Is that you know how to dance.
Wait, that's not it, that is a burn from an 80's dance song by The Romantics.
No, what I like about you Stephen Harper is that, according to Murray Mandryk in Tuesday's Regina Leader-Post, "...the prospects for federal money -- or at least, all that much federal money -- for a new domed stadium in Regina are not looking all that good right now."
Good on you.
I am a big fan of http://www.fieldofschemes.com/ and you should be too coz it is your money that the teams, whether community owned like the Green Riders, or privately owned like the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, who, btw, are threatening to move if they don't get the stadium they want, it is your money that these teams use to build stadiums.
Apparently the Stephen Harpers don't want to give the people of Regina a gazillion dollars to build a dome that will be world class and will be used by its primary tenant eight to a dozen times a year. Actually it is only 430,000,000.00.
Like, how crazy is that, really, 430 f'cking million dollars for a football stadium in a city that just may be the most rife with social ills and racism of any not only in Canada but in North America? Like, seriously, doncha think the government of Saskatchewan would be better off taking that 430 large and investing it in its people? More specifically investing in its youth who are drawn to gangs and other bullsh*t at a higher level than anywhere else going.
I am surely not anti sport or anti Saskatchewan but they only have to look two states due south of Regina to encounter the Dakota Dome. This beauty was built in in 1979 for a cost of $8.2 million. It is home to the University of South Dakota Coyotes for numerous athletic events, including football, men's and women's basketball, volleyball, men's and woman's swimming and diving, and track. A $13.7 million steel roof was added in 2001 due to numerous collapses of the old teflon roof. The DakotaDome hosts other events throughout the year, including the South Dakota high school football championships each November.
Sure, you won't be able to bring it in for 8.9 but I bet you could throw up a 30,000 seat version of the Dakota Dome for under a 100. It won't have cloth seats or any of that other superfluous stuff but try to remember where you are, eh?
That's what I like about you, Stephen Harper.
WFDS
But Harper just might give money to build a new hockey rink in Quebec City because Paladeau wants to bring in one of the teams from the States. That's Karl Peladeau of Fox News North & his best bud K Teneycke. The Feds won't fund a team but will help out to fund a state-of-the-art rink. One palm greases the other.
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