Hello Stephen.

06 Jan 03 11:56, you wrote to Don Guy:

 SM> Ottawa "hopped on the bandwagon," huh?  Meanwhile, Kingston was
 SM> "dragged onto the amalgamation wagon, kicking and
screaming."  I think
 SM> many people thought that municipal amalgamation would end up serving
 SM> as a sorta "shell game" tactic that would distract from the
 SM> Ontario government "downloading" more responsibilities onto the
 SM> municipality. As it is, when you also have to factor in the effect of
 SM> the "downloading," there is just no way to be sure whether
 SM> amalgamation was a good idea.  All I know is that not many people were
 SM> happy about the idea, in what is now dubbed "Greater Kingston."

I dunno; my old stomping grounds of Halifax did the same thing, but to tell
you the truth, I never really saw the need for the "Greater
Halifax" area to be more than one municipality in the first place.
Dartmouth really was just a suburb of Halifax anymoose. It's downtown
consisted of a bus terminal in front of the bridge, a ferry terminal to one
side the bridge, a strip mall behind the bus terminal, and an industrial
park on the other side of the bridge. Hardly anyone who lived in Dartmouth
actually /worked/ on the same side of the harbour, eh? And Bedford was
supposed to be a different town just because there was a basin there by the
same name?

 DG>> Parachuting is good for all meese!  Just because you weren't born
 DG>> with wings doesn't mean that you can't strap on a set and fly
 DG>> once in a while...

 SM> Sure.  Some meese still may wonder about the "joy" of
then proceeding
 SM> to jump out of a perfectly good airplane and trust life and limb to an
 SM> overgrown silk hanky.

Why jump out of a perfectly good, correctly-operating airplane? This is one
Moose that doesn't feel any great urge to trust his life to a silk hanky;
and that's despite the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons...

 SM> 'Course I don't suppose that silk is still used
 SM> that often, but I won't let that start me ranting on about how
 SM> things are generally decaying these days.

That reminds me; it's time to clean out the back of my 'fridge, eh?


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