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Monday, May 14, 2012
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Spice City Toronto: True Canadian Food
Spice City Toronto: True Canadian Food
Published on Torontoist | shared via feedly
A new east-end café makes First Nations comfort food for an aboriginal clientele.
Toronto is chock full of restaurants that serve food from all around the world, but have you sampled Canada's own traditional recipes? A brand new east-side restaurant, Tea-N-Bannock, offers up meals that are popular in Canadian aboriginal communities. Unlike the aboriginal-French hybrid restaurant Keriwa Cafe in Parkdale, or the trendy Oliver & Bonacini's Bannock, this food is intended primarily for aboriginal customers seeking a taste of home.
Tea-N-Bannock opened just three weeks ago at 1294 Gerrard Street East, only a few blocks west of Little India. Stepping in from the street, it feels like you've walked into a tranquil oasis—the room is decorated with birch tree branches and snowshoes, and a recording of birds cooing plays in the background.
The menu, posted on a stretched-out animal hide, consists of classic staples of aboriginal communities. Health food it ain't, but it'll keep you going if you're trekking around in the bush. "You can't get any more Canadian than this," explains staffer Timothy Peltier, an aboriginal from Manitoulin Island.
Read the rest at Spice City Toronto.
Spice City Toronto explores Toronto's great hole-in-the-wall restaurants and strip-mall joints serving food from all corners of the world.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Canadian Police Force Pimps Their Rides with BlackBerry PlayBooks
Canadian Police Force Pimps Their Rides with BlackBerry PlayBooks
Published on Techvibes Toronto Blog | shared via feedly
A Canadian police force is outfitting cop cars with Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBooks.
Mobile Innovations is the company behind the integration, which will see Canadian police use RIM tablets from their vehicle dashboard to control their car's lights and sirens, as well as receive traffic alerts and access GPS maps, plus be alerted of 911 emergencies.
The technology is currently being tested in the Ontario region of Chatham-Kent, according to Pocket-lint. Canadian police already use BlackBerry smartphones, which makes implementing PlayBooks a natural evolution.
The PlayBooks in the police vehicles will be attached to docks, making them removable. The tablets will also be accessorized with a physical keyboard and a printer.
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