The HMS Vicky left the Port of Montreal quite a while ago and has docked for a stay in my hometown of Markham, Ont. The town of Markham isn’t on the water, so there no possibility of keeping a boat here. So I’ve docked her in the waters of the nearest body of water: Lake [...]
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Every time I come home from abroad it feels like no time has passed. My parents are always there waiting for me at arrivals. After a brief, glad but unemotional reunion, we head towards the parking lot. Before we can make it to the car, some kind of bickering will break out between [...]
PHOTO: Swap, Don’t Shop Shopping has become a dirty word—at least for Hope Sinclair, owner of a vintage clothing business and organizer of Swap, Don’t Shop, a monthly clothing exchange in Toronto. Sinclair, 29, held her first event last October by inviting women and men to bring their unwanted clothes and take [...] If I had one pound for every time I saw a skinny-jeans-clad boy in London wearing a Crystal Castles t-shirt, I’d have, well, three pounds. Or six dollars, when you convert it back to the good old Canadian dollar. Six dollars, however, is more than I had to pay to see Crystal Castles last night [...] Clafouti 915 Queen Street West/ 416-603-1935
Despite the years of moaning about wanting to live in Europe and the fact I’m leaving next week, sometimes I doubt that there can be a place in the world nicer than Toronto in the summer. I’ve suspected it since my days in [...] |
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