I hope our Canadian correspondant is peering in over the border, this afternoon. Perhaps, he will have primary-source commentary to offer.
The dislike of Canada’s biggest city, Toronto, in the rest of the country runs so deep that a filmmaker has made a documentary about it.
“People in Toronto are soulless, one-eyed corporate zombies,” Joey Keithley, of the Vancouver punk band D.O.A., says in the film, “Let’s All Hate Toronto.”
The 73-minute film, which premieres at Toronto’s Hot Docs documentary festival next week, follows a character called Mister Toronto, who embarks on a cross-Canada trip brandishing a sign that reads “Toronto Appreciation Day” and steels himself for the onslaught.
Co-director Albert Nerenberg said in an interview, “People have a grudging respect for New York outside of the city, and have a grudging respect for London. But people outside of Toronto don’t have that for Toronto, they really don’t.”
Since my Canadian kin live far enough away from big cities that my visits have always been pastoral – I’ll withhold an opinion.
Personally i agree Calgary is horrible but you can’t say Toronto is. It’s like our father city. I’ve lived here for 8 years now and the people are EXTREMELY kind and caring. Now that I have moved to Calgary I have also found out that manny people can be quite rude. Anybody who doese think that Toronto is the worst city in canada needs to think again.
People do have different taste, some may like the contry side, and some may like the rush of the city. Calgary needs to get over itself and Toronto needs to stop acting all that. (although it probably is)
this whole calgary-toronto rivalry i can see where it’s coming from i’ve lived in toronto for 8 and a half years its definitly the only place i would EVER think of living in and this whole torontonians are snobs thing it’s not true you need to live in the city to appreciatte it I just moved to ca;gary last year and people in toronto have so much that ppl in calgary have NEVER EVEN HEARD of before toronto is the biggest and most metropolitician and populous area in Canada and all the bbuisness Canada gets comes from either toronto, chicago, new york vancouver or california and thats about it. if you ask me non-torontonians who say torontonians are snobs, arrogant, uncaring and whatever else are just jealous becuz they dont live in a place where a about a thousand “american” movies (and we all know how big that industry is) are made and a place where you can get take out food after 10, a beautiful skylight and more than 55% of canada’s population also if u’ve never lived there before and are saying it’s CRAP well think again and then KMA because you know nothing like i said u need to live in a place like toronto to appreciatte it bcuz u have so much over there that u dont have anywhere else in canada. calgary campared to toronto is definitly a BIG work hub bcuz of it’s huge oil industries but where do most of these companies come from? TORONTO. toronto is a beautiful place have you ever seen the skylight? or niagra falls about an hour away? its one of the 7 natural forgotten wonders of the world and the C.N.Tower one of the modern wonders of the world alos the worlds tallest tower so think again I’m a torontonian and EXTREMELY PROUD and ppl i really wanna say this: we all live in the same country CANADA? that stuff every one always says about canada all united and free and all well face it we’re all part of the same country and no matter where we live we’re probably gonna have something good or bad to say about it but i dont think any american or european would buy any of that “greatest country in the world stuff” if they heard this this whole comparison thing is BULL i think ppl only hate toronto because it’s “kool” to hate it thats really unfair. ppl hate calgary bcuz they’re “slow” no doubt they are andi agree with the person who said calgary woukld be hell in 50 years there’s no space for ANYTHING here. Toronto compared to calgary has a BIGG advantage being the largest city in canada because of its huge population and with the amount calgaryu is growing we’re gonna be like CHINA (have u studied it? do u know how much triouble and shortage they’re in?) well face it calgary is gonna be completly non-livable next thing u know they’ll need to kick ppl out of the city anyways toronto is my well used to be my home and u know what? I LOVE IT and its stupid of everyone to be judgemental bcuz calgarians are incredibly caring and kind well u know what? SO ARE TORONTONIANS.
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i have to agree with 32 TORONTO_LUVER she definitly has this whole thing right and that whole we all live in the same country thing very true
Agree! should’ve be more mature!!
Agree! You guys should be more mature!!
@TORONTO_LUVER
I couldn’t have proved that in some people, Torontonian snobbery is alive and flourishing better myself. Bravo. *facepalm*