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Riverstoryz

Chris Higgins

Exploring the undercurrents of Toronto’s history - where place, fact and story flow together.

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A video companion to the Mitch Chuvalo Podcast

Last week, I had a conversation with Mitch Chuvalo about places in the west end of Toronto. This is a short video showing some of the places we talked about - including the Junction, Western Tech, Harwood and Humberside Collegiate.

Thanks...

7 days ago
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Podcast: A Conversation with Mitch Chuvalo

It was supposed to be a podcast about places in west end Toronto, but it morphed into meditations on big-picture stuff. In my intro, I explain how we first met at our barber in the Junction. (Not to get sidetracked here, but that character...

14 days ago
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The Life of a Piano

On an unspecified date in 1913, there was a kind of birth. It wasn’t a human baby, so maybe that is being overly dramatic and even a little deceptive. But if life means something that comes into the world, connects with and moves others, an...

a month ago
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Two Fatal Shots and a Lapse of Memory

It is amazing that such a horrible thing could be forgotten only a short walk from where it happened.

Of course, we can be forgiven. The killer and the victim lie deep under the soil. Even without the murder, they would have been long dead...

a month ago
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The classroom is not the only place to learn

Chris Higgins giving a tour of Swansea Public School where he taught for 17 of his 29 years teaching in Toronto schools. May 6, 2026. Picture by Lance Gleich.

In my career as a Toronto teacher, there’s one thing you could practically set y...

a month ago
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