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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker (Post 7287060)

Yeah - and it's not hipster. Just... sad. I'm not sure how the sponsorships work - if it's the entertainment district or the bar or what - but Bud Light and Lambs have all the ads with the GS logo.

Lambs makes sense to me, but Bud Light is just a really bizarre beer to have affiliated with George St (from the perspective of George St, of course, not Bud Light). Even like, Red Stripe would seem like a better "fit".

Is this a long-established sponsorship?

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Originally Posted by Hali87 (Post 7287128)

^So what looks like a wall in the photo with the NYE crowd is... what exactly? Or is NPS (I assume that's the plaza in the pic) elevated above grade?

Not all of us are super-familiar with the minutiae of Toronto's civic plazas..

It's an elevated walkway that goes around the perimeter of the plaza. https://goo.gl/maps/qLgkBUTHBLF2

Thanks, guys. I didn't realize it was the square by City Hall :haha: I thought I read in here that they were keeping but moving that TORONTO sign.

That elevated walkway would be such an awesome place to people watch on NYE.

Gah, I love this style of posting. :D Great one.

Last one made me giggle. I love it.

You're from Switft Current? Do you know why the Bus Station restaurant is only open for like 2 of the 4 buses that go through each day? I get the late night one, but I remember one of them seemed easy to manage.

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Originally Posted by caltrane74 (Post 7286797)

Toronto New Years - from my friends Facebook Feed

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How was this fun for anybody? No booze and a half million people, no thanks. What an insane pic. Did your friend take this? If so it must have sucked having to work at the Bay New Years Eve.

There was no booze? How did they even get all those people to show up then? Pay them??

Why would you need alcohol to go to that?

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Originally Posted by Beedok (Post 7290637)

Why would you need alcohol to go to that?

It's New Years Eve! Champagne at midnight is a must for everybody I know.

Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Neighbourhood of L'Acadie
January 6, 2016

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William Plenderleath Christie Mansion
Neighbourhood of Iberville
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The snow geese spent Christmas with us :)

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse (Post 7290626)

There was no booze? How did they even get all those people to show up then? Pay them??

It's a huge draw for the 18 and under 905 crowd. Not that people don't come from all over and sneak booze in. To be fair imagine a crowd that size full of drunks. Nothing good would come if it.

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse (Post 7290626)

There was no booze? How did they even get all those people to show up then? Pay them??

I'm guessing everyone who wanted to just brought their own.

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew (Post 7290660)

It's New Years Eve! Champagne at midnight is a must for everybody I know.

I've never seen anyone under 40 do the Champagne-at-midnight thing. At least here, it's all about kissing someone at midnight. You have literally the entire rest of the night to drink! :cheers:

Or alternately I guess you could shoot back that glass at 12 and spend the rest of the night making out. That actually seems better.

What you can't kiss and drink at the stroke of midnight? Since I was 19 we always do the bubbly. Personally I hate it.

Nice homes Laceoflight.

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Originally Posted by Beedok (Post 7290516)

Johnnie's Lunchbox has pretty regular hours - from 9-9 I think. I have a friend who works there in the kitchen and my father goes there for lunch occasionally as he works next door.

The food is bland but edible. :shrug:

The start of rush hour on Yishan Rd. in Shanghai.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1629/...c776569a_b.jpg yishan grind by Andrew Rochfort, on Flickr

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew (Post 7290688)

What you can't kiss and drink at the stroke if midnight? Since I was 19 we always do the bubbly. Personally I hate it.

Nice homes Laceoflight.

Hard to kiss someone with a glass on your lips :shrug:

There's a certain indifference (or even disdain) towards "luxury-for-its-own-sake" here that makes the whole Champagne thing rare. People are less inclined to do something just because it's "classy", and if it's also expensive and interrupts the goings-on then you can be sure that most people won't bother (I don't know if the champagne-at-midnight would be considered "classy" in Toronto, but my guess is yes). Conspicuous consumption of luxury is, more than anything else, considered kind of douchey/pretentious here.

Although I'm sure you could find thousands of people who had a glass of Champagne at midnight here in Halifax. But not tens of thousands. And most of them would be a generation or two older than me.

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Originally Posted by Hali87 (Post 7290883)

For us, it's always been a bit of a tongue-in-cheek "classy."

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The champagne on New Year's thing is just a really good excuse to rationalize buying a nice bottle of champers that you wouldn't normally buy... which is precisely what I do :)

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Originally Posted by Hali87 (Post 7290883)

Although I'm sure you could find thousands of people who had a glass of Champagne at midnight here in Halifax. But not tens of thousands. And most of them would be a generation or two older than me.

In T.O/Van/Montreal it's not just for the old. My first experience with it was when I was 19 at the brunswick House. Even if it was just for older generations the Hipsters would be all over it by now.

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew (Post 7291263)

Couldn't they find something a bit more obscure than boring old Champagne? haha

Like absinthe or something?

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Originally Posted by Hali87 (Post 7293204)

Couldn't they find something a bit more obscure than boring old Champagne? haha

Like absinthe or something?

Absinthe was so 2008. Negroni's were a hit this year.

I've never been up Grouse. Last week I noticed you can see it from Gibsons. This summer I have to finally go up it.

Yikes. Please keep your cold.

Another little tour around the east. :)

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Love this angle, over Bannerman Park.

