Soccer is one of the most popular sports played in Canada. According to FIFA's Big Count, 2,695,712 people played in Canada in 2006, arguably making soccer one of the most popular sports in Canada.

B.M.O. Field is the first soccer-specific stadium in Canada and is home to Toronto FC and the Canadian National teams. BMO Field is located at the Exhibition Place in Downtown Toronto. The facility is owned by the City of Toronto .

Terminology
The game is played in Canada according to the rules of association football. In Canada and the United States, football commonly refers to the sport played in the Canadian Football League and the National Football League, the sports respectively known as Canadian football (CFL) and American football (NFL), or collectively as gridiron football, elsewhere.

Major League Soccer
Toronto FC became the first Canadian club in Major League Soccer in 2007, joining the highest level of professional soccer in the United States. On March 18, 2009, an MLS franchise was awarded to Vancouver, scheduled to begin play in the 2011 season.

United Soccer Leagues (no not man unt)
The second tier in the United States is the USL First Division, which also features Canadian clubs Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps. There are no Canadian sides in the USL Second Division.

Canadian Soccer League
In May of 2009, the Ontario-Quebec based Canadian Soccer League was granted conditional approval as Canada's national Tier II pro soccer league. No other league has received such acknowledgement in Canada in 16 years. The CSL has spoken often of an objective of expansion to Western Canada. Of note, both Toronto FC (MLS), and Montreal Impact (USL), have their reserve clubs playing in the CSL.

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Doesn't it? Roll over Match of the Day.

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Here's a scene from CERN Life. Queuing outside the government office, in this case to take a driving test. As you can see, people who need to take a driving test tend to be immigrants.

No Frills (styled as no frills)

Is a chain of franchised "hard discount" grocery stores currently located in the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and very recently New Brunswick that are owned by Loblaw Companies Limited, a subsidiary of George Weston Limited.

The early No Frills stores mostly sold only No Frills' No Name products. The franchise was widely expanded in the 1990s by Loblaw Companies Limited, which also operates several other chains of supermarkets, including Loblaws.
The company operated a few stores in the Buffalo, New York, area in the United States, as well as in Gloversville, New York, but these closed after Loblaw Companies' U.S. chain was sold in the mid-1970s.

Pricing

In order to maintain low prices, No Frills customers are expected to bag their own groceries. This practice eliminates the additional paid staff who would traditionally perform this service. Shoppers are also expected to bring their own bags in order to save the store expense of plastic bags, although they are available for purchase. As an alternative, product shipping boxes are provided to the customers to use to transport their groceries, further reducing the need for plastic bags.

No Frills gained a large share of the ethnic consumer market in the Toronto area for the grocery business when Knob Hill Farms went out of business. A huge part of Knob Hill Farms' customer base was ethnic consumers. Some no frills buildings were previously Knob Hill Farms locations. No Frills also advertises on the multicultural television stations in the Toronto area as did Knob Hill Farms.

In Quebec, similar stores are branded as Maxi. A recent store has opened in the city of Vancouver in a former Extra Foods store that was converted.
In 2009, the second No Frills is opened up in New Brunswick. The newly built No Frills is replacing Save Easy which is also owned and operated by Loblaws due to the amount of competition in the small, yet growing town of Shediac, New Brunswick. The first No Frills was located in Moncton, New Brunswick, but was closed down.

In the late 1990s, A&P Canada introduced Food Basics, a discount grocery store to compete directly with No Frills. Sobeys, another competitor of Loblaws, introduced Price Chopper stores to compete in the discount grocery market.

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LOL.....evil

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Any who is it that is forcing you to read this thread? What an understanding and welcoming bunch you are

Lol pot.... kettle.

I sit here stunned in disbelief, having just watched that No Frills thing. I don't know what came over me, I burn with embarassment.

That said, this is the neatest and most civilised No Frills I have yet to see. Where are the tramps hovering over the grapes, devouring handfuls at a time? Where is the screeching couple flinging apples at each other in the midst of a domestic dispute? Where are the hoards of family members all shopping together, deliberating at length over which bag of onions is bigger, blocking the aisle so no one else can buy anything? That's the fun of No Frills, no one in their right mind actually buys their fruit n' veg there.

Just a quick note. Can you get a camera that has an image stabilizer as I think some of your message is getting lost in the production.

Of course

I thought CERN was in Switzerland!