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Mike DeHaan began writing professionally in 2010 as the sole proprietor of DeHaan Services. Mike now blogs and writes freelance online articles under his own name. DeHaan Services provides ghost-written articles, web pages, business letters and a variety of other services, both locally and world-wide. Mike has trained himself to run marathons (each covers 26 miles and 385 yards, or 42.2Km), but now is usually content to help with a 10Km clinic at a local Running Room. Running and some attention to diet led to maintaining a weight loss of 20-30 pounds. He volunteers some of his time at the Mennonite church he attends.
Toronto Events

Fireside Culture Week in Parkdale

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Parkdale celebrates Fireside Culture Week from Feb. 22 through 28, 2010.

Some of the attractions are:

  • Feb. 22: Opening Night performances at the Snowball Gallery
  • Feb. 23-28: “Life with Mimi” photography exhibit, “viewable from the street” but inside Take Me Back (1692 Queen St. W).
  • Feb. 23: “Life Drawing Classes” in the Diane McGrath Studios (1688 Queen St. W).   Although called “classes”, there is no instruction, but you may pay $15 to draw costumed aerialists.
  • Feb. 24-28: “Artists’ Survey – Greenbelt” at Gallery 1313 (1313 Queen St. W).  10 artists who live in the Greenbelt exhibit their works.
  • Feb. 24: “Artstars at Wrongbar” (1279 Queen St. W) promises to unveil “Toronto’s only anonymous art critic”.
  • Feb. 25-28: “My Girls” photography exhibit at gallery DK (1332 Queen St. W).
  • Feb. 25-28: Street Art and Grafitti exhibit at the Snowball Gallery (1690 Queen St. W).
  • Feb. 25: Comedy Night at the Snowball Gallery (1690 Queen St. W), proudly priced as “FREE”.
  • Feb. 25: “Free Draw” at Poor John’s Cafe (1610 Queen St. W): You may freely sketch or be sketched.
  • Feb. 25: “The Ethers” will perform at the Snowball Gallery (1690 Queen St. W), proudly priced as “free”.
  • Feb. 26-28: Diane McGrath will display her “New Works in the Diane McGrath Studios (1688 Queen St. W).
  • Feb. 27: David H. will spend an hour (2-3pm) as a human statue at Shoppers Drug Mart (1473 Queen St. W).
  • Feb. 27: Poetry Readings at the Brown Sugar Cafe (1374 Queen St. W) from 2-3pm.
  • Feb. 27: “Lady Luck Productions” will perform a burlesque show at Shop Girls (1342 Queen St. W) from 2:30 to 4:30pm.
  • Feb. 27: Natalie Sullerton will give an “Aerialist Performance” in the Diane McGrath Studios (1688 Queen St. W) from 2:30 to 3:30pm.
  • Feb. 27 & 28: “Vitalic” will perform at Wrongbar (1279 Queen St. W).  Feb. 27 at 8pm; Feb. 28 at 12am.
  • Feb. 27: “Brian Byrne and The Flaming Hoops with guests The Ethers” will perform at The Rhino (1249 Queen St. W).
  • Feb. 27: Ania Soul will perform R&B at Parkdale Drink (1292 Queen St. W).
  • Feb. 27: “Najjah’s World w/ Tory Lanez and Pole Dancing by Lady Luck Prod” at Blondies (1378 Queen St. W). The title says it all…or perhaps just begins to hint.

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Please check Toronto’s Parkdale Village BIA (Business Improvement Area) site, http://parkdalevillagebia.com/fireside/index.htm, for further details.  I did not list all of the start/end times, and you may want to contact the venues regarding cover charges.

[This post was last updated 2010-02-23.]

Toronto Events

The 2nd half of Black History Month in Toronto

Better late than never: here are some upcoming events, to cover events in the second half of February.
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According to the City of Toronto’s web site ( Toronto Celebrates Black History Month), Black History Month started as a one-week educational experience in the USA, back in 1926. Toronto launched Black History Month in February 1979. Canada adopted it in 1995.

