Toronto doesn't suck

[Insidious Von]

Not sure why it's called The Six, someone who's less clueless than you're truly please chime in.

Our city appears to be on everyone's travel itinerary these days, for different reasons. Anthony Bourdain came here and promptly went to St Lawrence Market for a back bacon sandwich. Which appears to be what most Americans do, what they call Canadian bacon isn't very appetizing. Eddie Huang of Huang's World and Fresh off the Boat fame had different priorities. Maybe I'm just old, I had no idea that Degrassi was such a cultural phenomenon Stateside.

 

[Insidious Von]

Let's face it, Drake grew up in Woodbridge, not Jamestown. Did his connection to Degrassi, give him an edge when he broke through in the American market?

 

[Butler1000]

The "Six", was I believe popularized by Drake in a song. It is in reference to the six cities that were amalgamated into Toronto as we have now.

It is also possibly a reference to the last digit of the main area code 416.

Degrassi has sold all over the world since the very first Degrassi kids program. That with Anne of Green Gables arguably our most popular TV exports.

 

[Insidious Von]

I guess Trailer Park Boys didn't travel well south of the border.

I recently caught Sam Tarasco's stand up show. He recently retired from his high school teaching job. He always was an entertainer, I'm happy that he's now following his his heart. We met up after almost two decades, he gave me a slap on the back. It was quite bracing. Some of you may know him as Sam Losco.

 

[Smallcock]

The "Six", was I believe popularized by Drake in a song. It is in reference to the six cities that were amalgamated into Toronto as we have now.

Correct

 

[Insidious Von]

One of our city's great institutions of haute cuisine, Steak Queen, was recently gutted by a fire. I haven't been by recently to see if it reopened.

I partially grew up at that place, did Rob Ford curse the noble establishment?

 

[BAMan 55]

Let's face it, Drake grew up in Woodbridge, not Jamestown. Did his connection to Degrassi, give him an edge when he broke through in the American market?]

Think Drake grew up in Forest Hill. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_(musician) which says:

Drake was raised in two polarizing Toronto neighbourhoods; he lived on Weston Road in the city's working-class west end,[33] until the sixth grade. In his youth, he played minor hockey with the Weston Red Wings.[36] Drake then moved to one of the city's affluent neighbourhoods, Forest Hill, in 2000.[37][38

 

[Insidious Von]

I stand corrupted, I was told that he went to Father Bresani Catholic High School in Vaughan. In fact he went to Vaughan Road High School near Oakwood Av.

This video never gets old, it refutes what fuji said that we suck:

 

[Insidious Von]

I wish The 6 could just be Toronto in movies, it always has to be someplace else. Recently a potential Best Picture winner wrapped here, Molly's Game. I'm not sure which city Toronto is stepping in for but it's two main stars, Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba, are very familiar with our town.