Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts 2012

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Not much better, if at all. Seems they've kept the terrible Edmonton Griesbach name. Looks like Edmonton-Strathcona has reverted to its current boundaries. Over all, not that much change from the preliminary map.

"Edmonton Griesbach" sounds like a name of an eminent professor of languages at an otherwise unknown university.

[doktorb]

Not much better, if at all. Seems they've kept the terrible Edmonton Griesbach name. Looks like Edmonton-Strathcona has reverted to its current boundaries. Over all, not that much change from the preliminary map.

"Edmonton Griesbach" sounds like a name of an eminent professor of languages at an otherwise unknown university.

No, it's a Tory.
Mayor of Edmonton 1906-1907, MP for Edmonton West 1917-1921, Senator 1921-1945.
A former Army base in Edmonton.

I was trying to be funny

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"British Columbia Southern Interior" is a beautiful, beautiful name.

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"British Columbia Southern Interior" is a beautiful, beautiful name.

I hope that's sarcasm.

I'd really like to see a lot of the superfluous directionals removed from riding names. There isn't a North Okanagan-Eask Kootenay, so why don't we just call it Okanagan-Kooteney? There is no Burnaby South-Seymour or East Okanagan-Coquihalla. If I were the redistribution king, I would mandate that directionals were minimized to where a proper toponomy simply can't be found. I'd also like to see m-dashes in riding names limited to one

In the UK, there's a few examples of compass points not being reflected in full. There's "Middlesbrough" and its neighbour "Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland"; and " Preston" is to the south of "Wyre and Preston North"