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  • 06Sep

    Another Heatwave in Toronto came and went fast

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    Where did those heat waves go?  The weather of the last week and this Labour Day weekend has many almost wishing we had those heat waves back.

    It was only in the last week of August, just when we thought we could enjoy the last weeks of summer without melting, along came another heat wave. The City of Toronto issued an extreme heat alert due to temperatures rising over 30 degrees Celsius, with the humidex factor it was almost 40 degrees.

    Not only Toronto, but most of Ontario was baking under high temperatures again. The humidex advisory that was affecting Toronto also stretches from Windsor to Kingston and east to Ottawa and north to Muskoka.

    During the  extreme heat a week ago, I decided to be kind on the environment and not contribute to the smog levels by taking transit instead of driving my car to my downtown Toronto office space. It was a good thing that the buses I had to take were air conditioned, otherwise I would have gone back home to get my air conditioned car.

    Instead of taking the bus that stops right in front of my office at One Yonge Street (where I have my office space for lease Toronto), I opted to take the bus that let me off just north of my downtown office space and take the 5 minute walk. That was probably not the best choice on a sweltering day like it was last week, but this week I would need a sweater to take that walk.

    Now with fall like weather (while technically still summer) and most people returning to work from summer holidays or just the Labour Day weekend, I am not looking forward to my commute down the Don Valley Parkway on Tuesday.  I am thinking that once again, I may just take the TTC and let them do the driving.

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  • 30Aug

    A planned trip to FanExpo ended up being a day at BuskerFest

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    Trekkies and superhero fans took over the Metro Convention Centre this weekend. I took my girlfriend down to FanExp on Sunday to meet up with some friends of mine who had some spare passes to the extravaganza. I parked my car at my downtown Toronto office space and took the short walk to the Metro Convention Centre.

    When we arrived at the convention centre, there were hundreds of fans who had been lined up for hours around a city block trying to get into the convention centre without a prepaid pass. I was not about to join that line up because my friends already had passes for us, were already inside and in the line up to meet William Shatner. Unlike my friends who are diehard super fans of sci-fi and comic books, my interest was only casual and long line ups were not my thing. Also from what I understood, even once inside people were walking shoulder to shoulder trying to navigate the aisles of comic book stands and vendors selling science fiction memorabilia and Japanese Anime accessories and toys.

    For super fans like my friends, there was plenty of big name celebrities from TV’s original Batman and Robin, as well as the Star Trek series, including the man who starred as the original Captain Kirk. Yes, Adam West, Burt Ward and William Shatner. But none of these people drew the crowds that Stan Lee (The creator of Spiderman) had waiting for him. At 88 Years old, Lee still comes out to expos like this one and manages to steal the show without even trying.

    Other Celebrities included Julie Newmar who played Catwoman in the 1960′S Batman TV series, Dean Stockwell who played John Cavil on Battlestar Galactica  and Al on Quantum Leap, Michael Dorn who played Lieutenant Commander Worf on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Academy Award winner Ernest Borgnine most know for his role on the 1960’s show McHale’s Navy. Those are just some of the over 140 guests from the world of Sci-Fi, Comics, Gaming and the world of Horror.

    Instead of Standing in line to get into FanExpo and then lining up to meet the various celebrities and stars, my girlfriend and I decided to walk along Front Street and check out BuskerFest instead. BuskerFest, now in its 11th year is one of the largest festivals of its kind in North America and is the last major festivals in Toronto’s summer entertainment season.

    BuskerFest is produced by Epilepsy Toronto with the support of their title sponsor Scotiabank. Over the last ten years, BuskerFest has raised almost one million dollars for Epilepsy Toronto, a non-profit organization that for the past 50 years has been enabling people with epilepsy to live with dignity and independence.

    After a long hot day in the sun, we decided to head home around 4 P.M. Before jumping in the car and driving home, I wanted to go upstairs and check my mail at my Toronto office space, as I had not been in the office for a number of days.

    As I was leaving my office and walking down the hall, I was surprised to run into a person who I met only a few weeks ago that was looking for office space for lease Toronto. It seems that shortly after I had told them about Telsec Business Centres, they contacted Josie Graziosi and rented a team space for 7 people. I felt good that they had taken my advice and really loved the office.

