The Toronto Traveler

Although it’s not quite the end of the month, I thought I’d take this moment to look back at what I think are some of the best posts to be placed on The Toronto Traveler in the month of May.
Hot Dogs and Meal Trucks, Oh My! – While no fast food option is particularly good when it comes to getting a good and nutritious meal, there are certainly ways to save time while improving on going to a fast food restaurant.  This post discusses some options that you can pursue along that road.
The Toronto Traveler Celebrates World Cocktail Week – …read more

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1) Strikes Affect the City Massively: The TTC has been on strike before; many times in fact.  During my own time in primary, middle, secondary and now post secondary school, the TTC has had at least three different strikes that I can remember off the top of my head and there were probably a number of near misses as well where the union was able to negotiate a deal with the city at the last minute in order to avoid a strike.  And those near misses were good things too, because the city is paralyzed without the TTC.  …read more

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And now for something a little different. Some people might be a bit confused by the way that Torontonians speak. Granted, it is a lot closer to Americanized English than you are likely to hear from a lot of other English-speaking countries around the world, but there are still a few differences. Here are ten of them that I was able to think of off the top of my head:
- Torontonians frequently substitute the word Chesterfield in for the word couch
- Torontonians and most other Canadians use the proper term Inuit instead of the term Eskimo
- When …read more

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1) Sir Frederick Banting – The man that was primarily responsible for the development of the insulin drug that has made the lives of so many Diabetes patients livable.  Banting received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with developing insulin and has a number of buildings named after him within the city.
2) Margaret Atwood – Author of such books as The Handmaid’s Tail, Margaret Atwood has become one of the top selling authors internationally in today’s world.  She is also a noted feminist and still lives within the city when she is not on a book tour or …read more

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Here are 10 interesting facts that you might already know about the city of Toronto.
1) The population of the city is now over 2.5 million making it the fifth largest city in North America.
2) The Toronto Stock Exchange is located in the city and is the sixth largest stock exchange in the world.
3) Toronto is the most multicultural city in the world.
4) Amongst its partnership cities are cities from the United States, China, Germany, Italy and Brazil.
5) Amongst its friendship cities are cities from the Netherlands, Vietnam, the Ukraine, Ecuador, Japan, and Poland.
6) Toronto has over 20 nicknames.
7) The name …read more

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Well, we’re basically at the point in time where The Toronto Traveler’s coverage of Halloween comes to a close (seeing as how tomorrow’s the big day), so I thought I’d end off with a couple of general posts about the holiday.  Toronto’s such a big place that it’s impossible to cover all of the Halloween events in one recently launched blog series, but so many of them will be blatantly visible tomorrow night that you shouldn’t find it difficult to find a party if you want one.
With that having been said, here are 10 things that you can do to …read more

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