With the city workers’ strike causing the cancellation of a number of local Canada Day events, we decided to head to Ontario Place, not least so that we could catch the stunning firework display that forms part of the Festival of Fire.
SIN
We now have our official Sin number!
No, Toronto is not shaping up as a modern day Soddom and Gomorrah; your Sin number is your Social Insurance Number (equivalent to National Insurance in the UK) and is required before you can get a job. Continue reading SIN
Celebrating Diversity – Toronto Pride
Joyous, celebratory, poignant, political, personal, playful and downright bizarre; Toronto Pride is certainly an experience! An event attended by huge numbers of people of all ages (including families) from across the city and beyond, it is truly an embracing of diversity.
I think I must have led a very sheltered life . . .! The atmosphere was amazing, the parade full of spectacle and fun, yet with some serious underlying messages at all sorts of levels.
Real Estate
Having already linked up with one Toronto realtor, Renate, at the UK Emigrate shows, we are also lucky to have access to the insights of a second realtor in one of our hosts, Paul, at Accommodating the Soul.
The essential requirement of “being Canadian”
“(Canada) is our country as it must be the adopted country of the different peoples who come from around the globe, to make their way into its vast forests to build their homes and place their hopes. Like us, their paramount desire must be the happiness and prosperity of Canada. This is the heritage which they should endeavour to transmit to their descendents in this young and hospitable country.”
Louis LaFontaine, 1848