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   On 2026-01-24 10:03 p.m., The Horny Goat wrote:   
   > On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:06:45 -0500, Rhino   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Even metro Toronto is a pretty big city but it's just the center of a   
   >> cluster of satellites like Mississauga, Brampton (a.k.a. Bramladesh),   
   >> Richmond Hill, Unionville, Pickering, etc. are often substantial cities   
   >> in their own right. There has been talk for some years of Toronto   
   >> separating from Ontario and being its own province, although that hasn't   
   >> become a popular notion, just an outlier.   
   >   
   > My first house was in Pickering (and my firstborn was born there)   
   > which (this will make no sense to anybody but Rhino) pretty much ended   
   > at Finch Street but now ends somewhat north of Hwy 7. When we were   
   > going through there on the way back to the inlaws on the S side of   
   > Toronto having started the day in northern New Brunswick we did a   
   > drive-by (our two younger kids were born in BC, our eldest didn't   
   > remember Pickering as she had come west as a baby though she returned   
   > to Ontario to go to Carleton in Ottawa - which is 5 hours drive from   
   > Toronto)   
   >   
   You'd be surprised how long some of the streets are north of Toronto. I   
   sometimes like to go for a drive just to see what's around me and I   
   remember one trip to well north of Toronto to see a place we'd lived   
   when I was maybe 4, Alliston, Ontario. I remember being surprised to   
   find streets like Jane St up that far. Now, I didn't actually drive all   
   that way on Jane St. so it's possible that the street is discontinuous   
   or even that it is a completely different Jane St. but it felt like it   
   was roughly the right distance from the 400 to be the real deal.   
      
   And of course some people insist that Yonge St is the longest street in   
   Ontario at 1100 miles, finally curving West and ending north of Lake   
   Superior, although some insist that this confuses Yonge St with Hwy 11   
   which is what goes the 1100 miles while Yonge is way shorter.   
      
   >> Of course you have to remember our dollars are a good bit smaller than   
   >> yours. I sometimes jokingly refer to them as Canadian pesos given that   
   >> the exchange rate is somewhere near 30%.   
   >   
   > The current US/CA exchange rate is 72-73 cents (or about $1.37-1.38   
   > Cdn = $ 1.00 US)   
   >   
   >> I know nothing about the guy making the speech but he seems to go to   
   >> Council meetings regularly so I suppose he's some kind of activist, not   
   >> just a Joe Blow who finally had enough and decided to make his first   
   >> foray into a council meeting.   
   >   
   > I know quite a few such people in both camps :)   
      
      
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   Rhino   
      
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