Nearly two decades after it started offering professional marketing products and services online to small business owners, Vistaprint has opened its first ever bricks and mortar retail space in Downtown Toronto at King and Bathurst. Business owners can now touch ...
Read More »Bell in Brief: Precious windows at Royal Bank Plaza made with gold
The Royal Bank Plaza on the northeast corner of Front and Bay streets was completed in 1979. The twin towers have more than 14,000 windows set into brushed aluminum frames. The golden-hued glass was manufactured by Canadian Pittsburgh Industries which used 2,500 ounces (71,000 grams) ...
Read More »Martial arts on a mission: The Okichitaw Project
“I’ll be doing Okichitaw until I’m in my grave.” Candy Blair, a 22-year-old Torontonian woman, says practicing the martial art of Okichitaw has changed her life. “I struggle with depression, I’ve struggled with social anxiety, I’ve struggled with suicidal thoughts ...
Read More »Cool public art at ÏCE condo: Southcore welcomes work by Trautrimas, Soheil Mosun
Lanterra Developments and Cadillac Fairview, partners in Downtown‘s ÏCE condominium development, unveiled a major permanent public art display on June 8 as a core feature of the residential complex. The introduction of the art installations, identified in the condominium project’s ...
Read More »Italian superstars attend film festival opening
Two Italian Superstars attended the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF) opening in Downtown Toronto in support of films at the TIFF Bell LightBox as part of the festival. Leo Gullotta Comedic and dramatic actor, loved by fans and critics alike, ...
Read More »Mackenzie House chalks up a history lesson
Leslieville resident and artist Leslie Ashton was at 106 Yonge St. on June 8 drawing a tribute to Vic Steinberg, a girl reporter who went undercover as a man at the men-only Toronto News in 1894. The street art is ...
Read More »Cabbagetown South talks green bins, crime and development
Cabbagetown South residents are angry because of a new pilot project the city is launching that will require some residents to swap their small green bins for larger, bulky ones. The project is planned to roll out in the Downtown ...
Read More »Town-hall talk about more waterfront development
On a rainy Tuesday evening loads of concerned Torontonians gathered in the auditorium of George Brown College’s waterfront campus to obtain information on the development of the city’s east side water’s edge and to talk with Waterfront Toronto’s board of ...
Read More »Art arrives at the ‘grim’ Toronto Bus Terminal
The thing about a reveal (in art) is that it is a discovery of what is to come just as much as it is the backstory of a creation: and that was what the Steps Initiative info meeting on June ...
Read More »Everybody’s Got A Story: A Celebration of Canadian Women In Music
Musical theatre company Angelwalk Theatre celebrates Canada’s 150th with the world premiere of Everybody’s Got A Story: A Celebration of Canadian Women in Music. A tribute to the nation’s strong history of women in music, this must-see concert runs Thursday ...
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