After spending the weekend in Edmonton, and driving by the site, I came away a bit envious of the fact they're a lot closer to their shiny new toy.
Of interest was a radio ad I heard a few times on the drive home funded by local iron workers urging the public to lobby officials to contract local workers for the new Calgary arena. There was some controversy up north when they brought in "specialty" temporary foreign workers for some of the job.
"if they're using taxpayer money, they should have taxpayers building it". Of course nobody outside of the discussions between KK and NN knows the funding structure yet.
We're one day closer to finding out something I suppose. Right KK? Right?
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