Toronto, Canada’s financial heart, is also its largest city. Toronto’s population, including its suburbs, is nearly five million. The city is a model of tolerance with people from every corner of the world living peacefully side-by-side and without any ethnic community making a majority.
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Toronto, Canada’s financial heart, is also its largest city. Toronto’s population, including its suburbs, is nearly five million. The city is a model of tolerance with people from every corner of the world living peacefully side-by-side and without any ethnic community making a majority.
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Once you get out onto the street, you feel you are neither in America nor in Europe but somewhere in between. You could not find such streetcars in a U.S. city.
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The business center, however, is like any other. The main difference is that here residential spaces are situated in the tops of skyscrapers. The area is not empty on weekends after people have changed into their casual clothes.
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Sculptures brighten up the monotony of glass and concrete blocks.
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Some office blocks are very elegant, and none of them look the same.
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The Royal Ontario Museum is one of the greatest attractions of the city.
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This is not a quiet suburban area but an urban district close to Kensington Market, the most democratic trading place in Toronto.
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People say Kensington Market offers the freshest bread and the best coffee. Though the residential area around the market is rather expensive, it is loved by young people and members of alternative subcultures.
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Hardly any other city in the Americas can compete with the number of street cafes in Toronto.
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Canadians are hockey and baseball fans. Even moose sport Toronto Maple Leafs and Blue Jays t-shirts.
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The Legislative Assembly of Ontario is located in a building made of red stone.
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The Ontario College of Art and Design, another tourist attraction, is one of the most unique buildings in the world. It is locally known as “Cow” because of its black-and-white facing.
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The famous Canada National Tower is a major symbol of the city. An elevator at speeds of over 20 km/hr takes you to a restaurant and observation point on the top of the tower. At night, the tower lights up and the elevator shaft turns red.
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If it were not for the Canada National Tower, you would hardly be able to tell Toronto from any other modern city at night.
