City Without a Soul?

It seems trendy to point to Toronto in that way these days. I mean, if you read about us not being able to get a bid together for a World's Fair, and now on Sunday, the Star was on about the whole thing where Toronto is home to so many writers, yet the city is never in their works. Sigh.

So yeah, if you read the press, it seems like a city without a soul, a city of defeatists. Allan Fotheringham once described Toronto as the sort of place where people move to earn a buck, then they retire somewhere else (I think that's Fort McMurray now).

Of course that's great press. Of course we are Harper's whipping boy now. In fairness, our waterfront still looks like hell. But about all us living here. All of us born here. All of us growing up here, falling in love here, wanting to stay here. What is wrong with our city? By extension, what is wrong with us?
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