Stand Up Paddleboarding Classes are Scenic Marina Tours of Scarborough Bluffs
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What's SUP Toronto?

The Stand Up Paddleboarding lessons offered by Paul Peic are in fact scenic tours of the Scarborough Bluffs behind the Brimley Marina. Paul really likes to show off the geography of the Scarborough Bluffs in his SUP route / daylight tours and he imparts lots of great information about the natural formed sand bluffs which are protected by a few different federal protection acts and as Paul states in his tour , the Scarborough Bluffs can only be properly observed from the water and his SUP tour really lets people see the whole picture and glean all facts about these remarkable naturally occurring sand bluffs terrain features and the diverse wildlife that lives on the strange sandy shoreline.

There's a great shot of SUP Yoga on Zoomers and some lovely lady doing a remarkable pose in perfect water conditions

SUP Team Building at Paddleboard Addict is a signature celebration office culture that makes memorable challenges and teaches leadership and puts group dynamics to the test in rather clever aquatic circumstances. Its definitely unique way to interact with other employees and do something they will never forget.

Smojoe blog details the adventure of Taking Stand Up Paddleboard Classes in Toronto and paying only $50 per lesson. Organizing a group is the best way to get cheap admittance to the sport in the GTA

Son of a Beekeeper blog on Tumblr describes Paul Peic's Stand Up Paddleboarding Lessons in Toronto at the Brimley Marina and how they benefit so many different muscles in the human body.

A cheer for Clair Matthews and her yoga for kids training programs.

Green living blog is TV show smart for Canada
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coffee table made form recycled hardwood palletHigh concept - a fashion magazine Tv show that recycles , reuses and remodels condos to show the inhabitants as extremely environmentally friendly to the point where they have made their furniture out of industrial parts and packing crates - but the novelty is that the stuff looks great.

The Urban Dog profile story on the Distillery District blog got a lot of attention on the Distillery Facebook page this week as many readers piped up to rant about how much they love Urban Dog and being able to watch their pets on the doggy cam afforded to members that leave their dogs in the facility when they go to work.

Toronto green TV blogger Nikki Fotheringham writes a green living blog in which she often demonstrates that green solutions can be aesthetically pleasing as well as environmentally sustainable. So often researchers discover their success in changing the world depends entirely on a third criteria, which is whether or not the green option being showcased is economically viable as a market alternative.

Crowd sourcing custom furniture concepts from recycled materials house

Earlier today i asked about making green furniture from recycled goods and showed pictures of the hardwood pallets from the green living blog on Canadian Content discussion forum and its got some feedback already and when I asked about green living on University Network,I was heard there too and i asked about green living furniture ideas on Red Flag Deals which i expect will get lots of attention.

Everyone is happy being green and there's a lot more information about the green living blog tv show in Toronto project on Ancestry Guru today


Treasures Under Toronto Recoverd by Basement Waterproofing Contractor
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waterproofing basement walls form the outside There are treasures under Toronto and they really are just lying about waiting to be discovered, from the north of the city right down to the lakeshore - especially the lake shore!

Dumpdiggers love any opportunity to get down and fork the sides of the holes under the city uncovering century old bottles buried in pioneer privy pits.

Waterproofing contractors have to dig trenches around the walls of the buildings they preserve. Digging through the ground they find stuff. The specially perforated plastic pipe drains water away from the cement walls  which are also treated with a parging cement.

Toronto basement waterproofingRead more about part time professional treasure hunters and the people that have a much better chance of finding treasure in their everyday jobs. They will retire wealthy and not because of good investments or regular deposits and high interest bank savings, but rather, by finding treasure. Here are The top five professionals most likely to find treasure at work and number three on the list is the guy who digs around residential houses for a living.

Arob12 Canada Blog records Toronto basement waterproofing contractor finding the sensors Reinhard has a knack of making his own discoveries a matter of national pride. Read more about the 2013 Toronto Bottle Show and how collectors prepare for the Toronto bottle show on Dumpdiggers Blog.

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Whippers Beverages, Toromto, soda popWHIPPER'S BEVERAGES was spawned by the eternal fame of Canadian wrestler Whipper Billy Watson or  William John Potts who was born on June 25, 1915 and died  on the 4th of Feb 1990. He was an international celebrity, a Canadian professional wrestler that was famous throughout the British Empire as "Whipper" Billy Watson; he was a two-time world heavyweight wrestling champion.

