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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 9h

Clemson and Miami play today at Death Valley. Been looking forward to this one since the schedule dropped. 🏈

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 12h

Canada and Peru kick off in Montreal in an hour, 2pm at Stade Saputo. Second Homecoming friendly of the fall. ⚽

Packed stadium of soccer fans under bright lights

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 17h

Nuit Blanche turns 20 tonight. Free public art all over the city from 7pm to 7am, this year's theme is 'Tomorrow's Memories.' Wear good shoes. 🎨

Illuminated public art installation reflecting on water at night

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 03/10/2026

Friday night, and every patio in this city is suddenly aware it's on borrowed time. 🍁

Cozy coffee shop exterior with outdoor patio seating

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 30/09/2026

#BookSky: current read is Lucky by Marissa Stapley. No verdict yet, still early days. 📚

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 29/09/2026

The maples around the city have started turning already. Always a good marker that fall is properly here. 🍁

Golden maple leaves on a tree branch in autumn

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 29/09/2026

Angine de Poitrine's UK and European run kicks off next month. An Alien duo selling out rooms never stops being funny to me. 🎸

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 28/09/2026

The shift to sweater weather always seems to happen overnight in this city, one day shorts, the next everyone's in a scarf. 🍂

People walking down a narrow city street in autumn

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 27/09/2026

Seahawks kick off at Washington in ten minutes, 1pm ET. Early one for the west coast, normal Sunday for the rest of us. 🏈

An American football stadium with fans in the stands

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 27/09/2026

#BookSky: deep into Lucky by Marissa Stapley now that Lost Lambs is checked off the list. Nightstand's already restless for what's next. 📚

A stack of books arranged on a shelf in a cozy corner

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 26/09/2026

Clemson at Cal tonight, 10:30pm ET, the first-ever West Coast conference game in school history. Late one for us East Coast fans. 🏈

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 24/09/2026

One more sleep until the Blue Jays' final homestand: three games against Cincinnati, Friday through Sunday, and then that's the season. ⚾ Thank goodness it's almost over.

A baseball stadium filled with fans at night

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 24/09/2026

Campbell's shifted nearly all its ad budget to social and influencers, and sales are still down 8%. New post on what that money's actually buying. 📊 buff.ly/32TVffx

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 22/09/2026

Single tickets for the National Ballet's 2026/27 season go on sale today. It's the 75th anniversary year, opening with Cranko's Romeo and Juliet on October 31. Calendar accordingly. 🩰 buff.ly/1Q6AFW4

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 22/09/2026

Fall concert season is my favourite kind of overwhelming: six things you want to see, one Tuesday. The Warning sit at the top of my want-to-see list, and that Everything's Falling record has not left my rotation this fall. 🎶

Silhouettes of a concert crowd in front of a brightly lit stage

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 21/09/2026

What's the art form you keep meaning to see and never quite book? Ballet, opera, a play above a bar. Naming it out loud helps. 🩰

A dancer sitting down to tie the ribbons on a pair of ballet pointe shoes

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 20/09/2026

Seahawks in Arizona this afternoon, 4:25 Eastern. Week two, still early enough in the season that everyone's theories are fully intact. 🏈

A packed football stadium seen from the stands on game day

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 19/09/2026

Next Saturday at Massey Hall, The Tragically Hip, Feist, Loverboy and Roch Voisine go into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. City and Colour, Our Lady Peace, FINNEAS and Jeff Tweedy are performing. It's streaming, so no excuses. 🎸 www.cshf.ca

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 19/09/2026

The Ukrainian Festival parade steps off at 11 sharp this morning on Bloor West. Then it's blocks of food stalls, borscht included. 🇺🇦 buff.ly/ToEnGD2

A crowded outdoor market street lined with food stalls and shoppers

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 18/09/2026

New on the blog: the ad industry built its own fraud referee in 1914. We're doing it again, with better graphics. buff.ly/11Yj1RP

Businesswoman in a pink blazer leaning over an open book and laptop while holding a magnifying glass to inspect documents and floating charts, conveying research and data analysis.

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 18/09/2026

The Toronto Ukrainian Festival opens today in Bloor West Village and runs through Sunday. 30th year, and North America's largest Ukrainian street festival. Jane or Runnymede station drops you right at the edge of it. 🇺🇦

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 18/09/2026

Metricool's 2026 social study is out: 39 million posts, a million-plus accounts. I check my instincts against that instead of vibes. 📊

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 17/09/2026

Currently reading "Lost Lambs" by Madeline Cash. What's on your pile right now? 📚 #BookSky

An open book and a cup of coffee resting on a soft knitted blanket

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 15/09/2026

New on the blog: beef on weck, Buffalo's best-kept sandwich secret, and why Niagara crosses the border for Bills games. 🥪

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 15/09/2026

Six weeks out from the municipal election on October 26! That is roughly when you should be able to name someone running in your ward, and most of us still can't. Worth twenty minutes this week. 🗳️https://votegrid.ca

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 14/09/2026

Unread reports aren't a formatting problem; they're an audience problem. Cut every number that doesn't help someone decide something. 📊

Performance analytics graphs and charts displayed on a laptop screen

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 13/09/2026

Series finale with Baltimore, 1:37 first pitch. It's also Jr. Jays Sunday, so expect a louder, kid-filled building. ⚾ #BlueJays

