Talk:Brantford, Ontario

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anyone hear of the BCI protest today?? students were protesting the rebuilding of the school on a new site, they wanted to keep the school on the current site.

You might want to include talk about our famous athletes besides Wayne Gretsky, (David Hearn, Kevin Sulliven etc)

There is no one greater than The Great One!!! But you're probably right that Kevin Sulliven and David Hearn should be mentioned. Unfortunately I don't know enough about either of them to put together more than a stub article. --NormanEinstein 17:43, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

I am reverting this comment deletion as it is both pertinent and accurate. Dajhorn 04:59, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

The presence of Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford is token, and happened only because the city paid the school to come. Calling the WLU facilities a "campus" is embellishing, as the buildings are spread across freebie properties the commercially dead Brantford downtown core. (eg: The old Holstein Building, the abandonded Cineplex theatre, the old library, the Eaton Centre, etc.) The WLU Brantford facility does not have a proper library, it does not offer gradudate studies, and it is mostly disconnected from the main Waterloo campus.

Brantford, like many other communities in Southern Ontario, seems to be trying too hard to rehabilitate a dead downtown core. Dajhorn 04:59, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it makes it a great place to shoot Silent hill (film).

We should list all of the films that were shot in Brantford

The WLU Brantford campus is growing...Last I heard their enrollment was something like 1400. That doesn't seem token to me.

There could have been 1,400 students in some of my frosh major courses.

I did a significant part of my undergrad at WLU, and the facilities in Brantford are just a shadow of the main campus, which again is tiny compared to a comprehensive university like UW.

Consider how WLU is piggybacking on the third floor of the city library. The Brantford campus will be 'token' until WLU begins spending their own money to build real facilities. It is, however, sensible for WLU to continue accepting gifts from the city. Dajhorn 13:25, 6 July 2006 (UTC)