Opinion
Can the expanded “Collicutt” parking lot handle the “Dawe” ice rink twinning?

If you start opening up your basement, you may need to rewire the house. Will the twinning of the ice rink at the Dawe Center open up an expensive can of worms?
The Dawe Center is over 40 years old and building codes have changed, pipes have deteriorated, the population has grown and costs have escalated.
When we add the additional structures will we need to upgrade the services, beef up the roofs, upgrade the wiring, the plumbing, the HVAC requirements of the whole complex? The roads, the parking, the lights, and will the costs make it prohibitive?
The city has already mentioned that any plan to twin the ice rink at Dawe would have a structural proviso attached to it. They have already talked about Plan B if the Dawe Centre isn’t capable of allowing expansion. The Collicutt ice rink would be twinned.
The Collicutt with it’s recently expanded parking lot. My bet would see the new rink in the south-east corner with the Collicutt Centre, but I might be wrong. We will see.
Just saying.
Bruce Dowbiggin
Fatal Mistake? Disaffected Millennials, Not Trump, Are Canada’s Biggest Challenge

It’s easy to get lost in the tariff forest and lose sight of the cultural trees these days. For instance, American lefty comic Bill Maher used his show to lampoon the Oscars’ tribal-recognition piety. (“’I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again—either give the land back or shut the f*** up!’). In the past this impertinence would have meant instant excommunication from the Woke culture. But “made man” Maher remains employed.
As DEI wanes around the U.S. this sort of apostasy is becoming more commonplace in America. For many voters a weight has been lifted since Donald Trump exposed the Left’s vanities in the 2024 election.
But with the Liberals’ selection of Mark Carney as their new leader, it’s certain Woke mafia will remain firmly in place in Canada. Example: a conservative politician in BC was canned by his own party for having the temerity to admit that the $20 million directed from government turned up no residential school murder victims in a B.C. graveyard. Which is an undeniable fact, but irritating to David Eby’s designated victims groups.
A nervous Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made noises about ending DEI and de-fanging the media’s gotcha industry. But with Trump now diverting Canadians’ focus from the Liberals decade-long failure to doing O Canada donuts in the parking lot the chances are slim that PP does a DOGE purge like the one down south to free Canadians from the progressive mania.
While the Trump is putting paid to the American Woke circus— he’s gutting the EPA as we speak— a Mark Carney Canada will keep the Trudeau scold culture going full-bore. Judging by his disastrous turn at the Bank of England from 2013-2020 (by the time he left, UK inflation spiked up to a peak of 11.1 per cent compared to 5.2 per cent in France, or eight per cent in Italy that means heavy doses of climate hysteria, DEI observance, unchecked immigration and printing money for pet projects.
Former UK PM Liz Truss is more succinct. She says that Mark Carney’s mangling of her economy with zero emissions and a busy printing press will not be good for Canada. Carney is trying to divert from his radical resumé, saying America must show Canada “respect” before he deals with them. Carney may be new to this Canada thing, but he might want to know that his predecessor recently chided Americans for yet again not electing a woman president. And he secretly counselled Zelenskyy to embarrass Trump’s peace deal in the Oval Office. And he mocked Trump about Canada defeating the U.S. in hockey. Respect? Sock it to me.
But this skirmishing hides the real story. Why are 43 percent of 18-36 male CDNs telling pollsters they would accept U.S. citizenship if they were guaranteed full rights and financial protections? While these young men may appreciate Canada they’re not motivated by the Boomer nostalgia for the Canada of 1967-2000 that is powering the current patriotic spasm. The pivotal cultural battle against DEI will likely be fought among the under-40 demographic brought up with political correctness— but now souring on its stultifying effect on their earning power.

