Infrastructure Health and medicine

Atrium of the Hospital for Sick Children. Designed by Eberhard Zeidler.

Toronto is home to the Hospital for Sick Children, Mount Sinai Hospital, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto General Hospital, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Princess Margaret Hospital among others and the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.

Toronto's Discovery District is centre of research in biomedicine. It is located on a 2.5 square kilometre research park that is fully integrated into Toronto’s downtown core. It is also home to the Medical and Related Sciences Centre (MaRS)^[12], which was created in 2000 to capitalize on the research and innovation strength of the Province of Ontario, and to position Canada for leadership in the highly competitive global innovation economy. Another institute is the McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine (MCMM).

Transportation

The main entrance of the Beaux arts style Union Station built in 1927.

Toronto has one of the largest public transit systems in North America. Canada's busiest airport, Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ), is located along the city's western boundary with Mississauga. The city also has a smaller commercial airport, the politically contentious Toronto City Centre Airport (usually called the "Island Airport"), located on the Toronto Islands.

Highway 401, in North York, approaching Leslie Street.

The Government of Ontario operates an extensive rail and bus transit system called GO Transit that links the neighbouring cities and suburbs with the City of Toronto. Thirty-eight trains on seven train lines run 179 trips, and carry over 160,000 passengers a day. An additional 288 buses feed the main rail lines. The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) provides public transit within the City of Toronto. Its backbone is the city's subway system, which includes the "U"-shaped north-south Yonge-University-Spadina line, the east-west Bloor-Danforth line, the east-west Sheppard line through the northern part of the city, and the Scarborough RT line running through the eastern part of the city (Scarborough). The TTC also operates an extensive network of buses and streetcars.

There are a number of freeways that serve Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. Bisecting the city from west to east is Highway 401, which acts as a bypass of the Downtown core, and it is one of the busiest highways in North America. At its interchange with Highway 400, where it spans 22 lanes, it sees over 400,000 vehicles on an average day. Other freeways in Toronto include Highway 404/Don Valley Parkway, Gardiner Expressway/Queen Elizabeth Way, William R. Allen Road, Highway 427 and Highway 409.

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Comprehension Check Exercises

I. Fill in the blank with the correct word or phrase:

1. With 2.48 million residents it is the fifth-most populous municipality in North America after … .

2. As Canada's economic hub and a major world city, Toronto is highly-developed in the sectors of … .

3. On March 6, … , York reverted to its original Iroquois name of Toronto.

4. The city is a national centre for the media, … and … industries.

5. There are five diploma-granting community colleges in Toronto: … .

6. Toronto's best-known landmark is the … .

II. Find out whether the statement is true or false according to the information in the text:

1. The City of Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario.

2. Residents of Toronto are called Torontonians.

3. Toronto is an Iroquois word meaning " boat".

4. Its climate is among the mildest of any place in Canada.

5. After English, French is the second-most widely-spoken language used at work.

III. Questions:

1. Why is the city consistently rated one of the world's most livable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit?

2. When did the city revert to its original name?

3. Describe the climate of Toronto.

4. Name the city’s skyscrapers.

5. What is the system of government in Toronto?

IV. Do you remember?

1. Who is the Mayor of the City?

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