No, I got that part, I meant why there are no Harvey's? Just random or something happened?
I don't know. Best guess is that there never were that many to begin with that weren't tucked into the front of Home Depot locations but when Home Depot swapped those out for Subways the reach died down massively. And I guess because stuff like Harvey's and Swiss Chalet didn't have massive long-reaching histories in BC like they do in Ontario people didn't take to them the same way. There were a few that remained, seemingly mostly married to Swiss Chalet locations but those dwindled and now there are 0 Harvey's in BC and 1 lone Swiss Chalet out in Burnaby (not far from Vancouver).
I think that Harvey's reach as "the" Canadian burger chain is also massively overstated given that if you look at the location map on their website there are like 250 locations in Ontario and Quebec combined, 19 in Alberta, and then no other province has more than 6 (with BC being the only one that has none if you don't count the territories)
I suppose I would've had to get used to not getting Harvey's anyways sooner or later. My grandmother is planning to move back from Kelowna to here in the lower mainland simply because she's too old to be up in the mountains by herself with no family less than 4 hours away and not super comfortable with the frozen hellscape winters that happen up there. So when she comes back down here that would likely end my reason to travel up there again for any reason (and thus remove my ability to get a Harvey's burger).
People in Ontario can watch Sportsnet Pacific too. It's not like back in the day when we had analog cable and you were only getting one regional channel. I don't even know why they separate them by region anymore. Probably should rename these channels.
Yeah, I know, but the channels are still primarily catered to the various markets with regional programming that's blacked out elsewhere and the fact that if you have cable you chiefly get your region's sportsnet with the other ones being in the tier-up package that likely includes Sportsnet One and/or 360. There's little reason to watch the out-of-market Sportsnet except for time-shifted programming like Connected loops since most major programs are carried nationally and most things that are specific to each region are often not available outside of them (like I couldn't watch Oilers, Flames, or Leafs hockey on Sportsnets west or ontario if I wanted to because of blackout rules)
TSN does the same thing, they just don't use the names. TSN2 is the national feed while 1, 3, 4, and 5 ostensibly are meant to serve various regions (according to a map on wikipedia 1 is for BC/Alberta, 3 is the prairies and territories, 4 is Ontario except for the Ottawa region and 5 is Ottawa, Quebec, and the Maritimes.)
Plus they still do feature a ton of locally flavored commercials. Like car dealerships and whatnot.
