Toronto, Canada Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The economic and cultural focus of English-speaking Canada, Toronto is the country's largest metropolis. It sprawls along the northern shore of Lake Ontario, its vibrant, appealing centre encased by a jangle of satellite townships and industrial zones that cover – as "Greater Toronto" – no less than 100 square kilometres. For decades, Toronto was saddled with unflattering sobriquets – "Toronto the Good", "Hogtown" – that reflected a perhaps deserved reputation for complacent mediocrity and greed. Spurred into years of image-building, the … more »