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Toronto Basement Waterproofing Contractor Finds Collectible Glass Bottles in Century Old Latrine Pits Beside House

Toronto basement waterproofing dig bottlesThe original pictures of a Toronto Basement Waterproofing contractor tell the story - here is a working stiff that has many wonderful antique glass bottles in his enormous collection because he has even more opportunities to dig up treasure than the everyday average man ... Along with the commercial diver and the home inspector - the top job is the downtown urban excavator; his job puts him in the path of buried treasure more often than you can imagine, esp when digging Toronto lakefront property as history buried in the shoreline.

The Toronto Bottle Show is April 21 2013 at Oriole Community Center Arena, 2975 Don Mills Road, Toronto (south of Finch). The best of the best recovered material will be on display at Reinhard's table and you can read more about this adventure filled professional on Wondercafe Digging Bottles in the Basement and the Backyard, and learn more about how basement waterproofing contractors find antiques in Toronto backyards on Dumpdiggers forum.


How I Search To Find Me a Dentist on the Internet
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There has been a lot of contextual response to Dr Natalie Archer blog post on Rosedale Family Dental Care website entitled, Find Me a Dentist which details how people seeking neighbourhood dentists have impacted local search engines. The blog post details six competing directories that delight in finding local dentists. These bleeding edge services are getting more and more effective at delivering useful results.

Fuel Ghoul blog analysis on how Finding A Dentist is a the Heart of Local Search is a good read and was featured on the cover on Local Search magazine on December 8th 2012, right beside Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz discussing local citation opportunities for small businesses.

Smojoe wrote a piece on how to find a nearby dentist is an acid test for local search engines.

Heads Up Dad Blog published a piece this morning lamenting on how friends helped find me a dentist, who was awful!

The Big Media Blast Furnace on Multiply reports on several Local Search for Dental Services is to Find Me A Dentist on The Web

And there a discussion about local dentists in Toronto on the Dumpdiggers discussion forum too,

Freshco Shopping Cart Wheels Lock Up Outside Store Spilling Pop Cans for School For Girls Party
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Yesterday the strangest thing happened while I was shopping at a nearby FreshCo grocery store here in Toronto. As I was leaving the store there were some young people ahead of me pushing a shopping cart loaded with cookies baked goods juice and soda pop. Just as they were going through the front doors of the store, right in the threshold, the wheels on their high tech shopping cart locked up, and it was quite unexpected. They bumped into the cart and I bumped into them.


There was also a low moaning alarm that sounded somewhere inside the store and within thirty seconds or less there were four or five yellow shirted staffers came out to check the situation.  The groceries were bound for a school for girls that was having a celebration that day and so they were in quite a hurry to get thing back and set up. They had all the receipts and were not stealing anything of course,


Convinced the young people were not up to any tricks, they unlocked the wheels using a strange probing device. the alarm grew quiet and they explained to everyone that the cart has a radio frequency tag on its bottom that prevents theft.

School For Girls, Joy Division, Screens Movie Control

The cart blocked the doorway for several minutes and - read about the Joy Division movie Control on Hands and Feet and
other bloggers with better blogs on Control wrote some great stuff.  This piece on Mindsay about a haunted school for girls in England that is surrounded by flowering shrubs. Its only been abandon for about ten years but this is what happens when places like this are left unoccupied. Same goes for historic properties in Toronto, like this post about the Brick St Bakery on Distillery District blog or another similar post about a character named Kit girl on the Lenzr blog.

Read about my fight with a private company that issues expensive fake parking tickets in Toronto on Red Flag Deals and be sure to keep an eye out for this situation should you find yourself in the pickle. I put this picture of a Precise Parklink meter on Zoomers and of course it all links to my Smojoe blog where I give all the details about my issues with their near criminal business model.


Pikto is Tops for Photo Books in Canada and Photography Contest
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The store is hidden away in The Distillery District of Toronto - its a little technological gem hidden away in the middle of this Victorian Age building enclave. The Top Picks Photo Contest on Red Flag Deals is getting a lot of attention
Custom print photo books are a really great way to share your images with friends and collegues - its the most benign way to share travel pictures.  A book nicely encapsulates pictures and text and lets storytellers use the images to take their viewers on a more complicated journey through their own memories and experiences.

