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[frandroid]

Toronto 26th most dangerous city in Canada: Enough with the double-digit budget increases already!!!

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[theoria.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the McLean's article, but the The Star's discussion of the article leaves out - quite predictably - two important elements: (1) Toronto is structured around ethnic and racial ghettos; (2) Toronto is structured around class ghettos. When (1) and (2) overlap positively, it is a promoted as a tourist destination (Danforth, College Street, Annex, Rosedale, Forest Hill, Bridle Path, etc) and when (1) and (2) overlap negatively, you end up with much of Keele-Finch, Regent Park, and Parkdale - incidentally, two of which are undergoing significant invasions from the first group. But, of course, it is improper to point out that Toronto is an excessively racist and classist city and that everything everyone loves about Toronto - and, of course, I mean the good white people! - depends upon the necessary existence of the second group. (Impolitic, I know, to point out that "the world city" of Toronto requires expansive spaces of "the world slums.")