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If you ask Ivy Knight what’s changed in Toronto over the 25 years she’s lived here, she doesn’t start with visitor numbers, though those have climbed dramatically, or with the city’s culinary and cultural scenes, which are flourishing like never before. She starts with confidence.
“When I first moved here, everyone was looking to New York,” says the French Canadian writer, filmmaker, and former line cook. “There was almost an embarrassment about Canada.”