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Notes from a psychogeographical Thursday night in Toronto — quicksand included

The following is an account by Nadia Halim of a recent psychogeographic wander-through-Toronto. It was a short walk of about two hours but as you'll see, a lot can be packed into a Toronto walk (see route here). It's also not complicated. You can do this by yourself or get a friend or two or eight and go for a walk with no destination. Above photo by Jamie Bradburn who, coincidentally, is up for a Heritage Toronto Award tonight for his Historicist pieces over on the Torontoist (see his other photos from the walk here). We met at Bloor and St. George. Though we used to walk most Thursdays, I hadn't walked in ages, and it was good to see some of the old crowd again. It was a clear, mild early-autumn night, and with TIFF on and university students flooding back into town, the city seemed wide awake and lively. Where would we go? What would we see? A police car flipped its siren on and raced along Bloor towards Yorkville, as we watched. So we decided that was a good direction in which to set out.

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