Caribana this year was  blessed with good weather, lots of great bands, and some of the best decorated floats – the latter seem to get better with each passing year. There was a huge turnout at CNE Exhibition Place where all the floats and bands marshaled and got started. However, the biggest crowds were along Lakeshore …
This weekend of the G2 summit and Luminato, some of the best fun in TO is available down at the Toronto Islands. First of all there is the Toronto Islands Dragonboat Festival where the big news is that the junior boats fro the high schools are setting down some race times that many a senior …
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Massey and Munk are two distinguished colleges on campus with literary and international political pretensions … uhh orientations respectively. I say pretensions because you have to ask to get in to see the inner court at Massey [no luck this year, good fortune two years ago, no gatemaster around in some previous Falls]. Massey has …
Robarts Library is such a battlefield bulwark of information and books, it straddles Harbord and St. George like a concrete fortress formidable and impregnable [if you are not a UofT student just try to get in]. Robarts also dominates the architectural surrounds so Innis College has to sidle and persuade passerbies to not do so …
Every year I try to get to the Uof Toronto campus for the Fall colors. This year I was late and it shows- I have to resort to a lot of photofinishing prestidigitation to make for interesting pictures: This is the view at the corner of Bata and Rotmans – some surprising color given the …
The Toronto Santa Claus parade is over 100 years old and a good part of the appeal of the parade is that people have fun every mid-November Santa weekend. And the fun is not just for the kids and viewers – the parade participants have a lot of fun too as these picture attest to. …
Go about 130 kilometers East by Northeast from Toronto – and you are into the rolling countryside of Northumberland Hills – where the last days of Fall means it is that Perfect Pie Time of Year again. Just check the local time and location:Its time for the 30th Perfect Pie Feast and Festival in Warkworth …
THE Parade is coming to town this next weekend.  Yes, the Santa Claus Parade through Toronto’s downtown streets. It starts Sunday November 14th at 12:30PM up at Christie and Bloor . Mind – there are some changes to the route. The swing down University now swerves East at Dundas and proceeds to Yonge where …
Just two weeks ago, the hues had crescendoes with cymballic fervor throughout the valleys and ravines that mark and carve the Toronto area while slipping into the Lake. And now they are memoried midnight reveries. It all started with first glimpses – And these were reflected on painted surfaces – Even Fall’s flower blooms blushed …
Every year just around Halloweed Day, Mike Sprung has his Jack’O Lantern pumpkin carving fest. This year, the carvings  coincided with Halloween Day exactly. So in the afternoon before the munchkins could besiege the place, an industrious crew of 3 not yet succumbed to Swine Flu, put to work on carving Pumpkins creatively so the …
Earlier this month, one could catch not a few souls out at the Leslie Spit in Toronto Harbor looking for Monarchs …. butterflies, that is. They make the annual migration to Mexico starting just about at the Fall equinox. Here are some of my fellow Monarch seekers: We came equipped with curiosity, cameras, hopes, and …
If you visit my websites you know I have a certain propensity for photography. But I also like poetry as well. I think of poetry is very much like photography – the art of capturing not just moments but ideas in their time. I find that when I look at Janice’s pictures they trigger poetic …
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I like pottery. I am a ceramicist manque. So I poke around the many craft shows in Toronto and Eastern Ontario. And it is always a pleasure when I find Bill Reddick at a show because I know I will be treated to something positively  enchanting. Here is a detail from the poster from his …
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I can’t say that I agree with Jane Jacobs more: No one can find what will work for our cities by looking at … suburban garden cities, manipulating scale models, or inventing dream cities. You’ve got to get out and walk. – Jane Jacobs writer, walker Janes Walk occurs in early May each year in …
GWN-Great White North are the people who put on the dragonboat racing throughout Canada and the US. They have the defacto Eastern Canada if not Canada Nationals every September in Toronto. One of the attractions of the GWN’s Dragonboat Fest is that it take place on the LakeShore at Marilyn Bell Park which was specially …
Every year in September, Toronto almost bursts at the seams with local festivals – The Ukrainian Fest in Bloor Village, The Polish Festival on Roncesvalles, and the CabbageTown Fest in CabbageTown. This year I got to the Cabbage Town fest and what a surpise. CabbageTown was the Irish, English and scattering of Italian and Spanish …
The women and mens games had jousts at the net with cranking Swats – Spike above Knuckler below. The 2009 Canadian Beach Volleyball Championships at Ashridges Bay in Toronto proved to be worthy of all they were cranked up to be. There were plenty of great beach volleyball games. The last day was a bit …
It is hard to believe that  BuskerFest has been hitting Toronto streets [Front between roughly Yonge to Jarvis and there abouts] for 10 years. There is no doubt that a lot of awe, laughs and smiles have been created in that period – and this year was no exception: Great juggling with a wry sense …
The Canadian Beach Volleyball Championships are taking place this weekend on Toronto’s Woodbine/Ashridges Bay Beaches in the East end. Despite the wacky weather the play to date has been crisp and exciting: Action on the beach On the beach Ou la la Smashing Shots are to be found Everywhere Sunday will have the championships …
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