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By my own city nonetheless. This is just so … Toronto of us.

Hey, look. It’s a family having fun. Good times. Summer days. A city that, while probably suffering from a Smog warning, still has plenty of summertime activities to enjoy.

What problems could the City of Toronto have with a photograph that displays exactly that (minus the smog, of course)?

Oh, racial diversity. Right. That little thing.

Well, it’s a shame that all the people having fun appear to be white, but that’s a simple problem to solve, isn’t it?

We’ll just send the intern back out with the camera and tell them to do a better job of capturing the diversity of this multicultural city.

Maybe we’ll send him off to Little India, or up to Eglinton and Allen to hit up Little Jamaica. Hell, we’re already at City Hall, so Chinatown is like a 15-minute walk. No worries.

Oh, the intern went home already?

But we have to have this Summer Fun Guide off to the printers tonight. And now the cover will be all-white. That’s not the message we want to send.

Wait … there … may be a way.

According to this article I found on an online news site, we can somehow digitally edit this photograph to help it reflect Toronto’s diverse population.

Hurrah. We’re saved. Now the Toronto Fun Guide will reflect the fact that people of all shapes, sizes, income level, attractiveness and colour can enjoy the city’s summer months.

Plus, this black man appears to very much enjoy his white family. Score!

(Yeah, this actually happened, with a hat tip to The National Post.)

Oh Toronto … you have to respect a city that digitally-enforces City Hall’s diversity mandate. Don’t you?