Live Your Life Be Free!

I am blogging from New York City right now. My boyfriend and I drove down from Toronto this morning through beautiful New York State. The contrast between New York State and New York City is strong – while the state seems relatively rural, reminding me of the eastern Quebec near where I grew up, the city, which essentially invented urban planning, is the second-largest in North America. The city and state don’t seem to go together. They seem to have nothing to do with each other.

I have heard the same thing said about London – as a financial and cultural center, and which was long considered to be the most powerful city in the world… compared to the rest of England, which does not share those traits. Toronto is similar. Toronto compared to other Ontario towns, such as Ottawa, Kitchener or Barrie sticks out like a sore thumb, with its variety of cultures and the general chaos of so many worlds colliding. I was thinking, as cities are becoming more and more powerful, maybe we should rethink how we are governed. It seems impossible to believe that the citizens of the major cities and the citizens of the rest of the provinces/states/countries have the same needs. So, let’s start by creating the island of Toronto .