OK, I thought I'd use UT for a bit of crowd-sourcing... So I've likely been to Montreal approaching 20 times if I had to guess. I know the city very well. I have a few friends there and always enjoy it immensely. In fact, I'm headed there for the long weekend next week, but it isn't with a...

I figured it was time to give Uniqlo its own thread. Uniqlo in Talks to Open Stores in Canada in 2016 -As usual, it appears Yorkdale will be first.

The Nestle Toll House in Metro Centre has closed for not paying their rent.

The Avro will be closing at the end of the month I believe. They've been priced-out of the nabe unfortunately. Their Kensington Market bar - Handle Bar - will remain open though.

I've found myself in a bit of an online argument with somebody who claims that Toronto's core is shrinking in terms of office workers, that more companies than ever are moving to the 905 and that the current building boom in office construction is merely moving the same people around to new...

Toronto gets a new outdoor concert venue to watch the sun go down, on Echo Beach, I watch the sun go down... Toronto gets a new outdoor concert venue AUX.TV Toronto’s behemoth outdoor music stadium, the Molson Amphitheatre, is getting a little friend—owner Live Nation has announced...

A friend of mine has put together what I think is a pretty excellent and timely analysis of the current state of the TTC's branding. He is currently living in London, UK and has noticed how TFL's information is always slick and informative and how the TTC's is sadly almost always bad. This...

By my estimation, Toronto is now likely within 200,000 people of overtaking Chicago as North America's 4th largest city... http://bit.ly/exh443

Just some shots I took on a quick trip back in the summer... Pride Windsor @ Riverside Park along the Detroit River. A super hot day, but sadly there were probably only a few hundred people in attendance. Enjoyable, but a totally different experience than Pride T.O...

As continued from Phabulous Philly (Part IV)... The Philadelphia Bourse was the first commodities exchange in the U.S. and was built in 1891. Unfortunately, The Bourse today houses a mostly tired shopping centre that tends to cater mostly to the tourist set. We then headed for...

How great is this? My Potholes

As continued from Phabulous Philly (Part III)... Back in Philly, we headed to South Street in search of an authentic cheesesteak. We took a pass at Jim's Steaks here on South Street and continued on to the famous (and infamous) Geno's Steaks instead. The famous Geno's Steaks...

As continued from Phabulous Philly (Part II)... A distant shot of Cesar Pelli's Cira Centre. A typical Philly streetscape. This is along 21st Street. This was the neighbourhood where much of The Sixth Sense (a.k.a. "I see dead people") was shot. It's located in south-west Philly...

As continued from Phabulous Philly (Part I)... Behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Schuylkill River sits the Fairmount Water Works. The Fairmount Water Works was the first municipal waterworks in the United States. Today it houses a waterworks "interpretive center" and an...

Pictures from our June trip to Philadelphia, including an excursion up to New Hope, PA. Baltimore's Amtrak station from our Acela train that we took from Washington to Philadelphia. Philadelphia's 30th Street Station. Philadelphia's 30th Street Station is the heart of the region's...

I was in Washington, DC for a conference back in June. Unfortunately, I had very little time to see the city, but here's a few things I did get to see... The US Capitol from a rainy National Mall. I.M. Pei's fabulous east wing of the National Gallery of Art. The sharp edge of the...

Our "dead meet" rainy walk through Mount Pleasant Cemetery in mid-June with some fellow Urban Torontoers. We only covered the part of cemetery west of Mount Plesant Rd, but will tackle the other half next year. Enjoy! The Yonge Street Gate. Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)...

Two weekends ago we grabbed a car and checked out a part of the province we haven't before. This quick trip involved stops in Nanticoke, Port Dover and Brantford, Ontario. Enjoy! Heavy rains hitting the sun roof on the QEW. Despite being a tiny town, Nanticoke is one of the most...

Some more photos from earlier in the summer that I haven't had a chance to post until now.... These include the May 31st installment of Kensington Market's "Pedestrian Sundays," a few pictures of a giant TTC Map that is currently being painted in front of the of the Bickford Centre at 773...

Took these back at the end of May (after a rain storm), but haven't had a chance to post until now...