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Posted on 15/08/03

Torontonians play good Samaritan

TORONTO -- It was like someone had flipped one giant switch, turning off Toronto's power supply and turning on the city's sense of humanity.With streetlights, crosswalks, subways, streetcars, elevators, computers and office lights immobilized, a mass of humanity took to the overheated streets of the city's downtown core during rush hour yesterday. But they weren't looting and pillaging, as one young woman said: "This is Toronto, after all."

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