Why? In the National Post climate expert Bjorn Lomborg has a guess after Carney’s wild accusation that Poilievre would “allow the world to burn”. “Nearly half of young Canadians believe we’re doomed because of climate change. No wonder. They’ve grown up bombarded both by footage of natural disasters, and by activists’ claims that climate change is making the planet unliveable. The flood of disaster porn is terrifying our kids and skewing our perception, and that can only lead to bad climate policy..”
Millennials also experience the futile struggle to afford a home while Canada’s bureaucrats announce $272 million to Bangladesh for 1) Intersectional Democratic Spaces 2) Gender-Responsive and Inclusive Education 3) Community Resilience through Locally-led Inclusive Adaptation. Say what?
There is also fear that the former captain of the United Nations’ global net-zero carbon emissions will destroy the financial prospects for under-40s by clinging to CO2 hysteria when the world wants Canada’s fossil fuels. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Monday that with new pipelines, her province could increase exports to the U.S. by two million barrels a day. Carney is dead-set against it.
While the Media Party is not talking much about them the fight for these younger minds will come down to the debate. Which leader will move under 40s to vote for them? They’re not as moved by patriotic O Canadas citing the 1972 Summit Series or Terry Fox. Will they choose Banker Carney, who takes his climate policy cues from an teenaged Swedish psychiatric patient, or from PP, the apple-munching Pit Bull?

It’s time that Canada’s aging elite ceded a greater voice in the national debate. They need an intervention of the type Trump is now performing on Canadians addicted to sitting in first class but paying economy. He brought them into a room with the chairs and levelled with them about getting the free stuff they assumed was their right. Defence, security, trade, medical access. He’s the first president to do this in half a century.
And like all people addicted, CDN Boomers don’t want the truth. They want performance theatre, T-shirts and hockey games. They blame Trump for their predicament, caught between grim realities. Will they take the 12 steps? Or will their kids have to tell them the facts as they escort them to the home?
Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster. His new book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed Hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org. You can see all his books at brucedowbigginbooks.ca.
International
Trump rejects globalist Agenda 2030 and its climate emphasis as inconsistent with US sovereignty

From LifeSiteNews
According to Trump administration officials, the US president believes ‘the United Nations should refocus on its ‘founding purpose’ of preserving international peace and security.’
A Trump administration official informed the United Nations that the U.S. rejects the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
In a speech to the UN General Assembly, minister-counselor Edward Heartney of the U.S. mission to the UN said that its 2030 Agenda is “a program of soft global governance that is inconsistent with U.S. sovereignty and adverse to the rights and interests of Americans,” according to an Associated Press (AP) report.
Agenda 2030 has been touted as a “global partnership” and “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity” with 17 “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries.”
The authors of the plan claim that “ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth,” emphasizing that this be done “while tackling climate change.”
Agenda 2030 was adopted by the UN in September 2015. Three months later, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (PACC) was ratified. Both ambitious projects were welcomed by the Obama administration. President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from participation in the PACC early in his first term in the White House.
On Day One of his second term, Trump directed the U.S. Ambassador to the UN to:
- Immediately submit written formal notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, or any relevant party, of the United States’ withdrawal from any agreement, pact, accord, or similar commitment made under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
- Immediately cease or revoke any purported financial commitment made by the United States under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
His order also declared that the “U.S. International Climate Finance Plan is revoked and rescinded immediately. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall, within 10 days of this order, issue guidance for the rescission of all frozen funds.”
“In recent years, the United States has purported to join international agreements and initiatives that do not reflect our country’s values or our contributions to the pursuit of economic and environmental objectives,” the President wrote. “Moreover, these agreements steer American taxpayer dollars to countries that do not require, or merit, financial assistance in the interests of the American people.”
“Members of the Trump administration have said that U.S. President Donald Trump believes the United Nations should refocus on its ‘founding purpose’ of preserving international peace and security,” explained Richard Gowan, writing at Foreign Policy. The administration has announced “a full review of all U.S. multilateral commitments and treaties, which include the U.N. Charter. But Washington has offered little detail about what Trump’s vision of a peace-focused U.N. would look like.”
According to a separate AP report, Trump administration freezes on U.S. foreign aid have led many UN agencies to cut staff, budgets, and services.
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