Oct 1, 2026 · 52 min · 8 segments
The CFL Board of Governors approves a move to add Quebéc City to the East Division. Hamilton is eliminated from the playoff race and makes a trade with the Alouettes soon after. Does the NFL need to…
Heath GrahamHostThat, I would have thought they would be out in front of, but right now the CFL is being very quiet about it.
The first thought is, as far as the story being leaked, it was local Quebec media that kind of brought the story forward.
I think an announcement of this magnitude was something that they were maybe looking at announcing come Grey Cup week or somewhere along the lines.
Of course, with any rumour of CFL expansion, the talk turns to stadiums as well.
A usable stadium with a 20 plus thousand capacity for fans is something that is needed in order to get a team this is the closest we've been in quite some time.
I mean, we can go all the way back to the 1980s of the first talk of the Atlantic schooners.
And then more recently, 2018-2019, there was a lot of talk towards an Atlantic Schooners team landing possibly in Halifax.
Of course, with COVID and the league shutdown for the year, that kind of went to the wayside.
Nobody in Halifax has really stepped up with a full proposal of a larger stadium.
We talked a bit in a previous episode about the Halifax Wanderers soccer team and a new 10-ish thousand seat stadium, which would not quite work for a full-time CFL team.
One, the Rouge d'Or of Lavelle have a stadium that they had a record crowd of about 21,000 for a U-sport game in the last week.
It's not the long-term solution, but there are some proposals for a more permanent and up-to-date CFL stadium.
Four of the five candidates in that provincial election are coming out in favor of it.
I haven't heard specifically which one hasn't, but I can only guess that I have a sense of which party probably isn't in favor of it.
The Prime Minister of Canada is also saying that the federal government is in favor of it.
That, I would have thought they would be out in front of, but right now the CFL is being very quiet about it.
The first thought is, as far as the story being leaked, it was local Quebec media that kind of brought the story forward.
I think an announcement of this magnitude was something that they were maybe looking at announcing come Grey Cup week or somewhere along the lines.
Of course, with any rumour of CFL expansion, the talk turns to stadiums as well.
A usable stadium with a 20 plus thousand capacity for fans is something that is needed in order to get a team this is the closest we've been in quite some time.
I mean, we can go all the way back to the 1980s of the first talk of the Atlantic schooners.
And then more recently, 2018-2019, there was a lot of talk towards an Atlantic Schooners team landing possibly in Halifax.
Of course, with COVID and the league shutdown for the year, that kind of went to the wayside.
Nobody in Halifax has really stepped up with a full proposal of a larger stadium.
We talked a bit in a previous episode about the Halifax Wanderers soccer team and a new 10-ish thousand seat stadium, which would not quite work for a full-time CFL team.
One, the Rouge d'Or of Lavelle have a stadium that they had a record crowd of about 21,000 for a U-sport game in the last week.
It's not the long-term solution, but there are some proposals for a more permanent and up-to-date CFL stadium.
Four of the five candidates in that provincial election are coming out in favor of it.
I haven't heard specifically which one hasn't, but I can only guess that I have a sense of which party probably isn't in favor of it.
The Prime Minister of Canada is also saying that the federal government is in favor of it.
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