I was just a little girl living in Toronto when Expo ’67 presented Ontario with the best theme song ever. We belted out the lyrics in classrooms throughout the province that whole year… Continue reading
Author Archives: Schuster Gindin
DAAD-MOHAMMAD AND THE FISHES
In the morning just as the sun rises he gets up for his daily pilgrimage, the loose cloth from his turban and white dash-dashi trailing in the desert wind. He walks alone… Continue reading
RAZING HOME
When you move out of a place it can be emotionally devastating. Especially because, for most of us, it is so rarely our choice. As a child you fear you may never again find those special spots, the comforts that made it a home… Continue reading
LEAVING CITY LIFE FOR A HOME IN THE COUNTY
In 2003 my husband and I left Toronto and a house that we and our children loved and had called home for 23 years. We were moving 200 kilometres away to make a new home in the country… Continue reading
A NEIGHBOURHOOD BECOMES HOME
I had expected that having a child would affect my view of the city and my relationship to it. What I hadn’t expected was how exactly this change would manifest itself. I had hoped… Continue reading
HOMECOMING
With each snip of the pruning shears, a branch of the grapevine falls from the pergola to the ground, followed moments later by droplets of sap. The gnarled stems easily betray a half-century of life. Twisted and bent they cling to the tarnished metal rods and steel pipes like a veil of memories… Continue reading
AT HOME IN TORONTO AND LONDON
How does living in London compare to living in Toronto? Colin Leys has inhabited both cities over a number of years and has some thought-provoking and amusing insights into Old World versus New World living. Continue reading
A THOUSAND CRANES
Look to the skyline and see the cranes towering and swinging back and forth as if speaking to each other as they pass. They arrive in pairs or small groups, some are solitary. Who summoned them? Is there a plan? When they disappear from the skyline, what will they leave behind? Will we remember what … Continue reading
Ai WeiWei Giftshop, Crystal Towers, Journalism Benefit
Look in all our sidebar spots, Going Out, Staying In and What’s Here, for more new articles. Continue reading
Summer wedding, Bikers in Rome, Toronto visitors
In between our quarterly themed issues we post articles every week – have a look at the newest… Continue reading
TORONTO: ALMOST A GREAT CITY
Vincenzo Pietropaolo, a Toronto-based photographer, author and former city planner gave the Annual Leo Srole Urban Studies Lecture at Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York on April 19, 2012. Here’s what he said. Continue reading
THE HOUSE THAT WAS EATEN ALIVE
THE DEMISE OF A LOCAL LANDMARK
History and reminiscences by Debbie Nyman, Larry Swartz and Elizabeth Cinello. Photos by Elizabeth Cinello. Continue reading
LINKS
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