Cika wannan magana: Birnin ya jawo hankalin duniya a shekara ta 2003 lokacin da ya zama cibiyar babbar cutar cututtukan cututtukan cututtukan cututtuka (SARS). Yunkurin kiwon lafiyar jama'a don hana yaduwar cutar a wasu wurare na ɗan lokaci ya lalata tattalin arzikin yankin. Daga 14 zuwa 17 ga watan Agusta, 2003, garin ya sha wahala daga
Babban baƙar fata wanda ya shafi miliyoyin 'yan Toronto (kuma ya shafi yawancin Kudancin Ontario da sassan Amurka), yana da ɗaruruwan mutane a cikin manyan gine-gine, ya kashe hasken wuta kuma ya dakatar da jirgin karkashin kasa da sabis na titin titin a duk faɗin birni a cikin kwanakin da aka ambata.