Downtown is off screen to the left. To the right of The Rooms and the Basilica is the portion of the old city (small, but probably accounts for about half of the rowhouse if you including everything behind the photographer and toward the horizon) that you normally can't see behind the hill.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1552/...ed4492be_b.jpg Bird's Eye View # XXXI ... ; (c)rebfoto by rebfoto ...., on Flickr

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/704/2...679fd77e_b.jpg The Duke ....; (c)rebfoto by rebfoto ...., on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5685/...8713f190_b.jpg Fogtown ... ; (c)rebfoto by rebfoto ...., on Flickr

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/341/2...6bae2e0a_b.jpg Urbanscape # 95 ... ; (c)rebfoto by rebfoto ...., on Flickr

This one cracks me up. You see this in the summer - cruise ship passengers flocking to anywhere with free WiFi. The City is working on bringing free WiFi to the whole downtown to help.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/566/2...a87722b2_b.jpg Hottest spot in town ....; (c)rebfoto by rebfoto ...., on Flickr

PEI

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1663/...3e7ec735_b.jpg French River by ljlove2travel, on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1464/...56083e29_b.jpg Rodd Charlottetown by Rodd Vacations, on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1565/...c9c2374d_b.jpg Charlottetown, PEI by Craigford, on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1600/...6f77fbc1_b.jpg Charlottetown, PEI by Craigford, on Flickr

NS

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1634/...e347ba4a_b.jpg IMG1504B Halifax by alanwilliams673, on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1518/...b1ee0382_b.jpg old town clock, halifax n.s. by Angie Raftus McLellan, on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5719/...1298bc0a_b.jpg halifax lights 2 by Angie Raftus McLellan, on Flickr

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/777/2...01dd5871_b.jpg Halifax Road by jmaxtours, on Flickr

I find a snow covered beach unsettling. Brrr cold! Can't put swimsuit on...

A few photos of the main Dalhousie campus. It's kind of hard to photograph because the buildings are spread out but there are a lot of hidden gems. Someday I'll go and take a bunch of photos.

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King's
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Another one I like, the Forrest Building, not on the main campus (from 1887; a bit older than average for a university building of this scale in Canada):
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Gorgeous Dalhousie buildings there, someone.

Really need to make my way to Halifax one day (and the Maritimes in general).

Guessing August would be the best time to do so.

August/September is the best weather (although there are occasionally hurricanes). Fall colours tend to be at their peak mid-October and the weather is usually still decent then.

I think I would like to do more summer activites though. Walking / taking pictures in shorts and a t-shirt, going to the beaches / parks seems like it would be ideal.

Summer would be my preferred option as well! Just met a lot of tourists this fall who were very enthusiastic about the leaves changing and all, I kind of forget that doesn't happen everywhere to the extent that it does here.

I am thinking summer for a first trip, then if i have another chance later in life, fall.

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A drone video showcasing Halifax's Northwest Arm. It's sort of our equivalent of False Creek (geographically, at least) and strangely a lot of people living here don't seem to know it exists, and most people have never seen the city from the Arm (ie. in a boat), which is a totally fresh perspective on the city. Lots of interesting waterfront homes with cool landscaping, marnias/watersports (sailing, rowing, canoeing, paddleboard, windsurfing), several public parks with beaches and impressive mounments/ruins. The city's topography keeps hidden from view at most vantage points, and Halifax Shopping Centre, Dalhousie's main campus, and SMU are all quite close to the Arm but somehow people still manage to not notice it. Definitely a part of town worth checking out if you're here during the summer. McNab's Island is another "hidden" (in plain sight) gem worth checking out:

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Nice pictures! Halifax may be small, but it seems to have a heavier, more substantial feeling downtown compared to some of the similar-sized cities in the country.

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse (Post 7295793)

Nice pictures! Halifax may be small, but it seems to have a heavier, more substantial feeling downtown compared to some of the similar-sized cities in the country.

I think of it a stunted major city. Winnipeg might be a bit like this too. I'd expect Charleston and New Orleans to have a similar flavour.

The neat thing about the construction happening now is that there's more stuff to fill in the solid old bones the city always had. It used to be a lot shabbier than it looks today. Unless something goes off the rails I have a feeling the city in 2020 is going to be dramatically nicer than it was around 2000.

^Winnipeg felt like an interesting analogue for Halifax where the urban form/building style is in many ways the opposite (as is the landscape, for that matter). In downtown Halifax, there are a lot of fine-grained streetscapes made up of narrow, largely "human scaled" buildings that are packed very tightly together (on a hill). In Winnipeg, there are a lot of large, monumental buildings that are a bit more spread out and there is consequently a lot more "open space"/less crowding, and it's very flat. Halifax does the eclectic and fine-grained very well but is missing the sense of "monumentalism", whereas Winnipeg has the monumental architecture but is missing the sense of "crowdedness". An analogy, that could be extended to the rest of the city, is to look at what the provincial legislatures in both cities are like, and what their surroundings are like. Obviously, you could find examples of "both" in each city, but each skews heavily one way or the other.

At least that was my impression, having only really spent a couple days in Winnipeg over 2 separate trips. Montreal and Victoria are both cities that seem more "balanced" in this regard (not that this is necessarily better or worse, just observably different).

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Originally Posted by someone123 (Post 7296140)

Winnipeg didn't feel stunted to me, but then again maybe I've got odd standards.

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Originally Posted by Beedok (Post 7296316)

Winnipeg didn't feel stunted to me, but then again maybe I've got odd standards.

I've never been to Hamilton myself but my impression is that it would feel more "stunted" than Winnipeg (downtowns). Hamilton is kind of a unique case of its own, though.

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Originally Posted by Hali87 (Post 7296325)

I've never been to Hamilton myself but my impression is that it would feel more "stunted" than Winnipeg (downtowns). Hamilton is kind of a unique case of its own, though.

Thunder Bay definitely feels stunted. There's a number of urban buildings or boulevards tucked away in odd corners that you can tell they expected would eventually be part of the downtown or whatnot, but it never happened.

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