Here we go again.  The snow watch frenzy is in high gear as we anticipate 25-30cm of snow between midnight and tomorrow evening. The Weather Network page for Toronto has a "Winter storm warning" in full effect.  Here it is: SNOW HEAVY AT TIMES IS EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHERN

Jon Stewart has a great line about Canada.  "What do we think of Canada ... we don't".  With apologies to Jon Stewart, I don't call Scarborough Scarlem.  I don't call it at all. You've likely read the Star article about Scarborough politicians' frustration with being disrespected by their Toronto cousins who

When there are extreme swings in the temperature, it's time to blog about the weather. Today's high is 14°.  It reminds me of this January 2007 day when we hit double digit temps.  We didn't hit 14°, though.

In 2007, I got a Facebook account.  I wasn't alone.  Toronto became the first city in North America to break 1 million subscribers. Last I checked Toronto proper had 2,503,281 residents.  There's no way these grandiose claims that 1,000,000 of us have Facebook accounts is true.

The New York Daily News has quite the interview with that pest Sean Avery.  Asked after practice yesterday whether he was looking forward to visiting Toronto tonight, Avery, who grew up in neighbouring Pickering, Ontario, replied: No. I never enjoy going to Toronto, really. So all that'll do is motivate

Toronto got about 26 centimetres of snow yesterday, which was close to our single-day record for December.  The record was set on Dec. 11, 1944, when 28 centimetres fell on the city in 24 hours. It seemed like more than 26 centimetres, didn't it?  The rest of Canada will likely

Last night I tried to watch Saturday Night Live's Best of Chris Farley on Buffalo's WGRZ-TV but they were stealing a good chunk of my 27 inch screen to tell me about all the church functions that were closed due to the imminent snow storm.  I wondered to myself, wouldn't

Torontonians, consider yourselves warned.  A near-crippling snow storm with very heavy snow and blowing snow as well as some ice pellets is imminent.  I know this because I visited the Weather Network page for Toronto Weather Watches & Warnings. Cue the Storm Centre Guy, this one could be a lot

It snowed yesterday.  Yes, I'm a little late on this one.  I saw the snow, and I was almost happy to see it.  Last year it took a great deal longer before we had our first snowfall. On December 15, 2006, I wrote an entry I titled "Remember Snow?".  We

I don't know how I missed this news, but Toronto was voted the official Spice  City.  It's true, read this from The Return of the Spice Girls Wikipedia page. Toronto was voted the official Spice City. Toronto received more votes than Rio de Janeiro - which came close in second

In this city, there's a market for just about everything.  Let's take coffee, as an example.  There's your Starbucks crowd, your Second Cup crowd, your Tim Hortons crowd and your $15 a cup crowd. Manic Coffee on College Street West brews Esmerelda Especial and sells it for $15 per cup.

This is really the only time of year you can justify sharing a good ghost story, so for the second year in a row I'm going to share my favourite ghost story of them all.  This one is about a ghost named Reznikoff who haunts University College at the University

Earlier in the week I complained about house prices in Toronto.  I've just discovered that you can in fact still buy a house in Toronto for under $200,000.  In fact, a charming little home near St. Clair and Dufferin is going for only $179,900. It's the smallest house

At this rate, Toronto will soon be a playground for the very rich.  Home prices in the 416 area code continue to rise and now Torontonians like myself are experiencing a very interesting phenomenon.  We can't afford to buy our own homes. When I originally bought my house, I was

Toronto Mayor David Miller recently initiated a series of cuts to city services, including delaying the opening of outdoor rinks until January.  That meant our outdoor public skating rinks would be closed during the Christmas season.  MasterCard has fixed that. MasterCard is donating $160,000 to make sure city ice

It's October 8th and I'm sitting on the porch coming to the realization that's it's just too damn hot to be outside right now.  What is it, 30°?  It's stifling. It hasn't been warmer on Thanksgiving Day since I hit the earth.  Don't tell Suzuki, but I'm thinking of throwing

We all saw it coming.  If it wasn't Dubai it would have been Chicago, Tokyo or Guangzhou.  For 31 years, just about my entire life on this planet, the CN Tower was the world's tallest free standing structure at 553 metres.  The Burj Dubai hotel passed 553 metres overnight, bumping