50 Reasons to Love Toronto with Kids in TOw

50 Reasons to Love Toronto with Kids in TOw

Small town vs. big city, suburbia vs. downtown, the list of pros and cons is long in the never-ending discussion of where is the best place to raise a family. As parents we often look at our own childhood experience to guide us in how we’d like our children to grow...
Scarborough Civic Centre Library

Scarborough Civic Centre Library

Welcome #100. Last month the Toronto Public Library unveiled the new Scarborough Civic Centre Library, the newest place to read, study, surf the net and 3D print (it’s the third after Toronto Reference Library and Fort York Library to have a Digital Innovation Hub.)...
French in Toronto

French in Toronto

Whether you’re francophone, francophile, have kids in French Immersion or parle un peu, chances are you’ve come across French in city. Ontario makes up the biggest French language community in Canada (outside of Quebec) with more than 600,000 francophones. Almost 10...
The Monkey Vault

The Monkey Vault

Earlier this winter, a group of ‘youngsters’ – an adventurous gang of 30-something moms – jumped at the chance to try out The Monkey Vault Movement Training Centre, Canada’s only parkour gym. Parkour, sometimes referred to as freerunning, often conjures up images of...
mini MOCCA

mini MOCCA

Kids and contemporary art. I usually like to keep them separate, saving gallery-going for me-time moments. But I was more than happy to have these two worlds meet during the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art’s newest program mini MOCCA, a series of hands-on...