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Seriously, start on Twitter. Everybody who's anybody in the Toronto developer scene is pretty active on Twitter these days. Find a few developers with blogs, follow them, then start following a few of their followers or people they RT. From Twitter, start attending some meet-ups. If you're an iPhone, Android, Python, Ruby or JS developer, it's a pretty good job market right now. Most of the places you'll want to work at are right in the downtown core so you can bike, walk, or subway/streetcar it to work. That also makes socializing vastly easier as everyone is clustered in the same area.

http://www.meetup.com/HTML5-Web-App-Developers/events/225564...

http://techtalksto.com/

I know there are a ton of Toronto lurkers on here too.

[pyre]

  > start attending some meet-ups

This is obvious, but doesn't work so well when you are not living in the area. Flying from Portland to Toronto to attend a meetup is a bit pricey. I did meet someone from Freshbooks at OSCON though.

I'll also mention that when I was last living (~3 years ago) in Toronto, I didn't find it easy to hook up with the local Python/Perl communities. Heck, I sent a request to join the Toronto Perl Mongers mailing list and never got a response. I assumed that there wasn't much of a community.