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9 unusual facts about Greater Toronto Area


2009 Tamil diaspora protests in Canada

In the Greater Toronto Area, local Tamil communities and organizations began to set up demonstrations by January 2009, following similar movements in the United Kingdom and India regarding the large civilian casualties from the Sri Lankan Civil War.

AFL Ontario

It is currently composed of teams from the Greater Toronto Area, Southwestern Ontario and the National Capital Region, who play off for the Conacher Cup (named after Lionel Conacher), presently awarded to the winner of the annual AFL Ontario Grand Final.

Canadian Pacific Police Service

The Canadian Pacific Police Service (CPPS) is a private police force enforcing safety and policing along Canadian Pacific Railway properties and rail lines in Canada and the United States, including limited sections of the Milton line of GO Transit in the Greater Toronto Area.

Chuck Winters

Winters knows all too well the feeling of fear that one has walking the streets of Detroit and he is committed to working in the Greater Toronto Area community to ensure that its streets remain safe for all and that youth have a variety of life options from which to choose.

Eleonora Dimakos

Dimakos has developed eleonora Makeup artistry - eMa, a branded makeup artistry and skin care business serving the Greater Toronto Area.

Judi McLeod

McLeod worked as a city-hall reporter in the Greater Toronto Area for the Brampton Times in 1981, where her husband was the managing editor.

Live at 5:30

Live at 5:30 is the name of two television programs airing in the Greater Toronto Area.

Ramona Milano

Milano was born in Nobleton, in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, to her parents Paul and Elsa (née Adriano) Meleca.

Victoria Mironova

Presently, she is the Founder, Artistic Director, Teacher and Choreographer of the Victoria International Ballet Academy in GTA (Greater Toronto Area), Vaughan, Ontario, Canada.


Alexander Muir

Muir taught in the Greater Toronto Area in such places as Scarborough and Toronto, as well as in Newmarket, Beaverton, and in then suburban areas as Parkdale and Leslieville, where he lived on Laing Avenue.

Brown's Corners, York Regional Municipality, Ontario

Brown's Corners is an unincorporated community in Markham, Regional Municipality of York in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada and located near the corner of Woodbine Avenue and Highway 7.

Cam Woolley

Cam Woolley (born January 24, 1957) is a traffic and safety reporter for CP24 and a former police officer (rank of Sergeant) with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in the Greater Toronto Area.

Cory Joseph

In Joseph's playing days at Pickering High School, he and his older brother Devoe Joseph teamed up and won back-to-back Ontario Provincial Championships by defeating their Greater Toronto Area rival, the Eastern Commerce Saints, in 2007 and 2008.

Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal

It is primarily served by GO Transit buses running along the Lakeshore East and Highway 407/York University corridors, with longer distance connections outside the Greater Toronto Area by Greyhound, Coach Canada, Megabus and Can-ar, and additional casino services.

WBUF

WBUF-FM also cannot generally be heard in the Greater Toronto Area because the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) allows CKJN-FM to broadcast which is often overlapping & very unreliable in that vicinity, though this was not the case until CKJN signed on.

WNLO

One year later, Rogers Cable began carrying WNEQ on its digital tier for customers in the Greater Toronto Area.

WRTS

During good DXing times, it can be heard all the way to the Greater Toronto Area, where it gets interfered with CIDC-FM, which broadcasts on the 103.5 dial and serves the Greater Toronto Area.


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Amit Arya

Amit Arya is the Director, Co-Founder and Instructor along with Pandita Tripti Mukherjee of the Pandit Jasraj Institute of Music - Toronto, the first Indian Classical School with Pandit Jasraj's name in the Greater Toronto Area.

CHEX-TV-2

Despite serving part of the Greater Toronto Area, as an Oshawa-licensed station, CHEX-TV-2 was not required to participate in the August 31, 2011 digital switch for major markets, and thus is now the last remaining analogue television signal still operating in the GTA.

GTTA

Greater Toronto Transportation Authority - the former legal name of Metrolinx, the Ontario provincial agency responsible for transportation planning in the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton