Dream Team for Brampton Beast
Brampton’s East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) team, the Brampton Beast, proudly announced that Spiros Anastas has accepted the position of Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations for the franchise. He will become the team’s fourth Head Coach, replacing Colin Chaulk, who is now the Assistant Coach of the Belleville Senators. The news was delivered […]
CAA Centre to Replace Powerade Centre in Brampton
CAA South Central Ontario (CAA SCO) announced today that they have signed a new 10-year sponsorship agreement for Brampton’s 5,000-seat arena located on Kennedy Rd. near Highway 410 and 407. The transition from the Powerade Centre to the CAA Centre will be completed by late Spring 2018. Terms of the agreement were not provided. An […]
Councillors Medeiros & Fortini
Some have called Mayor Linda Jeffery a “Lame Duck Mayor”, and have referred to Brampton Council as “dysfunctional”. On this episode of Brampton Focus, we sit down with two members of Brampton’s Council, Martin Medeiros, Regional Councillor for Wards 3 & 4, and Pat Fortini, City Councillor for Wards 7 & 8. We speak to […]
TGIF: A City Awash in $$$’s
If there ever was a week to look forward to Friday, this one ranks right up there. We have so much money in Brampton that we are throwing it around like confetti. Drunken Sailors are nothing compared to what our Councillors have decided: $1.5M to the Beast ($1.75M with the HST) $250,000 to study feasibility to […]
$1.5M Taxpayer Bailout for Brampton Beast
Brampton City Council has decided by an 8-2 vote to give $1,500,000 of taxpayer dollars to prop-up the Brampton Beast for the next 3 years. The Beast, a privately owned and run group led by Gregg Rosen, owner of Kimco Steel in Kingston and minority owner Cary Kaplan, both pleaded their case to “help the team make […]
Mar 4 / 2016 – Begging Beasts
Its been a rowdy couple of weeks at Brampton City Council in regards to Uber and now an ultimatum from the Brampton Beast hockey club to pull up stakes and get out of Dodge if they don’t get a massive infusion of taxpayers dollars to cover their operating costs by next week. Councillor Elaine Moore had no problem putting forward […]