The sporting life and the cost of bad decisions

Activities like hockey, football, and soccer are central to peoples’ identity, pride, and sense of community, so it’s impossible to separate what happens with sport from the wider public context.

Andrea Skinner’s resignation as Hockey Canada’s interim board chair isn’t likely to put the issue of payouts for player sexual misconduct to rest, as MPs are probably going to want to get to the bottom of it all, writes Les Whittington. Screenshot courtesy of ParlVu

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

October 12, 2022

OTTAWA—The positive cultural value available from Canadian sport appeared to be on the upswing in 2019 when the CBC belatedly relieved us from having to put up with the backward, bigoted nonsense spewed by Don Cherry every week. After 38 years, the former Coach's Corner co-host was fired...

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