DOSSIER - Toronto: a major new player

A large North American city that has long been considered banal, Toronto is suddenly emerging from its anonymity. One of the many indicators of the blossoming of this nerve centre of the Canadian economy is the opening of top-of-the-range hotels, with four new 5-star hotels planned between 2011 and 2012. Toronto is also a major player on the world cinema scene. With an international festival that is growing in prestige and films in which it is becoming the star. That it deserves to be discovered as a business city is a given. That it deserves to be discovered as a business city is a given, but that it's also a place to enjoy a cultural stroll... to be understood and consumed on the spot... Text Cécile Balavoine - Photos Bruno Pérousse