Articles posted 02.09.09Torontoist: One week after four llamas, a yak, and a wallaby escaped from High Park Zoo, Torontoist is pleased to report that all animals are absolutely fine following their midnight jaunt.
Articles posted 27.08.09Torontoist: When you step into the Museum of Inuit Art, which is hidden at the back of the Queen's Quay Terminal on the Harbourfront, you'll probably recognize the first picture you see. This is the "Enchanted Owl." According to the museum's curator, Ingo Hessel, it is "a true icon...probably the most famous image in Inuit art if not Canadian art."
Articles posted 19.08.09Torontoist: If you're hankering after some urban greenery but you're tired of High Park, then you could do worse than a visit to the Humber Arboretum. It's free, it's quiet, and best of all, there are surprisingly few wasps.
Blog posted 17.08.09 This is Ladybug the alpaca, one of the residents at the Blood Moon Alpaca Farm, near Erin, Ontario. The farm held an open day on Sunday and we went along to have a curious snuffle.
Articles posted 13.08.09Torontoist: What might become of our current streetcars when they're replaced by shiny new ones over the next few years? No one knows yet, but they might well dream of seeing out the rest of their days at the Halton County Radial Railway.
Blog posted 12.08.09 Toronto isn't the first city I've lived in on this continent. About nine years ago, I spent a summer in New York City on Bunac, working for minimum wage in a bookstore and surviving on fruit juice.
Blog posted 29.07.09 The Points of Interest London Underground map, by Dan Zambonini, replaces the stop names by what people might find if they disembark. For instance, Earl's Court is 'Antipodeans' and Vauxhall is 'MI6'. I don't want Toronto to be left out of the potential fun to be had, so I've had a go at making one for the TTC.
Links posted 28.07.09 I suppose that's one way of paying back the massive debt he must be in.
Blog posted 27.07.09 If local print journalism has any kind of future whatsoever, it most likely will be a bit like this magazine, which we picked up during our jaunt across the US border the other week.
Blog posted 21.07.09 As you may know, I come from a country that essentially consists of a damp island in the north-east Atlantic. In my former home, it was pretty easy to tell you'd left...