I live right downtown in Toronto and as I was walking home tonight up Yonge St. I passed in order: a sex shop, a tattoo parlour, a male/"shemale" strip club, a youth street mission and a government agency for child and social services.
At first glance it's kind of funny to see all these places beside each other but really it's just sad.
There are nice parts of Toronto for sure. It's not all bad, but IMO it sure looks like it going downhill fast.
No doubt...I've heard Rosedale is wonderful - I've only been downtown and the airport, on several occasions, none of them warmly memorable.
Canadian-style socialism has destroyed the nation; the type of paternalistic policies and practices sharpened on the Indian Act Reservations turn out to have been a mere pilot project for the social reconstruction of the country. The family is being systematically dismantled, so far as it is within the power of the CanSoc Party to do so.
Canadian hubris is just as despicable as German or Russian hubris, IMNSHO.