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Title: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: Leafsfan. on September 15, 2014, 08:44:35 AM
The finalists fly to Ottawa, where they are pushed to their absolute limits. It's the gold medal game and winner takes all. (New) Season Finale.
Note the date, Sunday Sept 21. And start time is 8pm, one hour earlier then usual. (Mon for Asia/Australia)
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "FINALE" September 21
Post by: Leafsfan. on September 15, 2014, 08:45:45 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/INVHgyrbUT0

Preview, Thanks Alen!
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "FINALE" September 21
Post by: ovalorange on September 15, 2014, 08:47:45 AM
(http://imgur.com/x019sgV.png)Leg 12: Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Flag_of_New_Brunswick.svg/22px-Flag_of_New_Brunswick.svg.png) → Ottawa, Ontario (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Ontario.svg/22px-Flag_of_Ontario.svg.png)

FILM DATES:(http://imgur.com/x019sgV.png) May 22
AIR DATE: (http://imgur.com/x019sgV.png)September 21

(http://imgur.com/lMZxTHZ.png) ROUTE INFO:  Fly to Ottawa, Ontario (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,29939.msg1002489.html#msg1002489)

(http://imgur.com/x019sgV.png)(http://i1300.photobucket.com/albums/ag91/Aleij1963/TARCANADA2CAPS/Tar2400501_zpse8223390.png) (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,30476.msg1035759.html#msg1035759)

(http://imgur.com/lMZxTHZ.png) ROUTE INFO:  Eternal Flame at Parliament Hill (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,29939.msg1002662.html#msg1002662)

(http://imgur.com/x019sgV.png)(http://i62.[banned image hosting site].com/v45x6b.jpg) (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,29939.msg1002788.html#msg1002788)

(http://imgur.com/lMZxTHZ.png) ROUTE INFO:  Museum of Nature (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,29939.msg1002862.html#msg1002862)
 !  TASK:   (http://imgur.com/x019sgV.png)Use ascender to grab clue (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,29939.msg1002862.html#msg1002862)

(http://imgur.com/x019sgV.png)(http://i1300.photobucket.com/albums/ag91/Aleij1963/TARCANADA2CAPS/Tar2400520_zpsdfa4c6dc.png) (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,29939.msg1002788.html#msg1002788)

(http://imgur.com/lMZxTHZ.png) ROUTE INFO:  Diefenbunker Museum (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,30476.msg1036490.html#msg1036490)
 !  TASK:   (http://imgur.com/x019sgV.png)Search the buildings for clue (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,30476.msg1036490.html#msg1036490)

(http://imgur.com/x019sgV.png)(http://i1300.photobucket.com/albums/ag91/Aleij1963/TARCANADA2CAPS/Tar2400556_zps02c3c60d.png) (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,29939.msg1002788.html#msg1002788)

(http://imgur.com/lMZxTHZ.png) ROUTE INFO:  Unknown
 !  TASK:   (http://imgur.com/x019sgV.png)Paddle down the river (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,30476.msg1036490.html#msg1036490)

(http://imgur.com/x019sgV.png)(http://i1300.photobucket.com/albums/ag91/Aleij1963/TARCANADA2CAPS/Tar2400545_zps41355038.png) (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,29939.msg1002788.html#msg1002788)

(http://imgur.com/VXFQqf0.png) FINISH LINE: Unknown
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "FINALE" September 21
Post by: Alenaveda on September 15, 2014, 08:48:46 AM
Caps from the finale preview!

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Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "FINALE" September 21
Post by: Alenaveda on September 15, 2014, 08:49:33 AM
Second part of the caps from the finale preview!

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Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "FINALE" September 21
Post by: Neobie on September 17, 2014, 09:24:37 AM
Not sure the rules for posting on the Canada board, move or delete if necessary!

Saw the Diefenbunker Museum (a Cold War bunker) in the previews. Was just there this summer! Not going to be easy finding a hidden clue in there!
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "FINALE" September 21
Post by: WindsorSue on September 17, 2014, 12:39:07 PM
Not sure the rules for posting on the Canada board, move or delete if necessary!

Saw the Diefenbunker Museum (a Cold War bunker) in the previews. Was just there this summer! Not going to be easy finding a hidden clue in there!
I am pretty sure I posted a sighting there back in May. I remember checking at the time and it was closed May 22nd for a private function.
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21
Post by: georgiapeach on September 18, 2014, 12:07:45 AM
Not sure the rules for posting on the Canada board, move or delete if necessary!

Saw the Diefenbunker Museum (a Cold War bunker) in the previews. Was just there this summer! Not going to be easy finding a hidden clue in there!
I am pretty sure I posted a sighting there back in May. I remember checking at the time and it was closed May 22nd for a private function.

