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Swedish House Mafia coming to Toronto!

The Swedish House Mafia, a Swedish electronic dance music group, is not for everyone, but they sure made a thumpin’ good song for Absolut Vodka that really rocks! Hailing from Stockholm and newly formed in 2008, this group plays primarily progressive house music for the club scene. Check out the song “Greyhound”, the Absolut Vodka […]

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You might be a Swede if you…

Oh, you Swedes can be surprisingly funny (or is that fun?). Oh well… Swedes use the same word for fun and funny and often get it mixed up in English. At times, it makes me go hmmm??? I thought I might post something totally light since this is one of the first posts of my […]

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Pay your respects to Raoul Wallenberg

At the Toronto library. they are paying tribute to a quietly sung hero from World War II named Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jewish people from succumbing to the Nazis wrath. He distributed thousands of visas and hid scores of Jewish refugees in Swedish diplomatic buildings. I have been […]

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Find the Swedes

There are actually thousands of Swedes living in Toronto and probably many more across Canada! How do you spot one? No, they’re not all blond with blue eyes. Swedish women tend to dye their hair often :-). However I can usually spot one by the way they dress (call it my sixth Swedish sense!). There’s […]

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