Tag Archives: Toronto

That’s Loonie, ay

  Toronto is a clean, vibrant, exciting city, a city that appears to do things right. It’s the largest city in Canada, a beautiful, exciting country that also appears to do things right. Except that they call their currency the “loonie,” which seems sort of, well, loony. The last time I visited Toronto, 10 years ago, 70 cents US bought you one Loonie. Today it takes $1.02US to buy a Canadian dollar. I believe it signifies a new low in American economic history that we’re now officially being bested by loonies. Woe unto us. (The Canadian dollar is called the “loonie,” by the way, not because Canadians are crazy, ... [Read More]

In Toronto, it’s nice weather for a water summit

Before heading to Toronto for this week’s Ontario water leadership summit, I noted that my hotel was on Blue Jays Way, and joked to my wife that maybe I’d be staying in that hotel where some rooms overlook the Skydome baseball field (called Rogers Centre since 2005). Sure enough, I am: The Renaissance is a great hotel, with solicitous staff, a freshly printed Globe and Mail at your door every morning and Aveda products in the bath. The Blue Jays are on a road trip right now, so there’s some major artificial turf replacement going on … I can report that this process is exactly ... [Read More]