The Cost of Canada’s Game
LETHBRIDGE – Hockey. It’s Canada’s game, well one of two national sports in our country alongside lacrosse.
It’s the thing that brings families together during the holidays to watch the World Junior Championships on TV, and has fans wearing jerseys well into June to support their teams during the playoffs.
But is Canada’s game as accessible to working families as it used to be?
The number of kids, boys and girls, coast to coast playing hockey in 2016-17 according to Hockey Canada was 548,469 compared to 549,614 in 2015-16.