Indeed you did!

They may have gone to the Diefenbunker (P.M. Diefenbaker's Cold War Era bunker) just outside of Ottawa

Rebecca ‏@RebeccaRuns 55m
@phdinparenting @AnatheaT apparently they maybe went on a boat - they also went to the diefenbunker
1:35 PM - 30 May 2014

I checked the Diefenbunker's FB page and apparently they were closed for a private event. https://www.facebook.com/diefenbunker?hc_location=timeline (https://www.facebook.com/diefenbunker?hc_location=timeline)

Their hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. so I am thinking IF they went there, they didn't go there first thing from the airport, or why close it for the whole day.
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21
Post by: Philimination on September 18, 2014, 03:39:37 PM
On the Diefenbunker's Facebook page, it confirms that TAR Canada is going there for the finale.
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21
Post by: Alenaveda on September 18, 2014, 06:20:05 PM
Caps up!
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21
Post by: WindsorSue on September 19, 2014, 08:50:44 AM
Caps 49 & 50: What's up with Meaghan? Where's her paddle? Why are they headed towards the flooded bank, rather than Ryan who is getting out of the kayak at another place?
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21
Post by: runningblind on September 19, 2014, 05:03:09 PM
Caps 49 & 50: What's up with Meaghan? Where's her paddle? Why are they headed towards the flooded bank, rather than Ryan who is getting out of the kayak at another place?

Isn't she throwing the paddle on the nearby shore (something is not so clear in the top left corner of the cap)? Maybe they are looking for something along the shore as they go by?

Another question: at the airport-running caps I cannot see Ryan and Rob with the other teams. There areonly NM and MP at the same ones together. Is it possible that RR took different flight?
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21
Post by: Bookworm on September 19, 2014, 05:21:46 PM
Caps 49 & 50: What's up with Meaghan? Where's her paddle? Why are they headed towards the flooded bank, rather than Ryan who is getting out of the kayak at another place?

Isn't she throwing the paddle on the nearby shore (something is not so clear in the top left corner of the cap)? Maybe they are looking for something along the shore as they go by?

Another question: at the airport-running caps I cannot see Ryan and Rob with the other teams. There areonly NM and MP at the same ones together. Is it possible that RR took different flight?
Cap 1 shows Ryan (it looks like him, anyway) running out of the plane with Hockey.
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21
Post by: WindsorSue on September 19, 2014, 06:39:19 PM
Caps 49 & 50: What's up with Meaghan? Where's her paddle? Why are they headed towards the flooded bank, rather than Ryan who is getting out of the kayak at another place?

Isn't she throwing the paddle on the nearby shore (something is not so clear in the top left corner of the cap)? Maybe they are looking for something along the shore as they go by?

Another question: at the airport-running caps I cannot see Ryan and Rob with the other teams. There areonly NM and MP at the same ones together. Is it possible that RR took different flight?
Cap 1 shows Ryan (it looks like him, anyway) running out of the plane with Hockey.
No they all took the same flight. Okay I see the blur. But it is still odd because that is a flooded shore (prob from spring run-off) and Ryan is getting out of the kayak in a totally different place.
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21
Post by: WindsorSue on September 20, 2014, 08:57:59 AM
Re: Mickey & Pete's ITM - Ottawa has no botanical gardens. There are only two places that can be. The Central Experiment Farm OR Rideau Hall.

A new sneak peek shows Natalie and Rob at the Diefenbunker. Natalie comments that Rob has just shown up and he is sailing through the tunnels (not an exact quote). Rob grabs a Hot Wheels sized army jeep off a table (or desk).
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21
Post by: TAR789 on September 20, 2014, 10:01:05 AM
The flooded bank (caps 47-50) is located on the shore of the Ottawa River, just beside Rideau Canal's locks (you can see the Museum of Civilisations behind)
And I think that caps 45-46 are located on the Ottawa River around 400m southwest of the Supreme Court and 30-50m north of Portage Bridge and route 34 intersection
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: WindsorSue on September 21, 2014, 03:02:14 PM
Finale will air in 6.5 hours!
4 hours!!! :conf:
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: gamerfan09 on September 21, 2014, 05:42:34 PM
Go Nat/Meg or Mickey/Pete don't let R/R be Tims 2.0 <3
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: daeys on September 21, 2014, 05:59:52 PM
I wish I could watch real-time... I'll catch up tomorrow I guess.
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: Leafsfan. on September 22, 2014, 07:41:59 PM
Ottawa cab driver gets Amazing Race Canada winners to the finish line

