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Toronto the cool: Hip, urban youth bring new life to the core

The Globe and Mail's Marcus Gee writes on how Toronto "has become cool" and why Torontonians are embracing city life like never-before.

"It's hard to say when it happened exactly, but in the past decade or so, a new breed of hip young people has populated the downtown."

"You see them all over the place, cruising the streets on two wheels: the woman in strappy sandals riding her vintage ladies bike with a high-fashion bag slung over her shoulder; the guy with rolled up jeans on his fixed-gear bike, U-lock tucked strategically in his back pocket."

"They have embraced gritty downtown life like no other Toronto generation before them, hopping from caf� to caf�, bar to bar, gallery to gallery; enlivening changing areas like Queen West; revelling in the variety and ceaseless change of urban life."

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