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Autobots, roll out!

It’s hard to imagine something more impressive than the sight of a Transformer, Bumblebee, standing at the side of the road in Port Hope:   Fortunately, you need only turn your head to see something...

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Suite 007

In honour of today’s release of the latest Bond movie, I present this poorly photographed bit of whimsy from outside a basement office in the Toronto Carpet Factory about a dozen years ago. The actual...

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Follow the yellow (asphalt driveway)

When they’re located on a high-speed rural road a couple of kilometres away from any real landmarks, homeowners can sometimes have difficulty giving directions to visitors not familiar with the area....

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Vote for me!

[Update, Monday, November 19: The voting period has been extended by two days until Wednesday. I can only assume that Don and Humber are racking up too many votes for Metrolinx to count them all. Also,...

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Waterfront Trail expanding to Lake Erie

The Waterfront Regeneration Trust, which manages the Waterfront Trail along the length of Lake Ontario, is expanding it to include the Lake Erie shore starting next year. This has probably been in the...

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Upper Canada Heritage Trail

The first leg of the Upper Canada Heritage Trail looks like many other rail trails. The majority of the trail runs beside Concession 1 and passes numerous orchards and vineyards. Risa attended a...

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The worst Christmas present ever

I can’t imagine giving someone a worse Christmas present than a replica billboard complete with ad company branding. “Uh, what’s this, Mom?” “Why, little Ginny, it’s the gift of selling your eyeballs...

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Supermarket Finds: Pre-ripened fruit

Or as we say in English, “Ripe avocados.” Increasingly, supermarkets are ripening my fruit for me. Tomatoes are vine-ripened, peaches and nectarines are tree-ripened, and now avocados at Sobeys are,...

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Mourning doves

As the temperature hits -20°C, all of the other mourning doves give Dave the silent treatment for convincing them not to fly south this winter.

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Supermarket Finds: Individually wrapped mandarins

So the East Dodgeville Loblaws is now carrying individually wrapped mandarins. I’m not sure why these little oranges need to be wrapped in plastic when all of the other ones seem to survive just fine...

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Supermarket Finds: Individually wrapped cantaloupes

When nature’s wrapping just isn’t enough. No longer content with wrapping each little mandarin in its own plastic packaging, the East Dodgeville Loblaws had a rack of individually wrapped cantaloupes...

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We did it!

After a merciless robocalling campaign, months of behind the scenes schmoozing, and whistle stop visits from Senators Duffy and Wallin (remind me to double-check those expense forms), Don and...

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Danger!

(Allegedly.) Who am I to argue?

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Peterborough to Hastings rail trail II: New and improved

The Lang-Hastings Rail Trail before and after its makeover. What a difference a year makes! I first cycled the Peterborough to Hastings rail trail last August, saying at the time that the trail was...

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Ernestown train station

The train doesn’t stop here any longer. The abandoned Ernestown train station sits in an isolated setting about 25 km west of downtown Kingston. I first became aware of it as it flashed past the window...

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Kingston to Cobourg, Day 1: Hot, hot, hot!

  Finkle’s Shore Park on the Loyalist Parkway west of Bath. I have a piece of advice for anyone thinking about doing a two-day bike tour: make sure that the humidex is below 40°C on the first day and...

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Kingston to Cobourg, Day 2: Blow the man down!

The Millennium Trail in Prince Edward County. Nothing gets you going in the morning like a hearty French toast breakfast, and Magnolia Meadows host Isabelle didn’t disappoint. An hour after polishing...

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Lindsay to Bethany rail trail

A wetland view from the Lindsay to Bethany rail trail. Continuing my exploration of the many rail trails in the Greater East Dodgeville Area, I rode the Lindsay-Bethany trail last month. The trail runs...

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The road to health

  Can’t argue with that. (Seen on Danforth.)

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Friday the 13th

Black cat under a ladder on Friday the 13th; what could possibly go wrong? (She was taking a break after spending the morning breaking a mirror, spilling salt, and opening an umbrella inside.)

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