W. Ryan Dodge spends his days as the Royal Ontario Museum’s Digital Engagement Coordinator focused on digital content creation, campaign and community management, as well as building digital capacity within the institution. Experienced in building content and digital strategies that have value for communities, Ryan is particularly interested in how best to connect the physical and digital and provide visitors onsite and online with the best possible experience.
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Street Art: #ButterflyWay
#ButterflyWay is located in Garrison Park, Toronto.
Local street artists and the neighbourhood recently came together to beautify a laneway that faces Garrison Park.
Here are my photos: https://goo.gl/photos/EwBpUeWeryuNhvF89
Episode #84: Stacey May Fowles
Stacey May Fowles is a Toronto-based award-winning writer. Her recent book, Baseball Life Advice, is a collection of essays that looks at everything from bat flips to the politics of booing and everything in between. Fowles currently writes about books for The Globe and Mail, baseball for Jays Nation and The Athletic, and is author of the popular weekly Baseball Life Advice e-newsletter.
Music by Afraaz Mulji.
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Episode #83: Mariah Owen
Mariah Owen is a Toronto-based actor, writer and producer. She is also an accomplished athlete, becoming a world champion with Team Canada Cheerleading as well as doing both Alpine Ski Racing and Synchronized swimming at the provincial level.
Recorded live at Girth Radio.
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Episode #82: Jim Lang
Jim Lang is the morning man at 105.9FM The Region and co-writer of Bleeding Blue with Wendel Clark and Shift Work with Tie Domi.
Recorded live at Girth Radio.
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Episode #81: Mark Evans
Mark Evans is a consultant helping fast growing companies grow faster. In this episode we talked about startups, technology, journalism and urban planning.
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Canadian Baseball Hall Of Fame and Museum
Earlier this spring we took a day trip to St. Marys, Ontario for a mini baseball tournament on the fields of Canada’s Baseball Hall of Fame. I had never been to the CBHOF. I was amazed at how small the actual Hall is.
The Hall (and Museum) is located in a former home on a parcel of land donated to the Hall by the St. Marys Cement Company.

While the home may be small, there is so much on display on the main floor and even more stored away on the second floor.
I remember watching this game in my parents living room. George Bell was, and always has been, my favourite baseball player.
Toronto once tried to acquire the Giants baseball team. They even had stationary made!
The Terminator!
Yes, the Babe played in Canada before his MLB career began.
Street Art: Underpass Park – Toronto
If you live in Toronto you know by now that Underpass Park was created in 2012 under a highway overpass at Eastern Avenue just west of the Don Valley Parkway. The park features basketball nets, a playground, and a skateboard park.
There is also a massive graffiti installation that will stop you in your tracks. If you’re not in a hurry.
Episode #80: Creatortown with Mariah Owen
Conversation with the hosts of the IWCC (Independent Web Creators of Canada) podcast, Creatortown, Dan Speerin and Vince Kesavamoorthy. Also joining us is world champion cheerleader and Toronto-based actor, producer and writer Mariah Owen.
Recorded live at Girth Radio.
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Toronto’s only cemetery in shopping mall parking lot
My childhood mall, Bridlewood Mall in Scarborough, has a cemetery in the parking lot. #Toronto #YYZ #Scarborough pic.twitter.com/aHaoCuWm93
— karim kanji (@karimkanji) May 2, 2017
Yes, it’s true. And it’s in Scarborough inside the parking lot of Bridlewood Mall.
I was reminded of these recentphotos I took after I read this weekend’s Toronto Star article on Toronto’s disappearing malls. Bridlewood (the mall of my childhood from Grade 6 until I got married) and Parkway Mall (my current neighbourhood mall) both seem to be thriving/surviving.
The cemetery outside Bridlewood Mall in the parking lot is unique. Captain Obvious.
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