Backyard Birder’s igital presence helps it take flight

For most of Monique Paajanen’s life, the birds dancing on tree branches and swirling overhead were a mild curiosity. Sure, Paajanen and her sister, Danielle Audrey, had grown up feeding them from time to time and their father built birdhouses and feeders as a hobby. But the true spark of ...

Art Rocks & Healing Yoga Café embraces new forms 

Entrepreneurship can be business acumen and strategy and audacity and instincts and whatever words will contain the uncontainable but more than that it is endurance – it’s your ability to capture and keep pace with your vision while the world changes around you. Audrey O’Marra’s Art Rocks & Healing Yoga Café in ...

Lamesa Filipino Kitchen translates community sensibilities to the digital environment

The hype was fun and Les Sabilano lived in it for a while. Eight years ago, as the world seemed to be discovering Toronto’s restaurant scene, the restaurateur and co-owner of Lamesa Filipino Kitchen was introducing the city to the staples of Filipino cuisine, an elevated riff on the takeout ...