Drew Danielson

Music. Food. Drink. ...life.

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

@Judi_tee @integrity_to @rationalposts @LCBO Once upon a time, you used to have to fill out a slip of paper with your booze request and take it to a window, just like Consumers Distributing. I may have just double-aged myself with this response.

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

This stuff infuriates me. What's the security guard's purpose? What a waste of payroll.

[IntegrityTO @integrity_to]

Yet another brazen daylight robbery of the publicly-owned @lcbo yesterday at Bloor & Royal York. A concerned customer asks the security guard to step in, but she lacks the will or skill to stop the theft - and scurries away. Even the demoralized employee is surprised at the volume of merchandise stolen, suggesting this is more than the typical theft she sees on a daily basis.

The thieves nicked at least 5 bottles of Remy Martin VSOP with a sticker price of $103 each, and several bottles of Macallan 12-year valued at $144 a pop. Yet the most incredible part is these two robbed the same store less than 24 hours earlier.

Of course, emboldened criminals know they can escalate the scale of their theft in an environment free of consequences.

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

@francesafetytra I've been 9 times. An exceptional city.

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

"Nothing but a bunch of Fordsters. Fraudsters, I mean. Fraudsters, yes, that's it."

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

But what if your government was supporting the fraud?

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

And 6 months later… still happening.

[CaptainCanada🇨🇦 @CaptCanada_Eh]

🇨🇦 ON THIS DAY IN CANADIAN HISTORY 🇨🇦

🚂 OCTOBER 27, 1856 — MONTREAL AND TORONTO CONNECTED BY RAIL!

170 YEARS AGO TODAY!

On this day in 1856, the Grand Trunk Railway began regular passenger service between Montréal and Toronto, marking a major milestone in Canadian transportation history.

For the first time, travellers could journey between the two cities entirely by train, completing the trip in approximately 14 hours. Before the railway, travelling overland by stagecoach could take as long as five days!

Two passenger trains departed that historic morning, one from Montréal and the other from Toronto, travelling in opposite directions. They met near Kingston, where a brief ceremony marked the occasion before both continued toward their destinations.

The Grand Trunk Railway had been incorporated in 1852, and its ambitious construction program helped connect communities, move goods, deliver mail and transform commerce throughout the Province of Canada, more than a decade before Confederation.

The railway would eventually become one of North America’s great transportation networks, with its legacy forming part of today’s Canadian National Railway system.

What once took days could now be accomplished in less than one.

A remarkable leap forward in connecting a growing country! 🚂🇨🇦

📸 Historical photograph: Grand Trunk Railway locomotive Trevithick, 1859, photographed three years after the Montréal–Toronto connection opened.

#CanadianHistory #GrandTrunkRailway #Canada

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

@CaptCanada_Eh Memory lane! Kind of Pac-Man vibes but before Pac-Man!

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

@PrabSarkaria A clear mandate? From whom?

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

@francesafetytra Jean Paul Gaultier, somewhere near the Picasso museum.

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

@francesafetytra It is stunning. And what a treat for that woman to experience this hall on her own! Never will you ever get a picture like this without a crowd.

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

@def_leppar20044 Violator is a '90s album. And released May '89, so is Disintegration in my book.

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

@CaptCanada_Eh Never met a Hostess chip flavour I didn't like. ...Though I wasn't crazy about the cherry, grape, and orange ones that were out for about ten minutes sometime in the '70s.

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

@jhoburgh Released in May of '89, I don't consider Disintegration an '80s album. U2 is the most '80s album here, IMO.

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

@arthound87 Absolutely love both of these piggy songs, but Pigsty will always win.

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

@Albumism @BlondieOfficial My very first record!

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

@end3of6days9 Murray.

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

@alisonmoyetnews I bought this album the day of its release and instant love. Interesting to hear thoughts on A Guy Like You (my least fave track on here--it doesn't belong), but my fave is Smaller. That emotive vocal crack at 3:03 gets me every time.

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

I met Bob Mackie once at Eaton’s in the ‘90s. He was truly very nice. Rest in peace.

[Drew Danielson @DrewDanielson]

@TheVikingDane It was a most-deserved ratio.