It was a fare one Ottawa cabbie will never forget.
“I didn’t plan for it,” Blue Line Taxi driver Tony Chamoun says with a smile, “someone jumped in my cab, they were in a hurry, they were running, they were in a competition.”
Chamoun and his taxi were featured in CTV’s Amazing Race Canada Finale on Sunday, September 21, 2014.
The father of four, who has been driving a taxi for 20 years, picked up the eventual Amazing Race winners, Mickey Henry and Pete Schmalz.
Chamoun said he predicted the outcome as soon as the two best friends jumped in his car, “I knew they were going to win, I could feel it.”
The Amazing Race Canada Finale was filmed around the Nation’s Capital, racing through some of the most beautiful landmarks in Ottawa.  The final three duos paddled down the Ottawa River, raced through the halls of Parliament and even went underground through Canada’s cold-war Diefenbunker in Carp.
Chamoun said he did the speed limit and still managed to get Mickey and Pete to the finish line a Rideau Hall, the home of the Governor General, first.  The cab driver says he feels like a winner even if he didn’t see any of the team’s $250,000 prize, “they were talking to me about how much money they were going to win, which I didn’t see nothing of,” he joked, “they didn’t even call me about it.”
The hunt is now on for dynamic contestants for the next season of the Amazing Race Canada.  To audition visit: www.CTV.ca/TheAmazingRaceCanada
Chamoun admits he still hasn’t seen the Amazing Race Canada Finale.  He says he only gets to watch cartoons with his kids.  A friend told the cabbie about his national television debut, “I’ve become a big star now,” he says with a laugh.  The taxi driver says with his new celebrity status he should be the one getting someone to drive him around, “a limo, not a cab,” he jokes.


Read more: http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-cab-driver-gets-amazing-race-canada-winners-to-the-finish-line-1.2018921#ixzz3E5weNBfX
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: SuperTux on September 23, 2014, 09:26:06 AM
Well did Jon say "4 countries" at the final pitstop?  :res:
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: SuperTux on September 23, 2014, 07:36:19 PM
Well did Jon say "4 countries" at the final pitstop?  :res:

I don't see a problem with that.

Wikipedia defines a "country" as

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A country is a region identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated peoples with distinct political characteristics.

So its not out unreasonable to classify Macau and Hong Kong as countries!

So I could say Texas is a country and P.E.I is one too. :)
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: Air on September 23, 2014, 07:45:55 PM
Well did Jon say "4 countries" at the final pitstop?  :res:

I don't see a problem with that.

Wikipedia defines a "country" as

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A country is a region identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated peoples with distinct political characteristics.

So its not out unreasonable to classify Macau and Hong Kong as countries!

So I could say Texas is a country and P.E.I is one too. :)

Hong Kong is an SAR, which is not comparable to Texas or PEI, because they are comparable to Guangdong or Jiangsu.
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: SuperTux on September 23, 2014, 11:21:03 PM
Well did Jon say "4 countries" at the final pitstop?  :res:

I don't see a problem with that.

Wikipedia defines a "country" as

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A country is a region identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated peoples with distinct political characteristics.

So its not out unreasonable to classify Macau and Hong Kong as countries!

So I could say Texas is a country and P.E.I is one too. :)

Hong Kong is an SAR, which is not comparable to Texas or PEI, because they are comparable to Guangdong or Jiangsu.

But before Texas became a state of the US in 1845, it was a sovereign nation (The Republic of Texas, 1836-1845).

Plus, the SAR refers to a closer relationship than that between Scotland and England, for instance.
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: Air on September 23, 2014, 11:29:31 PM
Well did Jon say "4 countries" at the final pitstop?  :res:

I don't see a problem with that.

Wikipedia defines a "country" as

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A country is a region identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated peoples with distinct political characteristics.

So its not out unreasonable to classify Macau and Hong Kong as countries!

So I could say Texas is a country and P.E.I is one too. :)

Hong Kong is an SAR, which is not comparable to Texas or PEI, because they are comparable to Guangdong or Jiangsu.

But before Texas became a state of the US in 1845, it was a sovereign nation (The Republic of Texas, 1836-1845).

Plus, the SAR refers to a closer relationship than that between Scotland and England, for instance.

...your Texas argument is irrelevant because it's a state and does not have the same degree of autonomy as an autonomous republic would...such as the SAR :lol:

Also no SAR-PRC is different to Scotland-England, because Scotland-England share things like democracy and multiparty states,  whereas the SAR-PRC, only one does. Unless you can prove otherwise, I call bs on that too.
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: SuperTux on September 24, 2014, 12:40:58 AM
Well did Jon say "4 countries" at the final pitstop?  :res:

I don't see a problem with that.

Wikipedia defines a "country" as

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A country is a region identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated peoples with distinct political characteristics.

