It’s that time of year again! The JETAA Fighting Carps Dragon Boat Team is recruiting new paddlers for the 2016 season. Our season starts mid-June. We hold weekly evening practices at Sunnyside Paddling Club in Toronto (near High Park). The season continues with a mid-season regatta and then culminates with an amazing weekend of racing in early September.
Brace yourselves, matcha lovers. Tsujiri, the popular Japanese tea brand from Kyoto, has landed in Toronto, and finally has an answer to all of your green tea-filled dreams.
Located just steps away from Yonge & Dundas Square, the new Toronto location is the first outside of Asia for the nearly 156-year-old brand, and marks the beginning of a large-scale global expansion into markets including the U.S., the U.K., and Australia.
It was a balmy mid-April afternoon up in Koreatown by Christie Station. With a healthy dose of spring both in the air and in our collective step, a group of JETAA Toronto members and guests scaled up a good time at this year’s annual rock climbing event.
On Wednesday March 9th, approximately 100 people showed up at Toronto’s Revue Cinema to see the Canadian premiere of Tohoku Tomo; a documentary about the volunteers who came to Japan’s aid after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated the prefectures of Miyagi, Fukushima, and Iwate on March 11, 2011.