Opened last year, it provides a natural solace in a busy city, right on the edge of the water, at the foot of Spadina Avenue, within walking distance of SkyDome. Also, if you stay in town after General Conference session, you can catch some of the World Vegetarian Congress, being held in Toronto July 10-16. Toronto is one of the safest big cities in North America. It averages fewer than 60 homicides a year, low by North American standards. As you'll see, the downtown core is not deserted at night.
Many people live in the neighborhoods next to the commercial center.
Increasingly, thousands live right in the core, in condos and lofts and converted warehouse space. If you get a chance to travel off the main thoroughfares, you'll find out why they call Toronto a city of neighborhoods. Canada is a metric country. Highway speed limits listed at 100 are kilometers per hour, not miles per hour. One hundred kilometers is roughly 62 miles.