The city of Toronto is probably the most famous among all the localities of Canada. People come here for work, for impressions, for education, and simply for a better life. A hospitable city accepts all who want to live, work and fulfill themselves, without embarrassing others. Walking along its streets, you immediately notice how slowly and measuredly life here flows, despite the huge size of the metropolis.
Although Toronto is the largest city in Canada, it is not the capital. This role is performed by Ottawa. Approximately 1/6 of all jobs in the country are within the city limits of Toronto. The city receives a fair share of electricity from the nuclear power plant located in the neighborhood. There are eight reactors. Almost a third of the total Canadian population lives within a radius of 500 kilometers from the center of Toronto.
The local metro, like the Moscow metro station, was developed taking into account its hypothetical use as bomb shelters. Among all megacities of the world, Toronto ranks third in the number of immigrants living in it, second only to Dubai and Miami. This city, according to statistics, is the safest metropolis of all of North America. About 47% of the citizens here were born outside of Canada. Toronto is a city of immigrants, as, indeed, Vancouver. Toronto is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as a city with the longest system of underground pedestrian tunnels. Their total length reaches almost 30 kilometers.
About 40 million people pass through Toronto International Airport annually. There is a very well developed tram network. It is considered the largest and most extensive in North America. In Toronto, the Casa Loma Castle is the only authentic castle on the whole continent. This is not Europe! Every year, the municipality of the city arranges listening to street musicians and issues 75 licenses for playing in underground passages, and the musicians also pay $ 150 for it. But only license holders are allowed by law to play in transitions. And only in the time allotted for this.
In Canada, the two official languages are English and French, but the latter is in Toronto already in 12th place in terms of prevalence. In total, residents of the city speak about 180 languages. More Italians than in Toronto only live in Italy.
