By HiMY SYeD
As part of the City of Toronto‘s 175th Anniversary year-long now-and-then celebrations, Mayor David Miller and Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone, unveiled a commemorative picture postage stamp.
“The 175th anniversary of the city’s incorporation from …

By HiMY SYeD
For the week leading up to Remembrance Day 2009, drivers and passers-by in the Bloorcourt neighbourhood west of Christie Pits park have been witness to the largest red poppy in Toronto.
It’s a tribute …

By HiMY SYeD
Late in the afternoon on Remembrance Day, the Garden Car in Kensington Market called it a season and was towed to its winter home.

The Garden Car has been a summer fixture on north …

By HiMY SYeD
At the base of the Arches above the reflecting pool in Nathan Phillips Square is a piece of the Berlin Wall.
Back in the early 1990s, Toronto based documentary filmmaker,  Marcus Kolga, made the …

By HiMY SYeD

Shawn Micallef penned a post on Spacing Toronto about the imminent demise of the Downsview Hangars.
It was the Diefenbacher Diefenbaker Conservative Government which axed the Avro Arrow program and physically dismantled each …

By HiMY SYeD
Enjoying hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows is certainly a fun way to mark the only 25 hour day of the year.
Fun also is dressing warmly, grabbing friends and hopscotching your way to each …