Ethnicities: Nuit Blanche

Nuit Blanche: Its natural for children who grow up with internationally diverse friends to marry into different ethnicities, and so holiday dinners are increasingly combining their diverse tastes, with basted turkey breast served on the same platter as super-spicy sweet-potato balls. Its a wonderful development, the merging of traditions, food and cultures, according to The Star. And so today lets be thankful for the many joys that the Toronto region provides to us all. Its a welcoming home, the first choice for most immigrants, a place where annual street festivals like Nuit Blanche, Caribana and Pride help the city glow. We ve got exquisite restaurants, good schools, a safe downtown, and lush, green parks that connect vibrant neighbourhoods. It truly is a city of plenty and Whether its butter chicken or grain-fed turkey, sticky rice stuffing or curried pumpkin soup, the traditional Thanksgiving feast has evolved in the multicultural embrace of Toronto. No matter who sets the table, our palates will be pleasantly pleased and possibly tickled. While holidays like Thanksgiving are a welcome reminder of our ethnic heritages, the food and family fusion was inevitable in such a remarkably diverse region. The Greater Toronto Areas population of more than 5.5 million includes some 200 ethnicities and 140 languages with the most predominant after English and French being Chinese, Italian, Punjabi, Tagalog and Portuguese. Riding the subways and streetcars, its clear we share abundance of linguistic riches. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.