Definitely lots of homerism on this forum and pretty much all walks of life. So it's not surprising how skewed peoples' rooting interests are on here for their hometown and province vs the ROC.
Not trying to make this an outlet for boosting one's home and bashing others so please leave that kind of thing out of this.
I bring this up because up until my mid 20s Canadians were all equal to me in sports, music, media, whatever. I didn't care if they were from where I am or Flin Flon, Manitoba.
But then my homerism started to develop. Not to the point of bashing other places in this country (I root for Canadians in general), but rooting more for locals who made it big. And feeling more proud of the achievements of Ontarians even if they're from somewhere I've never been remotely close to or quite frankly care much about like Thunder Bay.
So now, in general, I usually root harder for those who made it from Brampton, then the GTA, then Ontario, then Canada. And I treat the rest of the GTA equally so outside of Brampton, it doesn't matter if someone is from fellow Peel Region neighbours Caledon and Mississauga or Oshawa in Durham Region or Newmarket in York Region.
Pop is not my taste in music but I find I will stop and listen to Alessia Cara (Brampton) or Sean Mendes (Pickering) for example. Beiber is from Stratford and so it's cool to know he's from Ontario but I do wonder if he was from the GTA would I actually listen to one of his songs for more than 5 seconds?
I am a fan of Drake's music and most of what he does (talented and charitable to make up for some of the douchiness), but no way would I like him as much if he were from VAN or MTL.
Now there are some Canadians from past or present that I have pretty much maximum appreciation for, for their work and success, regardless of where they're from like Sarah Maclachlan or Steve Nash or Denis Villeneuve. Ya, I wish I could claim them as "one of our own" at the local level but I am happy to claim them as one of Canada's own.
Also it's funny that our rooting interests are determined by arbitrary boundaries. Not gonna lie, if Ontario suddenly expanded its borders to capture this piece of land and someone from Vaudreuil made it big, I might care more than if they were still from Quebec.
And being honest, if someone from Waterdown, Hamilton won an Olympic medal, I wouldn't be as happy as if Waterdown was annexed by Burlington as has been proposed many times. I don't know why, I just feel that way.
So how much are you like me? Or how indifferent are you to local or provincial boundaries?