Category Archives: Toronto

The Wonderful City in Canada which is home.

$400 fine and 3 demerit points for the life of 79 year old Siu Mui Lam

By Ian | February 10, 2010

Siu Mui Lam (also known as Mrs. Wong, born 1930) was killed by a dump truck driver on June 23, 2009 (the second day of City strike) when she crossed an intersection at St. Helen’s street/ Bloor before a STOP sign.
The impact was so huge, that head and body was severely disfigured, and she pronounced [...]

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Changes in the Junction : Jocelyn’s Place, a Stop Light & Buddha Pie

By Ian | October 16, 2009

This fall has seen a few changes in Toronto’s west end Junction neighborhood (of New York Times fame):
Bronto Burger is now Jocelyn’s Place (2982 Dundas St. West, just west of Pacific Ave.), with a new owner but same menu/price and deco (at least for now). The food and service continue to be as good.

The [...]

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Five films from the TIFF

By Ian | September 22, 2009

We saw 5 great films in the Contemporary World Cinema program in this years (2009) Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff).
We started off with a Irish film, Perrier’s Bounty, set in the underside of North Dublin. Great and meaty characters. I hope the DVD has English subtitles and translation so I can understand [...]

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A few Toronto Festivals in September: Junction Arts, Ukrainians, Poles and Movie Stars

By Ian | August 28, 2009

The Junction Arts Festival is back on Sept 9 to 13, 2009 of its 17th occasion in Toronto’s west end on Dundas Street West between Keele Street and Quebec Avenue. The festival presents visual, musical, performance, new media and site-specific works to over 150,000 people transforming Dundas Street West into a pedestrian-only, urban cultural destination.
September [...]

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Sacha Chua shares her Lotus Notes mail merge from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet

By Ian | August 27, 2009

Toronto’s Connector extraordinaire Sacha Chua developed this super-nifty Lotus Notes script which does a flexible mail merge from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to Lotus Notes, as documented and shared in Lotus Notes mail merge from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Keep on Coding, Sharing, Story telling, and Connecting!

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Dufflet takes the cake at U.S. food show, Ian takes the Photo

By Ian | July 7, 2009

Toronto Life has a piece on Dufflet Pasteries winning a gold for best confection at the 2009 Sofi Awards in New York (Dufflet takes the cake at U.S. food show).
I became aware of this because they used (part of) a photo (with Attribution) I had taken of their Beach location (1917 Queen St. East) [...]

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Toronto’s Junction in New York Times

By Ian | July 5, 2009

My jaw literally did drop when I realized that my home neighbourhood, west end Toronto’s Junction City, was the topic of a article in the NYT’s travel section in Skid Row to Hip in Toronto , not just as part of a 36 Hours in Toronto but on its own! (we are not yet [...]

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DemoCamp Toronto 20 is May 25th

By Ian | April 21, 2009

DemoCamp Toronto is the show-and-tell for Toronto’s entrepreneurial developers, designers, and marketers. The goal is to see new technology, meet other interesting people in emerging technology, early-stage companies, and making Toronto a better place.
The 20th anniversary platinum edition is happening May 25, 2009; 6pm to 9pm; Location to be announced
Seating is limited (in a TBA [...]

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Towards Building Toronto 2.0

By Ian | February 4, 2009

A big article in the Saturday January 31st Globe and Mail Newspaper proclaimed :

T.O. IS BECOMING A SOLUTIONS PLAYGROUND: WHY OUR CITY IS THE LATEST HOT SPOT FOR GEEKS, WONKS AND WEB JUNKIES, Toronto 2.0: data sharing source.
The focus of the article was largely on an event run at the Center for Social Innovation run [...]

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Celebrating Lunar New Year and Long Life with Tam Kwai Lan

By Ian | January 27, 2009

This weekend was the start of Chinese year 4707, which is Year of the Ox in the Chinese zodiac.

As always we celebrated the Lunar New Year with 2 dinners, one on the evening and one on the new years day (plus a Saturday dim sum!), with as many family members in attendance as possible.
The [...]

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