Toronto Stories

Toronto is often called a “multi-cultural city” but I think we lose sight of what that term means. Walking the streets at any hour will reveal a constant clash of languages, food, art and music from cultures around the world. However, the true essence of our collective cultural experiences comes from the silent and invisible struggle to reconcile where we’ve come from to where we’ve ended up.

As one of millions of people who have left another city, country or continent for the promise of a better life, I have found Toronto to have a very melancholic sprit. I think it’s because there are so many people who come from different places here, living with some sort of dream that they hope the city will bring to them. Often that doesn’t happen. This piece is about all of our stories. The dreams, hopes and plans we pack up and transport to a new place – and what happens to those aspirations as the city swallows us whole.

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