What an unexpected pleasure to meet Canadian figure skating champions Elvis Stojko and Kurt Browning! Today at Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square, Ridley College put on a coaching showcase event to promote their new figure skating program (see TorontoToday review with photos). Incidentally, what a terrific scenario where a student’s skating training is integrated with their …
In October 2024, I was looking for a new walking project (see 2021’s project) to keep motivated, and joked to a friend that I could try visiting every one of the City of Toronto’s 1,520+ parks. Impossible, right? The more I thought about it, though, the more it seemed like a great goal for me. I …
Are there elves in Toronto? I hope so. Reading about Iceland, in preparation for a trip, I learned that a survey conducted by Professor Terry Gunnell’s team at the University of Iceland in 2007 showed that over 80% of respondents refused to deny the existence of elves (source). Love this. Gunnell provides an introduction to …
The other day, a woman behind the bar at an event told me she was in television, and had played a part in the “patty wars” documentary (the what?). I’d never heard of the “patty wars,” though I knew that Jamaican patties were a Toronto thing. So tonight I watched CBC Short Docs “Patty vs. …