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A woman jogs by the Four Seasons Hotel, and it’s clear that she’s spent every bit as much time on her outfit as if she was going out for a fancy dinner party. Oh, she’s wearing her tight, white tank top and Lycra shorts and has her hair pulled back in a youthful ponytail. Behind…

  On Saturday, Rachelle and I took the dog on a stroll down to Yorkville. It was a beautiful day and the Toronto International Film Festival was in full swing, so the city, and everybody in it, was feeling kind of excited and world class. Between his two children, a father walked down the sidewalk…

I think that everybody I knew who saw District 9, loved it, and from what I could tell, the critical assessments in the media were also glowing, and so, it was with an open, optimistic and entirely excited heart that I went to see the movie. I thought that the premise, the launching point for…

One of my therapists suggested that I should make a list of people who reminded me of myself. This sounded like a fun homework assignment, and so I did it straight away. This is the list that I came up with: Martin Luther King—For our belief in equality for all people, oratorical skills and fondness…

Meredith, It was Salsa night on the street corner. The girl was pretty and knew the fundamentals. She had three or four steps that she executed crisply, like Jennifer Lopez would in a movie, by which I mean she was intentionally drawing attention to her exaggerated movements. The boy looked embarrassed, like he’d been dragged…

The CNE Air Show, which had been raging away in Toronto for the last five days, ended on Monday. For those of us who live in the city, I think there’s been a sort of hipster cachet to complaining about the thing. The implicit point of view is that it’s a tourist spectacle staged for…

  What do you do when somebody you love becomes a moron? Sadly, Rachelle—my most beautiful Petal—has taken to wearing moccasins all the time. It started innocently enough. She had hurt her foot while kicking somebody at floor hockey practice, and found that shoes were a little constricting after the injury, and that she felt…

Leslie Fulton of Ottawa, who has a curious mind, wonders how single shoes come to litter the streets of the city. She’s observed that there are all different types of shoes, and that it’s highly improbable that they’re simply work shoes slipping out the knapsacks of sneaker-wearing civil servants marching to and from work. As…

  Darcy Allan Sheppard was killed on Monday night while riding his bicycle down Bloor Street in downtown Toronto. Michael Bryant, the former Ontario Attorney-General who was driving the expensive Saab that killed Sheppard, has been charged with criminal negligence causing death. The story is now well known and has served as a bit of…