If You Could De-Amalgamate Toronto, Would You?

By David Topping

Scarborough, 1963. Photo by pjs_deceased from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

Twelve years ago, Toronto swallowed up six municipalities and became a megacity. Should we go back to something like the way it was? We want to know what you think.
Torontoist reader Ryan Slight emailed us on Wednesday to say that “for me and many of my downtown friends, we see the divide in ideology between the ‘suburbs’ and ‘downtowners’ increasing.” That may be true—certainly there is one leading mayoral candidate who doesn’t come close to appealing to people who “live downtown and are of [a] gentle arty or intellectual stripe”—but would breaking up Toronto make the city better, or worse? Should we all be in it together?
On the ten-year anniversary of amalgamation, Torontoist’s Val Dodge argued that in unity, Toronto gained strength, if a little messily. We’re working on another piece about de-amalgamation now, and for it, we want you to tell us where you stand. Take a second, and take our super-brief, two-question-long de-amalgamation survey right here.