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It’s hard to know what to write anymore. It’s not writer’s block exactly. It’s where we are in beer culture. The dirty little secret is that craft beer in Ontario is succeeding even now. Even despite the fact that we are in a correction. You can order it online and […]

In Which I Talk About Where I’ve Been

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“If you’re looking for the real thing, he can show you where it went.” – The Band It was July first and I had been booked to appear at one of the reopening weekends for Ontario Place. In principle, speaking as a historian at a Canada Day celebration during the […]

Supper’s Ready

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“It is a world within the world, and, if there be such places between the things of the world, places built in the gaps, then surely there are things there, and places between them, and things in those places too.” – William Gibson I never went to Mascot Brewery. Not […]

All Tomorrow’s Parties

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“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”? Mark Z. Danielewski How do […]

Now For Plan A

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The benefit of walking everywhere is that it does set you up with some context for the thing that you’re about to see. In the case of Toronto, that means that you’re going to see cranes in the sky and streetscapes mostly made up of advertising boards proffering suites from […]

Absolute Beginners

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“So this is 26 years of experience?” I said to Bim. “Is that what it is? “It’s what you’re doing with it.” “If I had more money, it would have been bigger.” Godspeed Brewing is an odd phenomenon, because so much of it is bound up in expectation. One of […]

A Star To Steer Her By

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