If you took away the potholes, the cars, the buildings and left nothing but open country that place looks like it would still be a cold, dreary shithole.
So there's only one intersection in Canada, huh? That must be rough.
If there's a bright centre to the universe, Timmins is the place that it's farthest from. Northern Ontario is one vast wasteland of trees and muskeg that the government down here in Toronto goes out of its way to ignore.
At least you have the mine. Maybe you could suggest using mine waste to fill the potholes.