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November/December 2006 issue	In this issue Table of Contents Feature: Wildlife stories Feature: Stealing the scene Feature: Lake Winnipeg Feature: Alberta’s Cypress Hills The Inside Story Editor’s Notebook Reverberations Explorer À la carte Mosaic

The passenger train pulls slowly out of Toronto’s Union Station, rolling eastward, gathering speed as the bank towers and condominiums and high-rise hotels fade away. From the doorway of a sleek, silver sleeping car, a uniformed porter looks out at the receding lakeside city and cries: "So long, L.A.! Bye!"

Thus begins the 1976 comedy Silver Streak, an antic adventure starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor that starts in Toronto, ends in Toronto and never mentions Toronto at all. In this movie, as in thousands of other big-screen and television productions filmed in every province and major city across Canada, fantasy and fakery trump geography and where we are matters much less than where we think we are.

This is why, in 2003, you could have walked down Yonge Street through Toronto’s throbbing downtown core, turned west on Richmond Street, along the back wall of the Hudson’s Bay Company store, and found yourself under the massive marquee of New York City’s Madison Square Garden in March 1935.

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