May I ask where you chose to go instead? I don't see much which is exciting in Toronto (bad money, uninteresting tech).
After that, I went to work remotely for a company in Boulder, CO, called Human Design.
Money-wise, the better opportunities I heard about in TO were mostly from a recruiting agency called JobSprings (usually in the 120k range, usually in the queen west area). It's exceedingly rare to find anything above 150k. Tech wise, yes, it's predominantly Angular 1 jobs.
Apart from the madness that is housing prices, dev wages vs cost of living aren't too bad here. Hopefully that housing bubble pops, and then Toronto will really be attractive to developers.