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Originally Posted by kool maudit
That post aside, the two Canadian cities I post about a lot, Montreal and Toronto, are not at identity junctures that I find very interesting right now. Toronto needs Canada to do or be more than it is to level up, and Montreal increasingly seems to be drifting off into some kind of Vilnius-type status where it's this vague isolate with surprisingly good trams or whatever. I had kind of hoped for "next great American city" and "francophonie-expanding powerhouse"... I don't know. Maybe it really is that and I'm just far away. But I don't think buildings are what's going to do it for those two right now.
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I think you're spot on about Toronto, it's a city with so much potential, like it could explode into a global powerhouse at any moment, but Canada's inherent mediocrity is holding it back. But I'm not sure I agree with your perception of Montreal at the moment. It's growing quickly, there's something happening here that is totally different than in the 20 years that I've known it. It's lost a lot of that 90s/early 2000s edge that made it interesting on a creative level but it doesn't feel stagnant.
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