Tag: toronto
member name: Ian B (in Toronto)
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December 15, 2009 10:22 PM EST --
The tradition from Britain, that I grew up with: you decorate the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve, and leave it up for the 12 days of Christmas (until Epiphany) on January 6 th . The American tradition: . . .
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December 13, 2009 12:10 PM EST --
No, this is not about my accident.
This is not specifically about December, either, but in fact is a story that is a couple of months old. Yet I am reminded about it every day, walking home. Being a . . .
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December 12, 2009 11:10 PM EST --
Some of you may remember a few months ago I published a piece that I was intending to submit to the Ontario Public Service (OPS) Price Network (otherwise known as the OPN), applying to be on their Speakers' . . .
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August 04, 2008 09:08 PM EDT --
I was coming home from church this evening when I stumbled on the enclosed picture. I was in Riverdale, sort of mid-east in the vast metropolis of Toronto. It wasn't very late, so few of the buildings . . .
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September 26, 2008 05:21 PM EDT --
I'm curious: has anyone else had this kind of experience? Just when you think things are at their worst, they make a sharp turn and are suddenly better than ever? It's happened several times to . . .
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August 10, 2008 12:15 PM EDT --
Thousands of people fled their homes in a residential neighbourhood of Toronto early Sunday following a series of explosions and a massive fire at a propane depot.
- CBC News
Tim and I got . . .
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December 19, 2008 05:09 PM EST --
I am the first to admit that generally our weather isn't too bad here in Toronto; we're just south of the "snow belt" and can often miss what hits the rest of the province pretty hard. . . .
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September 09, 2009 10:18 PM EDT --
The Ontario Public Service "Pride Network" is trying to establish a “Speaker's Bureau”: people who would go out and speak about their experience being gay in the province. I expressed some . . .
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December 02, 2009 04:13 AM EST --
December 1st is World AIDS Day. It's been a “day” since 1987, when it was established by the World Health Organization (WHO) to bring light to the difficulties associated with living with . . .
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December 03, 2009 06:32 AM EST --
Apparently this is going to be one of the last times that the Dead Sea Scrolls are sent to other parts of the world to be viewed and experienced; I was thus very glad to have the opportunity to see . . .
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September 02, 2008 07:37 PM EDT --
Wow. I have to admit I was worried about posting my first article because so many of my discussions in the States that touched on Health Care always slammed the Canadian System. I remember when I first . . .
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November 01, 2008 09:43 PM EDT --
One of the things I like about Canada is that we have seasons: full seasons. Winter is just a little too cold, summer is just a little too hot (unlike the South, where the winter was not cold enough and . . .
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September 01, 2008 10:27 PM EDT --
I'll tell you right off: I'm not writing this to brag about the Canadian Health Care System. It is flawed; wait times can be long and one of my biggest irritations is that right now, OHIP (Ontario's Health . . .
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December 09, 2009 09:48 PM EST --
This year has been unique for Toronto. This was the first November that there has been no accumulation of snowfall since records starting being kept in 1937. Even though I remember as a kid that there . . .
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December 09, 2009 08:22 PM EST --
We can't be prolific and thought provoking every day in December. Or maybe we can be: but a little bit differently day to day. Besides, chocolate is one of those things that is thought provoking just . . .
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July 01, 2009 08:53 PM EDT --
Although I attended Toronto Pride and walked in the parade for the last two years, this year I didn't completely make it. I attended the MCC " Church on Church Street ", and was able to worship with hundreds . . .
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August 28, 2009 09:37 PM EDT --
We have three cats, although only two of them are ever seen by outsiders. All were found as strays, and each has a story. We have one referred to as “the . . .
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December 06, 2009 02:40 PM EST --
I have been planning on writing something about our weekly Saturday grocery trips for some time. After all, grocery and food are the most consistent costs in our lives: one of those that we must spend . . .
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December 24, 2008 05:01 PM EST --
In the last week, we in Toronto have been through several snowstorms; I'm not sure of the official number, but last I heard it was four. I set up a post or two about the first ones, but after . . .
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July 13, 2009 11:37 PM EDT --
I went out for lunch with two old friends (I have to be careful with that description) on Saturday who I have re-discovered through Facebook: Barb and Laura. We knew each other in high school, now 27 . . .
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