The Pikto Top Picks photo contest on Frugal Shopper
There is no entry fee. All particpants may only enter once and the entries are judged by industry experts, commercial photographers and curators
All submission packs must include fifteen images of current work in electronic form. Images should be JPGs and not to exceep 2mb each. Use consistent naming and number all images (e.g. 01Smith.jpg, 02Smith.jpg). Do not use dots or special characters in the file names. One submission per artist. Please ensure that submission is correct before hitting the submit button, editing the submission is not possible. Photos, ratings and comments will appear once uploaded. Submission fee: $0. Submission deadline is November 1, 2012 at 11:59PM.


PHOTO JUDGES
Gina Martin - Photographer Rep, Nat Geographic Collection
Johan Hallberg-Campbell - Curator, Pikto Photography Gallery
Chris Buck - Editorial Photographer / Commercial photographer

2012 Miss Teen Canada Blog Highlights with Zack Werner, and Toronto Dentist, Natural Skin Care
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On Saturday July 21 Megha Sandhu became the 2013 Miss Teen Canada World in front of hundreds of people in a live studio audience and almost one thousand more people watching a live streaming webcast from the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Exhibition Place, Toronto.  For the firs time ever, the Miss Teen Canada - World pageant was available for the entire world to behold..

Hosted by Luke Bilyk of Degrassi with special performances by Canadian Multi-Platinum Artist Karl Wolf


Lauren Howe beside Carter Thompson, digital media pioneer, a photographer, lawyer and agent. Carter is a good guy to know. And he knows everyone. Luke Bilyk from Degrassi  
The media frenzy followed minutes after Megha inherited the crown from Lauren Howe.


5th annual Miss Teen Canada-World Competition occurred on July 21st 2012 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto, Ontario

Miss Teen Canada - World 2012

At approx 11pm, at the end of the show, Lauren Howe of Toronto crowned her successor, Miss Teen Quebec. Finalists from across the country aged 14-19 came together for a night of glamour and excitement.

Megha Sandhu won the crown, and cash and prizes worth over $30,000 .

Degrassi's Luke Bilyk was host.  There was a special performance by Canadian Multi-Platinum Artist, Karl Wolf
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Miss Teen Canada World is unlike any other teen beauty pageant, anywhere in the world. Its quirky and  , Ninety-five per cent of the contestants have never entered a pageant before they joined Miss Teen Canada-World - its part of the pageant's myth that the 2008 winner, Katie Starke,was first scouted as a girl hockey player; she was a tomboy who had never walked in high heels before entering the competition.

Melani Chong the owner of Soya Boutique natural skin care and Zack Werner and Dr Archer, Toronto dentist were judges in the pageant . They were briefed by pageant admin, media producers and engineers before the rest of the audience were allowed inside to take their seats. See here how they listen to the man who designed the voting apparatus as he instructs them how to use the white clickers that you can see they're holding in the right hands. The judges had a ten minute briefing on how to score the finalists in their dances and speeches and cat walking performances. More than that - all of these people were also mentors and donated time to counsel Miss Teens on life in the real world.



The Miss Teen Canada Blog Network is another unusual component of this extravaganza; its a fact that 10% of each delegate’s score is derivative of their blogging skills.



Congratulations Danica Cox Miss Teen Saskatoon for winning the Social Media Queen Award, sponsored by S-Trip.

Read a few words from each of the 2012 Miss Teen Canada World contenders on their regional blogs, Maintaining these portals is worth 10% of their overall score in the pageant and Megha Sandhu profited from her numbers as her Miss Teen Quebec blog is excellent and she delivered a fine performance in the Look Good, Do Good, Feel Good video challenge - see below.

The 2012 Miss Teen Canada Blog Network consists of the following provinces full of pageanteers posting on blogs

Alberta Teens:

Miss Teen Alberta – World

Miss Teen Calgary – World * Most Traffic in 2012

Miss Teen Central Alberta – World nbsp; * Most Photogenic

Miss Teen East Central Alberta – World

Miss Teen Edmonton – World

Miss Teen Okotoks – World

Miss Teen Red Deer – World

Miss Teen South Calgary – World

Miss Teen Southern Alberta – World

Miss Teen St Albert – World

Miss Teen Strathcona County – World

Miss Teen Sturgeon County – World

Miss Teen West Calgary – World

British Columbia Teens:

Miss Teen British Columbia – World

Miss Teen Burnaby – World

Miss Teen Comox Valley – World  * Winner LGDGFG Challenge

Miss Teen Coquitlam – World

Miss Teen New Westminster -World

Miss Teen Northern British Columbia – World

Miss Teen Okanagan – World

Miss Teen Prince George – World

Miss Teen Richmond – World

Miss Teen Southern BC – World

Miss Teen Southwestern BC – World

Miss Teen Vancouver – World

Miss Teen Victoria – World

East Coast Teens:

