Toronto isn’t anywhere near Seattle, and its baseball team isn’t a Mariners’ rival. But every year when the Blue Jays come to town, downtown floods with Jays hats and cheerful “eh”s thanks to tour companies’ charter busses that bring fans stateside. Some reports say half of T-Mobile’s seats in those games are sold to Canadian baseball fans, many from the Vancouver, BC, area.
Or least that’s how it used to be.
With the Trump Administration’s Canadian tariffs, not to mention the president’s insulting rhetoric about Canada becoming an American state, Vancouverites’ interest in the annual south-of-the-border baseball weekend has waned. The missing Canadians will be felt all summer: Projections
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