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Taxi Cab Frustration 1

One of my biggest pet peeves is Taxi Cab drivers who don’t turn their taxi lights off when they have a customer in the car. I’ve always had the understanding that the whole point of a taxi cab having a light on top of their car is to indicate to potential customers whether they are ...

Panic and the Rebel Emergency in Toronto 1

Panic and the Rebel Emergency are back in town, and they have a few shows coming up in Toronto this month. Come out and see them; I always promise it to be an entertaining show and none of my friends who have seen them have been disappointed yet. Panic and the Rebel Emergency were recently ...

Spending too much time at the bar 3

A buddy who just moved away from Toronto sold me his home-made bar unit. So instead of going out to the bar, I can hang out at my new bar in the comfort of my own apartment. It suits my apartment very well; almost as if he built it for my apartment. It has a ...

Stones playing $10 Toronto show

The Rolling Stones have announced that they will be playing tomorrow night at the Phoenix concert theatre, a small venue in Toronto for a small fee of $10. Tickets go on sale at 8AM, and it is limited to one ticket per person. Full Story I suspected that they were going to play a show ...

Air France plane on fire in Toronto 2

An Air France jet carrying as many as 200 passengers skidded off the runway and caught on fire today at 3:50PM. I just checked the live Highway 401 traffic camera, and it looks like there is still a lot of smoke coming from the plane. The news agencies haven’t said whether they were able to ...

Anti motorcycle city 6

The City of Toronto hates motorcycles. It is such a hassle to have a motorcycle downtown and use it as a method of transportation. The bylaw officers are complete pricks when it comes to parking your motorcycle. Motorcycles are better than cars for the environment, they take up much less space than cars, and getting ...

Toronto Island Boat Cruise 1

On Friday night we had a work event where we went on a “boat cruise” in Lake Ontario through the Toronto islands. There were a few hundred people on the boat, but one person really stood out. One of the guys that we work with had quite a few drinks and he and his wife ...

Fire that won’t go out 1

The Toronto fire Dept. is desperately battling a fire this morning. I stood there watching the Fire Dept battle this fire for over 2 hours. But still the fire persists. The roof has collapsed, but this fire will not subside. I can see them battling this fire from my bedroom window right now. I smell ...

3 Years for heartless mom 1

A heartless mother in Toronto received 3 years in prison for leaving her child to die in a swelteringly hot apartment while she was out “clubbing”. Clara DaSilva was sentenced yesterday for her child’s death in September 2002 in which her child was left alone for 33 hours in the sweltering 35C apartment with no ...

Anti-Cyclist Road Rage 2

This goes out to all of the drivers out there who by default have Road Rage toward all cyclists on the road. I trekked 50 kilometers today around the city running errands and I encountered many of these anti-cyclist drivers. Let it be known that WE cyclists are doing YOU a favour. There are more ...