The 100-year-old house was designed by John Lyle, the architect who designed Union Station and the Royal Alexandra Theatre, and it was built for John Bayne Maclean, founder of Maclean’s magazine. There are few surviving Lyle structures in the city. Residents want to save this… Read More
This year, Toronto decided to finally allow food vendors to sell food other than hot dogs and sausages in street carts. Unfortunately, it wasn’t so simple as that. The City decided to severely restrict locations, insist on particular and expensive food carts, and charge extremely… Read More
Several mornings ago, Tuffy P was taking Memphis for her morning constitutional, when she came across another dog owner in Sam Smith Park. This fellow owned a hound dog who had just tracked and rousted a coyote down by the yacht club. A couple evenings… Read More
I’ve updated the Niagara St. Two-Step story-set with a short entry called The Loading Dock.
Some of you know that for a number of years I lived in my painting studio in an old casket factory in Toronto. I’ve written a little about that here or in the old space in the past. I decided to write down some of… Read More
Back in April 2008, I made the following post on my previous blog: I heard this fellow interviewed on the radio, who goes into Toronto neighbourhoods at night with garbage bags and spends the night picking up trash. He also makes a point going into… Read More
There are two trails which run parallel. We took the other one for a change, the one by the rough grass. I was watching Memphis, but Tuffy P. spotted something in the grass. “Mushrooms”. And so I was incorrect a while back when I published… Read More
It was announced the other day that Toronto Mayor Miller is writing a book, to be published by Cormorant Books. He plans to tell stories of ordinary Torontonians he encountered during his term as Mayor. The book is to be called Witness to a City:… Read More
Toronto Mayor David Miller stated the obvious, quoted in the National Post yesterday, “I think it would be very good if a number of councillors perhaps recognize that it’s time for somebody else and run,” he told reporters yesterday. ”I think it would be good… Read More
A group of senior citizens were recently walking together in Humber Bay Park, here in Toronto. This was a warm-up for a fitness class at a nearby community centre. However, these folks were controvening Municipal Code Chapter 608 Parks. If a group holds an organized… Read More
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