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The Industrial Slum Games? A Look Back at the West Don Lands

November 29, 2012 Christopher Butters

As talk of the 2015 Pan-Am games circulates within the news, I thought I might take a look at the […]

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So, I’ve just returned from being chased through a suburban mall parking lot by some angry people in a Westphalia […]

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The Gooderham & Worts Flatiron Building

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Toronto’s Flatiron building was constructed in the late 1800s (10 years before the more publicized NYC Flatiron) for the Gooderham and Worts […]

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It’s not that often that you get to glimpse history at night. Surely, if we’ve learned anything from history textbooks, […]

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This is the first time in two years that I haven’t ridden a motorcycle and it’s absolutely depressing. I’ve always […]

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  As I sit here sipping a beer and listening to another story involving the words “bath salts” and “ate”, […]

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So, we’ve been in a heat wave these past few days…yes, one of those. The type of awful humidity, that […]

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