Behind the Scenes at The Royal Couple’s Ottawa Reception

Three Corus radio stations grabbed the yak topic and ran with it. 630 CHED Radio was falling over themselves with listeners and hosts spouting the strangest information. Not sure what was worse, host Lesley Primeau’s mangling of the pronunciation of Nunavut (proper pronunciation here), or her obnoxious reaction to Steve’s phone-in call;  iNews880 reported the menu contained fruit from Saskatoon, and smoked salmon from the Maritimes (wrong on both accounts); QR77 in Calgary requested a phone interview with me, then said “Thanks, but we’ve got a yak producer instead…” which was fine because it enlightened me of yet another yak ranch in Alberta that I hadn’t known existed (West Gimlet Farms near Rimbey), and that information led me to finding more yak ranchers east of Airdrie ( Rafter K2 Farms.) Both of those ranchers raise pure yaks, unlike the yak/beef cross raised at Springridge Ranch near Pincher creek (suppliers of the product we took to Ottawa).