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  • 26Aug

    Where will Conrad Black open his next office, when he is released from USA?

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    Many of my friends know that I write this blog and those who know that I do know that I am a big supporter of my office space Toronto. They know that I am very happy about and love my Toronto office space, some have even looked into why I love my downtown Toronto office space. Yes, a few have even followed me and also rented Toronto office space from Telsec.

    This week one of my friends brought up the subject that Conrad Black  may be returning to Canada shortly. My friend pointed out that Conrad Black will not be returning to his prestigious 10 Toronto street office when he gets back to Toronto. but he will need an office space in Toronto. My friend went on to ask if Conrad Black will be looking for office space Toronto at 1 Yonge Street. My only reply was “Who would not want a Toronto office space at the number one address on Canada’s most famous street?”.

    If and when Conrad decides to take a prestigious corner office downtown Toronto, he will have one of Canada’s most famous addresses. In addition, he will have a serviced office Toronto that is one of the best in not only Toronto, but also the GTA.

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  • 23Aug

    Lets go to the EX! and we did

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    The beginning to the end of summer is now upon us, the Canadian National Exhibition is now open. Every year on Warriors day at the CNE, most of my family meets up on the west side of the Food Building for an annual reunion of sorts. This year only 3 of my 5 sisters and their families were there, but it was great to see them.

    The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) or The Ex as it is affectionately called, is Canada’s largest annual community fair. Taking place over 18 days leading up to and including Labour Day, The Ex offers a wide variety of entertainment and events, including midway rides and games, a working farm, parades and sports, international food and shopping, Kids’ World, and a three-day air show. Over the course of its late summer run, the CNE attracts over a million people each year.

    Now the fifth largest fair in North America, the CNE has enjoyed a distinguished history as a showcase of the nation; “the place” where people came to experience the “best and the brightest” from the latest innovations in technology and commercial products, to the greatest artists of the time. Since 1879, it continues to be one of Toronto’s great annual traditions.

    The CNE takes place throughout 192 acres of beautiful lake front property at Exhibition Place, which is only a short drive or streetcar ride (often called the LRT) from my Toronto office space for lease. Through the course of the Ex, I often leave my downtown Toronto office space early to visit the CNE. There are always some great photo opportunities and new things to see each visit.

    Labour Day weekend at The Ex is always a bitter sweet weekend, it is bitter because it is the last weekend of the CNE and the unofficial end of Summer. What is sweet about the last weekend of The Ex is that it is also the weekend of the Canadian International Air Show. The Air Show, in its 61st year, takes over the CNE skies for an awe-inspiring show.

    The crowd favorite of the Air Show are the national ambassadors of the air, the Canadian Forces Snowbirds. This year they celebrate their 40th Anniversary and they will fly the grand finale performance daily.

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  • 20Aug

    Networking When You Are Not Even Trying

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    Thursday night I was asked to attend an event that was being held by one of my clients and to take some photographs for their website. The event included a guest speaker Howard Brown, who is the President of Brown & Cohen Communications. Mr. Brown was to be talking about “The Art and Science of Networking”.

    I picked up some interesting networking concepts from the speaker at this event, including not to be afraid to randomly go up to people and introduce yourself. Another concept Mr. Brown reiterated was to make the introduction of yourself to people about them, meaning to ask questions about them rather than talking about yourself.

    After hearing the speaker, guests were treated to some hot hors d’oeuvres and encouraged to mingle. While all of the guests were in the same industry (one that I know little about), I was able to have a few interesting conversations with some of the attendees.

    Most of the time at events such as this, it comes up that I write a blog about my downtown Toronto office space and that I am actually a client, but this time I tried to use the techniques the speaker had talked about. I tried to focus the attention on the person I was speaking to, and to make it about them. Then I got to speaking to this one woman whose husband was just hired to open up a Toronto branch office for an American manufacturer. She told me that the first thing her husband had to do was to find office space for lease in Toronto without a long term lease, until the company could find a permanent office space solution. At this point I offered her information about my Toronto office space for lease, and the fact that I had an excellent downtown Toronto location without a long term lease. She asked for my card and asked me if her husband could contact me for more info, I wrote the web site www.telsec.net on the back of my card and told her husband could find more information about office space for lease Toronto there.

