In Tagalog, the word kusinera means 'female cook'. In Toronto, it's also the name of a pop-up that pays homage to the resilience of Filipinas with dishes like kare kare and kaldereta that are well worth waiting a month for. There's no female chef behind Kusinera: The owner of the new Toronto pop-up is 23-year-old Keanu Francisco, who…
Many Toronto brides with 2020 wedding dates understandably have postponed their weddings to 2021, and with restrictions still hanging over all our heads local wedding planners have some advice for those who want to tie the knot this year. 2021 isn't the escape from COVID-19 most of us dreamed it would be, but fortunately there…
As both the most populous city in Canada and the city with the twelfth-highest average property cost in the world, Toronto has the largest population of homeless, underhoused, and precariously-housed people in the country. Toronto-based charitable organization Fred Victor reports that over 10,000 people in Toronto sleep in shelters, respite centres, or outdoors every night. Approximately…
Tui has cancelled all its holidays to Florida up to and including 30 April because of Covid-19 restrictions. The company stated on its website that affected customers are being contacted to discuss their options, including changing their booking to another holiday or receiving a full refund. “We understand holidays to Florida are an exciting and…
A recent survey from G Adventures reveals that there is truth to the idea travellers care more about where their money goes on holidays, especially if it goes to support local communities. A poll of British, American and Australian travellers found that roughly three-quarters of them want to make sure that the money they spend…
Troubled airline Norwegian Air is looking to return 36 of its planes back to lessors as part of cost-cutting mandated by the terms of the Norwegian government’s bailout package. The airline has asked the irish High Court to end leasing agreements held by its Irish subsidiaries. Read the story here. The post Norwegian Petitions…
If you have decided to live and study in Barcelona, then we would like to welcome you to the city. It doesn’t matter whether you will start a postgraduate or master at ESADE or EU Business School, or whether you will study with Erasmus in the city of Barcelona. You will probably be occupied with…
Food delivery has been absolutely booming amid pandemic lockdown, which is perhaps what made a new DoorDash scam all the more easy to pull off. @DoorDash_Help Reported fraud on my account 4 (!) days ago and DoorDash still hasn’t done anything. I keep getting told to wait 24 hours. Someone stole over $120 from me and all…
A Toronto man seems to have taken the phrase, "One man's trash is another man's treasure" a little too literally. Fourty-year-old Toronto resident Shane Stephen Kirkaldy has been arrested and charged by Toronto Police for allegedly stealing dirty diapers from a green bin outside a house, according to a news release. Police say the man removed soiled…
Toronto's 'No Exit' signs are not to be trusted—not if you're a pedestrian, anyway. Meant specifically for cars, these yellow traffic signs scattered across the city might mislead some travelling by foot to think that cul-de-sacs and dead ends are all that wait beyond. But there are accessible alleyways and sidewalks on the other side…