Canada's urbanites are encountering a growing divide with their country cousins

City snickers creating division?

By MICHAEL DEN TANDT AND ROB GRANATSTEIN

Canada's had some great divides in its history. French versus English. East versus West. Oil producers versus oil consumers (or is that still east versus west?). But one that's on the radar, and growing in ferocity is the rural versus urban divide in Canada. Are we becoming two solitudes? Is there common ground? Sun Media's country gentleman Michael Den Tandt and urbanite Rob Granatstein go searching ..