The Mogo Blog

Join the Crowd: Artists and Designers and Everyone are using “Crowdfunding” to get things done, and I dig it

Lately it seems like everyone out there has something they want me to help them pay for, be it an album, a film, an art project, a book, schooling, or even helping their journalistic website stay afloat. And while that might sound like grumbling, I actually think it’s a cool offshoot of the power of the internet. “Crowdfunding” is not really new, per se, but with the increasing power of sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, getting a lot of people to give a little bit of money to make your proje

The best dates in Toronto - what to do on a Saturday night

Bored with dinner and a show? Is bowling and brunch passé? Spruce up your dating life this spring with wildly adventurous dates that are sure to amuse the object of your adoration. Adventure dating need not be expensive, but it does require imagination, a flare for the extraordinary and occasionally, a spare pair of pants. Circus Act Take a fantastic flying trapeze class at the Toronto School of Circus Arts [http://www.torontocircus.com/index.php?id=16]. Here, every Friday brave couples take t

Get out your beer goggles: The Vancouver Craft Beer Week is coming

Any beer drinker worth his or her salt knows that all brews are not created equal. BC has long been associated with a healthy—any maybe even a little snobby, in a good way!—wine industry, but it’s only in recent years that beer has started to get the same amount of attention in this province. Vancouver’s really been upping the ante on that front, especially where craft beers are concerned. For the uninitiated, craft beer is a more specialized, small batch version of the big guys. For every mass

The Canadian Mint makes a glow in the dark dinosaur coin

That headline is serious. As pictured above, the Royal Canadian Mint is going retro… VERY retro. The new, special edition, quarter features a (super tough to spell) pachyrhinosaurus lakustai dino – which was found near Grand Prairie, Alberta in the early 1970s. When the light goes out, the dino’s bones will glow. They’re only making 25,000 of these, so keep your eyes peeled and on the look out for this first run. Rumour has it, there will be another two runs of the coin. Want to get your hand

How Does the Average Canadian Household Spend its Earnings? You Might be Surprised!

If you live in Vancouver, as I do, chances are you spend a good percentage of your time talking to other Vancouverites about how expensive it is to live in the city. Not a week goes by that I don’t have some version of the “I’m going to move to Montreal if I keep having to spend most of my paycheck on my rent…” conversation. And it’s not just blowing smoke, either: a recent survey found that Vancouver is the most expensive city in North America [http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Vancouver+Nor