Sports need to get back in the game to help boost Canada’s post-COVID recovery

The bigger challenge for the Trudeau government and the provinces on the sports front is not going to have been saying ‘no’ to baseball and ‘yes’ to hockey—it is the state of our national sports structure.

Not permitting the Toronto Blue Jays to play their home games in Canada during the shortened Major League Baseball season was the right call, from both a public health perspective and a public optics one, writes Tim Powers. Flickr photograph by Grid Engine

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

July 22, 2020

OTTAWA—The Trudeau government has done it again—created a giant mess of their own making. Of course, I am referring to the Liberals’ extremely ill-conceived attempt to sole source a contract to the WE organization. Because of all of this, both the prime minister and the finance minister now fi...

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