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Chris Selley: People are fleeing Toronto and the city doesn't seem to care

Public transit that no one is in charge of; a city council that talks a much bigger game on affordable housing than it actually plays; a resolute aversion to fun and entrepreneurialism; shocking crime. Why wouldn't people leave?

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What if Canada’s largest city started shrinking, and it wasn’t all that huge an issue, even with a municipal election just months away? This is the odd situation in which Toronto, forever caught between aspiring to and boasting of “world class” status, may now find itself. Hopefully not.

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For years, Hogtown has been able to boast of being one of North America’s fastest-growing cities. Over the 12 months ending July 2020, Toronto Metropolitan University’s Centre for Urban Research and Land Development found Toronto’s “census metropolitan area” (CMA) — population over 6.5 million at the time — had grown by more people than any North American urban area except for Dallas and Phoenix.

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Then in 2023, according to TMU researchers, it led the pack, ahead of Dallas, Houston, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary.

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