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 …

TOStrike: Week 2, Day 12: Friday July 3, 2009 8:30 pm.
The Orkin pesticide truck has rolled up Crawford Street to the entrance of the Christie Pits Park Dump Site , now a de facto …

Canada Day 6:00 pm
This photo is of a water sample that Christie Pits Park neighbourhood resident Boris Steipe took from the Christie Pits Park ice rink , where the water is currently about 5-7 …

The driver of a rented Home Depot truck allegedly attempted to dump his entire contents at the Sir Casimir Gzowksi Park temporary garbage dump site on Sunday evening June 28 2009.
Moments earlier, the driver had …

By Andre Rehal
As I sit here and write this blog entry I am at a loss. For words, for my inability to sleep and worst of all I am at a loss for a very …

By Hans Gruber
I know that stewing over this is unhelpful and pointless, but I have to get this out of my system. So what was wrong with Christie Blatchford’s Globe and Mail article about the …