Toronto Travel Blog

Skating under the arches. Photo by Ken Nickerson Toronto has over 50 outdoor artificial ice rinks so skating is a popular pastime in this city. The city does a great job of maintenance and you’ll find wonderful rinks in each neighborhood. Don’t worry if you’ve left your skates at home. All of the...

Photo by Doug Brown. Courtesy of Tourism Toronto Toronto is a multicultural city but that doesn’t stop it from celebrating a traditional Christmas. The whole city joins in the fun and gets into the spirit of the season. If you’re looking for a way to celebrate in Toronto, check out these fun events. Glide...

Get into the spirit of Christmas with these charitable events. It’s a great way to meet the locals, find out what’s happening in town and help out. The Third Annual City Carol Sing Come and sing along with some of the city’s great singers and support the Food Banks of Canada. Special guests...

Fire Guy at the Scotiabank Buskerfest The 2011 Scotiabank’s BuskerFest is celebrating it’s 12th year this weekend at the St Lawrence Market Neighbourhood. This colourful, wacky and wildly fun festival is the one of the largest of its kind in North America. Watch the very best silent comedy,...

Photo courtesy of Dolce Gelato Toronto has had one scorcher of a summer and maybe that explains the plethora of ice cream parlors that have opened up. Every neighborhood offers a favorite shop where you can find healthy yogurt, lean gelato or sinful classic (calories be damned). Here’s our scoop on...

The classic Swing Ride. Photo courtesy of CNE. The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), known by locals as The EX, is an 18-day fair running from August 19 until September 5. It’s one of Canada’s largest summer fairs attracting 1.3 million visitors annually. This end-of-summer event is considered...

Toronto holds the reputation of being the third-largest English-speaking theatre city in the world, after London and New York. And as with those two theatre giants, it would be a crying shame to visit the city and not sample some of the theatrical treats we have on offer. In honour of Mother’s Day,...

If you are coming to Toronto in March, and you are looking around for an interesting breakfast solution, you need to head to Casa Loma March 17th, 18th or 19th. Casa Loma, one of Toronto’s most intriguing historical landmarks,and is the perfect place for you and your kids to visit this March Break....

Happy Canada Day!  The country turns 143 today (and may I say it doesn’t look a day over 100.) If you don’t find yourself at Parliament Hill in the nation’s capital of Ottawa – and you could since it’s really not that far from here – then Toronto is a pretty good place to be. But what to...

I like summer for many reasons – the sun, the sandals, the ice cream.  (So much ice cream!)  But in Toronto, one of the greatest things about the warm weather is the many, many festivals that hit town.  You can fill nearly every weekend with a festival of some sort, something this Local Expert always...