The big story in Toronto is SARS, not Iraq. I only saw one person wearing a face mask, but all the people I met commented that they were surprised that I had shown up. There have been a lot of cancelled trips to Toronto apparently. You could see that at the airport. Pearson was strangely empty, as was my flight back to New York (so empty that in a gesture of unprecedented generosity American handed out two (count ‘em) bags of pretzels to each passenger.