Buffalo has always given more to Toronto than it has taken. Now it is time to pay it back
There is a long history of the two cities sharing teams, and of Canadians heading south of the border to catch a game.
Toronto hosted select Buffalo Bills football games between 2008 and 2012. Our American neighbours feared Toronto would claim the team that is a religion in its hometown. An annual game or two in Toronto? Try moving the Kaaba from Mecca, the Western Wall from Jerusalem or St. Peter’s from the Holy See.
Yet shopping was the biggest draw. When the exchange rate was better, prices couldn’t be beat. Buffalo’s shopping power peaked when the Walden Galleria opened in 1989. With many U.S. chains not yet in Canada, it might as well have been Milano’s Galleria. Rumour has it that many Ontario families hatched their first and only criminal conspiracies in Buffalo-area mall parking lots, destroying evidence by cutting the tags off everything from socks to sweaters. They could be spotted huddling near waste bins, covering up their dirty work in a cold sweat as if they were in the climactic scenes of “Goodfellas.”
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