University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo near downtown Waterloo, Ontario, was a child of an affiliate of Western University before it became its own thing to train engineers after the Second World War. Its technical programs were advanced for the 1960s when it became one of the first Canadian universities to establish Read more

Waterloo Museum

In a small retail space in Waterloo‘s Conestoga Mall lives the City of Waterloo Museum. It’s the first museum I’ve been to that doesn’t have a permanent exhibition, the temporary exhibition changes every couple of months to keep things fresh. I visited during the space exhibit about how astronauts live Read more

2023 Cadillac XT5 Premium Luxury V6 FWD

Date: 2-5 September, 2023Location: Louisiana Distance: 764 km Up front: The cabin is quiet and refined—even on par with its German peers. However, its premium-economy grade of materials disappoints in the luxury segment; the dashboard and doorsill are cheap soft-touch plastics, the leather feels worse than Mercedes’ man-made Artico leather, and Read more

Textile Museum of Canada

My visit to the textile museum was brief so I wouldn’t get ticketed for parking overtime in downtown Toronto. It’s nearby the Campbell House Museum so the two make a good geographical pairing. The main exhibition area showed Inuit textile art, something I  found quintessentially Canadian. The gallery that shares Read more

Aga Khan Museum

The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto is Canada’s largest museum dedicated to Muslim culture. Photography isn’t permitted in most of the museum, so I can’t show you ancient Quran manuscripts or the 16th century marble fountain. The only gallery where photography is permitted is the ceramics showcase. Islam is present Read more

Fort Erie

On the short of Lake Erie, Fort Erie stares down Buffalo with its might 18-pound cannons. Soldiers from all over Europe, including Swiss mercenaries, fought for Britain against the rebellious 13 colonies. But in 1814, the Americans captured the fort and used it as a base for attacking the British Read more

Toronto Railway Museum

Perhaps the smallest museum in Toronto, but not the least interesting (that award goes to the Toronto Police Museum). The Toronto Railway Museum makes its home in a railroad roundhouse shared with restaurants and bars. The roundhouse used to serve nearby Union Station, it’s an excellent example of adaptive reuse Read more

Queen’s Park

Queen’s Park is officially known as the Legislative Assembly of Ontario – the province’s elected lawmaking body. Here, which parties sit on the left or the right depend on who is in power, the majority sits on the left and the minority on the right, so the two sides have Read more