Edmonton will regret tearing down Northlands, and not fighting to keep the CFR. Who will attend Farmfair now? Hopefully they will relocate to Red Deer as well, and Edmonton will have lost all the millions that poured into the city every November. Rogers was not designed to effectively host livestock events... at the PBR event that ran concurrently with the CFR, all the bulls were hauled from Ponoka daily. Brilliant. And to agree to tear down a perfectly good venue as part of the Roger's Coliseum contract has to rank as one of the dumbest ideas ever made by a city council. Hopefully Red Deer can handle it, but the Centrium capacity is much smaller...7819 if they use the floor, which obviously they cannot for a rodeo!
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