Confirmed with Link: Bell MTS Place to be renamed Canada Life Centre

[dcypher]

Too bad it wasn't Salisbury Arena

 

[drumzan]

Best Sleep Centre. Home of the Winnipeg Jets.

Youuuuuuu’ll beat us.

 

[Buffdog]

Canada Life is local.

Didn't realize that. Wawanesa is a cool story about a bunch of farmers getting together and pooling their resources to look after each other. Something about 4 or 5 guys around a campfire coming up with a plan..

At least that's the story I was told

 

[surixon]

Didn't realize that. Wawanesa is a cool story about a bunch of farmers getting together and pooling their resources to look after each other. Something about 4 or 5 guys around a campfire coming up with a plan..

At least that's the story I was told

Yeah Canada Life is just the old Great West Life, massive presence in the city.

 

[RetroWinnipeg]

Didn't realize that. Wawanesa is a cool story about a bunch of farmers getting together and pooling their resources to look after each other. Something about 4 or 5 guys around a campfire coming up with a plan..

At least that's the story I was told

They have a sizeable presence in California, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Eyeseeing]

Oh, oh. Chili Nip.

Cannot say Nip
No way
No how

 

[Eyeseeing]

Best Sleep Centre. Home of the Winnipeg Jets.

Youuuuuuu’ll beat us.

BEST POST EVER

 

[AlphaLackey]

Sure why not

Would be a better story if it was called Salisbury House Center but such is life

Paint the roof red, 2-for-1 beef nips past midnight on game win nights? The promos write themselves.

 

[Eyeseeing]

Paint the roof red, 2-for-1 beef nips past midnight on game win nights? The promos write themselves.

Mmmm late 70’s Sal’s on Garry bottom of parkade across from underground bathroom with attendant lol

 

[AlphaLackey]

Cannot say Nip
No way
No how

For people quick to accuse of homophobia, they sure show a massive homophone phobia.

Imagine if one of those people had a child who asked "for a bat" for Christmas. Would any sane human think that kid was 50/50 for a rabies shot?

And it gets worse. Right now, the word n!ggardly (I have no problem dodging a censor that wrongly censors a word that is not an ethnic slur) is treated as bad as "the N-word" even though the former is from a Norse root (hnøggr, meaning 'cheap) with zero skin color overtones. Rapidly approaching is 'chicanery' (= trickery, related to 'chicane', a short juke in a race course, and not 'chicano') and "pedant" (an intellectual nitpicker, and not a pederast).

Right now, in the English language, the word 'nip' has multiple meanings for the same sound. One is an ethnic slur for Japanese people (based on 'Nippon'); another is "a small bite". You are presented with a small amount of ground beef on a small patty for a small price at a discount diner. Anyone who would see this as ANYTHING but the latter needs a permaban. From the forum and from life, to be frank.

Yes, I'm damn mad.

 

[AlphaLackey]

Mmmm late 70’s Sal’s on Garry bottom of parkade across from underground bathroom with attendant lol

I left the Peg at 6 in 1980 and only came back as an adult in 2006, so I missed these.. uh.. halcyon days but your imagery is so intense I can practically taste the burnt patty <3

 

[Eyeseeing]

The times now are overly sensitive
Don’t ask what I think because you really don’t want to know

 

[Channelcat]

I would have been on board with Chicken Delight Center.

 

[AlphaLackey]

The times now are overly sensitive
Don’t ask what I think because you really don’t want to know

You think
"that's what you think";
that's what they all think.

so lay it on me. DM me if you want to ban-dodge with me tonight

 

[Hunter368]

I personally don't care what the name is, but its revenue for a small market team so that's great news

 

[ps241]

Scotiabank is paying $40 million per year for the naming rights to the arena in Toronto. I imagine we're getting somewhat less than that here. $1.5M-ish/year maybe? It's a lot of national advertising for $1.5M.

As a business owner and advertising atheiest I cringe at the term National advertising . This is where executives come in handy.

