Today was the big day, a test to see how intense the anti-prorogation sentiment in this country really is and to see whether or not a “grassroots fury” actually greeted a “shuttered Parliament” as the Star exclaimed when it discovered a 25,000 person Facebook group earlier this month. I wrote last week that while the [...]
Last night Republican Steve Brown won a tough U.S. Senate seat to replace the late Ted Kennedy, defeating Martha Coakley, the state attorney general. (Interactive map, here). In a high-stakes election that could kill Obama’s health reform bill, social media should have played an important role. It did, but surprisingly, it was the GOP that [...]
Friday night my wife and I had dinner at Jamie Kennedy’s week-old Gilead Bistro (not to be confused with its daytime sister, Gilead Café). After a rather rough year, Jaime Kennedy has decided to focus on cooking again, and being fans of his, and living literally around the corner from the restaurant, we were eager [...]
Last year Winterlicious, which showcases some of the cities top restaurants, crept up on me and I was only able to get one reservation in. This year I’m hoping to avoid that problem by calling first thing tomorrow morning to book dinner with my wife. If you have an Amex card, you can call early [...]
I was originally planning to make the spicy cod with lemon zucchini couscous recipe from the Jamie Oliver iPhone app, but over the course of the week, some of the ingredients got used in other recipes. So I loosely followed the recipe and made this vegetarian dish. All ingredients were sourced from the Saint Lawrence [...]
This week Rick McGinnis of BlogTO wrote a ridiculous article about the neighbourhood I call home: Corktown. The piece, titled “Once Hyped as the Next Hot ‘Hood, Corktown’s Queen East Remains a Wasteland,” was clearly written by someone who hasn’t spent time in the area: The low-rent element might have left Corktown, but the streets [...]
