Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Toronto hockey association says city short-changing girls on ice time
TORONTO - A girl's hockey group is threatening to launch a discrimination complaint against the City of Toronto over the allocation of ice time.
The 900-member Toronto Leaside Girls Hockey Association has sent a letter to Mayor David Miller complaining the city doesn't enforce its equity policy at publicly owned arenas.
It wants its members to sign a petition to be presented at the Nov. 30 city council meeting, calling on the city to enforce its equity policy when it comes to allocating ice time.
The group uses 18 public and private arenas to meet its ice time needs, but private rinks can cost more than twice as much per hour than city-owned rinks.
The letter says city policy is supposed to give priority to youth house leagues, then youth competitive hockey and then adult recreational hockey, but that isn't happening.
A spokesperson for the mayor says the association has a legitimate concern.
