“Javis lanes, as well as Pharmacy and Birchmount officially dead. Separated network will be built.” “Toronto City Council voted just before its lunch break Wednesday to spend more than $400,000 removing about eight kilometres of bike lanes that had been installed during the previous term of City Council.” The City of Toronto today took a [...]
I finally cracked open my bottle of Teion Sakura sake from the Ontario Spring Water Sake Company. Teion Sakura is one of the company’s standard lines of unpasteurized sake. At a simplified level (perfect for a sake neophyte like myself), Teion Sakura is the fruity sake. It is brewed at a lower temperature, and I’m [...]
First impressions are important. Unfortunately, my first impressions with BIXI bikes in Toronto are not positive at all. Due to the Canada Post strike and lockout, BIXI cannot mail out new member kits. The kits are important because they contain the BIXI key that members must use to check out bikes at the automated bike [...]
As I stepped into the subway train after work this evening, I was greeted by something wholly unexpected: live music. In the train was a group of 4 young men, 3 on acoustic guitar and one on a djembe drum. For the duration of the half-hour ride from downtown up to my stop near the [...]
I just tried the Demondori Mesume today, and it’s a great sake. It has a prominent peach note on the nose, and slight peachy-nectarine note on the palate. A very refined rice basenote, of course, and perfectly smooth. 15% alcohol, but other than the slight sensation in my sinuses telling me there’s alcohol, you’d never [...]
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