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Originally Posted by ue
Sorry, I should've been clearer in my post. The bolded part was in responded to in the second paragraph. My initial line was a response to cities having a "distinctive identity", as you put it. I'd say all those cities have distinctive identities, but yeah, by the US media machine, Toronto comes out on top and only Montreal and Vancouver can really compare. Places like Nova Scotia and Niagara Falls (Ontario) figure a bit higher than you'd expect in their media.
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Toronto gets a lot of U.S. media oomph by virtue of being in the MLB and NBA, so its name is in the sports scores every day during those leagues' seasons.
TIFF (film festival) also contributes to its reknown stateside.