• by Richard Whitman , Columnist, October 12, 2015

So Monday was Columbus Day in America. Or, as some would have it, Indigenous Peoples Day. Whatever your position may be regarding the day some Italian dude working for the Spanish landed nowhere near America and enslaved the natives, most of you were not at work. And when the advertising industry isn't at work, there isn't much news being made. 

And when there isn't much news being made, there isn't much to write about in this column. And so I bring you this little tidbit. Did you know that Toronto ad agencies are part of the reason the King West neighborhood in Toronto was named one of the 5 neighborhoods to stay in when visiting Toronto?  

Yes, it's true. The Toronto blog blogTO describes the King West neighborhood thusly: "This condo dense Toronto neighborhood is filled with ad agency workers during weekdays and revelers on weekend nights. While there are a slew of bars and restaurants dotting King West, the area is also home to historic architecture, some of the city's best chefs and of course, a large chunk of the entertainment district." 

It only makes sense that ad folk are followed by a wake of cool wherever they may go. So if you are one of these cool ad folk who work in one of these Toronto ad agencies, you can pat yourselves on the back for contributing to your neighborhood getting selected for this list. 

Of course, now you'll have to deal with all those pesky pedestrian tourists getting in your way as you rush to Starbucks for your Iced, half caff, ristretto, venti, 4-pump, sugar free, cinnamon, dolce soy skinny latte.