It’s 2009. Canada puts on ice one of the finest international women’s hockey teams in the world. It is inexplicable that women are having difficulty securing ice time in Toronto:
“… Miller was responding to the 900-member Toronto Leaside Girls Hockey Association, which threatened to launch a human rights complaint in an Oct. 30 letter to the mayor over what the league alleges is the city’s failure to enforce its equity policy at city arenas.
He also called the “lack of action” in equity compliance at three arenas run by boards of management – North Toronto Memorial, Larry Grossman Forest Hill Memorial and Leaside Memorial Gardens – “unacceptable.”
The 900-member Toronto Leaside Girls Hockey Association threatened to launch a human-rights complaint in an Oct. 30 letter to Miller over what it alleges is the city’s failure to enforce its equity policy at publicly owned arenas. The association says the arenas shut girls out of prime-time ice and instead, in some cases, rent it to adult men for hockey.”
link to the article by Mary Ormsby for The Toronto Star
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