Miss Northern Avalon – World

Miss Southern Avalon -World

Miss Teen Nova Scotia – World

Manitoba Teens:

Miss Teen Manitoba – World

Miss Teen Central Manitoba – World

Miss Teen Southern Manitoba – World

Miss Teen Winnipeg – World

Northern Ontario Teens:

Miss Teen North Ontario – World

Miss Teen Kapuskasing – World

Miss Teen Kirkland Lake – World

Miss Teen Thunder Bay – World

Miss Teen Sudbury – World

Ontario Teens:

Miss Teen Ontario – World nbsp;  * Runner Up  2012 Peoples Choice Award

Miss Teen Barrie – World

Miss Teen Brampton – World

Miss Teen Durham Region- World

Miss Teen Eastern Ontario – World

Miss Teen GTA -World

Miss Teen King Township – World

Miss Teen Markham – World

Miss Teen Ottawa – World

Miss Teen Peterborough County – World

Miss Teen SD & G Counties – World

Miss Teen Simcoe County – World

Miss Teen Southern Ontario – World

Miss Teen South Western Ontario – World

Miss Teen York Region

Quebec Teens:

Miss Teen Quebec -World  * 2012 Miss Teen Canada - World, Megha Sandhu

Miss Teen Montreal World

Miss Teen Trois-Rivières – World

Saskatchewan Teens:

Miss Teen Saskatchewan -World

Miss Teen Central Saskatchewan – World

Miss Teen Central East Saskatchewan – World

Miss Teen Eastern Saskatchewan -World

Miss Teen North Central Saskatchewan – World

Miss Teen North East Saskatchewan – World

Miss Teen Saskatoon – World  *Best Blogger, Danica Cox

Miss Teen Southern Saskatchewan -World

Miss Teen South Central Saskatchewan -World

Miss Teen South Western Saskatchewan – World

Miss Teen Western Saskatchewan – World

Maintaining the regional MIss Teen Blogs are worth 10% of the final score

Canada's own Aveda Institute helped add some excitement to the event in Toronto - earlier in the year this world class hair school sponsored the Look Good Do Good Feel Good Video Challenge which celebrates courage and imagination typical of the first and best place to start a career as a hair stylist.

2012 Look Good, Do Good, Feel Good, Video Collaboration

You can see all of the individual contributions here,
http://www.missteencanadablognetwork.com/video/

Rob Campbell with Katrina Haden - it was a terrific show and there was lots of good energy in the room.
Miss Teen Cabada World Blog judge Rob Campbell with Mentor Night Speaker Katrina Hadden

Toronto G20 Summit Police Chief Bill Blair Must Resign, Adam Vaughan on Ottawa, Burning Police Car
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Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair Will Not Resign Over G20 Police ActionsIn Canada, Our Big City Police Chiefs Should Be Elected
The G20 Summit in Toronto was almost two years ago and people are still hopping mad. But Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair will not resign. He will hold his police officers accountable, but will accept none of the consequences himself. He will not even apologize. His continued presence leading this police force robs it of the public confidence. How do we get rid of him? Read Rosie DiManno's piece in The Star, Why Wont Chief Bill Blair Say Sorry?

Toronto Counselor Adam Vaughan,,an outspoken critic of the Harper Government's G20 Toronto debacle, gave a really good account of himself and more insight into the politics behind the planning of the Summit when he was interviewed on CTV news yesterday.  Watch this CTV News interview May 17th 2012 in which Vaughan comments on the G20 report and police arrests. His clip is second in that May 17th stream

Toronto City Counsellor Adam VaughanAdam Vaughan hints that front line cops are perhaps the latest victims of the disastrous planning now shielded by politics. Ottawa's part in this debacle will never be truly known without a full public inquiry, which is just how Stephen Harper likes it.  Adam Vaughan's talk left me hopeful there will be some 'accountability' in this matter, at least at the municipal level. It's significant that Adam Vaughan is himself a past member of the Toronto Police Services Board, and it was his downtown riding that was the site of many of the protests. The banks, Money Mart cheque cashing stores, gold buyers, furriers and high-end fashion chain stores, GAP and other clothing outlets were the prime targets of the angry mob. No compensation has ever been paid to these retailers who lost so much money in both property damage and lost business. The government had months to plan for this Summit, but instead they built gazebos in Muskoka Lakes and erected a fence around the downtown core. Instead of sensitivity training, security forces were indoctrinated in Harper's autocratic politics which are decidedly  anti-protest. 

