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<blockquote data-quote="Borlon" data-source="post: 2624612" data-attributes="member: 27589">Toronto is one of the great cities of the world.&nbsp; At least downtown, around the U of T.&nbsp; I don't know about the other parts.As for the rest of the country's attitude towards Toronto; well, Albertans lump Ontario, Quebec and the maritimes together as &quot;the East&quot; and lament their majority in Parliament.&nbsp; (&quot;The West wants in!&quot;)&nbsp; Folks in northern Ontario think that southern Ontario runs the show.&nbsp; People in southern Ontario agree that Toronto has way too much influence.&nbsp; Residents of Toronto blame Bay Street (the Canadian equivalent to Wall Street).&nbsp; I don't know what the financial movers and shakers on Bay Street think.I wouldn't make decisions about University on the weather.&nbsp; First, winters are warmer than they&nbsp; used to be.&nbsp; Second, it is easy to get winter boots and a coat.&nbsp; And we do have internal heating and everything.One thing- Canadians know far more about the US than Americans know about Canada.&nbsp; I think that is because the US is 10 times the size of Canada (population wise- more by economy) and so there is a strong incentive to be informed; however since Canada is 1/10th the size of the US (from the US point of view- economically and demographically, not geographically) there is little incentive to be informed.&nbsp; The disparity in knowledge is not, I don't think, 100:1, but it is pretty big.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Borlon, post: 2624612, member: 27589"] Toronto is one of the great cities of the world. At least downtown, around the U of T. I don't know about the other parts. As for the rest of the country's attitude towards Toronto; well, Albertans lump Ontario, Quebec and the maritimes together as "the East" and lament their majority in Parliament. ("The West wants in!") Folks in northern Ontario think that southern Ontario runs the show. People in southern Ontario agree that Toronto has way too much influence. Residents of Toronto blame Bay Street (the Canadian equivalent to Wall Street). I don't know what the financial movers and shakers on Bay Street think. I wouldn't make decisions about University on the weather. First, winters are warmer than they used to be. Second, it is easy to get winter boots and a coat. And we do have internal heating and everything. One thing- Canadians know far more about the US than Americans know about Canada. I think that is because the US is 10 times the size of Canada (population wise- more by economy) and so there is a strong incentive to be informed; however since Canada is 1/10th the size of the US (from the US point of view- economically and demographically, not geographically) there is little incentive to be informed. The disparity in knowledge is not, I don't think, 100:1, but it is pretty big. [/QUOTE]

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