he will HAVE to invite her on the show!

If you have read this far. Thank you! Now, please take the next step, it will only take you a few minutes!