Working front bike wheels are nice things to have. As surprises, they're unsurpassed.

The Scarborough Bluffs, located in eastern Toronto in the former city of Scarborough, are a beautiful high shoreline escarpment.

They run 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from the foot of Victoria Park Avenue in the west to the mouth of Highland Creek in the east, reaching as high as 65 metres (213 ft), the equivalent of seventeen storeys. However, the ( Read more... )

Of course cats can play fetch. April Holladay's Globe and Mail piece proves what I know about Shakespeare, albeit only after Jerry taught me. Why else would I have so many rubber and foil balls lying around my apartment? Below's a YouTube video of a Bengal kitten playing fetch, if you don't believe my assertions.

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Jerry took these two photos showing Shakespeare peeking his head around the corner. I like the suggestion of one commenter that Shakespeare looks like a little mystic.


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On our trip to the area of the city of Peterborough, to the northeast of Ontario, last month, we stopped at the rusted railway tracks and associated bridge. They're still in use intermittantly if only for cargo, despite plans to establish a Toronto-Peterborough commuter line. Here's some pictures from that visit.


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The odyssey of Dave Carroll, one of the two members of the Halifax-based duo Sons of Maxwell and an Internet celebrity thanks to his song "United Breaks Guitars", is going to get a very big audience for himself indeed.

Halifax singer-songwriter Dave Carroll will be on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to tell a hearing on airline passenger ( Read more... )

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This evening, I returned to Toronto with Jerry from our one-year anniversary trip, a visit to Niagara Falls, Ontario over the Victoria Day long weekend just concluded. A more extensive post will follow, but for the moment (i.e. until I get the pictures), I'll just say that Niagara is a place of very scenic extremes and leave it there.