Because modern technology should never allow anyone the opportunity to be totally removed from the office...will a disastrous business transaction cause our phone-wielding businessman too much anxiety to enjoy a ball game?
Because modern technology should never allow anyone the opportunity to be totally removed from the office...will a disastrous business transaction cause our phone-wielding businessman too much anxiety to enjoy a ball game?
'Tis the season for gift certificates. Whether you're scratching your head trying to figure out what to give to an impossible recipient or selecting your loved one's favourite store or service, the selection of certificates, cards and vouchers seems unlimited. More than a few local sports woke up on Christmas morning three decades ago to find one of today's passes for the Blue Jays' second campaign as a stocking stuffer.
Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!
With Toronto FC's home opener drawing near, today's trip in the wayback machine stops at an earlier point in the city's professional soccer history, offering "super summer nights" for a pair of twenties.
It cost six hundred million in taxpayer dollars to construct, but now just a decade and a half later the Skydome has been sold for the rock-bottom price of $25 million. This marks the third time the dumb-looking sports facility has exchanged hands, with the owner of the inhabiting Blue Jays, Rogers Media, taking over. The real estate alone has to be worth that money. Really, Ted Rogers should move the Jays back to Exhibition Stadium and sell the building that resembles a giant testicle to Donald Trump.