Grounded in Ajax|Deep in the Community|Our Busy Side of Toronto

I was squatting on the curb outside the shop in Mount Pleasant, hands numb from the drizzle, watching a man with a headlamp trace the outline of my friend's bum…

I was squinting at a tiny hologram on a bottle of ceramic coating in the back of a crowded shop on Main Street, my jacket still damp from the rain, when my frie…

I was squinting through the rain-speckled windshield at 9:07 a.m., parked in a narrow lane off Cambie, watching a guy with a microfiber in one hand and a cigare…

I was hunched over the hood with my coat still on, watching rain puddle off a fresh test drop of water, when my friend Dan called me from the sidewalk. "Are you…

I was hunched over the passenger seat at 7:12 a.m., rain still spitting off the windshield wipers, scrolling through three different calendars and a thread of t…

I was hunched over the steering wheel at 3:17 pm, idling on Granville and watching rain streak the windshield like someone had dragged a paintbrush down it. My …

I was kneeling on cold concrete at 9:12 a.m., hood up, phone flashlight doing the best it could against the shop's yellow fluorescents, while a guy from the sho…

I was crouched in the rain, phone glowing, scrolling through a folder named "car-shop-may-2026" at 8:17 p.m., while my friend Liam held an umbrella over both of…