I love Canada. It's so clean and bland.

"At the center of much of the city's athlete nightlife is an event planner and promoter named Mona Halem, a former employee of the Air Canada Centre, which is home to the Raptors. Ms. Halem has become "notorious" throughout the sports world, says Raptors forward Antoine Wright, for assembling attractive party guests to fete nearly every franchise that comes to town."

Wonderful. So we've got an official pimp for pro sports teams. That's classy.

gopher321: Wonderful. So we've got an official pimp for pro sports teams. That's classy.

Yeah, I also noticed they misspelled 'fellate' as 'fete'.

Hey! Are you suggesting that the Leafs are a bad team!? Well, are you!?

I am offen....ah....screw it. It's true. They do suck.

Toronto is awesome.

Funfact: I took a class with B.J. Armstrong. Nice guy, also he was freaking adorable!

When the Raptors resign Chris Bosh we can talk.

4NSpy: Most pro athletes have a "home" in Florida for tax reason.

That only helps players who don't want to live in the same state in which their team is located. 41/50 states require athletes to pay taxes on income earned in road games as if it were earned in-state ("Jock Tax"). Also, I believe an athlete has to pay income tax to the state in which his or her team is located no matter where they claim their residence to be.

Ecaps: I'll believe this when any of Toronto's major sports franchises signs/drafts/trades for someone to get excited about.

/Torontonian

What? Hedo Turkoglu doesn't make your panties wet?

or the convenience of the must-be-19 drinking law. Rookie guard DeMar DeRozan of the Raptors, who is 20, was ordering chocolate milk at dinner before his teammates told him the good news.

I LOL'd

forgot to add:

The cool provinces set the drinking age at 18.

I remember sitting in a bar in Toronto, talking to some guy from Detroit who was just amazed that he had walked two blocks from his hotel without anybody trying to mug him.

Canada's national dish of french fries soaked in gravy and cheese curds.

Retard. If he means poutine, that's from Quebec, which isn't even part of Canada.

/Vichyssoise (new window): Americas favorite lunch

GavinTheAlmighty: Toronto is a fine, mostly clean, mostly safe city. Kind of bland, no real character to it, but it's a fine city otherwise.

I've found that the lack of character sort of is Toronto's character. Instead of a single identity, it's a mishmash of islands of different cultures, most of which are distinct and vibrant enough to have their own local character. It's like a stew instead of a melting pot.

Why is it that people from Toronto are always tooting their horn about how awesome Toronto is, even when they MOVE FROM TORONTO to other places?

/was sick of hearing it in school.
//still sick of it.
///every city has its pluses and minuses. I live near Vancouver. Pretty but small and the pretentiousness of the locals is just awful.
////Very hard to pick up women in a Vancouver bar unless you're making >100,000/yr and have a sweet car.