Tag: Toronto

Hometown Lockdown: From wasteland to wilderness on the Leslie Street Spit

Rick McGinnis September 8, 2020

CITIES ARE MANMADE LANDSCAPES. It would be hard to find even a few square feet in any city that hasn’t been shaped or created by human activity, so they’re not the sort of places you expect to find wilderness. You …

Hometown Lockdown: Escape for the day to the Toronto Islands

Rick McGinnis September 1, 2020

IT HASN’T BEEN A GREAT YEAR FOR TRAVELERS. Coronavirus and the lockdowns have been devastating for tourism and the hotel and airline industries will take years to recover. Up here in Canada international and U.S. travel is still restricted, and …

Instagramable: Toronto’s Railway Museum celebrates an anniversary

Rick McGinnis October 4, 2019

I’M ALWAYS AT A LOSS FOR WORDS WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME WHERE TO GO WHEN THEY VISIT MY HOMETOWN. I have a hard time looking at Toronto as a tourist, so when I try to answer that question, Casa Loma …