Uncle! I give up.  It's relentless.  Since my shovel broke from being abused all winter long, Mother Nature hammered us again and I almost broke my back trying to clear all that snow without a damn handle on my shovel.  The crack in the base I can manage, but you

There's nothing I like better then waking up at 7am on my Saturday so I can press the F5 key on my laptop hundreds and hundreds of times.  Today is the Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation registration day for spring and summer 2008, so hundreds of parents like myself had

I rarely write about ad campaigns but this Obay marketing effort has me intrigued.  Ads have popped up all over Toronto promoting an obviously fictional drug called Obay.  They're everywhere and I have no idea what they're for. One ad shows a father and son with the caption "My son

YouTube user WNED17 recently uploaded some fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems.  These clips have brought back a tonne of memories for me, so I'm going to feature them one by one over the next few weeks. If you grew up in Toronto, you were told CityTV is Everywhere.  I don't know if

I had a pretty good idea, but no time to execute.  I wanted to create Toronto-centric Valentine's Day cards featuring local prominent figures, past and present. Here are a few quickies I threw together.  If anyone else wants to take this torch and run with it, we still have 7.

If you're reading this from the GTA, you know how damn cold it's been these past few days.  How cold is it?  They actually cancelled Beavers toboggan night.  When it's too cold to toboggan, it's too cold. It looks like this chill is about to subside.  We're supposed to hit

In addition to a $105 towing charge, I recently got a $60 parking ticket.  I thought I'd go down to 55 John Street and put up a bit of a fuss.  As I waited in line at Metro Hall I realized I'd have gladly paid $60 to be anywhere else,

Here we go again.  The snow watch frenzy is in high gear as we anticipate 25-30cm of snow between midnight and tomorrow evening. The Weather Network page for Toronto has a "Winter storm warning" in full effect.  Here it is: SNOW HEAVY AT TIMES IS EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHERN

Jon Stewart has a great line about Canada.  "What do we think of Canada ... we don't".  With apologies to Jon Stewart, I don't call Scarborough Scarlem.  I don't call it at all. You've likely read the Star article about Scarborough politicians' frustration with being disrespected by their Toronto cousins who

When there are extreme swings in the temperature, it's time to blog about the weather. Today's high is 14°.  It reminds me of this January 2007 day when we hit double digit temps.  We didn't hit 14°, though.

In 2007, I got a Facebook account.  I wasn't alone.  Toronto became the first city in North America to break 1 million subscribers. Last I checked Toronto proper had 2,503,281 residents.  There's no way these grandiose claims that 1,000,000 of us have Facebook accounts is true.

The New York Daily News has quite the interview with that pest Sean Avery.  Asked after practice yesterday whether he was looking forward to visiting Toronto tonight, Avery, who grew up in neighbouring Pickering, Ontario, replied: No. I never enjoy going to Toronto, really. So all that'll do is motivate

Toronto got about 26 centimetres of snow yesterday, which was close to our single-day record for December.  The record was set on Dec. 11, 1944, when 28 centimetres fell on the city in 24 hours. It seemed like more than 26 centimetres, didn't it?  The rest of Canada will likely

Last night I tried to watch Saturday Night Live's Best of Chris Farley on Buffalo's WGRZ-TV but they were stealing a good chunk of my 27 inch screen to tell me about all the church functions that were closed due to the imminent snow storm.  I wondered to myself, wouldn't

Torontonians, consider yourselves warned.  A near-crippling snow storm with very heavy snow and blowing snow as well as some ice pellets is imminent.  I know this because I visited the Weather Network page for Toronto Weather Watches & Warnings. Cue the Storm Centre Guy, this one could be a lot

It snowed yesterday.  Yes, I'm a little late on this one.  I saw the snow, and I was almost happy to see it.  Last year it took a great deal longer before we had our first snowfall. On December 15, 2006, I wrote an entry I titled "Remember Snow?".  We

I don't know how I missed this news, but Toronto was voted the official Spice  City.  It's true, read this from The Return of the Spice Girls Wikipedia page. Toronto was voted the official Spice City. Toronto received more votes than Rio de Janeiro - which came close in second

In this city, there's a market for just about everything.  Let's take coffee, as an example.  There's your Starbucks crowd, your Second Cup crowd, your Tim Hortons crowd and your $15 a cup crowd. Manic Coffee on College Street West brews Esmerelda Especial and sells it for $15 per cup.