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  • The bewitching city

    Some things that have made me love Toronto in the past few weeks: The City Beautification Ensemble spray painting dull bicycle posts with pretty colours...

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  • Stealing glances

    Sometimes I feel an urgent need to get out of Toronto, and this is one of those times. The strain does not come from difficult friendships or celebrity...

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  • Erratic boulders

    In September 2004, local artist Maura Doyle had a nine-tonne rock moved from its resting place in the Kawartha Lakes to the Toronto Sculpture Garden at...

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  • Gardening for ads

    In the craziest billboard jungle in Canada, advertisers will go to extreme lengths to get noticed. A lucrative business has been growing strong for the...

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  • Hometown touchstones

    RACE = MORALITY. This was the line that began my eight-year relationship with a Toronto phone booth. I was 18 and had ducked into a booth in the downtown...

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  • Street smarts

    The sky is grey, filled with a fine mist of rain, but my students seem energized. They are huddled in groups behind Roy Thompson Hall gazing up at Bernie...

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