Often I ponder Canada and what it means, to quote our national anthem, to be “strong and free.” Of course, many will note that “strong and free” is in fact a marketing slogan for me and my services/products, and my main domain is ”strongandfree.ca.” I’m an entrepreneur and a patriot, that goes without saying. But I’m [...]
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Last summer, my partner booked us on a novel trip—we traveled to Niagara aboard the “bike train” for its inaugural voyage. It was a cool experience. We arrived at Union Station in the morning, after biking through a misty High Park and along the lakeshore. The press was in full effect, and it seemed half [...] It’s around this time that I start to think about summer weather and getting out and about, taking some new crosstown walks, tuning up the bike, and generally exploring Toronto as it bursts into spring. The eastern forest of North America is one of the most verdant areas on earth – once it finishes [...] My comp art from TV series "The Wire" I often claim that I’m not much of a TV watcher – aside from a Saturday night hockey game or interesting doc on TVO or Newsworld. Truth is, that all changed when I got hooked on “Northern Exposure” about 8 years ago. I saw almost the [...] Spacing magazine's 5th anniversary and biggest issue yet! In yesterday’s Metro newspaper there was an article on the crew that founded ‘Spacing,’ Toronto’s innovative public space magazine. Matthew Blackett and Dale Duncan are two of the founding editors and they are very deserving of all the praise and awards that have come Spacing’s way. [...] A pedestrian braves the cold grey expanse of Warden Ave I was teaching a LINC class recently and the immigrant students were describing some things they liked/disliked about Toronto. I like to play devil’s advocate and present negatives, so I tossed out ‘smog’ and ‘traffic’, as the students easily identified the ‘Islands’ [...] |
Mike Simpson is a teacher, writer, musician and designer from Toronto, Canada. He is a new media enthusiast and has been "strongandfree" since 1996. Mike is working on new graphic design, developing websites and multimedia, and leading training workshops on weekends. Check out Strong+Free for his Design and Media work. Check out Mike's Edu-Tech Workshop site. Please contact him at this address: mike | strongandfree.ca 
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