Toronto: City on the (High) Rise

What feels like a cross between London and New York, with a dash of Paris thrown in?

Toronto -- the booming financial and cultural capital of Canada -- a polyglot city that is emerging as a cosmopolis.

Toronto, which got its name from the Huron Indian word for "meeting place," is like London because of its English settler roots and Britishisms in language. You have a nine "storey" building and you are taken "to hospital" if you're unlucky; Queen Elizabeth II is still on the C$20 bill. ...