The route is all on paved parkland or sidewalks and goes north on the west side of the Humber, across the Dundas bridge and back down the east side to Jane/Bloor’s Dark Horse Pub. Jane subway station is across the…
This gorgeous neighbourhood has a long, rich history with an incredible collection of Edwardian houses set against an idyllically tree-lined urban landscape. Here we find, at one time or another in history, Margaret Atwood, McDonald’s George Cohen, Ex-GG Adrienne Clarkson,…
We first walk through the Summerhill LCBO, an amazing historic cavernous space (35K sq. ft). It is the magnificent former CPR Railroad Station, Toronto’s main station from 1915 until the opening of Union in 1927. From here we walk through…
Former Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival Jackie Maxwell is interviewed by Sheila McCook about moving from Ireland into the heart of Canadian theatre, her fascinating family, and why she directs Shaw instead of Shakespeare.
Fans of book banning are enjoying their moment and they’re not all who you think they are. In his new book, On Book Banning, University of Toronto Professor Ira Wells blames both progressives and conservatives.
Never have so many people been displaced from their home countries and denied a place to settle. Award winning author, journalist and international affairs columnist for the Globe and Mail, Doug Saunders has spent two years tracking these “road people”…
Professor of English Randy Boyagoda on the importance and challenges of civil discourse on and off campus, by way of his experiences as the University of Toronto’s advisor on civil discourse, the first such position in Canada.
Genealogy involves collecting, organizing, and analyzing information about ancestors of a particular person or family. Using databases (such as Ancestry, MyHeritage, Billion Graves) and data like birth records, marriage certificates, census data, military records, wills, archives, and family stories, a…
Genealogy involves collecting, organizing, and analyzing information about ancestors of a particular person or family. Using databases (such as Ancestry, MyHeritage, Billion Graves) and data like birth records, marriage certificates, census data, military records, wills, archives, and family stories, a…
Eleanor Wachtel, former host of CBC Radio’s Writers & Company, will talk about the relationship between writers and their work. She’ll discuss the appetite for literary biography and how greater knowledge of the life of an author may affect the…