Toronto seen through its own sensitive navel

William Thorsell has a few interesting facts but mostly sensitive thoughts about Toronto in this Maclean’s article headlined Going in one direction, slowly. Some of his insights seem at least 20 years late. “For the first time in my life as a white, blue-eyed male, I am a conspicuous minority in any subway car I enter, as a wholly new population inhabits a world beyond the city centre. One has a sense that we live as tourists in each other’s lives, hoping for the best.” Maclean’s