Shawn Micallef

Thorncliffe Park in the dark

October 16, 2013 | Shawn Micallef | Comments (0)

We had a fine warm night for last week's walk in Thorncliffe Park. Night walks are great to see another side of the city and walking in a group gives people who might not be completely comfortable walking at night some liberty. There is  another tonight (Oct 16) around The Peanut begining at the Fairview […]

Walking the City: The many faces of Alderwood

October 9, 2013 | Shawn Micallef | Comments (1)

On Saturday we walked Alderwood, one of the walks we're doing this fall as part of the Writer in Residency, designed to get people thinking, talking, and hopefully, writing about their city. I had only a rough route in mind and hoped people would contribute their thoughts along the way. They did. Here at our […]

We want you walking, talking, and writing Toronto this fall

October 2, 2013 | Shawn Micallef | Comments (0)

Sometime it seems like not much is written about Toronto, that it doesn't exist in print and in our imaginations the way, say, New York does for New Yorkers or London does for Londoners. The opposite is true though, there's been an incredible amount of writing done about this city, both in fiction and non-fiction. […]