Today it’s tobogganing, tomorrow it’s office cake — this urge to legislate away all \u0027danger\u0027 must be restrained
Just as we exit the pandemic, it appears we’re entering a new era of health and safety puritanism. Whether driven by a lingering taste for collective control over personal responsibility, skewed risk perceptions or an inclination toward herd panic, it’s a worrying trend.Article content
The Oshawa proposal, already approved by the city council’s community and operations services committee and to be voted on by the full council on Jan. 30, comes after an insurance review.It recommended that, to keep all of Oshawa’s hills open to tobogganers, the city add proper signage, inspections, official operation hours and padding around hazards. However, this would carry a likely annual price tag of $30,000.
Council doesn’t seem to want to pony up the dough or push back against the insurer’s assessment with a healthy dose of realism. So, sorry, kiddos. Oshawa isn’t the first Ontario city to clamp down on so-called dangerous sledding hills. Hamilton, Ont., had a full tobogganing ban in place until 2017, when it “sanctioned” five slopes for a winter tradition that’s as old as Canada itself, yet is suddenly being treated like some sort of daredevil endeavour.Article content
It’s true there have been freak accidents. The latest strain of tobogganing panic reared its head a year ago when a 10-year-old Ottawa girl died after she
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