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((Canadian Press/Jacques Boissinot)) The Quebec government and Quebec City will fund the construction of a new arena in the provincial capital. The $400-million project, which many Quebec City ...
For example, Quebec City Mayor Régis Labeaume said to the Toronto Star in 2011 that comparing public funding for a hockey arena with funding for true public works, such as hospitals, was both ...
The federal government hit the pause button on the contentious Quebec arena debate Thursday, announcing a delay in any funding announcement for a project that has roused passions across the country.
In a province equally focused on producing both wood and steel as raw materials, the debate over which material is used to build a new arena in Quebec heats up. MONTREAL—Quebec City’s push to ...
Here’s how it works. Place Bell is a 10,000-seat arena located in Laval, Quebec. Officially opened on September 1, the venue is the culmination of a major development initiative to provide local ...
Yet Quebec’s government Thursday announced it would pour $200 million into a new coliseum in Quebec City, whose raison d’être is drawing back a National Hockey League team, something the NHL ...
The scene outside the Nassau Coliseum Saturday night was surreal. Eleven hundred Quebec Nordiques fans stood outside the Coliseum, most holding signs and clad in the ubiquitous powder blue jerseys ...
STANSTEAD, Quebec -- A thin and frail Pat Burns said he's honored to have an arena named after him, even as he conceded he likely won't live to see it completed. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen ...
They have come this year to the 31st annual International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament, which opened last weekend and continues through Sunday at the Quebec Coliseum. It features 2,000 youngsters on ...
Most of the focus recently has been in the east on Quebec, with its attempts to fulfill NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman's terms for reinstatement in the league by building a new NHL-size arena with ...
Ever since the Quebec Nordiques decamped in 1995, leaving a hole in the Francophone city, vote-seeking officials have vowed to bring them back. But younger voters may be starting to forget the team.