{"id":11992,"date":"2011-11-09T09:07:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T13:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11992"},"modified":"2011-11-09T10:32:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T14:32:26","slug":"this-is-not-news-toronto-is-canadas-least-liked-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/this-is-not-news-toronto-is-canadas-least-liked-city\/","title":{"rendered":"This is not news: Toronto is Canada&#8217;s least-liked city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, a strong case could be made that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/11\/09\/7-things-canadians-think-about-their-cities\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">hating Toronto<\/a> is one of the key factors that binds the rest of Canada together:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ontario\u2019s capital not only had the lowest rate of positive responses, it also had the highest rate of \u201cvery negative\u201d responses. \u201cMany Canadians have a hate-on for Toronto,\u201d said Myer Siemiatycki, a Ryerson University politics professor. \u201cToronto is regarded as totally self-indulgent, so there\u2019s a sort of \u2018Who do they think they are believing they\u2019re the centre of the country and the universe?\u2019\u201d Jim Milway, executive director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management, said the poorer perception of Toronto &mdash; 19% of respondents gave negative responses &mdash; is due to animosity more than anything else. \u201cIt\u2019s not necessarily that people like their city more than Toronto,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s that people just don\u2019t like Toronto, period.\u201d Prof. McGrane, of the University of Saskatchewan, said the \u201cgrudge\u201d is rooted in historic grievances, particularly harboured by westerners who have long felt \u201cleft out.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not that we hate (Torontonians), but we\u2019re a bit suspicious about them and their motives,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t claim to have been everywhere in the country, but from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, hatred of Toronto and distaste for Torontonians is almost universal among Canadians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, a strong case could be made that hating Toronto is one of the key factors that binds the rest of Canada together: Ontario\u2019s capital not only had the lowest rate of positive responses, it also had the highest rate of \u201cvery negative\u201d responses. \u201cMany Canadians have a hate-on for Toronto,\u201d said Myer Siemiatycki, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[87,207],"class_list":["post-11992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","tag-ontario","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-37q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11993,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions\/11993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}