Arena funding for Brantford.The county may well suffer from ice pad envy, now that governments have announced funding for a super-sized arena in Brantford. The city will receive about $26 million in funding for its proposed four-pad arena at the Wayne Gretzky Noun 1. Wayne Gretzky - high-scoring Canadian ice-hockey player (born in 1961) Gretzky Sports Centre sports centre (Brit) sport n → centre sportif sports centre sport n → Sportzentrum nt in an announcement made on Jun. 5 by local dignitaries. In February, it was announced that the county will receive $15 million from the feds and the province combined, for its $23 million twin pad complex. Brantford, the "Tournament Capital of Ontario" and Wayne Gretzky's birthplace will use its arena to host hockey tournaments which already provide a huge economic stimulus for both the city and the county. Brant brant or brant goose, common name for a species of wild sea goose. The American brant, Branta bernicla, breeds in the Arctic and winters along the Atlantic coast. MP Phil McColeman and Brant MPP (Massively Parallel Processing or Massively Parallel Processor) A multiprocessing architecture that uses up to thousands of processors. Some might contend that a computer system with 64 or more CPUs is a massively parallel processor. Dave Levac Dave Levac (born April 6, 1954 in Brantford, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Brant for the Ontario Liberal Party. were on hand to announce that the federal and provincial governments will each inject $12.9 million into the project, with the city funding the remaining third. The federal Build Canada Fund, matched by the province, provides "top up" money for projects that can be built over the next two years. |
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