So its not out unreasonable to classify Macau and Hong Kong as countries!

So I could say Texas is a country and P.E.I is one too. :)

Hong Kong is an SAR, which is not comparable to Texas or PEI, because they are comparable to Guangdong or Jiangsu.

But before Texas became a state of the US in 1845, it was a sovereign nation (The Republic of Texas, 1836-1845).

Plus, the SAR refers to a closer relationship than that between Scotland and England, for instance.

...your Texas argument is irrelevant because it's a state and does not have the same degree of autonomy as an autonomous republic would...such as the SAR :lol:

Also no SAR-PRC is different to Scotland-England, because Scotland-England share things like democracy and multiparty states,  whereas the SAR-PRC, only one does. Unless you can prove otherwise, I call bs on that too.

Please peruse the definition of the word "country" provided by Wikipedia cited by Leafsfan. I define Texas as a country because it's concordant with the condition "as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division."

Both Canada and the US are federal countries which I reckon every state has some certain autonomy, unlike unitary-government-type nations.

Pertaining to sharing the ethos of democracy, I don't see it in the definition, hence I don't think it has anything to do in defining a country.

P.S. Now the Wikipedia page of The Amazing Race Canada 2 says the number of the countries visited is 3. It's much safer to say in this way I guess.
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: walkingpneumonia on September 25, 2014, 01:53:16 PM
Well did Jon say "4 countries" at the final pitstop?  :res:

I don't see a problem with that.

Wikipedia defines a "country" as

Quote
A country is a region identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated peoples with distinct political characteristics.

So its not out unreasonable to classify Macau and Hong Kong as countries!

So I could say Texas is a country and P.E.I is one too. :)

Hong Kong is an SAR, which is not comparable to Texas or PEI, because they are comparable to Guangdong or Jiangsu.

But before Texas became a state of the US in 1845, it was a sovereign nation (The Republic of Texas, 1836-1845).

Plus, the SAR refers to a closer relationship than that between Scotland and England, for instance.

...your Texas argument is irrelevant because it's a state and does not have the same degree of autonomy as an autonomous republic would...such as the SAR :lol:

Also no SAR-PRC is different to Scotland-England, because Scotland-England share things like democracy and multiparty states,  whereas the SAR-PRC, only one does. Unless you can prove otherwise, I call bs on that too.

Please peruse the definition of the word "country" provided by Wikipedia cited by Leafsfan. I define Texas as a country because it's concordant with the condition "as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division."

Both Canada and the US are federal countries which I reckon every state has some certain autonomy, unlike unitary-government-type nations.

Pertaining to sharing the ethos of democracy, I don't see it in the definition, hence I don't think it has anything to do in defining a country.

P.S. Now the Wikipedia page of The Amazing Race Canada 2 says the number of the countries visited is 3. It's much safer to say in this way I guess.

Just to add some fuel to the fire... they did visit Quebec (Montreal) - maybe Jon was attempting to appease the separatists by counting Quebec as a country.  :stirtp:
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: Lmh1988 on June 27, 2016, 02:32:17 PM
Just finished watching The Amazing Race Canada season 2. I have watched all of the US races and many of the international, and this ranks right up there with my favorites. Such great tasks and teams, casting was spot on. I really wish the US version would take some notes.

I could not have picked a better final three, I would have been happy with any of them winning, although Rob and Ryan were my personal favorites (they had some amazing moments pulling it out in the end to barely survive elimination), I'm thrilled with Mickey and Pete winning, they're great guys.

As far as Natalie and Meghan, one of the most dominant teams any season of any version of the Race has ever seen, they absolutely crushed the season and just fell short on the leg that mattered most.

Super excited to watch season 3, and then on to the new season. I hope the Canadian version keeps up the great work and runs for many years to come.
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: georgiapeach on June 27, 2016, 02:37:29 PM
Welcome LMH!! Glad to have you!! :waves:
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: Maanca on June 27, 2016, 02:42:08 PM
Yeah, Season 2 was their best to date, I felt. That first France leg in Normandy is a new favourite, it was beautifully put together.
Title: Re: TAR Canada 2: Ep 12 FINALE "Who's Da Bomb?" September 21 8PM
Post by: Lmh1988 on June 27, 2016, 02:48:36 PM
Thanks GeorgiaPeach, I have lurked and followed the site for years and have previously done some reality TV recaps myself, and I'm excited to join this forum.

I thought this season had some great challenges, the Mentos one sticks out for me. I really like the challenges that take a long time where teams really have a chance to catch up or get passed and the outcome is really unpredictable, whereas especially lately, the US version challenges don't give teams in the back as much of a chance to typically catch up, so the result is usually more expected.