A crowd inside a baseball stadium during golden hour

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 13/09/2026

Mid-September and the light has gone amber by seven. Two weeks ago this was still a summer evening. 🍂

A street light glowing through a tree full of yellow autumn leaves at night

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 12/09/2026

Unpopular arts opinion: the best seat at the ballet isn't the front row. Get high enough to see the shapes the corps makes on the floor. 🩰

Ballet dancers rehearsing on a stage under coloured stage lights

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 11/09/2026

Jays are home tonight for the first time since August: Baltimore in, 7:07, after nine straight road games. ⚾ #BlueJays

A baseball stadium filled with a full crowd under the lights

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 10/09/2026

Finished How to Kill a Witch this week. Starting Lucky by Marissa Stapley next. What's on your stack? 📚 #BookSky

An open book resting on top of a stack of closed books

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 10/09/2026

Football's back. The Seahawks opened it Wednesday, which still reads like a typo. 🏈

A packed football stadium filled with fans

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 10/09/2026

If you haven't met The Warning yet: three sisters from Monterrey. Dany on guitar, Pau on drums, Ale on bass, all three singing. Fifth album Everything's Falling landed August 28 and it has taken over my listening completely. Start with "Kerosene" and report back. 🎸

An electric guitar leaning against a vintage amplifier

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 10/09/2026

The light's doing the September thing now: lower, warmer, gone earlier. Gets me every single year. 🌤️

A park pathway lined with trees whose leaves are turning yellow and orange

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 09/09/2026

TIFF starts tomorrow. Eleven days, hundreds of films, and no idea who's behind that barricade. I love it here. 🎬

A cinema entrance at night with an illuminated marquee above the doors

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 09/09/2026

Midweek marketing thought: if you can't explain what you do in one sentence to someone outside your industry, the problem isn't your ad budget. Say it out loud to a friend and watch their face. That's your research. 📊

An open blank notebook with a pen and pencils on a wooden desk

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 09/09/2026

Tuesday question, nostalgia division: what's the one show your whole household watched together, at the same time, because you had to?

A vintage television set beside a lamp and an old radio in a retro living room

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 08/09/2026

First real Tuesday of September. If there's a metric on your dashboard you set up in January and haven't looked at since, today is the day to delete it. Fewer numbers checked often beats more numbers ignored. 📊

A laptop screen showing performance analytics graphs and charts

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 07/09/2026

Last day of the Ex. Gates close at 5 today and the grounds shut at 9 — so if you'd been saving it for 'sometime,' this is sometime. 🎡

A ferris wheel and carnival rides lit up against a night sky

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 06/09/2026

Sunday listening question: what's the album you put on when you can't decide what to put on? The default. The one that earned its spot by never once being the wrong choice. 🎶

Close-up of a vinyl record spinning on a turntable in warm light

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 04/09/2026

Jays open a weekend set in Kansas City tonight, and then it's off to the west coast. This is the stretch of the calendar where the travel schedule starts feeling like a character in the story. ⚾

A well-worn leather baseball glove lying on the ground

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 04/09/2026

The Toronto Dragon Festival is at Nathan Phillips Square today through Sunday — Asian street food, lion dances, martial arts demos, live music, all outdoors at City Hall. A much better use of a long weekend than a hardware store. 🏮

A narrow city street strung with glowing red paper lanterns at night

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 03/09/2026

Currently reading The Holy or the Broken — a whole book about one Leonard Cohen song and how it took decades to become inescapable. Good thing to read while the season turns. What's on your nightstand right now? 📚 #BookSky

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 30/08/2026

Air show weekend is nearly here — 77th year of jets over Lake Ontario. Every Torontonian has the same three-part reaction: what was that, oh right, and then standing outside squinting at the sky like everyone else. ✈️

Five jets flying in tight formation against a cloudy sky at an air show

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 29/08/2026

The CNE Cat Show hits its 125th edition this weekend. A century and a quarter of people bringing their cats to a fair to be judged, pedigrees and rescues both. 🐈

A fluffy cat looking directly at the camera with a stern expression

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 26/08/2026

The National Ballet turns 75 this season and opens with Cranko's Romeo and Juliet — the first ballet they danced at the O'Keefe Centre in 1964 and the last, in 2006. Single tickets September 22. 🩰

A ballet dancer tying the ribbons of her pointe shoes

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 25/08/2026

Home baseball tonight — Royals at Rogers Centre, 7:07. Fifteen home dates left this season, and I plan on treating every one like an occasion. ⚾ #BlueJays

Aerial view of a packed Rogers Centre during a Toronto Blue Jays game

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 25/08/2026

The Tempo introduced their mascots this month: Dez the snapping turtle and Dot the arctic hare. An expansion team's first season is mostly about quietly building the things people will be nostalgic about in twenty years. I'm very into that part. 🏀

Basketball players on the court during a game under arena lights

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 24/08/2026

Monday reminder for anyone drowning in numbers: pick the three metrics that would actually change a decision this quarter and report those. Everything else is an appendix, not a dashboard. 📊

Laptop screen showing colourful performance analytics graphs

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Chelsey Harasym @likeablechelsey.com · 23/08/2026

Angine de Poitrine has owned my headphones this summer — French-Canadian math rock, polka-dot costumes, lyrics in a made-up alien language, and somehow it completely works. They play History in Toronto on November 5. 🎸

Close-up of a blue vinyl record spinning on a turntable in warm light

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