The problem this year for the Cobourg Highland Games was a persistent downpour followed by intermittent rains. The turnout was naturally diminished and many events were moved or cancelled. And so Cobourg’s Highland Games joins other Ontario cities whose games have been effected by fickle weather in the past 3-5 years. More extreme variance in weather …
For the past decade or so, Toronto has had the Open Doors Spring happening. This is where major buildings in the Toronto Area are opened to the public on a late May weekend. This year the themes is Sacred Places – as the Churches, Synagogues and other houses of worship through the city open up …
The Royal Ontario Museum- ROM has a new wing – and its sits like a Transformers attachment to the staid but solid brick and splitrock structure that is the classic main building of the ROM. I am convinced the ROM staff are still not taking advantage of the spaces created by the new structure. It …
Continuing our series of testing images of the Casio EX-F1. Here are some shots taken at Toronto’s Lake Ontario shore. The images are from an HD Video (1920 x 1080 pixels). I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the images. I had expected because the images were from a video they would be soft, …
Toronto Dominion Center in the heart of Toronto’s Bank district has an attraction for the photographic eye that is easy to understand. There are of course great geometric forms; light and dark aplenty, and on a weekday often human humor and forms. So when I went to test the new Casio EX-F1, one of the …
There are street grocers in Toronto everywhere. We have already featured the Roncesvalles shops of Late Winter. But I was walking in the East end along Danforth and then along Queen and here are some of the beauties I found along the way. They are beauties because they a)taste wonderful and b)come at a price …
High Park and all of Toronto got to finally indulge in double digit Spring warmth. And the trees responded with bright red and subtle yellow-green buds – making a walk and picture taking a pleasure. Here is what I saw: Plunge to the Depths It is the surface ripples and forms that draw attention outward …
Toronto on Bloor Street West for a block or two. There are about 4-5 cut flower, veggie and fruit shops between Keele/High Park Streets and Dundas Street on Bloor West. The places are all seasons spirit resuscitation shops. The prices are good and the blooms are fine, each of the shops has its own flower …
“baseball” is doing a major cover-up on its doping problems. On Friday, baseball and its players union came to an “agreement” to whitewash all its doping problems – and the major trade press that covers the sport seemed to agree. Lets do nothing , sweep it under the rug, and gosh golly isn’t Bud Selig, …
VIA Rail : The Better Way An Open Letter to the Chairman of Via Rail, Donald Wright I have noted a TV ad campaign that argues that customers should not be squished, squashed and squeezed. VIA is the better way to travel. And during the winter time especially in the Quebec-Toronto-Windsor corridor I would tend …
In the Southern Ontario area there is a grocery chain name Loblaws and the CEO, Galen Weston, has been pitching some of the products in his stores in a “folksy” kind of way. So two brothers with their Apple crisp product are trotted out and Galen says their Apple Crisp is so good, “I’ll guarantee …
Starting just at the outbreak of Spring and Hope, like the nearby Ganaraska river overflowing with vigor, the Toronto Blue Jays commence their fifteenth season since winning two World Series in a row. And to hopefully inspire the birds not emulate their Maple Leaf co-denizens, I have started a coverage of the Blue Jays in …
