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5 Fun Ways to Spend Valentine’s Day in Toronto
Feeling stumped on what to do with your significant other for Valentine’s Day? Are you both sick of the traditional chocolate-flower-wine-hotel combination? This year, you’d like to break out of your rut and try something new. We’ve got you covered! Living on a tight budget? Try classing up some fast food! Take your date to their favourite fast food joint. Whether it be Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Popeye’s, or Burger King, your date can get whatever he or she wants. Present the inexpensive feast elegantly, placing the burgers or tacos artfully on fine plates (pouring the bubbly pop in wine glasses is a nice touch). Complete the ensemble with a romantic…
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An Introvert’s Guide to a Group Outing in Downtown Toronto
We’ve all experienced it: that sense of relief when a friend cancels your plans, releasing you to veg quietly on the couch while you binge-watch your favourite Netflix series. It’s a fine line that we introverts walk; we all want to be social but dread the moment when that opportunity actually comes up. As an introvert, the closer it gets to the actual act of socializing, the more panicky I feel. Situate that socialization in a group setting and the panic is even worse. It’s taken a few years, but I’ve finally come up with a formula that allows for a fun and memorable social experience while also securing me…
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5 Places You Can Go to Escape Your Cellphone
In this day and age, we live by the internet and especially through social media. We eat with it, we sleep with it, and we even walk our dogs with it. For many, it takes as much as the inability to connect—being physically unable to access social media—to make us log offline. Below is a list of places and events in Toronto that either do not allow for the use of cellphones or simply do not have WiFi or connection signals, giving you the ability to escape from your cellphone, even for just a few minutes (or hours). The Subway For just $3.00, you can travel underground on Toronto’s subway…
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Sunset over Downtown, Viewed from Riverdale Park
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