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adma
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And the 5th, Dave Foley, was from the dreaded wasteland of central Etobicoke...
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And the 5th, Dave Foley, was from the dreaded wasteland of central Etobicoke...
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tudararms
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Toronto's lone native-born and authentically 'urban' artiste: Al Waxman.
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Bogtrotter
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Please- say it ain't so.
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spmarshall
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Go ahead. I refuse to shop at Mrs. Schwartz's stores, because they are terrible bookstores and she is a major supporter of Steve Harper and his merry band of bigots.
Oh, I agree. ("Heather's Picks" make me want to retch) I try not to buy there too if I can, but it isn't as easy as avoiding Wal-Mart - they own just about everything except the downtown independants - Coles, Indigo, Chapters, World's Biggest. I can't wait for an American chain, Borders or Barnes and Noble to come up and wipe that bitch's chain (funded by her asswipe hubby) off the map.
I lpike browsing through the store and finding the books that interest me, and then going to TPL and placing holds.
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Bogtrotter
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I try to avoid buying from those as well. For me second hand is the best way to go. And of course she doesn't own our excellent libraries!
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Brighter Hell
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*that* is every city.But *that* is Toronto, like it or not
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fiendishlibrarian
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Maybe, maybe not. So what? That's not the point I was making.
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borgos
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The other types are, I think, the relentlessly "downtown" characters featured in that Globe section last weekend about how to throw a party.
Made me cringe. You'd have to be a self-important self-styled wannabe hipster to accept an invitation to such an event. Makes me think of Stephen LeDrew. I image they'll be black-balled from all future events.
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building babel
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Can you still actually find books at Windigo? The shelves started shrinking several years ago, the discount bins took over, and the junky non-book stuff crept in. Last I heard, they plan to give themselves over largely to the sale of toys for vile, sticky-fingered mites.
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bizorky
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The many books vanish around Christmas when the stacks of usless "stocking-stuffers" begin to fill up the floors. The book selection appears to get reduced down to the select pickings of a few "best-selling" lists that will supposedly appeal to the reading public.
In January, book sections will be rotated so as to force customers to wander the floor, all with the hope that they will run into something they want along the way to looking for what they think they need.
In January, book sections will be rotated so as to force customers to wander the floor, all with the hope that they will run into something they want along the way to looking for what they think they need.
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SD2
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And yes, anyone who says Toronto isn't by and large conservative (Toronto beyond the core, and even then it's becoming more so with gentrification), really has no idea what they're talking about. Zero. The vast swaths of homeowners and residents from Leaside, Kingsway, up through Willowdale, Bayview, Downsview, Rouge Hill, Lawrence Park, Oriole, Guildwood, Port Union, Forest Hill, and all points in between, that is the nexus, the core, of the constituency that still buys into the clean streets-support the police-prompt garbage pickup notion of Toronto the staid. They're the Nixon-esque "silent majority" that keeps Toronto the kind of city where by-laws are passed against road hockey, barking dogs and hanging trees over your fence. And I don't mean large-C conservative, I mean the classical Burkean notion of slow, considered, measured change, and temprament, not the self-described bohemian-hipster aesthetic that so many of these urban hicks wrap themselves up in.
This group is typically overlooked when people describe Toronto, but I've always noticed it as I was growing up. That said, I've found it's influence on the city's character becoming less prominent as time passes.
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