{"id":718964,"date":"2026-06-06T12:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/718964\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:19:15","slug":"1-5-million-city-of-regina-commitment-tied-to-2027-grey-cup-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/718964\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.5 million City of Regina commitment tied to 2027 Grey Cup bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Standard\">Regina taxpayers will be putting forward a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjme.com\/2025\/10\/28\/2027-grey-cup-expected-to-bring-major-economic-boost-to-sask\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">50 per cent larger commitment to host the Grey Cup in 2027, compared<\/a> to 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">At its next meeting on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjme.com\/2025\/10\/28\/the-city-will-come-alive-regina-province-excited-to-host-2027-grey-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city council is being asked to confirm a $1.5 million commitment to host the CFL championship game<\/a>, which includes both cash and in-kind services such as policing, transit and traffic control.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">The amount is a $500,000 increase from the city\u2019s commitment to the 2022 Grey Cup, the last time Regina hosted the championship game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">During a closed-door meeting on Aug. 30, 2025, the city\u2019s executive committee voted to recommend the commitment after hearing from Craig Reynolds and Kent Paul of the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The recommendation was required at that time in order to proceed with a formal bid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">\u201cDetails of the City\u2019s proposed contribution and the SRFC\u2019s bid are not discussed in a public setting at this time as it may impact the competitiveness of the bid,\u201d the report said at that time. It\u2019s now being brought forward at a public meeting of council for final approval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">The 2025 report also said Tourism Saskatchewan would provide $5 million towards the commitment, with $225,000 coming from the Regina Hotel Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">If council approves, a detailed contribution agreement will have to be reached with the Roughriders. Money would be set aside from property tax revenues, and placed into the city\u2019s events, conventions, and tradeshows reserve, to be withdrawn when needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">Administration said the 2022 game generated $43.8 million worth of economic impact for Regina, along with an estimated $515,000 in government revenues for the city, 256 jobs and it brought nearly 27,000 visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">In addition, the $12 facility fee charged on each ticket is expected to generate nearly $400,000 for the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">The city contribution is meant to support event planning aspects of the Grey Cup Festival, such as entertainment, planning, traffic, and enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">The game is set to take place Nov. 7, 2027 at Mosaic Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regina taxpayers will be putting forward a 50 per cent larger commitment to host the Grey Cup in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-718964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}