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City of Toronto :
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Toronto is the most populous city in
Canada and the provincial capital of
Ontario. It is located in
Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore
of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous
municipality in North America. Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto
Area (GTA), and is part of a densely populated region in Southern Ontario known
as the Golden Horseshoe, which is home to 8.1 million residents and has
approximately 25% of Canada's population. The census metropolitan area (CMA) had
a population of 5,113,149, and the Greater Toronto Area had a population of
5,555,912 in the 2006 Census.
As Canada's economic capital, Toronto is considered a global city and is one of
the top financial centres in the world. Toronto's leading economic sectors
include finance, business services, telecommunications, aerospace,
transportation, media, arts, film, television production, publishing, software
production, medical research, education, tourism and sports industries. The
Toronto Stock Exchange, the world's seventh
largest, is headquartered in the city, along with most of Canada's corporations.
Toronto's population is cosmopolitan and international, reflecting its role as
an important destination for immigrants to Canada. Toronto is one of the world's
most diverse cities by percentage of non-native-born residents, as about 49% of
the population were born outside of Canada. Because of the city's low crime
rates, clean environment, high standard of living, and friendly attitude to
diversity, Toronto is consistently rated as one of the world's most livable
cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Mercer Quality of Living
Survey. In addition, Toronto was ranked as the most expensive Canadian city in
which to live in 2006. Residents of Toronto are called Torontonians.
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Toronto on the Web :
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The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is a Canadian English
language nationally distributed newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six
cities across the country. With a weekly readership of 935 000, it is Canada's
largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after
the Toronto Star and is widely described as Canada's newspaper of record. It is
owned by CTVglobemedia.
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Restaurant in Toronto
Toronto, the largest city in Canada, is one of
the most multicultural cities in the world. This unique cosmopolitan atmosphere
is reflected in the cuisine of Toronto, as many world cuisines are represented
in the city. Ethnic cuisine can be found in the various neighbourhoods. For
example, authentic Chinese and Vietnamese cuisine are found in Chinatown (there
are actually at least six distinct Chinatowns in the Greater Toronto Area),
while Greek cuisine can be found on The Danforth, Hungarian cuisine in the
Annex, Italian cuisine in Corso Italia and Indian cuisine in Little India, and
finally Korean cuisine in Korea Town on Bathurst. Toronto has an assortment of
restaurants with various sorts of Jewish food, including some restaurants of the
dairy persuasion and some of the meat persuasion, some reflecting the foods
Israelis eat and some not, some kosher, others nonkosher, some being delis,
others not. Fine dining of many kinds is available.
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Toronto Eaton Centre
The Toronto Eaton Centre is a large shopping
mall and office complex in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named after the
now-defunct Eaton's department store chain that once anchored it. In terms of
the number of visitors, the shopping mall is Toronto's top tourist attraction,
with around one million visitors per week. It is also the largest shopping mall
in Eastern Canada and third-largest in Canada as a whole.
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Toronto Public Library
The Toronto Public Library is the largest
public library system in North America, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Established as the library of the York Mechanics' Institute in 1830, the Toronto
Public Library now consists of 99 branch libraries and has over 11 million items
in its collection.
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Toronto Real Estate Board
The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB), founded
in 1920, is the largest real estate board in Canada with over 28000 members.
TREB's Multiple Listing Service (MLS) is shared with boards in the surrounding
area, namely the Brampton, Durham Region, Mississauga and Orangeville Real
Estate Boards.
The Toronto Real Estate Board stretches across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
and surrounding townships, including: Ajax, Aurora, Barrie, Brampton,
Burlington, Caledon, Halton Hills, Markham, Milton, Mississauga, Newmarket,
Oakville, Oshawa, Pickering,* Richmond Hill, Toronto, Vaughan, and Whitby.
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Toronto Star
The Toronto Star is Canada's
highest-circulation newspaper, though its print edition is distributed almost
entirely within the province of Ontario. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers
Ltd., a division of Star Media Group, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation.
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Toronto Sun
The Toronto Sun is an English language daily
tabloid newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known for its
daily "Sunshine Girl" feature and for what it sees as a populist conservative
editorial stance.
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