Walkies!

I'm a member of dozens of groups at meetup.com .  Of course, the number whose events I attend is quite a bit smaller.  I used to go to board game events a lot, but not so much lately.  One type of event I often go to is walks. (Walking is my main exercise.)

Today I went on a walk of haunted Toronto sites sponsored by Newcomers Explore and Appreciate Toronto, connected to Culturelink, an organization that helps accustomize immigrants to this city.  The walk went from the Keg building near Jarvis and Wellesley to the Old City Hall (now a courthouse) on Queen Street, and was about haunted sites.

They had a few immigrants talking about the different places we were passing to improve their spoken English, but despite the bullhorn their voices were a bit too quiet for me to follow. (If I felt that way, how did the other immigrants who speak English as a second language?)

Along the way we passed by a group protesting the private member's bill to ban abortion.  And at the end of the walk I noticed a group of Syrian-Canadians protesting the Assad regime.  One of them told me that Hafez Assad had managed to turn the country's various cities and tribes against each other, but his son Bashir has managed to unite all of Syria against his regime.

On the way home, I passed by the Zombie Walk, which was bigger than I'd have expected.  One guy was dressed as an undead pope!