Toronto is perhaps the most culturally diverse and ethnically represented city on earth. Over 80 cultural groups are formally recognized, and over 100 languages are spoken in Toronto.

Toronto has more than 100 daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly ethnic-language publications. Thirteen full-service ethnic radio stations devote their programming to specific ethnic groups. Toronto also has a full-time ethnic television station. Five Canadian ethnic specialty and pay television services are licensed, and more than 60 radio stations include ethnic broadcasting in their schedules. Numerous cable companies carry programming in a variety of languages on community channels.

Toronto is a city of neighbourhoods, many of which take their identity from the immigrants who settled there: Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, and Portugal Village, to name just a few. But throughout Toronto, the real face of the city is derived from the faces of the many cultures that have together brought their dreams and hopes for a life of opportunity, tolerance and safety.

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Toronto represents the centre of culture, communications, and commerce in Canada. As the largest city in the country, with a population of 2½ million, and almost 5 million in the Greater Toronto Area, Toronto is marked by the diversity of its neighbourhoods, cultures and communities

Toronto boasts the second largest live-theatre scene in North America (after New York) and numerous museums, halls of fame, and galleries. It is host to a myriad of Festivals including comedy, film and music, plus many other multicultural and street festivals, among them Caribana, which attracts a million participants each year. Toronto is also home to three universities, four major league sports franchises ... and thousands of doughnut shops.