Toronto

Toronto is Canada's largest city and the provincial capital of Ontario. Toronto's population is 2,518,772 (Statistics Canada, 2004); that of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is 5,203,686 (Statistics Canada, 2004). Residents of Toronto are called Torontonians (in French: torontois). The city is part of the Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario--a densely populated region of around 7 million people. Approximately 23% of the Canadian population live within the Golden Horseshoe region, and about one-sixth of all Canadian jobs lie within the city limits.

Education

Toronto is home to a number of educational institutions, including the largest university in Canada, the University of Toronto, which has a student population of more than 60,000 across three campuses (one downtown, one in Scarborough, and another in Mississauga).

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University of Toronto - Scarborough - Mississauga

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The city is also home to an officially bilingual university, Glendon College at York University. It is unique in Canada, in that it is the only educational institution where all students receive education in both English and French. Canada's other bilingual postsecondary institutions educate students in one language or the other. Glendon is the only school where all students must take classes in both languages. York University, in turn, being the third largest university in Canada, has a student population of more than 50,000 students across two campuses North York, Ontario and Glendon College.

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Glendon College - York University - North York, Ontario

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Toronto is also the site of Ryerson University. The University was founded in 1948 as Ryerson Institute of Technology, and then Ryerson Polytechnic University. Ryerson has 20,000 full-time students, 650 master's and PhD students, more than 80 undergraduate, master's and PhD programs

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Other schools include the Royal Conservatory of Music and its associated Glenn Gould Professional School are internationally-recognized centres for musical training and the highly respected Ontario College of Art and Design, the fourth-largest art school in North America. Toronto also has four post-secondary community colleges—Seneca College, Humber College, Centennial College, and George Brown College—scattered across 29 campuses. Recently, Toronto's community colleges have begun either offering their own bachelor's degree programmes or operating joint degree programmes with neighbouring universities.

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Royal Conservatory of Music - Glenn Gould Professional School - Ontario College of Art and Design - Art school - Community college - Seneca College - Humber College - Centennial College - George Brown College - Bachelor's degree

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Toronto also has several private and independent schools, at the secondary and post-secondary levels. These include the International Academy of Design and Technology and Tyndale University College and Seminary. There are also specialty schools such as the Ontario Science Centre Science School.

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International Academy of Design and Technology - Tyndale University College and Seminary - Ontario Science Centre

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Toronto, like many other Canadian cities, hosts a growing number of private English as a Second Language (ESL) schools and is home to as many as 10,000 ESL students at a time. These students come primarily from Latin America, East Asia and German-speaking Europe with surprisingly few coming from nearby French Canada. These schools are represented by the Canadian Association of Private Language Schools.

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