Metropolitan Toronto

Los Angeles is a place where people of different social backgrounds lead increasingly separate, parallel lives. Individuals from all social backgrounds participate in routine activities in micro-spaces throughout the city such as purchasing a cup of coffee or riding the bus to work. These people can be a student going to school or a senior citizen out on a stroll. Even though they may cross paths and share certain spaces on a consistent basis, that does not mean that they live identical lives.…

I took the bus around the Los Angeles area on a Saturday. The bus I used was the 30/330 that goes from Sunset Boulevard into East Los Angeles. This was mostly what seemed to be residential areas and the main streets of Los Angeles. While riding the bus I saw the difference within the people through the surrounding buildings. The visible wealth disparity between the residents of Los Angeles is very stark and can be seen within neighborhoods. Starting at Sunset, near the Greystone Mansion, the…

Introduction When visualizing the Toronto soundscape, it is inevitable to picture it without considering the plethora of accents and languages of people from culturally dominated areas. I had the chance to attend a music and dance performance reflective of the diversity of the world’s traditions but also reflective of Toronto’s multiculturalism. The event took place at the Lula Lounge on March 5th, 2016, where I saw the band ‘Salsotika’ perform classic 80s and 90s salsa. In relation to the…

Throughout the changes given in the period of 1961-2011, Suburbanization is considered the main reason for the expansion of Toronto. Firstly, changes in transportation played a vital role for the expansion and creation of the majority of cities. Behan states that new technology for transportation was a key factor to suburb sprawl. In addition, Fyfe argues that the increment of vehicles and the development of highways allow variations in the distributions of communities. For instance, in the…

patients to get the help they need from their home. This allows for patients who don’t have the money or access to psychiatric help to be treated from home. Because of their anxiety, some patients can’t leave their home to receive the professional help. Toronto Scarborough Hospital is the first to use this technique, starting in 2014, and used countries such as Australia and Sweden who have witnessed great success in their country with iCBT. Dr. Gratzer stated that “We’ve had patients who say,…

are becoming more open minded about the idea that two women or two men getting married. In the case of Halpern v. Canada [2003], seven gay and denied lesbian couples from getting civil marriage licenses in the City of Toronto. Claiming that the actions of Clerk of the City of Toronto violated their s.15(1) Equal Rights in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, they decided to take the case to the Divisional Courts, where they would decide whether the common law definition of marriage violates the…

knifepoint in her own bed in the early morning hours of August 24, 1986 by a stranger subsequently identified as Paul Douglas Callow. Ms. Doe rapists was known as the “balcony rapist”; she was Callow’s fifth victim. Ms. Doe brings a suit against the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force on two bases; firstly, she suggests that they conducted a negligent investigation in relation to the balcony rapist and failed to warn women whom they knew to be potential targets of Callow of the fact that they were…

grown to be recognized as one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial companies in the US and reported $550 million in sales back in 2016. Its corporate office resides in Denver, Colorado, and has 67 retail locations spread throughout various metropolitan markets in the US that employ over 1,200 individuals. Q. What types of products does Explorer Industries offer? A. Explorer offers a wide range of outdoor equipment and apparel products…

more big cities and each city is getting bigger. In 2016, there are a total of 35 census metropolitan areas, meaning that it must have a minimum total population of 100,000 people with 50,000 or more living in the core. The CMAs have grown since 2011 when there was only 33 CMAs. And compared to number of CMAS in 1931, which is only 11, Canada’s big cities had tripled their numbers. The largest three cities: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver are continuing to grow. In the 2016 census, these three…

relationship exists between pornography and violence, between images and behavior. Even the pro-censorship Meese Commission Report admitted that the data connecting pornography to violence was unreliable… Feminist Thelma McCormick (1983) for the Metropolitan Toronto Task Force on Violence Against Women, find no pattern to connect porn and sex…