Mauricio Alas

Tag: Toronto

  • Newsbriefs Part V: Hudson Bay Company to Rewrite Own History

    Founded in 1670, back when Canada was pronounced ‘Kanata,’ the beaver was the King of the predators and the British and French mocked each other with slurs like: “Aha, you have a funny accent!’ A small HBC rose to become what it has been for more than three centuries: a Canadian beacon, a symbol of […]

  • Newsbriefs: Part IV

    Rogers Expands Rogers on Demand TORONTO- Rogers Communications ever-growing lust to build an imperious monopoly over Canadians announced today details about their upcoming second-generation Rogers On Demand service. ‘It funny how it came to us,’ said an unapologetic Ted Rogers, ‘(The board and) I sat in my arboretum, just beneath my own small ten foot […]

  • A Bruck-Zen Moment II

    Stage: College subway station about a block from my place, catching up with a friend while she waited for a Streetcar. I had not seen in her for a few months but I had just given her my still valid TTC day pass. ‘…And that’s what the note said in the book I went to […]

  • A Bruck-Zen Moment I

    Stage: Octopus Lounge ‘So, you an owner?’ ‘Yes, and I hate people too.’ Curiously, that was the last thing I thought an owner of a busy little Italy Lounge would say. But we live and learn. Later, I would learn that he was the brother of one of the 3 owners of that establishment.