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When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.
I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.
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.
I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.
New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth.
Pardon the plug, but what I like most about Toronto is Metro Morning's audience. I think it's got to be the most multi-faceted, multi-lingual, omni-curious collection of plugged-in people I've ever encountered.
Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid, unassuming, and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you think of sensible shoes.
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.
My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
I'm from Winnipeg, you idiot!
For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.
You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears.
I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver.
McMaster University, Courtesy of Kevin Mitchell,
Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.
Where was this taken?" Jardin recovered enough to speak. "Near Lawrenceville.
I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser's, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do ... it's weird, non?
I love Toronto, It's the best city.
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there.
I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life.
Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.
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.
I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.
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 think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.
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.
What part of Canada are you from, honey?"
"THE LEFT PART," said Jay.
Canada can be tough for urban music.
I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.
Fact: If you want to get ahead as a Canadian, you're going to have to leave the country. Especially if you have the gall to live in Montreal.
Seattle, Washington.
I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.
Canada, or as i call them, America Light.
I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.
In a sense Toronto feels like home to me.
I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.
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.
My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.
The single greatest moment of my life happened in Toronto, Canada!
When a Quebecker is interviewed for French TV, he or she is often subtitled in 'normal' French, as if the language they speak in francophone Canada is so barbarous that Parisians won't be able to understand
I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.
Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.
CLEARVIEW, QUEENS
A lot of people don't know this, but Toronto is probably the most multicultural city in North America.
Toronto is a city that has yet to fall in love with itself ...
I live between Jamaica and Paris.
This is the province that pioneered dreaming big,
Bellport. A podium.
Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.
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.
I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.
Montreal was less than two inches to the north.
I always liked to go to Vancouver to shoot, because I think Vancouver's a beautiful city.
All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.
Oh, we had a lot of sex back then in Montreal; it wasn't just me. Blame it on the cold. The roses in everyone's cheeks made them seem way more appealing than they actually were. We confused the indoors with intimacy and electric heating with connection.
I used to go to Maple Leafs games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is a great city. I love it here.
There are some hot girls in Vancouver.
I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.
We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise.
Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now-at the highest levels of the federal government.
I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
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.
I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.
Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1.
I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.
I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home.
The nice thing about Toronto is there's not a competition.
I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC.
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.
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Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.
I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.
I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they married - is buried in Quebec, and if Quebec were to separate, I would feel I had been cut in two.
You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.
I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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.
I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A ... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home.
I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off!
New Orleans in an amazing town.
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.
Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.
New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.
A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.
There is no linguistic war in Montreal.
Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
I had no idea Canada could be so much fun.
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
The City that knows how.
from Canada, between 1840 and 1930 over 900,000 Quebecois traveled to the United States, and primarily to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
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.
For the most part, the only contact that most Quebecers have with the world of Islam is through these images of violence, repeated over and over: wars, riots, bombs, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Boston marathon ... The reaction is obvious: We'll have none of that here!
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.
In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, the winter has not killed us again!
I like a lot of food. I like Taiwanese food, of course. I like baguettes, especially the ones that my dad buys. Vancouver has a lot of variety, with pizza, hot dogs, Italian, Indian, seafood - a great combination of culture.