Toronto
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It’s lunch hour on a wintry Wednesday afternoon and the streets of Toronto’s Financial District feel eerily abandoned.
Snow flurries are blowing at an angle, the sky is a leaden grey, and visibility is poor. Only a handful of pedestrians mummified in puffer coats can be seen waddling down the snow and slush-covered sidewalks of Adelaide Street West braving the 7F (-14C) windchill under the shadow of monolithic office towers .
Otherwise, the streets are unsettlingly quiet.
First-time visitors could be forgiven for mistaking Canada’s largest and most populous city (also the fourth largest city in North America) for an abandoned,…