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Category Archives: urban life

Hot Dogs!

Hot Dogs!, originally uploaded by stevenharris. There’s an ongoing fight in Toronto surrounding the sale of food from street vendors. The current regulations are heavily slanted toward only allowing hotdogs or sausage sales. A number of people are trying to fight these rules and make the food available more closely relate to the cultural diversity [...]

Lost Toy

Lost Toy, originally uploaded by stevenharris. Walking along Dundas St. this morning I noticed this little guy sitting outside, just off the sidewalk. It was Family Day here in Toronto yesterday, so it was likely dropped by some young person heading to one of the events that was held around the city. It was gone [...]

City Hall Skaters

City Hall Skaters, originally uploaded by stevenharris. It was a beautiful day today. After a cold spell, followed by a few record warm, wet days we seem to be back to our normal Toronto winter. Given the nice weather the ice skaters were out in force in front of City Hall.

No Game Day

No Game Day, originally uploaded by stevenharris. Another one of those interesting, yet reletively discrete public spaces sprinkled around the downtown core. This stone chess board is hidden in a parkette behind city hall, just off Bay St. It’s an excellent looking board, and I’ll be keeping an eye on it as the weather warms [...]

Village by the Grange

Village by the Grange, originally uploaded by stevenharris. The Village by the Grange is an apartment and commercial building in the heart of the city, near Grange Park (appropriately) and the Art Gallery of Ontario. The building itself is not terribly interesting from the street but I really like this corner entrance, with its colourful [...]