 

[jetsmooseice]

Put me in the it's irrelevant and doesn't make 2 shits of a difference for me. How much they get for the rights.... Thats the only relevant part but even then it's not.

I am curious about this too and I wonder why the price wasn't announced (or at least revealed by reporters) the way these deals usually are.

Considering the entire rink cost $200 million to build, getting even $4 or $5 million a year over 10 years would be a pretty hefty chunk of the building's sticker price.

 

[irunthepeg]

Best Sleep Centre. Home of the Winnipeg Jets.

Youuuuuuu’ll beat us.

Holy shit

 

[Jets 31]

I'll meet you guys at the ARENA, that's what i call it.

 

[Huffer]

Yeah Canada Life is just the old Great West Life, massive presence in the city.

Partly. Canada Life is Great-West Life, London Life, and the old Canada Life put together. It's part of Power Corp, and Investors Group and MacKenzie Financial are also part of Power (along with other companies like Irish Life, Putnam, etc).

 

[cbcwpg]

I'll meet you guys at the ARENA, that's what i call it.

That's all I ever have called it. We are in Winnipeg and I watch hockey at the Arena.

 

[jetsmooseice]

I'll meet you guys at the ARENA, that's what i call it.

Exactly this. At one point you couldn't say it because the two buildings overlapped, but the old arena has been gone for so long that there is no longer any risk of confusion.

The home of the Jets shall henceforth be known to me only as THE ARENA!!!

 

[Skidooboy]

Bit of an overreaction, maybe? Did a giant corporation kick your puppy?

well..
giant corporations have crashed the economy and then took my tax dollars to cover their cheating and lies and irresponsible behaviour, they ruined my environment, used money and lobbying to undermine democracy, undermine our justice system, and education. interfered in foreign elections and politics to maintain profits,

I can keep going? what don't you read or understand history?

 

[FonRiesen]

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For people quick to accuse of homophobia, they sure show a massive homophone phobia.

Imagine if one of those people had a child who asked "for a bat" for Christmas. Would any sane human think that kid was 50/50 for a rabies shot?

And it gets worse. Right now, the word n!ggardly (I have no problem dodging a censor that wrongly censors a word that is not an ethnic slur) is treated as bad as "the N-word" even though the former is from a Norse root (hnøggr, meaning 'cheap) with zero skin color overtones. Rapidly approaching is 'chicanery' (= trickery, related to 'chicane', a short juke in a race course, and not 'chicano') and "pedant" (an intellectual nitpicker, and not a pederast).

Right now, in the English language, the word 'nip' has multiple meanings for the same sound. One is an ethnic slur for Japanese people (based on 'Nippon'); another is "a small bite". You are presented with a small amount of ground beef on a small patty for a small price at a discount diner. Anyone who would see this as ANYTHING but the latter needs a permaban. From the forum and from life, to be frank.

Yes, I'm damn mad.

Etymology definitely matters. But most people don't even know what that word means, so,


I had a professor in college who stated that whomever controlled language and definitions changes culture into their own image. So I guess we're becoming less sophisticated and more reactionary, and language is a big part of that.

Back to the name... I'm not upset at this change. As a former business owner myself... This kind of marketing is so lame. But it's more of a prestige thing than a bottom line thing. It's showing off, and if someone wants to waste money in that way, I guess that's their right... But their customers are paying for it.

 

[Skidooboy]

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Etymology definitely matters. But most people don't even know what that word means, so,


I had a professor in college who stated that whomever controlled language and definitions changes culture into their own image. So I guess we're becoming less sophisticated and more reactionary, and language is a big part of that.

Back to the name... I'm not upset at this change. As a former business owner myself... This kind of marketing is so lame. But it's more of a prestige thing than a bottom line thing. It's showing off, and if someone wants to waste money in that way, I guess that's their right... But their customers are paying for it.

I would suggest your prof was simplifying things....Words don't have meanings they never did...they have usage, which is different. which is why I can Screw with you, screw with you or screw with you, and none of those phrases refer to a twisted metal fastener.