It was a widespread violation of Canadian civil rights.  People were stopped and searched on ferries and LRT trains coming into the city. In one case a young lady was detained and material was confiscated on a VIA Rail trains at Union Station, others were maligned coming into the Province in Niagara Falls and in Ottawa / Hull. Lots and lots of good people were arrested and their civil liberties were completely removed for 48 hrs.  Over 1100 people were arrested and not charged. It was the largest mass arrest in the history of Canada, and there will never be a full public inquiry into the ordeal because the Harper government is almost entirely responsible.

If you watch the clip above, you'll see Adam Vaughan says all of the same things that I have been saying for years. He's been saying them too perhaps. Beyond the standard rhetoric of, 'those who erred need to be held accountable' which is a polite way of saying that Chief Bill Blair should resign, he says that a full public inquiry into the ordeal will reveal a lot more about the gazebos in Tony Clement's Muskoka Lakes political riding than Stephen Harper's Conservatives would be comfortable with... Its a fact, the costs of the 2010 Toronto G20 Summit exceeded one billion dollars.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20100526/summit-costs-100526/

police car set ablaze for tv news cameras -  how Toronto cops justify abuse and overspending

"I think the police chief, the police service board, myself included, all played a roll in this," Vaughan said. "I think we need to have public accounting and, where necessary, be brought before courts of justice, or disciplinary action, where we failed to protect the public and the city." Adam Vaughan also said there will be more reports to come on the file as the Toronto Police Services Board works on its own report on actions at the G20.

The Police Car was Abandon, Like Others Before it, in Hopes it would Be Vandalized on Camera

Without a Royal Inquiry we will never know the truth to the allegations that senior security forces administrators ordered that at least three different Toronto Police squad cars be left unwatched in angry crowd situations. They wanted them to get damaged because they had to justify a billion dollar budget and some well documented acts of brutality that were currently playing on the news channels. Sacrificing one or two squad cars to local idiots was an absolutely brilliant way to collect PR footage of 'radical elements rioting in Toronto' and make the visuals that are now so iconic and key to the defense of forty eight Toronto police officers now charged with offenses under the Police Act.
Defence lawyer Gary ClewleyThe burning police car was a PR stunt from start to finish. It was planned and executed earlier on other streets that day, but didn't find the right combination of hooligans, accelerants and news cameras until Sunday afternoon

Of course Toronto defense lawyer Gary Clewley references that burning cop car when he says police actions must be taken in context with the events of the day. This is the first line of defense for police and was created as such. Gary is perpetuating the notion that there was a riot in Toronto and things were really out of control. Its not true. But his statements find a ready audience in all of those people who watch the news and yet don't really understand the news (and how TV news is made).  Without a full public inquiry into the maelstrom there is no reliable accounting for the senior most administrators - the ones who did the most wrong(s).
These first eight police officers will likely be the worst offenders and the hardest punished.  This list was in the newspaper very shortly after the report was published and to me that evidences that these charges had been looming for some time and these officers are the first to be sacrificed for the good of the force. These really Bad Lieutenants for Sacrificing include,
  • Const. Blair Begbie,
  • Const. Alan Li,
  • Const. Jason Crawford,
  • Const. Michael Martinez,
  • Const. Vincent Wong,
  • Const. Micahle Kirpoff,
  • Const. Ryan Simpson,
  • Const. Donald Stratton
But are these tough cops also just more victims of the Harper Government dirty closed-door politics? And lets remember too that nobody is going to lose their jobs over this; even Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair will not resign.

Who Runs Toronto? A Marathon Business in March 2012
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51 Division, Toronto Police read the protest signs left out front of the station on Sunday March 18th 2012 Protest sign placed in front of 51 Division Toronto Police station on Sunday March 18th 2012 At approximately noon on Sunday March 18th 2012 out front of Toronto Police 51 Division I happened to spot three uniformed Toronto Police officers reading and reacting to printed paper on chipboard signs that had been propped up to face the station and the public eyes in front of their Parliament St location - the large billboards had been left on poles on the sidewalk. I was real curious about this ? what an absolutely primitive form of protest... its lazy .. and indeed, almost cowardly.. But was it effective?

