Here, There & Everywhere | @renjie

"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign" - Robert Louis Stevenson renjie.ca/about

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#ChristmasMagic is still in the air at the Distillery (at Distillery District)

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Playing tourist 550 feet above the ground #CNTower (at CN Tower / La Tour CN)

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The antidote for all of this #BoxingDay shopping madness? Chocolate Rocky Road Rage. Boom. (at Sweet Jesus)

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With all of us spread out across the country, any reason for a family reunion is a cause for celebration. Give me time spent with my loved ones over physical gifts any day. Grateful that my parents were able to fly in from the west coast to spend the holiday season with @loubellebutalid and I in #Toronto. Hope that @lorellypelly is having a great time in Calgary, we've missed you kiddo! From my family to yours, I wish you all a very #MerryChristmas. May you all find love, joy and happiness in the coming new year as well! (at Nathan Phillips Square)

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James Cameron's #Avatar brought to life at the Bell Centre earlier this evening. What an incredible #CirqueduSoleil show! (at Centre Bell)

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View of the #Montreal city skyline from #Habitat67 (at Habitat 67)

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Celebrating one year with this beauty (at Place Ville Marie)

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Love this ad campaign at the #Sherbrooke metro station in #Montreal encouraging people to check out the digital books collection of #Quebecois authors available for free download at www.lirevoustransporte.com (at Sherbrooke (Montreal Metro))

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Suited up for the first time as goalie for our last game of the regular season. We still made into the playoffs despite losing tonight's game. Huge shout out to Amy and Etienne for talking me into playing ball hockey these past 3 months! #montreal (at Cégep du Vieux Montréal)

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Hello, beautiful #montreal (at Café Aunja)

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I love everything about this #Montreal neighborhood (at Plateau Mont-Royal)

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Old Montreal (at Old Montreal)

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Voted in our new riding of Laurier Sainte-Marie, where interestingly enough, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe is looking to win his old seat back following his defeat in 2011 to NDP Hélène Laverdière. Duceppe held the seat for 21 years prior to being defeated during the Orange Wave of 2011. Can Duceppe and the Bloc make a comeback? Are they still relevant in Quebec? We'll have to wait and see. Laurier Sainte-Marie is one of eight ridings to watch out for in Quebec, which also includes the riding of Outremont where NDP leader Tom Mulcair is running in, as well as Papineau, the home riding of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau. I hope for the sake of the Canada that I want to see in the world, a nation that truly is caring, inclusive, and multicultural, a world leader in the areas of human rights and the environment, that the Conservatives get it handed to them in this election and are ousted from office. I wrote this last year when I voted in the Ontario provincial elections for the first time since I became a Canadian citizen in 2009. It's still true today. At the end of the day, I'm so grateful to be living in a country where I can exercise my right to vote without fear of persecution or having to dodge bullets in order to do so. If you're a Canadian citizen over the age of 18 and eligible to vote, do it now. Vote for a Canada that you want to live in. Your vote does make a difference and it does count. (at Montreal, Quebec)

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#Autumn in #Montreal (at Le Plateau)

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#sunset #midtown #nyc (at New York, New York)

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Rush hour #nyc (at Empire State Building)

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Perfect weather for lounging around in the park #nyc (at Central Park)