Orilla The City of Smiles Barbara Kingstone August 15, 2018 Canada, Destinations, Hotels Famed Canadian (and international ) artist Charles Pachter should have been a party planned. His wedding to Keith Lem, an up and coming artist, was the celebrations to beat all. Writer Margaret Atwood, a...
LAST MINUTE THEATRE TICKETS AND AN UNEXPECTED EXPERIENCE Barbara Kingstone November 2, 2016 Canada, North America, Toronto, Travel Tips At the theatre, my seat neighbour asked where I was from. “Toronto and you”, I asked my friendly inquirer. Her answer startled me. “Tottenham, Have you ever been there?" I knew about UK’s,...
Toronto the good, with a moniker, Hogtown. Barbara Kingstone October 3, 2015 Canada, Feature, North America, Toronto, Travel Tips Hogtown..how would you like to say you live in a place called Hogtown, a moniker that developed in the mid 1800s when the second largest pork processing plant on the continent was in Toronto. Or how about,...
Stratford Ontario. A small city with decades of Shakespearean plays Barbara Kingstone May 9, 2014 Canada, Feature, North America No, Justin Bieber didn’t put Stratford Ontario, Canada, on the map, he was just brought up here. Well before Bieber made his entrance onto any stage, this small town, then named Little Thames, had already...
Royal Ontario Museum celebrates 100th Anniversary! Barbara Kingstone March 20, 2014 Canada, News March 19, 2014 was momentous occasion. Toronto’s renown Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), celebrated its 100th anniversary. The ROM is an agency of the Government of Ontario and is Canada’s largest museum of...
The Grass is always greener elsewhere. An adage that just isn’t true. Barbara Kingstone January 6, 2014 Canada, Cuisine Toronto, Ontario: I’ve always wanted to see the world. I have been to most countries but now waited too long to get to Iran. Of course, at the time of this writing, with their difficulties (2013), even this...
Have a love affair with Toronto. A tryst, you’ll never forget. Barbara Kingstone November 11, 2013 Canada, Cuisine, Feature, Hotels, Indulgences, North America, Shopping, Spas, Top 10 With monikers like Hogtown and Toronto the Good, it’s a surprise to see this city from either Lake Ontario or from the air. It’s majestic. Toronto is a city that has grown with a population of just under 3...
The Hazelton Hotel in Toronto Barbara Kingstone September 23, 2012 Canada, Hotels, North America From the front of The Hazelton Hotel in Toronto's Yorkville area, it's small wonder that guests can be a bit confused which door leads to the hotel. Firstly, there’s the door to the costly condos on the...
St. Regis Hotel, Toronto Black is the new black Barbara Kingstone June 7, 2012 Canada, Hotels, North America When uber fashionista, the late Diana Vreeland, told the fashion world, decades ago, that “the new black is pink”, she was referring to her colorful experience of seeing such vibrancy in India.- miles away...
Start a new Holiday tradition with VIA Rail’s plum pudding recipe Barbara Kingstone December 12, 2011 Canada, Cuisine, North America There's some pretty fine dining on Canada's renown Via Rail. Here's the diabolically delicious plum pudding recipe serviced on Canada's transcontinental trains, usually during the winter holidays. But now,...
