Alex Kinsella

What to read. Michael Litt from Vidyard writes about how being married to a novelist makes him a better leader. GM Canada launched their Maven car sharing service in downtown this week. StyleFrugal in downtown is closing. There's a whiskey bar and a BBQ joint opening in uptown.

What to read. The City of Kitchener plans to spend $900K sprucing up ‘tired’ section of Queen Street - which is awesome as it's the primary way to get from the future LRT stop on Duke into downtown. Our Lady Peace's Raine Maida stopped by Communitech

What to read. Through a random series of connections, I found myself at Jimmy's Lunch with the seemingly everywhere at once Dave Inglis and Emily Squirrell, owner of The Present mediation studio in uptown Waterloo. We had a awesome conversation about meditation over some damn good eggs. If

What to read. Andrew Coppolino takes you around the culinary delights of Belmont Village on the Explore Waterloo Region. As the underpass construction gets closer to finishing, big changes are planned for King Street West with condos, apartments, retail and offices. Apart from rigorous research, experimentation, and verification, the process

Eating and drinking and working. If you've got a few minutes, the City of Kitchener is looking for input on what types events you want to see around town. I tried voting for a winter TacoFest, but there wasn't a write-in field. DineSpecial is a new

Eating and drinking and working. If you enjoy this newsletter, but wished it was on Twitter, then you need to check out #WRTalk on Twitter every Wednesday 7:30 to 8:30pm. I also just found out about In The Loop KW. It's a great place to find

Eating and drinking and working. We're just under two months away from some major changes to garbage collection. On March 6, the Region will be moving to collection every second week and we'll be limited to four bags per house. Recycling and compost will still be

Eating and drinking and working. Happy New Year and welcome to 2017! This year is already shaping up to be full of great music, art, and food here in Waterloo. There will also be events all year long celebrating Canada's 150th birthday. As a new-ish Canadian myself, I&

Eating and drinking and working. As 2016 comes to a merciful end, I want to use this part of TL;WR to thank all of you for reading, sharing and sending over events. This started as an experiment and turned into something that I look forward to sharing each week.

Eating and drinking and working. I'm going to talk about sidewalk snow removal. Before I do that, I want to say that I have nothing but love for all the city snow removal team members across Kitchener and Waterloo. I can't imagine all the fists shaking