July and August are the summer months of Street Festivals in Toronto with at least a major one or two every weekend.
On August 18 will be the Taste of Manila that in 2016 attracted 375,000 people. The population of Filipinos in Toronto was 142,000 in 2011. Now compare that to about 5 to 7 thousand people that Viva Goa gets on an average from the 1990s while the Manila Festival started only in 2014. Of course the Goan population of Toronto can be projected to now be about 55,000 from the 40,000 estimated some years ago by John Nazareth (growth rate in the last 5 years approx 27% period 2011 to 2016) versus the Filipino 142,000 and theirs is a Street Festival compared to the confined Viva Goa, but it does provide some perspective. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/taste-of-manila-officially-back-on-1.4770157 Roland.
