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Canada's most important
that is to say consequential
modern voice.
Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother?
My knowledge of Vancouver and Canada was limited to what I knew about Bob and Doug McKenzie. I thought they were funny, talking out of the sides of their mouths and saying 'eh' and wearing toques.
I say it the way it is. I don't play around. That has been my success, in my opinion, for Mississauga.
It's cold in Toronto but I like where I'm living.
Bellport. A podium.
Brodie Bruce:
I LOVE THE SMELL OF COMMERCE IN THE MORNING!
There is a town in north Ontario,
With dream comfort memory to spare,
And in my mind
I still need a place to go,
All my changes were there.
Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.
There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.
I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.
Our government is operating within an unprecedented revenue shortfall and that we have an obligation to all citizens of the province to manage our finances responsibly. And that's what we're going to do.
Kensington Market is a must visit place in Toronto.
Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be.
In a sense Toronto feels like home to me.
The winds of change are blowing across Ontario.
I'm very happy that John Tory won. We need a mayor of Toronto that will work with the municipalities of the Greater Toronto Area. We are the economic engine of Canada and we're not operating on all cylinders by any means.
I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.
I'm not trying to bring New York to Toronto. I want to understand Toronto better.
I came from Winnipeg and a small-town background, and I wouldn't say a depressed area, but Winnipeg has never been a rich area like Toronto.
Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.
On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.
This is the province that pioneered dreaming big,
I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.
Everywhere I go, every city, they're always like, 'What's in the water in Canada? What's in the water in Toronto?'
Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.
I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.
Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.
Toronto is home; nothing beats home.
CLEARVIEW, QUEENS
It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here?
Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.
The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength.
In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.
It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
There are more speculators about New Westminster and Victoria than there were in Winnipeg during the boom and they are a much sharper lot. Nearly every person is more or less interested and you will have to be on your guard against all of them.
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
Ipecac syrup of happiness. There Lowell would be. With Harlow.
For me, selfishly, Toronto is my favorite city in the world. It's the greatest city and you have the whole world here.
I obviously have a lot of love and affection for the people of Hamilton from playing there for so long.
I've lived in Forest Hill Village, Riverdale, Summerhill, The Annex and Cabbagetown. Finding the right neighbourhood fit in Toronto is only slightly less tricky than finding the right partner to share it with.
Well, I'm not quite certain yet, young Mr. Fitzpatrick. I am considering the name Willow Hills. Or perhaps Maple Falls. What would you suggest?
I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.
Markham," I tell him. "Ky Markham." Because that's the name she knows me by. That's my real name now.
I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.
Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.
I spent five years of my childhood in Port Elgin and came back to spend another five years of my young adulthood there as well, including the years in which I was first published.
I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.
Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.
It's tricky to be such an independent person, from Canada. It doesn't matter how incredible your work is, if you're an unknown person and you're from Toronto, people's eyes glaze over immediately as soon as you introduce yourself.
Tortall and the Queens Riders!
Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.
You see these young people in Antigonish who are coming from Cape Breton, and these are really smart, attractive young people, who are living in a place that's been very rough economically. It's a very special thing to be helpful there.
I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.
Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
Canada? Please. That's like they took Vermont and made a whole country out of it, only more boring, and without the good maple syrup.
It seemed to me that everybody ended up in Toronto at least for a little while.
When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
Hello, Hazel Levesque.
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.
I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.
I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.
Our province needs united leadership and shared purpose in tackling the challenges we face.
Bergen, and Oldfield. The
The only reason Toronto is no longer the dullest city on earth is that it is no longer full of Anglo-Canadians. It is full of Hong Kong Chinese. And not a few Italians.
Carquinez Strait
Tommy, why did they put Maldon Surrey on the telegram?"
"Because Maldon is in Surrey, idiot.
I still feel like the same girl who grew up in Albion Park. I'm such a family girl. I haven't changed.
Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC.
I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.
I admire Miken's exceptional engineering capabilities and was drawn to their passion for hockey and drive to be the best in all they do.
Bagby Hot Springs.
Toronto's already ass-deep in cockroaches and conservatives; what's one more lower life-form?
In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.
Long live free Quebec!
I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.
Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.
Get a spoonful of this, motherfuckers. Harper
It's Canada Day." "So?" "So, I'm in Canada." "Why?" "Because it's Canada Day! Come on, Garrett!" Zane
I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
Ontarians don't want to believe that they are small people. They want to believe that they're open and that they're inclusive - and I believe that they are.
Toronto is a special city, and the environment is perfect for the arts; free and alive. I'm a New Yorker, and Toronto reminds me of a much cleaner New York, so it's like coming home after your mom just cleaned your room for you; for me that's a lovely environment.
My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
The Canada we know and love will not survive another four years of Stephen Harper and his Conservative government.
Clare. Give me a reason to stay.
When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.
There's something about Brooklyn that reminds me of Toronto. I think because it's so community-minded.
There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.
A lot of people don't know this, but Toronto is probably the most multicultural city in North America.
Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now-at the highest levels of the federal government.
The nice thing about Toronto is there's not a competition.
Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.
Well, we're originally from Glace Bay."
Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. "Tell me all about it, dear.
I was born at St. John's, where they lived for a short time.
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There's no such place.