Year: 2015

556. CanOrient’s Goan Fair and Talent Show – November 29, 2015

One of my favourite food fairs is Goan, that part of western India that was once Portuguese. This year the CanOrient’s fair is at

555. COC Free Concert Series – November 24, 2015  – January 12, 2016

You might have to queue in the cold, but the Canadian Opera Company’s Free Concert Series should be worth it. They do have some

Jennifer Badani told us about a lecture by Rabbi Goldstein on The Secret Jews of Guatemala. Congregation Darchei Noam, 864 Sheppard Ave West. Sunday

553. Swedish Christmas Festival November 21-22, 2015

One of our most beautiful Christmas customs is the Santa Lucia pageant, this year at 1 and 3pm on both days of this festival.

For the first and only presentation in Toronto of The “Estudiantina” of the University of San Carlos of Guatemala on Saturday, November 21, 2015

551. Santa Claus Parade this Sunday November 15, 2015

The commercial side of Christmas explodes in Toronto this weekend with the Santa Claus parade.  If I go, it’s to see just how multiracial

549. Christmas Bazaars Now to Christmas, 2015

My favourite Christmas shopping places are the Christmas bazaars found in churches and community centres from now until Christmas. These places are full of

548. Remembrance Day November 11, 2015

Remembrance Day is November 11. Known also as Armistice Day, it was the official end of World War One in 1918. It is now

I first learned about the Holocaust as a student at the University of Toronto in the 1950s. Fellow students, my friends, showed me the

546. Korea Week Schedule October 26-30, 2015

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