Current Events > Woke Canadian politician tries to CANCEL ice hockey, gets a dose of reality

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They say politicians are ivory-tower fat-cats who are out of touch with their constituents, but this is a whole new level.

Note: The tweet is now deleted.

https://torontosun.com/news/national/ndp-mp-wonders-if-we-still-need-indoor-ice-rinks-given-climate-impact

excerpts:

Bonita Zarrillo, the NDP Member of Parliament for Port Moody-Coquitlam, B.C., tweeted Tuesday: Is indoor skating ice even a necessity anymore? Can every ice sport be done without ice and different equipment?just pondering the climate impact of human-made indoor ice.

The tweet got the ratio treatment, with only a handful of retweets and likes, but hundreds of quote tweets.

This may actually be the fist time Canada has been collectively impolite.

Canada should introduce straight up nitrogen shots on their indoor rink pools like in Demolition Man. Then just leave the AC at 69.

Send my Nobel Prize over to my main office please and thank you.

Glice exists.

Of course, there's only seven NHL teams actually in Canada, where it's colder anyway. Hell, they do outdoor games in Hamilton sometimes.
Having a hockey team in Arizona is a disaster, yet the league insists on keeping it there for some reason.

LMAO, Have fun with that!

the irony is her twitter was jammed with some A&W promotion (#HailCorporate!) and the beef industry is squarely in the crosshairs of most climate activists.

Politicians are not leaders. They're usually just narcissistic sociopaths.

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Naysaspace posted...

narcissistic sociopaths.

This is how you become a leader, millennials need to wake up.

Seriously, though, why do the Yotes still exist?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Seriously, though, why do the Yotes still exist?

They will be playing in a college level arena for three years. This is top tier mismanagement.

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

They will be playing in a college level arena for three years.

They are charging three times the league average for tickets, in a 5000-seat college gym, for a team nobody cares about.

Why the fuck do the Yotes still exist?

Questionmarktarius posted...

They are charging three times the league average for tickets, in a 5000-seat college gym, for a team nobody cares about.

Why the fuck do the Yotes still exist?

They want to drain the foolish snowbirds of all the cash they can.

There is nothing professional about this team. Will they even be able to fill that facility? Not most nights, they won't. Embarrassing.

This thread has been hijacked as "Yotes suck!"

OudeGeuze posted...

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I had a feeling

The NHL season is from october to June...so mostly during cold months.

i mean are there a ton of ice rinks? maybe she actually looked into it and they really are bad.

it's exactly this kind of hostility to change that is going to destroy the environment. unfortunately. but fortunately hostility to change is preventing two tiered healthcare, for now. but conservatives seem very willing to change that.

@crono99 can you give me a rundown on Ontario's economic health at the moment? thanks whenever you can get to that. just make sure you get me that rundown.

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Should we be more concerned with the politics or the environment?

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Idk, if two tiered healthcare was literally a better option what choice would I have but to accept it? Can't you see how bad that kind of move is in Canada?

For real, fuck the Coyotes

Also she said indoor rinks... I think the idea is Canadians playing in outdoor rinks isn't even counter to the country's heritage.

I will say though preserving a cultural touchstone can sometimes be more important than environmental gains. Every culture should have that courtesy in the current world order.

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I'm referring to the health act of 84 that ensures equal access to healthcare. I mean two tiered in terms of paying for surgeries from doctors so you don't have to wait, or whatnot. the only private clinics I can really think of are rehab centers, but I'd definitely like to know what else exists if you can share that

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has it been working well? I don't see how it can not work well because it's just extra money

MedeaLysistrata posted...

but fortunately hostility to change is preventing two tiered healthcare, for now. but conservatives seem very willing to change that.

There already is, but it requires a trip into eaglegunland.

FigureOfSpeech posted...

I had a feeling

The topic title non-ironically having the term woke in it should have been a dead giveaway

Questionmarktarius posted...

There already is, but it requires a trip into eaglegunland.

i don't really care about that as much

MedeaLysistrata posted...

i mean are there a ton of ice rinks? maybe she actually looked into it and they really are bad.

it's exactly this kind of hostility to change that is going to destroy the environment. unfortunately. but fortunately hostility to change is preventing two tiered healthcare, for now. but conservatives seem very willing to change that.

We are still burning coal for power, so maybe she should look into that.

OudeGeuze posted...

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Not seeing what Trump has to do with this.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Also she said indoor rinks... I think the idea is Canadians playing in outdoor rinks isn't even counter to the country's heritage.

It's not that fucking cold here.

Especially not in June when the playoffs end.

Is that guy a fucking idiot? Canada riots a city when they lose a Stanley Cup. What did he think was gonna happen lol

Glad the NDP is doing something about that voter outreach problem

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Also she said indoor rinks... I think the idea is Canadians playing in outdoor rinks isn't even counter to the country's heritage.

I will say though preserving a cultural touchstone can sometimes be more important than environmental gains. Every culture should have that courtesy in the current world order.

The NHL is not against outdoor games but all the time? And during the playoffs? In the summer?

Yea thats not happening anytime soon.

buddhamonster posted...

The NHL is not against outdoor games but all the time? And during the playoffs? In the summer?

Yea thats not happening anytime soon.

Guessing they mean naturally frozen water, which is even dumber.

Games would be getting delayed, moved and canceled consistently, and the season, including the playoffs could only last 2-3 months at most.

The outdoor games already get delayed more than enough, even with refrigeration.

Could always do the Stanly Cup playoffs up in Alert, I guess.

imagine thinking i support trump based on having "woke" in a topic title

i did those users a favour and helped them curate their CE.

she was clearly trying to be provocative by giving a universally wrong opinion. but she (because she is a politician) was grossly out of touch with the reality of the situation.