You will find the following astronomical sites informative and entertaining.

To purchase Astronomy equipment such as telescopes, binoculars, eyepieces, cameras etc please visit these websites: Ontariotelescope  or KW Telescope 

All about eye protection for viewing the Sun at these two links below:

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/safety2.html 

All about astrophotography by:

                       Rob Gendler

                       www.astrophoto.com/

                       www.galaxyphoto.com/

How to estimate binocular vignetting during daytime

How to estimate binocular vignetting using stars at night

NASA

Space.com

Some Weather and computational Astronomy links:

shows winds, temperature etc

shows detailed winds, at various elevations

There are many excellent amateur astronomer clubs in this area. They all welcome guests and visitors, so do join them for a meeting and see what they are up to. Their websites are below, which will give date, time, location and perhaps even the speaker or topic for the meeting.

Hamilton Amateur Astronomers 

Kitchener-Waterloo RASC

Hamilton RASC

London RASC 

What's the Sun Doing?

Check out this link: SOHO