I posted a question about Who Left the Protest Signs outside 51 Division Toronto Police on Urban Toronto discussion forum and blogged about Silent Protest Outside Parliament St Police Station on Arob12 Canada Blog but have still not received any satisfactory explanation of what this was exactly...  On Twitter I got nothing, and when i posted pics on Twitpic and asked who orchestrated this printed protest? there was no answer.  How many police stations were affected? Did it get any attention? I have been studying leadership and the science of communication at a premium business management consulting firm and have reason to believe these resources were mostly wasted - mostly wasted in such a passionate yet futile attempt at change.

This old school form of protest exemplifies the emotions that are present just under the surface here in the city as people feel put upon by the police force and yet cannot protest in any meaningful way except to cry out for change in the same manner as their ancestors, so many years ago ..  Seriously this printed broadsheet reminds me of stories from the American Revolution.

Test Your Survival Skills on 8th September 2012 Urban Warrior Toronto run

The annual Urban Warrior Toronto run is set for 8th Sept 2012. This is kind of like a half marathon with serious obstacles in the way , but of course that's the fun part!

Toronto, half marathon, urban fitness, competition, run

I met Joshua Turnbridge and Cathy Muffolini in mid March 2012 and we got along pretty well right from the start. It all happened because Josh did some research on the internet and discovered my content somehow and came through several portals to knock at my door.. It came as no surprise to him that this is the best way to convert surfers into shopper and followers into friends and fanatics even, depending on your merchandise

Josh Turnbull, Rob Campbell, Cathy Muffolini, Urban Warrior, obstacle course, fitness event, competition race in Toronto
These good folks are part of the organization that's managing and promoting this year's annual Urban Warrior Toronto run , which is a unique extreme fitness competition that will take place on Saturday, September 8th, 2012

Urban Warrior could perhaps be considered an extreme sporting event - its focused on challenging individuals of all fitness levels to perform in stressful but uniquely 'storyfull' conditions

More on this later

My Stay At Home Haircut from Rachelle Whitewind
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Two nights ago I hosted the Jib.ca/Lenzr.com Search and Social Rank Symposium at Archeo in the Distillery District. The focus of the evening was to share some of the latest ideas from leaders in the SEO and online marketing industries; it was a success--there was a big turnout, great information was shared, and, due to popular demand, we're planning another one for April. 

Let me make something clear: I spend a lot of time in the Distillery District. Not only are many of my blogging projects centered on this historic Toronto neighbourhood, my office and home apartment are located here too, one elevator ride, about 40 paces and then eight flights of stairs away. Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway) there is a constant overlap of work and recreation, and when work is so close to home it can become difficult to shrug it off and do something for myself.
Rachelle White Wind at Work
So when a friend who lives in the building told me his hair stylist was making a house call that morning and asked if I wanted in I was thrilled--the full head of hair I wear was in need of a cleanup--and the timing couldn't have been better with my presentation fast approaching that same evening.

The Finished Product, a hair cut by RachelleHis stylist, Rachelle White Wind, arrived at 11 A.M. sharp with her supplies and a smile. Rachelle is an Ojibwe/Cree woman from Winnipeg who runs her own mobile salon for hair styling, makeup and brazilian blowouts in Toronto. She's an expert stylist/cosmetologist who is regularly in demand for CBC television and other high-profile gigs, and she's also a working actor and model (see her next in the upcoming TV pilot for Mohawk Girls) and a great conversationalist. Rachelle's styling career in Toronto has met with great success since her days in Winnipeg hair school, but her mobile salon prices are very competitive, starting at $20 for men's cuts, $40 for women's, and anywhere from $150-$250 for the Brazilian Blowout (the best price in the city!) She consults for Vancouver hair school too - Aveda Institutes are all across Canada now.

I asked Rachelle what her most unusual hair styling appointment was like, and she responded with information I'd never heard before. She said that in her aboriginal community in Winnipeg, people who have just lost a loved one often decide to shave their heads while in mourning to symbolize a rebirth. Doing this early on and throughout her career has helped shape Rachelle into the compassionate, concerned and attentive stylist she is today. Long story short: Rachelle is a high-end stylist who will come to you at your convenience for a great price.

Aveda Institute Canada is running a hair school scholarship video contest for which five lucky and talented winners will receive a full tuition to one of five Canadian schools: Aveda Institutes Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria and Winnipeg! Submit a two-minute video that explains why you were Born to Style and you could be on your way to a glam career.


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