Canadian veteran Mark Chamberlain is training for a mission this spring. But it won’t put him in harm’s way. “This was a way to get the soldiers together … to talk about something that was common to them,” he said.

A flotilla of small boats and an army of movie lovers descended on the waterfront at Sugar Beach this weekend to help mark the 100th anniversary of the Toronto Port Authority (TPA). Sail-In Cinema, billed as the first floating movie theatre of its kind in North America, featured three nautical-themed movies shown on a 28-foot double-sided screen.