QUOTE (Khairn @ Mar 14 2010, 08:42 AM)

I bet the Leafs are still waiting for another Stanley Cup win.

Now THAT was meant to hurt! Unfortunately, I have been a Montréal Canadiens fan from the start. It won me many beers from my buddys over the years (Leafs fans are insanely loyal) ... until the Canadiens began to suck too.
Those of us not from the U.S. have to deal with the fact that SR developed there and is understandably ethnocentric. Most of the fluff is written to be meaningful to the locals. I understand Germans have taken this bull by the horns and developed a lot of backstory for their neck of the woods. The rest of us can learn from their proactive example.
It is my belief that both Montréal and Toronto would grow tremendously from immigration in the years after the formation of the NAN. I suspect they would both be larger than the SR Seattle of 2072. (Toronto already is if you look at the Greater Toronto Area that is built of surrounding, adjoining cities as the Seattle Metroplex of SR is, and maybe Montréal is too if you add in the outlying satellite urbanizations.) They would be massive centers of industry and shipping, and be cultural mosaics. Can it get any better for runners?
And if SR ever comes around to dealing with global climate change the way it did with wireless Matrix access, then all those coastal cities that figure so prominently (Seattle, New York, Boston, New Orleans....) will be inundated. Meanwhile, Montréal and Toronto, way upriver as they are, will only become more important.
Cool idea about the Métro,
Khairn! I might steal it for Toronto.
If you want to incorporate ley lines into some local runs,
Delarn, check them out through Google, and you will find that Québec has a major nexus on its Hudson Bay shore and a secondary one SE of James Bay.