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.
Atlantic Entertainment Expo
The Atlantic Entertainment Expo, a record, comic, board game and collector’s convention in one, will be held on Saturday the 19th and Sunday the 20th of July, 2025 at the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre.
Click here for ticket information. And the venue is located in Market Square, a major destination serviced by multiple routes on Saint John Transit.
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A $10 Rexall Gift Card offer on purchases of $50 Thank You, Happy Kid or Fun & Fabulous gift cards at participating Rexall stores will expire on July 17th, 2025. Consult your local flyer for details.
This Weekend’s Events
The weekend long Montreal Comicon will be held from July 4th to July 6th, 2025 at the Palais De Congres.
Admission information can be found by clicking here and the venue is serviced by the Place d’Armes Metro Station.
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The second annual West Shore Vinyl Plus Record Fair will be hosted by the Langford Legion from 11am to 4pm on Sunday, the 6th of July, 2025 and admission will be $2.
The venue is a five minute walk away from the Langford Exchange, which is also on Station Road, and multiple BC Transit bus routes operate out of this station.
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The Bring Out Your Dead! Vinyl Sale & Swap will also be held this Sunday, from 3pm to 6pm, at the Black Dog Freehouse and I believe this is a free event.
This 82nd street venue is serviced by multiple routes on Edmonton Transit, some from the Health Sciences Jubilee Station (Routes 004 & 726), and it is also a 7 minute walk from the Whyte Ave Terminal of the High Level Bridge Streetcar.
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Please note that cash may be preferred at these events. Enjoy.
Two Record Conventions and One Comicon
There will be two free record conventions in the Toronto Area, one comicon in Belleville, and all of this weekend’s events will be occurring on Sunday, June 22nd, 2025:
The Outdoor Record Show will be held at the Tranzac Club from 9am to 1pm and admission will be free.
This venue is a seven minute walk from either the Bathurst Subway Station or Spadina Subway Station and it is also a minute away from bus stop numbers 498 and 499, whose busses also service the 511 streetcar on Bathurst via stops 96 and 15518.
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The Bowmanvillle CD and Record Show will be hosted by the Memorial Park Clubhouse from 10am to 4pm and this is also a free event.
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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The Belleville Comicon will be held at the Quinte Curling Club from 10am to 3pm and admission will be $5 or free for kids 12 and under.
A bus stop serviced by Route 8 on Belleville Transit is across the street from the venue.
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Please not that cash may be preferred at these events and that a contest is being held on Amazon.ca for Prime Members until July 11th, 2025 for numerous prizes: Click here for more details on GiftMania.
By the way, Prime Day will be held from the 8th to the 11th of July at Amazon.ca but early deals are already available.
Postal News + One Event This Weekend
Most of you have probably received warning of about the possibility of a postal strike from your utilities, banks and credit card companies, so I thought I’d post some information on it.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers have called a strike on May 22nd, 2025 as they negotiate with Canada Post, who have paused the negotiations on May 13th, 2025 according to a blog entry on the Union’s official site.
Unfortunately, Canada Post is posting hundreds of millions in losses every quarter and are considering closing some post offices, reducing door to door service and implementing more community mailboxes. And the Union would rather introduce banking services through the postal offices, which would help the smaller rural communities that have lost their banks.
I agree that they should automatically start providing low fee banking and ATM services to these communities and possibly extend their mandate to provide Wi-Fi services to the community surrounding these post offices, from satellite.
I will be contacting my local Member of Parliament as soon as possible and encourage you to do the same. Thank you.
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This weekend’s lone event, the Napanee Comicon, will be held at the Strathcona Paper Centre on Saturday, May 17th, 2025 from 10am to 3pm.
Although there is no public transit in this community, an Ourbus stop is a 12 minute walk away from the venue whilst the Napanee Via Rail station is a 4 minute taxi drive away from the venue. And note that the Megabus and Maplebus do also have stops in this community, across the 401 from the venue and also a 4 minute taxi drive away.
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Please note that cash may be preferred at this event and there is a CIBC and Scotiabank at a nearby mall.
Enjoy.