Broadcasters suppress their regional accents in favour of an artificially standardized accent? How long has this been going on? 
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Yeah, I couldn’t hear an accent in those guys at all.
There are some Scandanavian enclaves in the Puget Sound area, like Ballard and Poulsbo, where that accent is spoken.
Slight hijack: My wife is of Chinese decent, but was born in Chicago. She has a standard American midwest accent. She has a cousin in Calgary with a thick Canadian accent. Another cousin in New York City with a thick Queens accent. When the three of them get together and start talking, it’s hard for me to keep a straight face.
If you’re pronouncing it with more than two syllables, you’re probably not from there. 
That’s what I keep telling people - I don’t have an accent!
sas-KATCH-ew-wan (Wan doesn’t rhyme with “one” or with “man.” Somewhere in between like Obi-Wan Kenobi.)
Am I doing it right?
ETA: Yikes! More than two syllables!
True, I’m not. I pronounce it the way most Canadians pronounce it.
It is funny to hear Americans say it, especially since they really pronounce the “wan” at the end, almost like it’s accented. But then again, they pronounce “Toronto” in a totally phonetic way, too. 
As far as I know, in regard to Ontario, yes, there is a little bit of a twang in the speech of the Ottawa Valley, but it’s nothing that makes it hard to understand. They are the ones more likely to say “aboot” if anyone is.
And naturally, there are Maritimers that speak in a dialect resembling what is heard in Maine, especially in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; Newfoundland, though has a dialect that sounds almost Irish in nature. That being said, though, a lot of this dialect is levelling out because of the media – both major networks have national news broadcasts, and the same anchormen are heard and seen all through the whole country, and they speak what is known as a Midwestern accent.
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Hey, the plains of Wyoming in Brokeback Mountain are actually Alberta. And the wheat in 300 came from the University of Saskatchewan!
Every time someone ends the word Saskatchewan with a pronounced WAN that rhymes with RAN I want to reach into the TV and strangle them. There’s this one newscaster on CTV Newsnet that is really bad for that.
I have relatives in Southeastern North Dakota and none of them, despite having Norwegian ancestry have an accent anywhere near the accent in Fargo. They sound Midwestern – though a few words here and there might have a slight Scandinavian twang to them. In fact, I don’t recall hearing that accent from anyone that lives in the area where they live.
Oddly enough, I have some cousins (same side of the family) that grew up in central Wisconsin who do have a bit of that Minnesota accent…
Oh, come on! There’s about 2.25 syllables in Saskatchewan as pronounced by locals. You’ve got this slight double-slurring of the initial s’s.
sSKATCHwun
When I say it, the ‘wan’ is pretty close to rhyming with ‘one.’ Maybe a bit more towards ‘on,’ but not a whole lot.
It is similar to the standard Midwestern accent, but there’s definitely a difference. I know a lot of Arizonans–are you sure you’re a native? 
That’s about as good a written pronunciation as you’re likely to get.
Yeah. And I think I know a lot more Arizonans than you do. 
If you ever see the cartoon Bobby’s World by Howie Mandel, the mom has the strongest realistic sounding accent I’ve ever heard. Working retail in Hawaii I’ve met people from all over the world and have met a bunch from North Dakota with the accent. Most noticeably (to me at least) was the “Oh yeah, yeah” in the beginning, “Don’tcha know” at the end and when they say no, it tends to be slowly drawn out. But even then, I find it more charming and slghtly amusing (I think it’s a friendly sounding accent) than anything and it’s really not that obvious. I’m an accent whore and tend to pick up accents if I talk to people long enough.
I know some Minnesotans, and they sound a little smoother and less nasally than the Michigan U.P.'ers that I know, and they in turn sound like some Alaskans and Ontarians I have heard. It’s the sound of The North spreading West.
I’m from central Minnesota, and the for the most part, no one’s accent is pronounced. I notice it a lot more when I interact with people from the far north - Bemidji, Grand Rapids, everything beyond- their vowels are crazy sometimes- even younger people.
My accent is pretty much nonexistent, but my o’s give me away sometimes. Saying I’m from Minnesota (even if I try to say it normally!) always draws a laugh among non-Midwesterners.
An I the only one who thinks ‘Bemidji’ sounds like a bite-size candy? “Coming this fall from Nestle’s, try new, chocolate Bemidjis!”
Andrew Zimmern is a New Yorker? Pshaw, Hardly. That guy’s Minnesotan Ahramaic, flat nebbish neurotic, accent belies his vowel shift.
Look, I’m not trying to infer anything nefarious. It’s simply a matter of dialect. Zimmern sounds like a Minnesotan- German- Jew from the urban or suburban parts of Minnesota with residuals of Summers spent in New York, the sonic subtleties are quite apparent. It’s very simple, nothing judgemental, its just that people place themselves quite specifically ethno-linguistically and geograpically.