Which Canadian Cities have Suburbs?

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Sudbury is straight forward. When you get into the Districts of Northern Ontario, you end up with hilarious situations like Thunder Bay is responsible for collecting all of the property tax in Thunder Bay District and then remits the money to the province (meaning someone living just outside Marathon, Ontario, 5 hours away, has to go to Thunder Bay to pay their property tax). Thunder Bay must also provide ambulance services for the entire region (Superior North EMS covers Upsala to Marathon, and is an outside board of the city of Thunder Bay). The Thunder Bay District Social Services Board, headquartered in Thunder Bay (right behind city hall, in a larger building) is primarily funded by the city, but must provide social housing and administer welfare to the entire region. The especially fun part about that one is that while Thunder Bay makes up over 75% of the DSSAB's service population, it only gets 6 of its 13 board seats, meaning non-Thunder Bayers get to decide how Thunder Bay's money is spent! (Spoiler: they don't spend it on Thunder Bay.)

Northern Ontario (except Sudbury) is a great example of what happens when you remove a level of government and then fail to reassign the responsibilities of that government to the remaining two governments. Tens of thousands of Northern Ontarians don't even get to vote on municipal election day because they have no municipal government at all! Roads are maintained through roads boards which are basically just small committees of connected people who decide what street the guy with a plow truck will plow first. Since they pay their land tax at Thunder Bay's city hall, they think they should have a say in how we do things in the city, because they don't understand the difference between the two things!