Archive for July, 2006

Tourists Ducking On The Bill

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Announced today is the list of deadbeat tourists. What am I talking about well, quite simple. Tourists, love their money loath them in my yard, are getting parking tickets and then skipping town. The irony here is that the worst offenders are from the oil rich province of Alberta. Of the top 10 jurisdictions ticketed, [...]

Soccer Stadium Ready In 2007

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Well a mere 30 minutes before the dive happy Portugese walked onto the soccer pitch for their loss to the French, the city made an interesting announcement. The mayor, David Miller, was on hand for the ground breaking ceremony for a new 20,000 stadium. Now if we could just get soccer to take a foot [...]

Police Still Not Wearing Name Tags

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

The boys (and girls) in blue aren’t wearing their name tags it seems. Mind you this is not a mandatory piece although it would be nice from an accountability aspect. The chief, Bill Blair, planned to make the wearing of name tags when he was sworn in but, that has not happened. “I think there [...]

Why Life In Toronto?

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

I have been in the mood for a while now to start wrtiting about this great city of Toronto that I call home. I have had the good fortune to live in cities such as Halifax, Montreal, Washington DC to name a few. But, to be honest the only place that I have ever felt [...]

Welcome To “Life In Toronto”

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

This is the inaugural post as I set up shop. Please stand by

A Day In Toronto