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  • Dion, dinosaurs and other findings in Toronto

    The main purpose of my late-ish Friday trek into Toronto was to attend Mark Dion’s lecture at the ROM, but I did manage to arrive in the city early enough to squeeze in a belated visit to the Power Plant for their current roster of exhibitions, Stephen Shearer’s being the clear and deserved focal point [...]

  • A Tale of Two Cities

    Like many thinking-minded Hamiltonians of my generation, I’m not normally a reader of The Hamilton Spectator, but a cursory glance at today’s paper left open by my mother revealed a Wade Hemsworth article giving the cursory results of a recent study on Hamilton’s creative industries. Leaving aside the cheesy accompanying photo of Imperial Cotton Centre [...]