Lots of Events This Weekend
There will be multiple events this weekend, including one weekend long comicon, two 2 day comicons and two major record conventions.
The Edmonton Expo is a three day comicon event occurring at the Edmonton Expo Center from Friday the 19th of September to Sunday the 21st of September, 2025.
Click here for ticket information. And the venue is a six minute walk away from Coliseum Station, which is also serviced by multiple bus routes on Edmonton Transit.
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The Back Issues Comicon will be hosted by the Christ Church Parish Hall in Dartmouth on Saturday, September 20th, 2025 from 9am to 3pm. And admission will be $3 at the door.
The nearest bus stop the the venue is bus stop number 7389, which is serviced by bus routes 54, 55 and 62 on Halifax Transit.
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The Hamilton Comic Con will be held at the Hamilton Convention Centre on both Saturday the 20th and Sunday the 21st of September and admission information can be found by clicking here.
This venue is serviced by multiple routes on HSR via the Frank A. Cooke Transit Terminal.
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Thundercon will also be a two day event held on the 20th and 21st of September, 2025 but at the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition Center and ticket information can be found on the official Thundercon site.
This venue is serviced by multiple routes on Thunder Bay Transit, but the nearest bus stop to the venue, stop number 1847, is serviced by Route 12.
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The two record conventions will occur on Sunday, September 21st, 2025, one of which will be the Toronto/Mississauga Vinyl Record & Collectibles Show at the Etobicoke Olympium from 10am to 3pm.
Admission will be $5 and the nearest bus stops to this venue are bus stop numbers 1477 and 1493 which are serviced by Bus Route 48 on the TTC.
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The other record convention will be the Woodstock Record, CD, & Music Collectibles Show, which will be held at the Market Building of the Woodstock Fairgrounds from 9:30am to 2:30pm and admission will be $5 or free for kids 12 and under.
The venue is serviced by Route 2-DE on Woodstock Transit.
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Please note that cash may be preferred at these events.
Two Comicons This Weekend
The first is a two day event, the London Comic Con, which will be held on the 13th and 14th of September, 2025 at RBC London Place.
Click here for ticket information. The venue is serviced by multiple stops and routes on London Transit and an Ourbus stop is located next to the venue itself.
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The second is a one day event, The Belleville Comicon, at the Quinton Curling Club on Saturday, the 13th of September 2025.
Admission is $5 or free for kids 12 and under. And multiple routes on Belleville Transit converge at the corner of Sidney Street and Bridge Street West, which is a three minute walk east from the venue.
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Please note that cash may be preferred at these events. Enjoy.
New Store Opened
The Grand Opening of Sunrise Records at Cornwall Square is happening today until the 12th of September 2025.
The mall’s hours are Monday to Friday / 9:30am-7:00pm, Saturday / 9:30am–5:30pm and Sunday / 11:00am–5:00pm.
This Weekend – Comicons & Record Conventions
The weekend starts off with the multiple day Ottawa Comicon from the 5th to the 7th at the EY Center, near the Ottawa International Airport and next to the Uplands LRT station.
Click here for admission information. And the venue is serviced by Bus Routes 105 & 197 on OC Transpo at Stop Number 3069.
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The next event is again a comicon, the Barrie Comicon, from 10am to 3pm, on Saturday, the 6th of September, 2025 at the Eastview Arena. And admission is $5 or free for kids 12 and under.
The nearest bus stops to the venue are numbers 407 and 409, which are serviced by Bus Routes 8A and 101 on Barrie Transit.
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The Hamilton Record Show will be held at Bridgework from 10:30am to 4pm on Saturday as well, and admission is $5 or $20 for early admission at 9am.
The venue is a twelve minute walk away from the West Harbour Go Station or eight minute walk from Bus Stop 2977 which is serviced by Bus Routes 08 and 09 on HSR.
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Graffiker Alley, “The Festival of Self-Published Comics, Manga and Zines”, will also be held on Saturday, at the Small Arms Inspection Building in Mississauga, from 11am to 5pm, with free admission.
The venue is a fifteen minute walk away from the Long Branch Go Station and Long Branch Loop on the TTC. Or you can take Bus Route 31 on Miway Transit from either to the nearest bus stops to the venue, 0408 or 0443, which are also serviced by Bus Route 23.
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The Dorchester Record & CD Sale will occur on Sunday, the 7th of September, 2025 at the Dorchester Legion from 10am to 3pm. And admission is a donation to the Legion.
This venue is not serviced by public transit.
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The Bowmanvillle CD and Record Show is also a free event, at it will be held on Sunday, the 7th of September, 2025 at the Bowmanville Memorial Park Club House from 10am to 4pm.
Note that this venue is located near Exit 432 on Highway 401. And the nearest bus stop to the venue, stop number 1499, is an eight minute walk away and it is serviced by Route 902 on Durham Region Transit, whose site does have a trip planner.
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Please note that cash may be preferred at these sites. And that the 10,000 PC Optimum Bonus Offer on $100 Indigo and/or Google Gift Cards at participating Shopper Drug Mart stores will end on September 5th, 2025. Consult your local flyer for details.
This Weekend’s Events
There will be three events this weekend, two of which will be comicons, and one will be a record convention:
The first event of the weekend, Fan Expo 2025, will begin tomorrow and end on Sunday at the Metro Toronto Convention Center.
Admission information can be found clicking here. And the venue is connected to Union Station, which is serviced by the TTC Metro, GO Transit, UP Express and Via Rail.
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The next event will be the Stratford Record Show on Sunday, the 24th of August, 2025 at The Army Navy Hall from 10am to 3pm. And admission will be a donation to the Stratford-Perth Humane Society.
The venue is serviced by on demand transit by Stratford Transit and is a four minute taxi drive from the city’s VIA Rail Station.
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The last event of the weekend will be the Westcoast Comicon which will be held at the Maritime Labour Center from 11am to 5pm on the 24th of August, 2025. And admission is $15 or free for kids 12 and under.
The nearest bus stops to the venue are 50435 and 50496, which are serviced by multiple routes on Translink.
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Please note that Cash may be preferred at these events and that Tiffany Circle will match Red Cross donations made via this form, in case you wish to donate to the efforts for the wildfires.
Michael Fisher of Heart has passed.
Heart co-founder and producer Micheal Fisher has passed according to his brother Roger:
Inducted in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2013, Heart had originally been founded as The Army in 1967 by brothers Michael and Roger Fisher and Steve Fossen, evolving into Hocus Pocus for a few weeks in 1969 and then White Heart from 1970 to 1973, when vocalist Ann Wilson joined.
By 1973, the band name was shortened to Heart and by 1974, guitarist and vocalist Nancy Wilson had joined the band, who had begun writing for their debut album, Dreamboat Annie, a Multi-platinum album that was produced and engineered by the brothers and producer Mike Flicker at Mushroom Studios in Vancouver in the summer of 1975.
With the success of this album, Michael “Magic Man” Fisher decided to forgo his management of the band and instead decided to co-produce several of the band’s subsequent albums with Mike Flicker, including 1977’s Little Queen and 1978’s Dog & Butterfly, which were two more hit albums featuring his brother Roger.
I was a child in the 70’s and only encountered their recordings from time to time on the local radio stations. But I do remember liking them as a pre-teen and had begun collecting their recordings by my mid teens, starting with the band’s Greatest Hit Live album and self titled album on cassette.
I highly recommend their official biography, Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul and Rock & Roll, which was a New York Times Bestseller in late 2012.