Dibs

Jack McLaren’s slender 1956 book Let’s All Hate Toronto inspired filmmaker Albert Nerenberg — who lives in Toronto — to make a documentary with the same name. Currently in the works, the film explores why this fifth-largest city in North America, nicknamed “Hogtown,” so inflames residents of other Canadian cities and, apparently, the entire population of Earth, including Toronto’s 5.6 million — who, as Nerenberg told the Calgary Herald, indulge in “a sort of self-loathing, a resentment of the fact that they have to live and work there.” Wow. Bummer. It’s a sad role for any city to fill. Nerenberg says he got the idea in Montreal, but has found a lot of material in Alberta as well.