I ' ve lived in a whole bunch of different places mostly in BC and Ontario , including rural places , several small towns , and both Vancouver and Toronto . I ' m white though , so I don ' t experience or even see much racism myself , so I really can ' t say which areas are better or worse . I ' ve seen plenty of sexism both before and after I transitioned , but it was pretty uniform across the country . Edit I ' ve recently lived in both Scarborough referred to as Scarberia by white people I know , and in the JaneFinch area referred to by the same people as Canada ' s most dangerous neighborhood . Honestly the people in those two places seemed to be getting on fine , but I did see a lot of BlackLivesMatter posters protesting police brutality .