Thin ice: the frosty furor over our Soviet-style birthday rink

You don’t have to be a sports genius to know that a taxpayer-funded skating rink that prohibits pucks and sticks will provoke a backlash from Canada's hockey elite.

The Canada 150 Rink being installed on Parliament Hill is set to be ready for skating on Dec. 7. The Trudeau government announced last week the $5.6-million rink would stay open until the end of February, rather than the end of December, as originally planned. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

November 29, 2017

My knowledge of sports is so abysmal that when I wrote the Associated Press editing test in Washington years ago, I got to the sports section at the end and substituted an apology for the edited copy, volunteering that my second language was French—not basketball—and that if sports were a prereq...

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