Immigrant meets Hippie - Kensington Market, Toronto


	Immigrant meets Hippie - Kensington Market, Toronto

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11-16-2007 2:58 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/37b5f4d6-1232-4819-bd64-a0f232a300e4/116F17B7-3B8C-4407-BF3C-3E1AA1AB63AC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10/BNStory/Front/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10" href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10/BNStory/Front/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10" style="font-size: 11px;">www.theglobeandmail.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10/BNStory/Front/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10">“where people were actively engaged, politically speaking, through protest activities, those were cities that were more innovative, more creative, more exciting. If you don't have activism in your city, you've killed its soul.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10/BNStory/Front/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10">Neighbourhoods like this survived because of the energy and collective force of its people. The bigger challenge now is how does a neighbourhood like this survive in the wake of the opposite force – central cities coming back.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10/BNStory/Front/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10">Its grit, its bohemian quotient, its kind of urban messiness</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10/BNStory/Front/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10">“If you look at the groups of people who are very committed to their place, one group that's obvious is immigrants. They come to a neighbourhood, they become part of a neighbourhood, because their culture is in that neighbourhood. And [the other is] artists and bohemians – whether that's a designer or a sculptor or a painter – who are somehow inspired, like the people who colonized SoHo.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10/BNStory/Front/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10"><P>
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