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It's a long weekend. People in the city ... it's hot hot hot.
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We love American tourist dollars in Toronto! Thanks guys!
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We love to bash Bill, but he does good.
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Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates talks to 10-year-old student Timothy Peters, of Toronto, before the Canadian National Institute of the Blind award ceremony, in Toronto, August 20, 2002. Gates was awarded the Louis Braille Gold Medal (in background) in recognition of Microsoft Canada's commitment to advancing the rights and freedoms of people who are blind from around the world. Peters, who is a client of the Institute, showed Gates the CNIB's Children's Discovery Portal that gives blind children equal access to information from anywhere in the world. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen |
OK, that's enough being nice to Bill.
The world's richest bridge player, Bill Gates, rolled into Toronto this week to headline the much-touted CanWin conference. While innovation, education and other eye-glazing topics were the official agenda, fellow speaker Paul Tellier reportedly quipped about investments with the Microsoft mogul. "I hope you're not going to make any calls to your broker on the way out," joked Mr. Tellier, the chief boxcar keeper at CN Rail. Mr. Gates is CN's second-biggest stakeholder with 10.12 million shares or 5 per cent of the railway's entire float.
It was more of a Can'tWin for Mr. Gates earlier in the day. His big-screen demonstration of the .Net strategy of taking software to the Internet froze like exposed skin on a Winnipeg winter's morn. Every awkward attempt to fish data from the network failed -- complete with the cursed spinning hourglass and error message. It was pure geek tragedy for the thousand-plus restless tech heads who nervously slurped their filtered coffee as a stoic Mr. Gates did what any software billionaire would do: He blamed the Internet connection. |
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A piece of broadcasting history came down today. The original CBC-TV tower at Jarvis and Carleton Sts. — the "Eiffel on Jarvis" as one newspaper dubbed it — was the site of the first Canadian television signals that went out over the airwaves nearly 50 years ago on Sept. 8, 1952. Its demise began in 1976, when the CBC moved its signals to the CN Tower. |
The 27th Toronto International Film Festival starts today.
Again this year there will be screenings, red carpet premieres and press conferences galore. We'll be overrun with stars and starlets from September 5th to the 14th. For 10 days, the city will be wall to wall with tuxedos and tits. I live right downtown, so I'll have to be careful not to get run over by a limo. Some of the 344 films being screened this year are really pushing the limits -- something we like to do here in the Cellar. There's something of interest for everyone here, so drop by for a visit if you can. |
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I can't find my cousins silo there anywhere.
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Okay...I didn't look at either link yet...I'm gonna try and guess as many as I can.
Starting at left: 1--TransAmerica Building, San Francisco 6--Sears Tower, Chicago 8--John Hancock Tower, Chicago 9--One Liberty Place, Philadelphia 12--CN Tower, Toronto 14--One World Trade Center, NYC 15--Two World Trade Center, NYC 16--Empire State Building, NYC 18--Mellon Bank Building, Philadelphia 19--Eiffel Tower, Paris 23--Building name unknown, Shanghai 28--Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur Alright...that's all I can make out. Now let's see how many I got. |
Okay, in looking at the page, I missed 9, 18, and 23 (the bottle opener looking building). Damn, One Liberty Place should have been on there though...it's 37th in the world...and it just looks spiffy. :)
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Toronto's secret ... the plight of the homeless.
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Nic, I'm sure that you and many Canadiens are ecstatic that Ron MacLean is returning to Hockey Night in Canada.
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I must have that jacket.
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