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7) LOTS of Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Italian, Jamaican, etc ("foreign") people -- so much so that I feel in the "minority" up here. In the States that wasn't the case. Probably also true in many major US cities. If you go most anywhere else in Canada outside the "Golden Horseshoe" or Vancouver and skin that is other than white, you will be very visibly in the minority. Wrong-o....have you actually BEEN to Toronto? How do you know all of these amazing facts? :-)

I live in Hamilton, just down the road. I don't spend much time in downtown Toronto, if that's the area you mean. Yeah, there's a lot of immigrants in Toronto (and Vancouver). Canada allows a bigger % of our population to immigrate here every year, and they almost all come to Toronto. Like I said, though, most of the rest of Canada is lily-white - don't take Toronto as representative of most of the country.

I have not found this to be the case....I read the Toronto Star, the Scarborough Mirror and the daily Metro --- and believe me they ARE quite liberal...

Try the Toronto Sun and the National Post (although it's getting less so all the time)

10) Some fries served with vinegar (YUK!!!!!!!!). Only if you ask for it or put it on yourself. Many would argue that ketchup (or catsup) on fries is the true abomination. Not me --- ate mine with fries all my life...

Well, despite being called french fries, the french fry/chip as we eat it is really a British thing (as in fish'n'chips), and vinager is the common topping there.

1) The people in Toronto are TERRIBLE drivers. From what I hear, same as in any major US city. You can't go on what you hear....they ARE terrible drivers....trust me....I've driven on Toronto roads for the last 2+ months (even near Harbourfront).

Well, I'm into motorcycling and guys constantly complain about what the drivers are like in their major metro area, and it often sounds just as bad, if not even worse than what I see here.

The problem in Toronto is that there are a LOT of Chinese drivers who, even after taking a "driving class", don't have a CLUE what they're doing on the road....

7) LOTS of Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Italian, Jamaican, etc ("foreign") people -- so much so that I feel in the "minority" up here. In the States that wasn't the case. Probably also true in many major US cities. If you go most anywhere else in Canada outside the "Golden Horseshoe" or Vancouver and skin that is other than white, you will be very visibly in the minority. Wrong-o....have you actually BEEN to Toronto? How do you know all of these amazing facts? :-)

I live in Hamilton, just down the road. I don't spend much time in downtown Toronto, if that's the area you mean. Yeah, there's a lot of immigrants in Toronto (and Vancouver). Canada allows a bigger % of our population to immigrate here every year, and they almost all come to Toronto. Like I said, though, most of the rest of Canada is lily-white - don't take Toronto as representative of most of the country.

I have not found this to be the case....I read the Toronto Star, the Scarborough Mirror and the daily Metro --- and believe me they ARE quite liberal...

Try the Toronto Sun and the National Post (although it's getting less so all the time)

We live in Scarborough....down the road from y'all...I have read articles from the National Post on Free Republic (mostly opinion pieces by Mark Steyn and Christine Blatchford (sp?) and have found them to be VERY GOOD!!

Right now my wife and I are getting a complimentary 1-month subscription to the Toronto Star (which expires in one day)....I will make more of an attempt to access the National Post online. :-) Haven't yet read the Toronto Sun....will have to look for that online too...

10) Some fries served with vinegar (YUK!!!!!!!!). Only if you ask for it or put it on yourself. Many would argue that ketchup (or catsup) on fries is the true abomination. Not me --- ate mine with fries all my life...

Well, despite being called french fries, the french fry/chip as we eat it is really a British thing (as in fish'n'chips), and vinager is the common topping there.

I see.....that makes sense. :-)