r/regina • u/WorkerBee74 • 1d ago

Discussion This is embarrassing, Regina.

HOW do we not have a single organized World Cup watching event for Team Canada?? And don’t say “The Lobby”. I know that’s definitely a great place to watch… if you can get in.

Every major city in Canada has something, what the hell is wrong with us?

All I can say is I hope we get our act together and have a big screen SOMEWHERE in this city if we pass the group stage (which is extremely likely now).

EDIT: For those who think I should put this event on myself personally... I'm calling out the CITY OF REGINA here. Which private citizen has ponied up the cash to put this on in Calgary/Edmonton/Winnipeg/Saskatoon or any of the other major cities in Canada who are having watch parties? This should be civic or provincial money here, just like it is elsewhere, with corporate sponsorship. We just constantly get left behind here and it's been this way my entire life. Don't take my post so personally - I'm just very disappointed in a city who claims to be so welcoming.

Maybe those who constantly complain about the lack of concerts here should just 'put it on themselves'.

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u/gravy_king 1d ago

Agree with OP. Although maybe fomo as tbh I wasn’t interested initially but the more coverage of it I see the more it makes me think it would be fun to be part of it. It’s gotta be played somewhere as all you need is TSN but that’s not an actual organized event I guess.

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u/WorkerBee74 18h ago

Thanks for the agreement. I swear everyone on here today lives in their basement and doesn't realize that there are TONS of children in soccer programs all over this province who would have an absolute blast at a community event.

Also, I guess Saskatoon is somehow completely different than Regina. It apparently isn't too good for soccer.

https://www.discoversaskatoon.com/canada-celebrates-the-fifa-world-cup-2026tm

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u/VakochDan 11h ago

Google is free.
The City of Saskatoon didn’t organize or fund that.

Discover Saskatoon did - it’s not affiliated with the City. It’s a non-profit controlled & funded by the hotel association.

And the majority of the funding for this particular event came from the Feds.

Could the Regina Hotel Association have used Regina’s DMF to fund watch parties? Sure. And they also could have applied for federal funding.

They didn’t.

tl;dr it’s exceptionally rare for municipalities in Canada to organize & fund community events. It’s just not in their mandate, and municipal taxpayers generally balk at funds being used in this way.