Le Gourmand 
by Matt MacGillivray

Sometimes you need a coffee, and sometimes you need a solid lunch; Le Gourmand offers you both! Located just south of Queen, on Spadina, it is a cute little café that doubles as a small, high-end grocery store.

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Dark Horse Espresso Bar
Atmosphere

There has been a trend in some coffee shops towards mass production. The food is made in a factory and shipped out to the various locations. Because the sandwiches and baked goods have to last longer, they are pumped with additives to extend their shelf lives and are then left to sit in a refrigerator for days on end. But Dark Horse Espresso Bar is a different breed of coffee shop entirely. They favour all that is natural, and it shows in the taste and value of everything you can purchase from them.

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Basia Bulat
by John Benson

Basia Bulat (pronounced BAH-sha boo-LOT) was born in Etobicoke (now part of the City of Toronto), Ontario, in 1984. Beginning with piano at an early age, Bulat soon progressed to ukulele, guitar, saxophone, banjo, flute, and (perhaps most iconically) the autoharp.

Sylvia Tyson

Sylvia Tyson
by Wikimedia Commons

Sylvia Tyson was born Sylvia Fricker on September 19th, 1940, in Chatham, Ontario. Playing guitar and autoharp as well as singing, Fricker’s first major musical forays were in coffee-houses in Toronto, and later for club audiences in 1959, with her future husband, Ian Tyson. By 1961, Ian and Sylvia (as they were officially known) were playing in clubs in the U.S. as well as attending the Orillia Mariposa Folk Festival.

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Gordon Lightfoot
by Peter Beens

One of the best known Canadian folk musicians in history is still alive and singing, and living in Toronto. Born in the Ontario city of Orillia, on November 17th, 1938, Gordon Lightfoot was singing in Kiwanis festivals, and was even being broadcast locally on the radio during his teenaged years. By the time he was twenty, Lightfoot had delved into piano and drums, had sung in a barbershop quartet, and had studied at the Los Angeles-Westlake College of Modern Music.

Ofra Harnoy Violoncello
by Hans Thijs

Ofra Harnoy was born on January 31, in 1965, in the Israeli city of Hadera, and came with her family to Toronto in 1971. By the time she became a naturalized Canadian in 1977, Harnoy had already begun cello lessons — first with her father, Jacob Harnoy, and later with a series of tutors including the world-famous cellists Jacqueline du Pre and Mstislav Rostropovich.

Toronto Town House
by MsAnthea

According to a Greater Toronto REALTORS®‘s market report on November, the real estate market in Toronto continued its successful fall results. The total number of transactions more than exceeded seven thousand, and saw an 11 per cent increase in comparison to November 2010. New listings also went up by a rapid 14 per cent in a year-to-year comparison.

Parking by Andrew Currie

For anyone who drives in and around Toronto, you know very well that it’s not an easy task. All the one-way streets, restricted turns, busy intersections with endless pedestrians, and aggressive drivers make downtown driving an ordeal — and let’s not even mention the traffic. However, perhaps what’s even more challenging than driving in Toronto is parking here.