Imagining Toronto

01/31/2019

Winter rhubarb! I knew this was possible but didn't know it was still done! Anyone know where one might obtain some in the city?

Ontario Winter Rhubarb is officially in season. Rhubarb can be cooked as a sauce, made into a custard pie, baked into a crumble or crisp, used in sweet-and-sour chutneys, simmered with sugar to make compotes, made into wine and much more. No wonder it's a crowd favourite!

01/31/2019

Winter rhubarb season! I l knew this was possible but didn't know it was still done! Anyone know where one might obtain some winter rhubarb in the city?

Ontario Winter Rhubarb is officially in season. Rhubarb can be cooked as a sauce, made into a custard pie, baked into a crumble or crisp, used in sweet-and-sour chutneys, simmered with sugar to make compotes, made into wine and much more. No wonder it's a crowd favourite!

01/31/2019

Breaking News: The Mystery of the Mysterious Belly Button Mystery.

Some stealthy unknown artist made this giant snow bear on the Lachine canal near Beaudoin Street in Saint-Henri.

01/31/2019

Ceaucescu did not invent corruption and cruelty in Romania, but he practiced to perfect it.

The Palace of the Parliament in Romana is the legacy of a brutal communist regime.

11/08/2011

Google+ has recently allowed users to activate 'pages.' If you're a G+ user, please feel welcome to visit the Imagining Toronto project's page on Google+. I'll likely post links, commentaries and longer items over there, while this page will continue to focus primarily on Imagining Toronto project news and updates.

Imagining Toronto - Navigating the City at the Centre of the Map - In the iconic Toronto novel In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje wrote that "before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of

10/05/2011

The Imagining Toronto book, Shawn Micallef's Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto and Ross King's Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven all win the Award of Merit, the highest honour for a book given at the 2011 Heritage Toronto Awards. Great night; great books!

Heritage Toronto Members: $30General Admission: $40Group Discount: $30 each for 10 or more ticketsNominees' Reception tickets: $110

10/04/2011

Imagining Toronto featured (alongside two other York University-based Heritage Toronto Award finalists) in today's YFile.

Two York academics are finalists for a Heritage Toronto Award for books – one on the city's sculptures, the other an imagined look at the city through the eyes of various writers. A third York professor is involved with the work of the Psychiatric Survivors Archives of Toronto, which was nominated u...

09/26/2011

Hey folks: My fall series of talks for the Toronto Public Library begins this week! Up tomorrow: "From Streetcar Suburb to Multicultural Community: Riverdale in the Literary Imagination." Riverdale Branch (370 Broadview), 7:00-8:30 pm. Hope to see some of you there.

In "Imagining Toronto," Amy Lavender Harris explores the literary representations of Toronto as its inhabitants experience and narrate it. Topic of discussion: Streetcar Suburb to Multicultural Community - Literary Riverdale.

09/23/2011

Oh, and this: the Imagining Toronto book has been named a finalist for the 2011 Heritage Toronto Award.

Heritage Toronto is pleased to announce the nominees for the 37th Annual Heritage Toronto Awards. The Awards celebrate outstanding contributions by individuals and community organizations, as well as industry professionals and associations, in promoting and conserving Toronto's history and heritage ...

09/22/2011

Busy fall ahead for the Imagining Toronto project.

Imagining Toronto (Mansfield Press, fall 2010) is available at local bookstores and online through Mansfield Press, Amazon or Chapters.

09/17/2011

Heritage Toronto has advocated heritage preservation and public awareness since 1949. It's now on the City's chopping block. Please consider writing your councillor to ask how they'll help keep heritage alive in Toronto.

As you may have heard, Heritage Toronto is among a number of City Boards and Agencies facing potential cuts from the City of Toronto as part of the City's Core Service Review process. The news for our organization, and for heritage in general, is troubling. A Staff Report, released on September 12, ...

09/14/2011

I first visited Toronto when I was four years old;I fell in love with a park here,a park with wooden forts in which you could climb to their very tops. If you were four years old,or,at least,small. No grown-ups allowed.