Mattea Roach is making history on Jeopardy with 14 consecutive wins and all of Canada is watching.
Since then we’ve been fighting about where she’s From. Is she from Nova Scotia or Ontario?
She says “They don’t want to just claim that you’re from Canada if you’re from a specific city or specific province. It’s like, ‘No, she’s not just from Canada. She’s from Nova Scotia, or she’s in Toronto.”‘
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Sooooooo what does she think?
“People in Nova Scotia, and then also people in Toronto — the two places that I associate myself most closely with — have been very eager to claim me as belonging more to one than the other,” said Roach, who spent the first six years of her life and some of her adolescence in Halifax. She has also spent time in Calgary and Moncton, N.B. In reality, she belongs to both. Nova Scotia is home, she said but she feels deeply attached to Toronto where she moved to for a university degree in political science and sexual diversity studies.
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