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Ontario Place, the Glossary

Ontario Place is an entertainment venue, event venue, and park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.^[1]

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Crown corporations of Ontario
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Festival venues in Canada
Redeveloped ports and waterfronts in Toronto
Tourist attractions in Toronto
Venues of the 2015 Pan American Games
Water parks in Ontario

B. B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Berm

A berm is a level space, shelf, or raised barrier (usually made of compacted soil) separating areas in a vertical way, especially partway up a long slope.

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Bill Davis

William Grenville Davis, (July 30, 1929 – August 8, 2021) was a Canadian politician who served as the 18th premier of Ontario from 1971 to 1985.

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Blondie (band)

Blondie is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1974 by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.

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Boating is the leisurely activity of travelling by boat, or the recreational use of a boat whether powerboats, sailboats, or man-powered vessels (such as rowing and paddle boats), focused on the travel itself, as well as sports activities, such as fishing or waterskiing.

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Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Douglas Cockburn (born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Budweiser Stage

The Budweiser Stage, originally known as the Molson Amphitheatre, is a concert venue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ontario Place and Budweiser Stage are festival venues in Canada.

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Burton Cummings

Burton Lorne Cummings (born December 31, 1947) is a Canadian musician.

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Canadarm

Canadarm or Canadarm1 (officially Shuttle Remote Manipulator System or SRMS, also SSRMS) is a series of robotic arms that were used on the Space Shuttle orbiters to deploy, manoeuvre, and capture payloads.

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Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame

The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Temple de la renommée du baseball canadien) is a museum located in St. Marys, Ontario, Canada.

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Canadian National Exhibition

The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), also known as The Exhibition or The Ex, is an annual event that takes place at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on the third Friday of August leading up to and including Labour Day, the first Monday in September. Ontario Place and Canadian National Exhibition are Tourist attractions in Toronto.

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Cinesphere

Cinesphere is the world's first permanent IMAX movie theatre, located on the grounds of Ontario Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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CNE Ontario Government Building

The Ontario Government Building, housing the Liberty Grand Entertainment Complex since 2001, is a heritage building located at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ontario Place and CNE Ontario Government Building are buildings and structures in Toronto.

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Copper sheathing

Copper sheathing is a method for protecting the hull of a wooden vessel from attack by shipworm, barnacles and other marine growth through the use of copper plates affixed to the surface of the hull, below the waterline.

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Counting Crows

Counting Crows is an American rock band from the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

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CTV News

CTV News is the news division of the CTV Television Network in Canada.

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CTV Television Network

The CTV Television Network, commonly known as CTV, is a Canadian English-language terrestrial television network.

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David Crombie

David Edward Crombie (born April 24, 1936) is a former Canadian academic and politician who served as the 56th mayor of Toronto from 1972 to 1978.

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Destroyer

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer.

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Dolores Claman

Dolores Olga Claman (July 6, 1927July 17, 2021) was a Canadian composer and pianist.

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Doug and the Slugs

Doug and the Slugs are a Canadian pop music group formed in 1977 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Downtown Toronto

Downtown Toronto is the main central business district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Dunkirk (2017 film)

Dunkirk is a 2017 epic historical war thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by Christopher Nolan that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II from the perspectives of the land, sea, and air.

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Eberhard Zeidler (architect)

Eberhard Heinrich Zeidler, (January 11, 1926 – January 7, 2022) was a German-Canadian architect. Ontario Place and Eberhard Zeidler (architect) are Modernist architecture in Canada.

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Eric McMillan

Eric McMillan, (born in Sheffield, England, in 1942) is a Canadian designer who began his career designing exhibitions.

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Exhibition Place

Exhibition Place is a publicly owned mixed-use district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located by the shoreline of Lake Ontario, just west of downtown. Ontario Place and Exhibition Place are buildings and structures in Toronto and venues of the 2015 Pan American Games.

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Expo 67

The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, commonly known as Expo 67, was a general exhibition from April 28 to October 29, 1967.

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Geodesic dome

A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron.

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Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American country singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor.

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Government of Ontario

The Government of Ontario (Gouvernement de l'Ontario) is the body responsible for the administration of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Gow Hastings Architects

Gow Hastings Architects is a Canadian architectural firm specializing in post-secondary, commercial, and public buildings.