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  • 18Aug

    Living and Working Downtown Toronto

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    Downtown Toronto is really becoming home for so many people. Today I had a meeting not far from the St. Lawrence Market, so I parked my car at the “Green P” parking lot just down the street from the market instead of my regular place behind my downtown office space Toronto.

    After my meeting, I decided to leave my car at this downtown parking lot and walk to my downtown office. While I was walking this short distance from the St Lawrence Market, I noticed how many condos that were near by, as well as all the ones that were under construction. It used to be they wanted to tear down the Gardner Expressway to open up the view of the waterfront, now that is a mute point due to the condos that are even taller than this elevated roadway.

    As I was looking at all these downtown Toronto condominiums, I started to wonder how many of those condo owners or residence are self employed and how many would rather have a Toronto office space downtown, rather than running their businesses out of their home. For many people who want to live and work downtown, having a part-time office or a Toronto shared office would be ideal. They would have an office space to work in outside of their home, as well as access to Toronto meeting rooms, modern office equipment, and a professional receptionist to handle their calls as to their instructions.

    The more I thought of living close to my downtown office space Toronto, the more I realized that my need to own a car would greatly decrease. If I could walk to my Toronto office space everyday, I would only need to rent a car when I wanted to go out of town. I blogged a while back about Zip cars and now they are starting to look more and more as an alternative to automobile ownership, especially for those who work and live downtown Toronto.

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  • 17Aug

    Camping on Friday the 13th near Port Dover

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    This past weekend I escaped my Toronto office space and took my girlfriend camping for 5 days. We left on Thursday and headed down to Turkey Point without giving much thought to the date or what towns were not far away.

    Thursday was August 12 and Friday would be the 13th, Turkey Point is only minutes away from Port Dover. Every Friday the 13th, thousands of motorcycles from across North America converge on Port Dover and this one was no different.

    Actually this Friday the 13th was different, August 13th is the only one this year, so more people made a point of attending. I later heard that police and organizers estimate that more than 150,000 people and over 50,000 motorcycles poured into the town of 6,000 this year.

    You could not drive anywhere near the actual town of Port Dover with a car, only motorcycles were allowed. Even the back roads around the area were full of motorcycles trying to find alternative routes into town.

    Even the campground that we stayed at had several people who arrived by motorcycle with all their camping gear secured on their bike. I had no clue how much equipment you could carry on a motorcycle, or how light people could travel.  My car was full to the brim with our camping gear, I would not be able to have gone one day camping on a motorcycle with all our stuff.

    I had to take the camping essentials like the laptop, coffee maker, camera charger and an electric fan to help cool off the primitive cabin we were staying in.  Yes, we stayed in a cabin, only because we could.  The cabin was very primitive 8′ X 8′ shed like structure with beds and 15 amp electrical service. Not having to pitch a tent or sleep on a deflating air mattress made camping civilized.

    Being self employed does not always lend itself to vacations or long weekends, especially when clients sometimes contact me at 8pm at night or Sunday at 11 am. The only reason I was able to get away and out of town was due to where I have my Toronto office space at Telsec. I send a notice to the receptionist to change how my calls were to be handled for the time that I was away, I had the receptionist inform my clients or other callers that I was away at a conference and I was reachable by cell phone for emergencies. While I had my laptop with me, but did not need to use it this weekend (except for my girlfriend to play solitaire on it).

    One funny part about the weekend was the guy in the next cabin over had his cell phone ringing off the hook. He works out of Edmonton and Toronto, so when his Ontario clients read that he is scheduled be in Toronto they want to call him to keep in touch. Somehow we got around to talking about how he was thinking about getting a virtual office in Toronto with a live receptionist to manage his calls and a place to pick up his business mail. I told him about the phone answering service and Toronto mail service that I started off with, before eventually getting my Toronto office space without having to change my address or phone number.

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  • 10Aug

    Toronto International Film Festival fast approaching

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    The Toronto International Film Festival is fast approaching, TIFF runs from September 9th to 19th and is now one of the most sought after film festival in the world. This year marks the 35th Anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival. On Wednesday, July 28 organizers announced many of the Galas and Special Presentations for the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.

    The Toronto International Film Festival opens September 9 with the world premiere Gala Presentation of Score: A Hockey Musical, written and directed by Michael McGowan.

