{"id":28,"date":"2008-06-20T00:28:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T05:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2008\/06\/20\/the-tale-of-a-number-of-somethings\/"},"modified":"2012-12-05T00:57:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:57:50","slug":"the-tale-of-a-number-of-somethings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2008\/06\/20\/the-tale-of-a-number-of-somethings\/","title":{"rendered":"The tale of a number of somethings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wanted to find my MP to write to him\/her about the conservative&#8217;s planed changes to copyright legislation. All I know about politics where I live is that my former MPP was an italian liberal and the current MPP is a conservative jew. Not much to go on, but at least I have an address, so how hard could it be to find out? Real hard. Let me tell you about the beginning of that journey.<\/p>\n<p>I live on a very peculiar street corner &#8211; Dufferin and Rutherford. It&#8217;s peculiar because it&#8217;s not at all clear what city it&#8217;s in. It is right in between 3, or 4, or 5 cities, or towns, or municipalities, or regions whatever you call them.. Yes I&#8217;m actually not sure where I live. And the fact that I don&#8217;t know what a riding is, and how it&#8217;s mapped to the something that I live in makes things worse. Then what makes things even worse is that I&#8217;m not sure MPs and MPPs share the exact same regions or not.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I thought I knew about this intersection (all roughly, with the Dufferin\/Rutherford corner reference):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NNE &#8211; Richmond Hill<\/li>\n<li>NW &#8211; Vaughan<\/li>\n<li>N\/S &#8211; Concord<\/li>\n<li>NWW &#8211; Maple<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To my annoyance the MPs and MPPs for Vaughan and Richmond Hill are liberals. Mind, I actually like that &#8211; but I know that my MPP is a conservative so I must be looking in the wrong place. Concord and Maple weren&#8217;t even in any of the tables I looked at.<\/p>\n<p>Completely by mistake and almost out of desperation I looked at Thornhill. MP &#8211; liberal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susankadis.com\/\">Susan Kadis<\/a>, and she has a map of her riding on her website! What do you know, my corner of the intersection is in Thornhill. I had no idea, I thought Thornhill was way down on Steeles and east of Youge. Well I was half right &#8211; half of it is.<\/p>\n<p>After that it was easy. I quickly found about my former, well liked and very experienced liberal MPP Maurizio Bevilacqua; and the current, new kid on the block conservative Peter Shurman. My search is over.<\/p>\n<p>But honestly I still don&#8217;t know where I live. More than once I had my postal code resolve to Concord. I know that my garbage collection is managed by Vaughan, and I get the Vaughan local paper. Richmond Hill is so close I can&#8217;t honestly discount the possibility, and I often see Maple on maps when looking for where I live. Now Thornhill? If that&#8217;s where I lived for two years, how is it that I&#8217;ve never heard of or read about it? Lame.<\/p>\n<p>I wish they&#8217;d just call the whole thing the Greater North York or something. That may sound vague but at least I&#8217;d know what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wanted to find my MP to write to him\/her about the conservative&#8217;s planed changes to copyright legislation. All I know about politics where I live is that my former MPP was an italian liberal and the current MPP is a conservative jew. 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