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Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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IMAX

IMAX is a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (approximately either 1.43:1 or 1.90:1) and steep stadium seating, with the 1.43:1 ratio format being available only in few selected locations.

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Inflatable castle

Inflatable castles (also called bounce houses, bouncing houses, jumpy house, bouncing castles, bouncy houses, jumping castles, jumpers, jolly jumps, bouncy castles, moon bounces, closed inflatable trampolines, or moonwalks) are temporary inflatable structures and buildings and similar items that are rented for backyard and block party functions, school and church festivals and village fetes and used for recreational purposes.

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International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions

The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) represents over 6,000 amusement-industry members in more than 100 countries worldwide and operates several global attractions-industry trade shows. Its annual IAAPA Expo in Orlando, Florida, is recognized as the world's largest attractions trade show in the number of attendees and exhibitors and providing members insight into current amusement trends, laws, operations and industry methodology.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer and musician.

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Jan and Dean

Jan and Dean were an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004) and Dean Ormsby Torrence (born March 10, 1940).

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Jim Flaherty

James Michael Flaherty (December 30, 1949 – April 10, 2014) was a Canadian politician who served as the federal minister of finance from 2006 to 2014 under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design

The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design (commonly referred to as Daniels Faculty) is an academic division at the University of Toronto which focuses on architecture, urban design and art.

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John Robarts

John Parmenter Robarts (January 11, 1917 – October 18, 1982) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th premier of Ontario from 1961 to 1971.

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John Tory

John Howard Tory (born May 28, 1954) is a Canadian broadcaster, businessman, and former politician who served as the 65th mayor of Toronto from 2014 to 2023.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Kathleen Wynne

Kathleen O'Day Wynne (born May 21, 1953) is a former Canadian politician who served as the 25th premier of Ontario and leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 2013 to 2018.

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KC and the Sunshine Band

KC and the Sunshine Band is an American disco and funk band that was founded in 1973 in Hialeah, Florida.

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Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers (August 21, 1938 – March 20, 2020) was an American singer and songwriter.

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Lake freighter

Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carrier vessels operating on the Great Lakes of North America.

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Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.

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Lego

Lego (stylised as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark.

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Lighthouse (band)

Lighthouse is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969 in Toronto, Ontario, whose repertoire included elements of rock music, jazz, classical music, and swing and featured horns, string instruments, and vibraphone.

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List of music venues in Toronto

The following is a list of music venues in the City of Toronto.

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Live Nation Entertainment

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. is an American multinational entertainment company that was founded in 2010 following the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster.

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Luba (singer)

Luba (born Lubomyra Kowalchyk (Любомира Ковальчук), April 24, 1958) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and recording artist from Montreal.

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Men Without Hats

Men Without Hats are a Canadian new wave and synth-pop band, originally from Montreal, Quebec.

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Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry

The Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry is a government ministry of the Canadian province of Ontario that is responsible for Ontario's provincial parks, forests, fisheries, wildlife, mineral aggregates and the Crown lands and waters that make up 87 per cent of the province.

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Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation

Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (Mazina'iga-ziibing Misi-zaagiwininiwag, meaning: "Mississauga people at the Credit River") is a Mississaugas, an Ojibwe sub-group, First Nation located near Brantford in south-central Ontario, Canada.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Nintendo

is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto.

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North of Superior

North of Superior is a 1971 Canadian IMAX film directed by Graeme Ferguson.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Ontario Line

The Ontario Line is an under-construction rapid transit line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Ontario Science Centre

The Ontario Science Centre (OSC; originally the Centennial Museum of Science and Technology) is a science museum organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ontario Place and Ontario Science Centre are Crown corporations of Ontario.

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Our Lady Peace

Our Lady Peace (sometimes shortened to OLP) is a Canadian alternative rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1992.

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Parks Canada

Parks Canada (Parcs Canada),Parks Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Parks Canada Agency.

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Pat Metheny

Patrick Bruce Metheny (born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.

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Paul Young

Paul Antony Young (born 17 January 1956) is an English musician, singer and songwriter.

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Peter Tosh

Winston Hubert McIntosh, OM (19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987), professionally known as Peter Tosh, was a Jamaican reggae musician.

