RJ Mendera came to Canada as a small child and lived out west until he returned to Germany to find his father in 1991. Although disappointed with his paternal reunion, he has enjoyed time travelling through Europe and has lived in Holland, Portugal, and now Dortmund, Germany. He says he misses …
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Empress Hotel Overlooks Victoria Harbour
The Empress Hotel sits regally over Victoria Harbour while double decker buses filled with tourists file by. …
Transit in Large Canadian Cities
What’s not the centre of the (North American) universe? In terms of mass transit: Toronto. That nod goes to the New York system, whose daily weekday ridership [2010 figures] is over 7 million. Of course, the New York system opened in 1904, 50 years ahead of Toronto’s. Mexico City comes next, way …