It is cliché of city living that is nonetheless true: there are, in everyday life, few places more lonely than a crowd. It’s simple enough to share space, after all. And we share this city with so many people. It’s much harder to actually share . To look up from our phones, to step out of our cars, to push through the barriers we’ve built. It’s much easier, to risk another cliché, to be islands unto ourselves: Seven million people in the GTA living seven million lives — physically together, so often alone.

That’s why the Blue Jays run to the World Series this fall has felt so precious. It has been joyful, improbable, occasionally profane . But above all it has been collective . We are sharing this moment as a city: Mothers and sons, fathers and daughters, strangers on the street,

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