Life in the GTA

Okay, so I love Toronto. I am even more happy due to the recent mayor elections and am SO GLAD that Chow was re-elected. She was first elected in a public office in 1985 (the year I was born!) and then served on city council for twelve years. Then she represented Trinity-Spadina as a NDP […]

There is something almost classical in the architecture of a padel court — the low glass walls, the enclosed rectangularness of play, the sense of a space carved out of the surrounding city. The Greeks built their gymnasia this way: walled enough to suggest seriousness, open enough to invite an audience. Toronto, a city not […]

Being pregnant in the GTA is an experience. Not a calm, glowing, birds-chirping experience. More like a “why is there slush in April and why am I still waiting for the TTC” kind of experience. Let’s start with transportation. If you live here, you already know that getting anywhere is less of a commute and […]

There’s a lot that attending the University of Toronto forces you to experience. From the highest of highs, learning that your professor gave everyone a flat 30% boost on a calculus midterm (the average was 35%), to the lowest of lows, like sneaking into the banquets of unrelated departments hoping for a few extra calories […]