Here are some events available in Toronto for the second half of February, 2010:

  • Learn about Mary Ann Shard Cary, the first female newspaper publisher in Canada. Visit Mackenzie House (82 Bond St – east of Yonge and south of Dundas) on Saturdays and Sundays, from 12-5pm.
  • The Toronto Public Library system has several events, including “Emerging Voices” with Garvia Bailey, Trey Anthony and Dalton Higgins at the Toronto Reference Library (2nd floor) on Wed. Feb. 24 at 7pm. (789 Yonge just north of Bloor).
  • Also with the Library, Njacko Backo is at the Oakwood Village library (341 Oakwood, south of Eglinton) on Feb. 24 at 1:30, and at the Weston library (north-east corner of King St & Weston Road) on Feb. 27 at 2pm.
  • Also with the Library, Sandra Whiting makes two appearances on Feb. 18. First, she is at the Jane/Dundas library (620 Jane, south of Dundas) at 9:30am; then the Pape/Danforth library (701 Pape, south of Danforth) at 1:30pm. She will also be at the Downsview library (2793 Keele, north of Wilson) on Feb. 27 at 2pm.
  • Also with the Library, Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whitely perform the blues at the Amesbury Park library (1565 Lawrence W, halfway between Black Creek Drive and Keele) on Feb. 17 at 1:30pm, and at the Malvern library (30 Sewells St, at the north end of Brenyon Way; east of Neilson) on Feb. 20 at 2pm.
  • Also with the Library, Muhtadi performs percussion for “all ages” at the Jane/Sheppard library (1906 Sheppard W, east of Jane) on Feb. 25 at 2pm.
  • Watch a cooking demonstration (“Caribbean and Canadian winter vegetables”) at Lawrence Heights Community Centre (5 Replin Road: “North of Lawrence, South of Hwy 401, between Dufferin and Allen Expressway”) on Feb. 26 from 1 to 7pm.

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[This post was last updated 2010-02-09.]

Toronto Events

One or Two Marathons in Toronto?

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Should there be one or two marathons* in Toronto?

This has been discussed in the informal running community for some years.

I don’t have ties to either organizer, but it always seemed clear that there was serious competition between the “upstart” Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon and the “longer-running” Goodlife Fitness Toronto Marathon.

My carefully-considered opinion comes down to two questions:

  1. If I had to choose to run only one or the other, which would I choose? The Goodlife Fitness Toronto Marathon would be my choice, by a very narrow margin.
  2. Which marathon is better for Toronto? The winner by a landslide would be the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon.

Why?

The Goodlife marathon has more elevation changes; it goes through different neighbourhoods; and the facilities are better (both at the start, Mel Lastman Square, and the end at Queen’s Park with the use of Hart House for a shower and change). It just feels more like a tour of Toronto.

Their site shows that the average runner has a faster time in the Goodlife marathon. Makes sense to me, because it is “net downhill”.

But the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon is the race that Toronto needs. Consider the elite finishing times:

  • This is the fastest men’s marthon on Canadian soil. Finally, after more than 30 years, we’ve beaten the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
  • The world record for Men’s age 70-74, Men’s age 75-79, and Men’s age 90+, were set at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon. (Thank you: Ed Whitlock of Milton, Ontario; Fauja Singh of London, England).
  • No other marathon on Canadian soil has the men’s winning finishing times comparable to Boston or New York. (Let’s admit that Boston’s route has significant hills, while the Waterfront marathon is carefully flat).

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The reason – the Waterfront marathon organizers have arranged the funding to attract the better elite runners. That’s part of the competition between the two events – getting sponsorships and attracting talent.

So, if we must drop one and keep one, let’s keep the event that has attracted the fastest elite runners: the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon.

For the record: the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon is held on the final Sunday of September. The Goodlife Fitness Toronto Marathon is held in October, on the Sunday immediately following Canadian Thanksgiving Monday. (This normally means there is a 3-week gap between these events. But when Sept. 30 falls on a Sunday, then there is only a 2-week delay).

*For runners, a ‘marathon’ is exactly 26 miles + 385 yards; the metric distance is 42.2 Km. When anyone else talks about a “marathon effort”, they mean “a really big effort”. But in athletics, that’s the distance. How that came to be, is another story…

[This post was last updated 2010-02-03.]