The Toronto Star's Ellen Brait describes an unusual mirage, an manifestation of Toronto in the skies above Buffalo one hot summer day in August 1894.

Buffalo residents were treated to an unusual sight on Aug. 16, 1894: a detailed image of Toronto hovering over Lake Ontario ( Read more... )

When I visited the Microsoft Store in the Eaton Centre at the beginning of December, I was interested to see that among the covers for the Surface Pro 4 that this store carried were some carrying the logo of the AFL's Buffalo Bills.


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If, as Paul Attfield suggests in The Globe and Mail, Buffalo is starting to revive this is all for the good. I just hope that the growth will be inclusive of everyone in the city.

For sports fans, Buffalo might be best known as the home of the National Football League’s Bills and National Hockey League’s Sabres, which have the unenviable record of ( Read more... )

I'm not sure I necessarily agree with Shawn Micallef's argument in the Toronto Star. Whether over-the-air or streamed digitally, content is content, and can be as localized as you'd like.

Most television transmissions in Toronto originate from the CN Tower, the reason it was built, and if your place has a clear line of sight to it you’ll likely ( Read more... )

• City of Brass notes the lie that is Eurabia.
• Crooked Timber considers Creative Commons licenses as a crude kind of anti-spam technology.
• The Dragon's Tales looks at Ontario's interest in pioneering a guaranteed minimum income program.
• Far Outliers looks at the history of Korean prisoners of war in the Second World War in Hawai'i.
• Joe. My. God. notes ( Read more... )

In his latest Historicist feature, "Banned in Buffalo", Jamie Bradburn notes how some Toronto teens' appearance on a Buffalo television dance show caused a shameful amount of upset here in Toronto. Racism is Canadian.

To a few irate viewers of WGR’s Dance Party, two Toronto teenagers had travelled down the QEW to commit an offensive act live on ( Read more... )

Gothamist featured Jordan G. Teicher's article describing how the upstate New York State city of Buffalo is thriving, an affordable community attracting migrants from across the United States as it recovers from its post-industrial nadir. (An implicit contrast is with an unaffordable New York City.)

I do have to go one of these days.

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NOW Toronto's Jonathan Goldsbie visits the city of Buffalo in upstate New York and comes back with the story of a city that has hit rock bottom but which is caught up in the penumbra of a booming Toronto.

[Kitty Lambert-Rudd, executive director of Buffalo ReUse] moved to Buffalo from Arizona in 2004, when she bought a house at auction for $3,000. ( Read more... )

Here at A Bit More Detail I post every so often about Buffalo, that city in New York State not two hours' drive from Toronto that directly adjoins Ontario and is one corner of the Toronto sprawl. Today's justification for Toronto linkage? In one of its periodic links roundup posts, Spacing Toronto linked to an article in Buffalo's ArtVoice ( Read more... )