Comment 43599

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted July 17, 2010 at 19:02:14

Thank you Kiely, those numbers were a well-needed dose of reality for this whole stadium-craze.

There are a hundred better ways to spend $60 million in this city. New Go Station/service. Clean up Randle Reef. Upgrading schools (generates much more long-term value) or Hospitals (our hospitals are in a major budget crisis, and the Juravanskis can't do everything) or light rail. But there's one area, under constant threat, which is a little closer to this subject: sporting facilities - especially hockey rinks. Making ice time more expensive, and not funding necessary sporting facilities means its harder for kids to get into sports, and there are some definite long-term health expenses associated with inactivity.

The problem with all these big corporate sporting budgets is that poilticians and newspapers too frequently lose track of the line between public and private spending. Just because a business like the Ti-Cats uses Hamilton civic pride as a marketing technique doesn't mean that they're a public utility.

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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