( TD Toronto Jazz Festival )Toronto’s core, with its restaurants, bars, retail stores and tourist attractions, is full of service-sector jobs. It’s a divide that could lead to labour shortages in the core — as service workers forced to commute farther and farther lose the incentive to take those positions. Jobs in management and a broad category including education, law and government services are more clustered in the downtown core and in Midtown. Occupations in art, culture, recreation and sport, while making up a smaller percentage of Toronto jobs, are still better represented downtown — though not in the financial district — and in the west end. But living downtown is “totally unaffordable,” she said.

Source: thestar September 16, 2018 00:00 UTC