A very safe bet

Noah Richler, expanding his horizons, blesses St. John's with his presence. From today's Globe and Mail:

ON THE ROAD WITH RICHLER WELCOMING ST. JOHN'S NEW-FOUND SKYLINE
In the final instalment of his eight-part travelogue, NOAH RICHLER breaks from his book tour to visit a contentious landmark

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The Rooms once provoked a lot of local consternation, as it towered not only above the harbour and the rooftops, but the city's Anglican cathedral and its Roman Catholic basilica too. Even now, argument about The Rooms can be divisive. Many see the building as an eyesore and a waste of money (and object to it being federally funded).

Tails, the Newfoundland nationalists win, heads, the feds lose. How much are you willing to bet that the set of "Many [who] object to it being federally funded" overlaps rather neatly with the set of the "many" who were outraged, OUTRAGED, you hear, when the prerequisite federal funding didn't come through for the Rooms' equally appalingly-named predecessor, the never-built "Caboto Building"?