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Toronto Star Solves the Caramilk Mystery
Ok, so maybe they didn't do that, but what today's editorial in the Toronto Star *has* managed to solve is perhaps the mystery behind to the newly popular question,
"Why do Canadians hate Toronto?"
With doc makers currently cashing in on the age-old question (and getting pretty great press while they're at it), it was about time local media spoke up for the city instead of the PR agency.
After a quick jab at the film-maker who will be debuting his doc at none other than Toronto's Hot Docs fest, the editorial examines the possibilities:
"The reason can't be jealousy.
After all, Calgarians have the oil, Vancouverites the wonderful scenery and Montrealers have the joie de vivre.
It certainly can't be the Leafs.
The big banks? Heck, Torontonians hate them as much as everyone else.
The Eaton Centre? Not likely. Out west there's the West Edmonton Mall, which is like the Eaton Centre and Canada's Wonderland all wrapped up in one.
Surely it can't be our glorious waterfront, with unsightly industrial areas still lining parts of the harbour.
No, it's got to be something else.
Maybe it's our tolerance - even for people who don't like us."
Touché.
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The 'centres' are frozen balls of caramel. They pour half of the chocolate into a mould, drop the caramel balls into place, and then pour the rest of the chocolate over top. The caramel then cools into its room temperature state, aided by the warm chocolate.
This was explained to me by someone who worked for Cadbury.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/13/hate.toronto.reut/index.html
Umm, hello... <i>tongue-in-cheek</i>...
Montrealers do not hate Toronto because of the city's tolerance, or because it has something that another city doesn't. Toronto really is just seen as an ugly city with a general lack of culture (I'm talking from a Montrealer's perspective; lord knows Calgary doesn't have diddly shit in the realm of culture).
What always surprised me, living in montreal, was how often I'd hear about how bad Toronto was. The city really does have a hard on for pickin a fight with TO, and I'd guess that the general lack of "Montreal sucks" talk I've heard since I've moved here only acts as a catalyst for further hatred.
And, fuck, HAMISH! Quit ruining child hood legends and myths. I only found out the Easter Bunny wasn't real last week, and now this? GAH!
It's seriously really funny shit.
Oh, and to actually address the topic at hand:
I haven't seen the film yet but does guy actually address any of the Toronto-hating that goes on here in the T-dot itself? Sooo many people I know have had a hate-on for Toronto and some of them have gone as far as to move to Vancouver or Montreal to escape. A few of them came back eventually, but others have stayed away, claiming to have found their true home, fuck Toronto! Ehh. I say let the haters go. We don't need 'em. I was born here, I've lived here all my life and I love this city, warts and all.
1. Watching a national broadcast on TV feels like watching local Toronto cable. The national news focuses on local Toronto events like they're nationwide (e.g., Jane Creba's death, while clearly tragic, got hundreds of times the media attention of similar deaths elsewhere in the country) and the HNIC broadcast crew might as well wear Sundin jerseys on the air.
2. Ontario in general, and Toronto in particular, are forever moaning about how they subsidize the rest of the deadbeat country. In terms of dollars, they do, but the rest of Canada sends Toronto (and the other cities, to lesser degrees) generation after generation of their youngest, smartest kids. This is how it works for every city in the world (I'm an example: I moved here) so I could never figure out why Toronto bitched so much.
I'm just tired of hearing "they hate us for our diversity". Maybe people hate us because we can't figure out why someone would hate us...
I can�t stand the people who move here for school and express their distaste for the city at every chance they get.