Suddenly, people are in love with Toronto again. They are making music and art and magazines in its busy cultural scenes, haunting laneways in search of marks made by the city’s feral children and finding secrets long hidden underground, busily writing down and talking about what their hungry readings of the archives and the very ground are turning up….
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