I could not tell you what the Ontario identity is, despite having lived here my entire life. The current provincial election is an interesting time to think about all this as the very idea of Ontario, and all of us who are part of it, is suddenly important. Soon after Doug Ford said he would open the Greenbelt to developers, public response pushed Ford to retract his words. ( Jeff Goode / CP )There are more than 13 million people in Ontario but around half of them live in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. We need to look for more of that kind of tissue in the vast, disparate and hard to define place, especially during election season.

Source: thestar May 19, 2018 12:00 UTC