After filming documentaries in more than 20 countries, geologist Nick Eyles still appreciates Ontario’s landscapes the most. “I have a peculiar fondness for the Canadian Shield,” Eyles said. “As good as Ethiopia was, it’s not as good as Georgian Bay.”
Your parents could be taken away by their job for just a weekend and it might seem like forever, but some kids may never see their folks again. It’s a feeling 16-year-old Madeline Mills knows too well.
The Rouge Valley Health System Foundation, along with Sears of Scarborough Town Centre ,held their second annual fashion show fundraiser at the Momiji Centre on Nov. 7. The event included a silent auction, prize draws, wine tastings and runway show.
Since her husband retired, Lippert has paid extra attention to the front garden. There are snapdragons and hostas still doing well this fall. One could say her work created one of the best gardens in the city. Proof is that Lippert just won a 2010 City of Toronto Garden award for a commercial property.
While the Botanical Artists of Canada doesn’t have a long history — it celebrates its tenth anniversary next year — the art form these artists represent does. The artistic rendition of plants dates back to the time before camera, and is a lot more complex than it seems.
Anthony Westenberg, spokesperson for the Brick Works, says the films help build a sense of community. “We want to be a community centre and we want to bring people together,” Westenberg said. “It’s a unique way for Torontonians to get out and enjoy a night out in a very unique atmosphere.”
Eighteen-year-old Eden Full won the award in 2009. While in her last year of high school in Calgary, Full developed her prize-winning project: a method for rotating solar panels. Full, now a student in mechanical engineering and African studies at Princeton University in the United States, put the $2,000 cash prize toward developing a prototype that she tested during field work in Kenya.
Visitors can get up close to these colossal marine mammals with the help of interactive audiovisual exhibits such as exploring a “whale lab;” learning about whale riders, marine biologists and whaling families; and walking right up to a full-scale sperm whale fossil. Kids can also climb into a life-sized model of a blue whale heart.
According to Councillor Georgio Mammoliti, who sits on the Toronto Zoo’s board of management, several corporate sponsors have inquired about funding the initiative that will see a male panda named Er-Shun, and female panda, lent to Canada for up to 15 years starting in 2012.
When Duncan McLean first started appraising Inuit Art in the 1970s, ascribing values was a trick. Bush pilots, RCMP officers, teachers, doctors and nurses, returning from adventurers into North, took carvings to the Toronto auctioneer looking to sell. “They may have traded some cigarettes for it, or paid somebody a dollar,” McLean said.