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5 Reasons I Love Toronto
- The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). My grandmother took me there for my seventh birthday. The totem pole, the mummies from Egypt and the dinosaurs still excite me. Later, they added the bat cave and the Canadian animal section. Recently, the new "crystal" addition was completed.
- Restaurants. There are restaurants all over the city. There are cheap to expensive restaurants. Also, you can eat food from many different countries. For example, I like Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Italian and Korean dishes.
- Big green spaces. The Toronto Zoo is a great place to walk. We have some big parks like High Park and Centre Island. Lots of parks are along Lake Ontario.
- .Education.There are lots of good schools in Toronto. There are many different kinds of high schools, so students can follow their interests. We have several colleges and universities.which offer different programs.
- The CN Tower. It gives Toronto strength. You can look up and find it anywhere downtown. It works like a compass because it is in the centre of the city near Lake Ontario. I remember my kids were worried about the CN Tower when the Twin Towers in New York City were destroyed 9/11. I visited the CN tower the first year it opened and on it's thirtieth anniversary. The CN Tower is no longer the tallest building in the world, but it is one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
5 Growing Pains for Toronto
- Rush hour in Toronto. Too many cars. The TTC subway breaks down and the buses can be slow in cold weather..Its hard to get a seat. In really cold weather, - 20 degrees Celsius, the electrical switches for the GO train don't work.
- Toronto is a poor city. It doesn't get enough money from the Canadian government. The home owners and renters pay too much city taxes.
- The pollution. In the summer, we get smog alert days. The smog gets too high on really hot days. The winds blow it east, so it is worse east of Toronto.
- A new hockey team. Our poor Maple Leafs haven't won since 1967. The American and Canadian hockey teams compete for the Stanley Cup. It's the prize for the best hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL).
- Crime in Toronto. The crime rate is low in Toronto, but there are some gangs who carry guns. They think they are cool?! Our gun laws need to be stronger. The kids in public school and high school need lots of good programs to keep them out of trouble in the city.
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