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Canadian Top Brands: #24 IMAX
I haven’t been to IMAX since I was a kid, at one of the original IMAX theatres in Toronto (Ontario Place). I therefore delayed this post...
Sep 30, 2011
Welcome to Port Hope Ontario
Welcome to 2011. The question some Highway 401 drivers ask when they see this sign: “Why does the Ontario government, given its strict...
Jan 2, 2011


Ontario pedestrians and drivers think they know everything
Monday, Labour Day, I was driving back from Toronto’s only open mall with my family. I noticed a parade developing at an intersection of...
Sep 7, 2010
Hoping for a loving scene on the way to Disney World
But they’re prohibited in vehicles in this parking lot in San Jose. Or is it Prohibited Loving Scenes only?
Jan 26, 2010
N.R.C. Eastern Standard Time.
The NRC Gazing Ball A very early memory for me involved a trip with my father to McDonalds on Montreal Road in Ottawa. I was quite a...
Nov 3, 2009
It’s just how we do things. Plus a Halloween Watermelon.
"How much for the 25%?" There are 4 decent-size supermarkets in the town near where I live (Playas del Coco). Three of them are on the...
Oct 31, 2009
When head office is too busy…
Things get screwed up. I know because I was a head office brand guy in a previous life. This is the impressive new RIU Guanacaste ...
Oct 17, 2009
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