Toronto
About Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located on a harbour at the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. The city is the fourth-most populous city in North America, behind Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles, with a census population of 2,794,356 as of 2021. The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is constituted of Toronto proper and four surrounding regions, Peel, York, Durham, and Halton, and has a population of 6,712,341, while the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA), with a somewhat different definition, has a population of 7,106,379. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
On the show — 84 mentions total
I remember when I first went to Toronto, years and years and years ago, and I called up my friend and colleague, Hugh Laurie. I asked at the front desk what attractions they were to see. They said, well, there's the Bali Footwear Museum down the street.
from 244: No Such Thing As A Fishman, 2018-11-23 at 00:26:11 · read transcript
Other times Toronto came up
They were redistributing manure on people. The government didn't like it. So the chief medal, officer in the Toronto government, got together with a Daily Star, launched this contest. Every contestant had to be under 16 and they said they give away cash prizes to the children who brought in the most fly corpses. There were people who came and they came to this guy called Dr. Hastings, who was the chief medical officer and they brought their fly corpses to him every day and he counted them up.
No Such Thing As A Love Potion For A Vole, 2017-06-23 · listen
Is she every week she goes on about how much she hates it? I have to cut it out. He just said some cool place names they've got. They've got an Alaska, a Belfast, a New Zealand, a Toronto, a Norway, a crapeau, which is French for Toad, I didn't know. A Suris, which is French from Mouse. Cool, yeah. He also has a fact about Anne of Green Gables, which is that because of Anne of Green Gables, Prince Edward Island gets thousands and thousands of Japanese tourists every year.
No Such Thing As Taming A Plane, 2023-06-01 · listen
He just said some cool place names they've got. They've got Nalaska, a Belfast, a New Zealand, a Toronto, a Norway, a Crapo, Which is French for Toad, I didn't know. A Surice, which is French for Mouse Yeah, and he also has a fact about Anne of Green Gables Which is that because of Anne of Green Gables, Prince Abad island gets thousands and thousands of Japanese tourists every year And that's because the book was the first book taught in English in Japan after the second one bought.
481: No Such Thing As Taming A Plane, 2023-06-02 · listen
They redistribute manure. They're a redistributing manure on people. The government didn't like it, and so the chief medical officer in the Toronto government got together with the Daily Star, launched this contest. Every contestant had to be under 16, and they said they'd give away cash prizes to the children who brought in the most fly corpses. There were people which came, and they came to this guy called Dr. Hastings, who was the chief medical officer, and they brought their fly corpses to him every day, and he counted them up.
170: No Such Thing As A Love Potion For A Vole, 2017-06-23 · listen
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Coordinates: 43.6525, -79.3817