Talk:Cameron Lake (Ontario)

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British Columbia?[edit]

Hey where is the article about Cameron Lake in British Columbia? That one is more important than this one in Southern Ontario. The Cameron Lake on Vancouver Island is known for its crytozoological research. Instead, Southern Ontario (as usual) gets all the attention.

Why is everything Canadian in Wikipedia so oriented towards Southern Ontario? Is every American thing in Wikipedia focused on, say, Western New York? Eastern Oklahoma? Southern Kentucky? No?

So why do we let this tiny little spit of land (that's barely part of Canada, when you look on a map, how it dangles from it like a hang-nail) in the extreme south-central corner of our nation, dominate so much of Canada's Wikipedia presence?

REF: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090919/national/creature_search —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atikokan (talk • contribs)

Well, seeing as just under half the country's population lives in that tiny little hang nail, it is indeed important. The reason it dominated on wikipedia, is because more people from southern Ontario are adamant about making their locales known on wikipedia. If you feel this strongly, you too can create articles! - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 01:41, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want to get in the discussion between the British Columbians and the Ontarioans, but there are in fact at least two Cameron Lakes in Ontario. The other is about 7 miles south of Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula. I know it is there because I spent many happy summers there as a youth.Omarvan (talk) 19:03, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just under half? Hardly. Another (in a long line of) annoying examples of Southern Ontario boasting and pontificating about itself, like some fat, short, bald 1950s small-town mayor, opening a new wiener factory with those big, fake cardboard scissors covered in Reynolds’s Wrap, cutting a plastic yellow ribbon. Like Mel Lastman used to love doing as mayor of toronto (yes, lower-case "t").

I see this everywhere in Wikipedia -- Southern Ontario being boosted and boasted about, as if there is some insidious and covert conspiracy to attract even more foreign business investment to a region that already has too many people and too much power.

And let it be known: this is all thanks to government. Everything and I mean everything that you Southern Ontarians have is entirely due to 200 years of government interference in the free-market system ... and on the backs of Canada's hinterland (the rest of the body-politic of Canada; that is not that tiny little hang nail, lol). And paid-for by the harvesting of natural resources from the 98% of Canada that is not in that little hang nail, thank-you-very-much.

Just under half? Naw, barely a third; check the Census.

Oh and by the way? To you who think population is everything (ill-gotten as it may be)? Consider the good old "U-S-of-A"; there, in the United States Senate, the state of Wyoming has as much power as the state of New York ... with 1/34th the population. I rest my case.

--Atikokan (talk) 05:32, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]