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The Toronto Traveler

Archive for April 2008

April 30th, 2008

The Mink Nightclub in Toronto: Hot Entertainment for Nightlife Lovers

Toronto is a city with appeal to many different groups and while there are many family orientated events that dominate the daytime activities within the city, Toronto also has a bustling nightlife that many single visitors to the city get to enjoy.  Toronto is not really known for its nightlife festivities, so many people are […]

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April 27th, 2008

Subway Sundays: 5 Tips for Navigating Toronto’s Subway System

While I’m pretty well convinced that Toronto has one of the best subway systems in the world, at the same time I’m also convinced that it can give people some nasty surprises from time to time.  Having lived in the city for over 15 years now and taken the bus to school and work for […]

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April 20th, 2008

Subway Sundays: Five Reasons Why Toronto’s Subway is Important

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1) Strikes Affect the City Massively: The TTC has been on strike before; many times in fact.  During my own time in primary, middle, secondary and now post secondary school, the TTC has had at least three different strikes that I can remember off the top of my head and there were probably […]

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April 19th, 2008

My Toronto, by Mira Bethy

Here’s an excellent video by user MiraBethy on YouTube, entitled “My Toronto”

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April 19th, 2008

Who Toronto is Good For

The other day I was reading some newspaper articles regarding some of the news that had recently taken place within the city of Toronto and through unrelated tangents (just cuz my mind works like that), I came to the realization that Toronto really does have a lot to offer almost any group or demographic that […]

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April 16th, 2008

As You Like It in Toronto

As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s more famous plays and a comedy, believed to have been written by the great playwright sometime between 1599 and 1600.  It has been adapted for radio, film and for musical productions as well and the famous Shakespearean line “All the world’s a stage” is from this very […]

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April 15th, 2008

Toronto by the Numbers

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Further to the Travel & Culture Channel’s “By the Numbers with b5media Travel & Culture Channel” post from a short while ago, I thought it might be cool to do something with a similar title just on my own.  My take on things is a bit different however, as here are some […]

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April 14th, 2008

Media Mondays are in Town!

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Hot on the heels of the new Subway Sundays series at The Toronto Traveler is Media Mondays.  This series will take a weekly look at one news story from that week that I found relevant to tourists in the city, helpful to people that are new to Toronto or have not lived here […]

By Justin -- 2 comments

April 13th, 2008

Subway Sundays to Begin Today

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A few days ago, I wrote a post that talked about how Toronto subway stations have distinctive tiling and how that tiling had been captured by a set of buttons that were now on sale.  While that post was originally just going to be a stand alone post in and of itself, it […]

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April 12th, 2008

TPOD: Downtown in Time Elapse Fashion

Up today is a fantastic picture taken and laced together by wvs on Flickr (released under the CC-ANNDW 2.0 License).  It’s six different pictures of the Toronto downtown core, with each picture taken two hours apart and then parts of the pictures stitched together in order to create a time elapse effect.  I think it’s one […]

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