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Originally Posted by Echoes
Part of it is that Saskatoon and Regina are the two primate cities in SK and each serve massive rural hinterlands as the urban service centres.
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This stands out a lot when comparing to Ontario where a large-ish city might only be the largest in a small area. Provinces direct a lot of spending in Canada, and Saskatchewan will tend to pick Regina or Saskatoon for amenities, while London is far down the list in Ontario, and most major regional amenities (ROM, AGO, sports venues, etc. etc.) go to Toronto.
It is part of why comparing populations of cities (or suburbs) in isolation only gets you so far and it's silly when you see people commenting that Brampton or Surrey are some of the top cities in Canada we should see on tourist guides, or a "Tier 3" Chinese city happens to be defined as including 4 million people in some sort of statistical area so it's more important than Brussels or Frankfurt.
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