Our 2012 visit to Toronto was mainly to see Bruce Springsteen in concert, and my husband and I managed to squeeze in some date time that weekend. Little did we know that seeing “The Boss” would go beyond the typical arms-length encounter between the performer-on-stage and his audience, but something that was much, much closer. And it was totally unplanned...and unexpected. My husband is a huge fan of “The Boss.” When he heard that Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band were

Since moving to Ottawa, we’ve only been to Toronto four or five times, which is not a lot. I guess it’s because we have always preferred going to Montreal. It’s closer and more accessible to us, and my husband’s family lives there. It has become our second home here in the East Coast. And we’ve never really had any compelling reason to drive five hours to Toronto each way. However, the last two times that we visited were quite memorable. The first one involved a first date of

Toronto was the very first city I visited in Canada, even before I lived in Vancouver. I went to Toronto in the summer of my second-to-the-last year in university. That time, I was part of a theatre group that got invited by our North American alumni association to perform in four cities in the U.S. and Canada East Coast – New York, Washington D.C., Detroit, and Toronto. I liked Toronto right away. It is a bustling city with soaring skyscrapers and a dynamic metropolis life.

Located on a rocky inlet on the Atlantic Ocean, Halifax, Nova Scotia’s provincial capital, is defined by its maritime geography. We were welcomed by a bustling waterfront as we arrived. We were made aware of the fact that this is the same waterfront where steamships once anchored to drop off arriving immigrants from the Old World, many, many years ago. In modern times, it has become a central hub for locals and visitors, always buzzing with energy that is fed by a working por