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Platinum Blonde (band)

Platinum Blonde, known briefly as The Blondes, is a Canadian rock band that formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1979.

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Quality Records

Quality Records was a Canadian entertainment company which released music albums in Canada on behalf of American record labels.

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Red Rider

Red Rider, later known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, is a Canadian rock band popular in the 1980s.

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Request for information

A request for information (RFI) is a common business process whose purpose is to collect written information about the capabilities of various suppliers.

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Request for proposal

A request for proposal (RFP) is a form of reverse auction that solicits a business proposal by an organisation interested in the procurement of a service or product from potential suppliers.

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Robyn

Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979), known as Robyn, is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ.

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Royal Bank of Canada

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC; Banque Royale du Canada) is a Canadian multinational financial services company and the largest bank in Canada by market capitalization.

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Royal Ontario Museum

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ontario Place and Royal Ontario Museum are Crown corporations of Ontario.

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Sam Roberts (singer-songwriter)

Sam Roberts (born October 2, 1974) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who has released seven albums.

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Seating capacity

Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law.

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Shell (theater)

In theatre, a shell (also known as an acoustical shell, choral shell or bandshell) is a curved, hard surface designed to reflect sound towards an audience.

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Sloan (band)

Sloan is a Canadian rock band based in Toronto but is originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program.

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St. Lawrence River

The St.

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St. Marys, Ontario

St.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is an American science fiction television series created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet for the streaming service Paramount+.

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Strange Advance

Strange Advance is a Canadian new wave band formed in 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Teenage Head (band)

Teenage Head is a Canadian punk rock group from Hamilton, Ontario, that was popular in Canada during the early 1980s.

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Tensile structure

In structural engineering, a tensile structure is a construction of elements carrying only tension and no compression or bending.

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The Box (band)

The Box is a new wave group from Montreal, Quebec.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Nylons

The Nylons were an a cappella group founded in 1978 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, best known for their covers of pop songs such as The Turtles' "Happy Together", Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", and The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".

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The Parachute Club

The Parachute Club was a Canadian band formed in Toronto in 1982.

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Theatre in the round

A theatre in the round, arena theatre, or central staging is a space for theatre in which the audience surrounds the stage.

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Therme Group

Therme Group is a chain of spa, sauna, and indoor water park complexes with locations across Europe.

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Tina Turner

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) is a conservation authority in southern Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Harbour Commission

The Toronto Harbour Commission (THC) was a joint federal-municipal government agency based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Humane Society

Toronto Humane Society is a Toronto charity that operates animal shelters and animal rescue operations.

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Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, founded in 1976 and taking place each September.

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Toronto Islands

The Toronto Islands are a chain of 15 small islands in Lake Ontario, south of mainland Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ontario Place and Toronto Islands are festival venues in Canada.

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Toronto Life

Toronto Life is a monthly magazine about entertainment, politics and life in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper.

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Trillium Park

Trillium Park is a park in Toronto owned and operated by the Government of Ontario.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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Venues of the 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games

The 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games venues were mostly located in the host city of Toronto, Ontario, though some events required facilities located elsewhere. Ontario Place and venues of the 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games are venues of the 2015 Pan American Games.

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Vic Fedeli

Victor Anthony Fedeli (born August 8, 1956) is a Canadian politician who has been the Ontario minister of economic development, job creation and trade since 2019 and chair of Cabinet since 2018.

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War of the Worlds (1988 TV series)

War of the Worlds is a science fiction television series that ran for two seasons, from October 7, 1988 to May 14, 1990.

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Water skiing

Water skiing (also waterskiing or water-skiing) is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one ski.

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World Monuments Fund

World Monuments Fund (WMF) is a private, international, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites around the world through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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2015 Pan American Games

The 2015 Pan American Games (Jeux Panaméricains de 2015), officially the XVII Pan American Games and commonly known as the Toronto 2015 Pan-Am Games (Jeux panaméricains de 2015 à Toronto), were a major international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Pan American Games, as governed by Pan American Sports Organization (PASO).

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2015 Parapan American Games

The 2015 Parapan American Games, officially the V Parapan American Games and commonly known as the Toronto 2015 ParaPan-Am Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities, celebrated in the tradition of the Parapan American Games as governed by the Americas Paralympic Committee, held from August 7 to 15, 2015, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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