Sports in Canadian culture

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^I will happily kick Toronto in the nuts where it is deserved, but I also have to give it credit where it is due... Toronto is a legitimate cultural capital. It is the centre of the country's television industry, the press, the theatre scene, music, film, literature, magazines, you name it.

Montreal obviously occupies a very important role at the centre of French Canada's cultural world, but ultimately it is at best a 1A to Toronto's undisputed 1. No other Canadian city is even in the conversation.