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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 for a long time or just plain interesting for one reason or another.  It’s my eventual hope that this continual look into current themes and goings on within the city of Toronto will help you connect with the city on a deeper level.
 
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Three great composers will be finding their place downtown in what is going to be one of the best concert events to be put on this year in Toronto.
Mozart

Mozart has a number of distinctions as a composer, not least of which is his ability to be consistently prolific throughout his whole life.  He actually put out over 600 different compositional works throughout his lifetime and many of them are still considered classics today, showing how influential he was in his classical compositional skin.
At one point in the year 1783, Mozart and his wife had stopped over in the town of …read more

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When the Liberal government was elected late last year, one of the promises that Dalton McGuinty made to Ontarians was that he would create another statutory holiday for them to participate in.
The result of that promise is Family Day, a provincial holiday that will be occuring next Monday, February 18th. 
Because the point of Family Day is supposedly for people to spend time with their families, I thought I’d put together a short list of things that you can do on Family Day should you wish to leave the house or hotel and go out on the town.  Now, this is …read more

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If you have no idea who Gertraud Mohwald is, don’t worry.  I actually didn’t either until I did the research for this post!  That might just be me showing my bias for events in the city that are musical in nature rather than artistic, but for all of you I’m making an effort to expand my horizons!
Gertraud Mohwald is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 1950s, as most of her work came through in the conditions of the post-war European continent.  In the wake of World War II and before the reconstruction efforts led largely by …read more

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Mozart is an 18th century composer that was responsible for the creation of many well known and easily recognizable pieces, although of course some of them have been parodied to the extent that you might not initially realize that they were composed by him.  He’s also probably one of my favourite composers, which is quite naturally why I decided to blog about this upcoming event .
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is going to be kicking off their Mozart Festival at Roy Thomson Hall through the performance of Symphony Number 40 by Mozart, with one of Canada’s best soprano opera singers …read more

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Aaron Davis is a composer and a keyboardist that has lots of years of experience in both of those fields as they relate to jazz blues and a person that can currently be seen regularly playing and arranging music for the singer Holly Cole.  Suzie Vinnick is a blues singer that has won a number of awards for her great talents and is also someone that has been credited with writing some of her own songs as well as playing some musical accompaniment on different instrumental recordings.
Together, the two of them are going to sound terrific and it is in …read more

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Well well well, if you picked January of 2008 (and in particular this week) to travel to Toronto, then you might be extremely glad or extremely frustrated depending on what you came to the city for.  If you came here dreading the cold winters of Canada, then the fact that this has been the nicest winter on record is probably something you love.  Of course, if you came here for the opposite reason, then you’re probably royally cheesed right about now.  Well, the good news for the latter group of people is that if you’re staying for at least another …read more

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In honour of this the 100th post on The Toronto Traveler, I bring you a very special Toronto Picture of the Day 
As many people already know, we Canadians love our hockey and Toronto has the honour of being the city that is home to the hockey hall of fame.  Every trip to this building of hallowed hockey talent is a fantastic one and the outside architecture of it isn’t that bad either.

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Here is your latest helping of news from the T-Dot:
1) Alycia Heitt and Brother win $36 million lottery prize
2) Unexpectedly warm weather causes some ponds to dangerously melt
3) Canada’s as good as gold at the World Junior Hockey Championships
4) Good news for tourists: GO Transit strike averted at the last minute
5) It’s like skiing in your own backyard?

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Here are some of the most recent headlines making news within the borders of Toronto…
1) GO Transit is meeting with union representatives in a last ditch effort to avoid a strike.
2) Wheel flies off truck on the 401 and hits a car, but thankfully nobody was hurt too seriously.
3) Security scare at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport results in the arrest of one man.
4) Team Canada beats Team USA at the World Junior Championship Hockey Semi-Finals (not really a Toronto relevant story, but hey I’m a hockey fan!)

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