Ok, confession: I take days off while travelling. When you go away for months at a time, laundry doesn't do itself. And, sometimes I experience cultural saturation. To fully absorb a place, a step back is sometimes...
The waiting list to live on the Toronto Islands is 500 people and growing. If I put my name on the list, I'd sooner be dead than an island homeowner. This year only two homes sold. Why do...
It feels a bit silly wearing this cake-like doily on my head. But at the Windsor Arms Hotel, where afternoon tea has been served since 1927, a fascinator is part of the tea ritual. For a girl...
"It's our signature doughnut," says a young woman. The doughnut, called toast and butter, is made with sweet breadcrumbs and brown sugar butter. Glory Hole Doughnuts (www.gloryholedoughnuts.com) is the first of six food food stops in...
Lawren Harris said of fellow Group of Seven artist Tom Thomson: "those who depart before their time continue to haunt the land they loved." The story goes that Tom Thomson, a skilled outdoorsman who spent...
I let out a yelp as the boat starts to tip: "can you get up here?" My cousin Jodie is sitting on the boat's edge, leaning way back, almost parallel with the water. "Do I stick...
"I didn't know to be scared," says a precocious woman who just successfully hopped over a huge log. "Ignorance is bliss, I guess." I'm mountain biking with a group of women, many like Sonya here,...
"Toronto has different strata, you know, like archeology?" He looks at me, sweeping his hand in front of his body in a straight line. "There are so many layers to Toronto. And in my head,...
I like sitting at a bar alone in a new country. And no, it's not for the reasons you think. Alone, I can observe. Alone, I can lean over and inject myself into a conversation...
I have never seen women ride bikes like this, ever. I'm at the Pan Am women's mountain bike race and two of Canada's finest are here. Emily Batty is currently ranked the 7th best in the...