Well, it has a subway, which by definition puts it on the list of transit-friendly cities, as only a handful of North American cities do. One issue though is the 1998 amalgamation. Toronto used to be just the actual dense city part, well covered by transit, and now it includes many former suburbs which are far less dense and are almost entirely car-based.

Take the 2nd and 3rd biggest cities in Canada (Montreal and Vancouver respectively) as an example. These places are meccas of cycling in North America. Generalizing Canada's cities is so typical of Torontonians, while their own city is the exception when it comes down to traffic and gun violence.