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Do you live in a smart city?
For the full interactive map, which allows you to compare and contrast your hometown with nearly 5,000 other Canadian cities and communities, click here. THE CHARTS The Big City Comparison The Most...
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Canada’s smartest cities 2010
Photograph by Geoff Howe A decade ago, urbanists had just about written the obituary for St. John’s, Nfld. The fate of the hard-luck port town, like much of Newfoundland, was wedded to the fisheries....
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Canada’s smartest cities 2010: overall rankings
Is your city one of Canada’s smartest, a place that has what it takes to help you get ahead? Or is it falling behind? Check out how Canada’s major cities stack up, and whether they’re improving...
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Canada’s most socially engaged cities
City Learning to Live Together Score Volunteering rate Per cent who regularly socialize with other cultures Per cent who spent on social clubs Saskatoon 7.1 65.1 74.1 27.7 Victoria 6.8 46.8 86.1 28.8*...
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Canada’s most cultured cities
City Learning to Be Score Per cent who spent on reading Per cent who spent on the performing arts Per cent who spent on museums Victoria* 7.6 84.6 49.1 43.2 Saskatoon 7.4 80.7 55.3 36.0 Regina 6.9...
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Why does Montreal rank so poorly?
THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Graham Hughes It’s hard to imagine that cosmopolitan Montreal, with its feted music scene, mountains of arts funding, work-to-live inclination and literary sensibility, would place...
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Canada’s most active cities
City Per cent of households who report expenditures on sports and recreation Edmonton 52.6 Victoria* 51.8 Halifax 51.1 Regina 50.6 Saskatoon 49.9 Calgary 48.8 Fredericton* 45.3 London* 45.2 Winnipeg...
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Canada’s most wired cities
City Per cent who spent on Internet services Access to Broadband Internet Regina 79.8 98.0 Victoria* 76.9 100.0 Saskatoon 81.1 95.4 Toronto 78.3 90.8 St. John’s 75.8 92.8 London* 76.5 87.9 Halifax...
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Surprising Saskatoon
Photograph by Nayan Sthankiya The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie may have been on to something when he famously referred to Saskatoon as the “Paris of the Prairies.” In 2010, Saskatoon emerged as a...
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How smart is your city?
The Canadian Council on Learning has scorecards for over 4,500 cities and communities in Canada with five years worth of results and trends—plus interactive maps and charts to help you compare your...
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Is it okay for a city to track what’s in your poop?
(FOTOimage/Getty Images) A smart city, on its face, seems preferable to a dumb city. Communities where technology improves everything from traffic flow and trash collection to snow removal and...
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