Any idea who will replace it?

I was at a preview for Simons yesterday and other than some of the up-and-coming designers they tend to feature, I'm not sure if I'm 100% impressed. I can't put my finger on WHY, exactly. Maybe it was how the event was delivered - I'm not a big fan of "sell, sell, sell...we're the best, the...

THIS is a cultural thing. Some of the anxiety (at least with 20somethings) might come from first generation Canadians who LONG for independence, but still need to respect their parents' wishes to live at home until they marry (or find a job in another city). Going away to school is NOT the...

Wild Burger on Mount Pleasant has shuttered. They still have their Whitby location.

I think it's one of the stores in the covered walkway leading to Cumberland.

I agree with you. As much as people seem to emphasize the whole FI is for white kids thing, it's really more of a (for the lack of a better word) class thing. And like you, living downtown, any child(ren) my husband and I have will NOT be sheltered. It's just that well-off non-whites tend to...

If you're Catholic, you'll have the option of the separate board. Is it any easier to get into a closer school there? Even with fewer schools available?

I did not know you could still do that. I mostly bank digitally...

How do they deposit money then?

Nearly all independent schools in the GTA offer AP courses (and did even when OAC existed). Those which don't are IB schools.

At "full" universities, too. Guelph, for example. They have two programs: co-op and regular. If you're going to take something like hotel management, opt for co-op. Like many jobs, there's probably "school snobbery" or "school preference." I took a post-grad PR program at a college that...

Exactly. The "secondary" designation wasn't used in the old city. That was reserved for schools in, say, North York or Scarborough. I don't know what it's "like" for the "typical" Torontonian in the old days. My parents are immigrants from Hong Kong and I went to a high school where...

Back in the old days (probably pre-60s?), kids who wanted to go to university often went to different high schools than those who didn't. Wasn't that why "old" Toronto schools tend to be ABC Collegiate Institute (prepares kids for university) or XYZ Technical? Someone once told me Northern...

It's funny. My parents never considered French immersion with the public/separate school system at all - they said something about it being difficult to learn two languages at the same time (I only spoke Cantonese until I started JK). YET, they wanted me at the Toronto FRENCH School (among...

Zara?

So who else is opening at One Bloor besides Nordstrom Rack? Don't think I've heard about any others yet?

Kids I went to high school with were ALL pushed to go to university. This was in the 90s. I don't think I know ANYONE who wasn't. And students who attend my alma mater STILL ARE. However, I'm sure their anxiety issues are far greater than when I was in school.

Actually, there *IS* (or *WAS*) a Bayview Mall. It's on Bayview, south of Cummer. I haven't been up there in a few years, but remember it as being a bit cr@ppy and really a place for middle and high school aged kids to hang out (at the Harvey's) back in the late 80s/early 90s. I was in...