Yes, this blog is pretty much dead. But it’s useful for blogging in long form for updates that are longer than will fit on a Facebook status update.
I traveled to Toronto for two days (in the midst of spending a week with my parents). I wasn’t up there for any particular occasion. I just wanted to do some sightseeing and to soak up some Canadian culture. (Yes, there is such a thing). I took lots of pictures too, which will be posted after they are developed.
So without adieu, here are my random thoughts on Toronto, Ontario, and Canada.
Some Canadian businesses:
Pizza Pizza, “Ontario’s Number One Pizza Chain”
Jack Astor’s Bar and Grill
Future Shop, “Canada’s largest consumer electronics retailer”
Harvey’s, serving Canada’s fast food needs since 1959
Tim Horton’s (although it’s international now, and can enjoy it when I go to Erie and New England).
– Get your double double, Canadian maple donuts, and your Ice Capp Supreme
Shows we don’t get to watch in the States:
Rick Mercer Report
This Hour has 22 Minutes
The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
Corner Gas
Little Mosque on the Prairie
How Do you Solve a Problem like Maria (Andrew Lloyd Webber casting the Canadian revival of Sound of Music)
What’s with these American theme restaurants?
St. Louis Ribs, Baton Rouge, Boston Pizza, etc.
CBC is having an challenge for people to compose the next Hockey Night in Canada anthem
The Bravo network in Canada is really nothing like the U.S. version. (Their answer to that is a channel called Slice)
CBC is having an challenge for people to compose the next Hockey Night in Canada anthem
The Bravo network in Canada is really nothing like the U.S. version. (Their answer to that is a channel called Slice)
Had an interesting conversation with a shop attendant. She was desparately trying to leave Toronto for Los Angeles. She said she would go to the States with an empty suitcase because everything was so cheap. She didn’t understand my obsession with Paul Gross.
I saw a billboard for “The Canadian Dream.” Which made me wonder what that was.
WTF….
Wheel of Fortune coming to the CBC?!
Desparate Housewives in French?
Visited: Eaton Centre, St. Lawrence Market, Roy Thompson Hall, Canada Walk of Fame, CN Railroad Station, Royal York Hotel, Hockey Hall of Fame
Did you know…
Heinz makes baby food?
Canadian flags are used to sell cars just as American ones do
You can buy poutine at Burger King?
That French-Canadian shows are not that different from Mexican telenovellas?
Just another American tourist reporting back from the land of the maple leaf.
