Over the weekend, Toronto Raptors rookie Terrence Ross won the NBA Sprite Slam Dunk Contest. The NBA just published this slow motion highlights reel of Terrence Ross’s best moves that has already garnered over 200,000 hits. Read more on USAToday, HuffPost, and YahooNews.
The snow in Canada is like the sun in Florida, it has come to be expected. So when Canada is hit with inches of the fluffy white stuff, it’s no big deal.
Schools stay open, stores continue to stock merchandise for sale, and life moves on, thanks mostly to the highway snow removal being so streamed-lined.
In this short video by KRONERrealestate, over six lanes of the slushy, snow blanketed 401 highway in Toronto is cleared for traffic in just moments with a little teamwork and some proper snow removal techniques.
As a fun prank to play on first year engineering students at the University of Toronto, skulenite and others planned an ‘Engineering Flash Mob.’
At 9:40 in the morning, right when the test started, the famous beat to Gangster’s Paradise started to play on the PA system. Then one test taker jumped onto the table, and began to rap. Soon, four ‘students’ were rapping the hardships of an engineering degree.
Obviously, this is the professor’s way to ‘test’ his students, as he has done this before.
Now, the week old video has over half a million views.
Chancellor David R. Peterson‘s term at the University of Toronto will come to an end on June 30, 2012 after serving for six years.
The Chancellor was obviously dearly cherished by the University as when he was about to speak at the convocation ceremony, a flash mob erupted. Students from the Faculty of Music burst into Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and quickly the entire auditorium was singing and clapping along.
David Peterson was obviously touched as he shed a tear during the performance with his best poker face. He opened his speech with, “I’ve changed my mind, I’m not leaving.”
The video is featured on YouTubeTrends.
Have you ever gone to a fast food restaurant only for your burger to not look as amazing and magical as the one your eyes have been force fed in countless advertising publications?
Well, McDonalds Canada, wanting to keep an open profile, took on that specific question. Isabel B from Toronto purchased a McD’s quarter pounder with cheese and showed side by side the similarities and differences the actual burger has with the photo shoot one. Surprisingly, the photo shoot uses all the same ingredients, they just know how to make it look magical.
The two day old video already has over 1.5 million views, and is covered on BusinessInsider, DigitalTrends, and TheFW.