    Today TIFF  announces a wealth of Canadian features including highly anticipated new works by acclaimed Canadian filmmakers Denis Villeneuve, Bruce McDonald, Xavier Dolan, Jacob Tierney, Louis Bélanger and William D. MacGillivray, Sturla Gunnarsson, Ingrid Veninger, and Carl Bessai and on screen appearances by Molly Parker, Jay Baruchel, Don McKellar, Scott Speedman, Jill Hennessy, David Suzuki, Martha Plimpton, Peter Stormare, Jennifer Beals, Emily Hampshire, Jean Lapointe, Guylaine Tremblay, Harvey Keitel, Jason Jones, Scott Caan, Tricia Helfer and the late Tracy Wright.

    Some of the Canadian special presentation films include:

    Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie Sturla Gunnarsson, Canada
    World Premiere

    Good Neighbours Jacob Tierney, Canada
    World Premiere

    ncendies Denis Villeneuve, Canada
    North American Premiere

    Les amours imaginaires (Heartbeats) Xavier Dolan, Canada
    English Canadian Premiere

    Repeaters Carl Bessai, Canada
    World Premiere

    Trigger Bruce McDonald, Canada
    World Premiere

    Some of the big Stars that are expected to be at the Toronto International Film Festival range from rock stars like Bruce Springsteen to former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, with a lot of Hollywood whose who mixed in.  Actors like Colin Farrell, Alec Baldwin, Kate Beckinsale, Liam Neeson, Matt Damon, Peter O’Toole, Edward Norton, Steve McQueen, John Malkovich and the list goes on.

    With event and festivals like TIFF being held downtown Toronto, it is convenient for me to park my car at my Toronto office space downtown and take public transit to the film festival events that I have tickets for.

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  • 09Aug

    Traffic Nightmares in Toronto

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    This past weekend I had to meet a client at my downtown office space to review a contract. If it was not for the subway being so close to my office, I would not have been able to make it to the office.

    The city closed down the Gardiner Expressway this weekend for major construction, but also allowed some street closures on major arterial roads for festivals and other events. Trying to get around anywhere downtown or even across town was very difficult and draining on commuters.

    Even Saturday night I had to help friends set up an event in the west end and then go back to the east end for my sister’s fiftieth birthday celebration, on to have to return to the west end for the event I started off at. Trying to get from Dufferin and Queen to Broadview and Queen was not easy or direct. Nothing was moving East or West on Queen Street, so I tried Dundas. Dundas was moving quite slowly, but it was at least moving. Traffic did not ease up until I got east of Yonge Street. Heading back, I took the risk of taking King Street, but it too was just as jammed as Queen. I actually found it easier to go all the way down to Queens Quay and past my office space Toronto.

    After leaving the event a 3 A.M. I was happy to see that a great deal of traffic was off the road.  My real problem with traffic is not so much my patience, but because I drive a standard transmission car that causes my leg to get tired from  all that on and off of the clutch.

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  • 05Aug

    Mary Hart is almost 60? and now retiring

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    The things you learn when you line up for coffee at Tim Hortons at the fourth floor cafeteria of the Toronto Star building. Yes I can have free coffee and tea at my downtown office space, but sometimes it is a social thing to stop at Tim Hortons in my office space Toronto.

    Has it really been 35 years of Mary Hart on Entertainment Tonight?. She has been known far and wide for her great legs and youthful looks on the long-running Hollywood gossip style TV show Entertainment Tonight. Now at 59, she is stepping down from the anchor helm. It is hard to believe that show has been on for 35 years

    Looking at her today, I can’t believe Mary Hart’s 59 years old. I want to question my sources and believe that she is more like 49.

    When Mary Hart leaves Entertainment Tonight, she will leave behind a legacy of style and professionalism that will not be soon matched. Other female Hollywood gossip anchors who have tried to follow her formula of looks, legs, and diction, but none have even come close. She is the the only tv host who can make a man actually watch anything to do with Kate Gosselin, her eight kids and now dead beat husband.

    The great thing about my downtown Toronto office is that I can choose to have free coffee or go down to the 4th floor and buy Tim Hortons. Having choices is always great. When friends ask about my office, I tell them I selected it because of the many options it offered and the great location.

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