Some would say north of Steeles Ave. (or wherever the street lights stop). It would rival NL for federal equalization payments. Pretty much all of the wealth generated in the resource industries is reported either from Toronto or offshore.
). That would leave the whole north part of the current Province of Ontario as another province, capital at Sudbury (or Thunder Bay, maybe).
Why not the opposite? Balance things out by condensing the Maritimes and prairies into two provinces?I would say that it would be easier to keep the GTA and the western part of the Golden Horseshoe as Ontario and split of rest as separate provinces. West of the new (smaller) province of Ontario, you'd have Hurona with the capital at London. Split the area north of the new province (of Ontario) along the same line as the southern boundary of Quebec. The southern part could be called North Ontario (just to be cheeky) with the capital at Kingston. The northern part (that contains Ottawa) would end somewhere north of Petawawa and south of North Bay (not sure what to call it, maybe Ottawa, after the river, just for shits and giggles so that we'd have Ottawa, Ottawa
None of this will ever happen, of course, but I think that Ontario and Quebec are way too large and need to be split up into smaller provinces/territories just to balance things out in this country as a whole.
The idea's been tossed about off and on for some time - with some in Kenora actually saying it out loud clearly - not to mention the NW becoming its own province. There's even a political party keen on making Northern Ontario a separate province.
I'm told this kind of boundary change would need a constitutional amendment sort of thing - and we all know the odds of THAT happening soon, easily and quickly, right?
Besides, would Winnipeg enjoy taking on the searing white-hot loathing of the centre from this part of the world once we break our shackles tying us to Toronto The Good?
The stats come from Ottawa.
Homicide rates among census metropolitan areas highest in Regina, Thunder Bay and Winnipeg
Table 2 Homicides, by census metropolitan area, 2020 and 2021
Table 2 Homicides, by census metropolitan area, 2020 and 2021www150.statcan.gc.ca
Rates are per capita. The per capita homicide rates of 36 municipalities are compared.
Release date: November 21, 2022
If it were easy to do that, it would've been done already, at least in the Maritimes. That area was supposed to have joined as a single province with ON and QC to form Canada, but PEI got cold feet at the last moment. That forced NB and NS to join separately, setting things up for what we have now. Easier to split up than convince people to form a bigger unit as they will feel that they would have less of a voice in a larger entity.
As long as that includes Gateau as well to form a Federal Capital Territory (kind of like Aussie's ACT) that would be fine.
Let them eat cake.
to the "strong mayor". They say it will decrease our property values, nature and quality of life. "All politics is local." Tradition, unimpeded by progress. 
PEI would never join, the entire province has less people than Halifax alone. Why would they want to become a voiceless part of the HRM?I dont think you would ever get NFLD to join. But NB, PEI and NS should form a single province.
Maritime Union - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
The entire point of "Strong Mayors" is to overrule the NIMBYs preventing development required for Ontario's large cities to actually sustain their populations.Our ratepayers association says
But, they say you can't fight City Hall. Or, Queen's Park, for that matter.
How will Toronto and Ottawa's new 'strong mayor' powers work?
Leaders of Ontario's two biggest cities will have new ways to exert influence once next council term starts
Just have to wait to find out what that means for the neighbourhood. Sidewalks and more housing, I suppose. 🤦♂️
