Yesterday I was downtown at 20 Bay st and I went for coffee at the Second Cup. Under the prep station as you know, they keep the trash. It was spilling out the top.  While I was adding milk and sugar to my brew I happened to gaze down and to my horror... and I saw... Second Cup does not recycle their milk containers!

Halloween came and went and I have loot bag full of memories. The Oct 31st event is now the fourth largest holiday in America for consumer spending - can you name the other three? dont forget Mother's day

This is me with a lovely stranger at the Gardiner Museum in downtown Toronto.

We do have fun in Toronto in September, because there's just so much going on. Everyone that's anyone knows someone with film festival tickets or theatre passes or admittance to exhibitions or afterparties of some description. Just yesterday there was a slide show by local photographers in Tinto on Roncesvalles.

Arctic Bay, Nunavut bed and breakfast business blogger, Clare Kines is profiled on this month's Canada Blog Friends index website. Here's a picture of Clare Kines leading a berry picking expedition in July. That's the town of Arctic Bay in the background. Brrr..

People living here in Ontario that collect antiques should find and read this book:

The Canadiana Guidebook - Antique Collecting in Ontario by William Philip wilson 1974 Toronto

Any relic hunters and hiustory buffs looking to get their hands on real Canadaian manufactered stuff should digest this research material esp if you're scouring junk shops and sales barns in Ontario. This guy is simple to understand yet elaborates in great detail the hard to find objects of the1800s in Upper Canada.

Let me tell you a little story about Siera Bearchell, a 16yr old girl that lives in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan

In Januray 2009 the Bearchell family home burned to the ground, and Siera was left homeless.

So then she entered the miss teen canada beauty pageant  in May, and championed a 'disaster relief' platform.

Siera Bearch is 2nd from the left in this photo below - those are all the other Saskatchewan contestants.

Summer in Toronto is an urban photography contest on Lenzr.com.

You could win this waterproof Esquire Verve 2020 mens watch

quartz movement, silver-tone hands and 4 diamond markers, …

This prize was donated by a time management consultancy in Toronto

Emergency in Toronto

Lenzr is a photo contest that collects city specific urban photography for the benefit of all humanity. The contests build large libraries of stock photos, free to members for non commercial use, for the rest of time.

There are no more secrets in the world, because of websites like WonderCafe and other social networking services that encourage more and more people to write and share articles, tweets and texts and photos. These basic social media tools have made the internet a very fertile landscape for both positive and negative ideas, and these transmittable notions can really affect a business's bottom line.