The insanity of the Radical Left has no bounds. What appears to be happening is that only state-sanctioned tobogganing will be allowed. One wonders if they’re soon be adding radar guns to ensure the kiddos don’t have too much fun. You know, for reasons of #safety.
It is always the left that pretends to be about freedom while telling me I can’t do something.
Feel free to change your sex, but no sledding for you.
Give it ten years, and this will be just “common sense”, you know, like banning cigarette vending machines, criminalizing happy hours and drunk driving, etc.
People embraced mewling cowardice, and here we are.
Whatever.. Might as well get you life of crime rolling in grade school :)..
Better yet.. Do your illegal tobogganing outside of normal business hours.. In the evening.. Your broke assed city is not going to be sending afternoon shift / overtime clipboards into the (danger pay) park to bust Johnny for too much wax on his assault toboggan..
Had a few sweet runs and then some mailman started waving his arms around like a idiot.. I figured he was a pedophile so I ignored him.. Cant be too safe these days :)..
John – you have the quote of the day. LOL I was tobogganing in my home town here until my 50s. My kids got too old for it and they got spoiled by the detachable chair lifts in the mountains.
you obviously aren’t aware that the city of Toronto is willing to send out 2 or more bylaw officers on overtime to go enforce bylaws, as long as it’s not in a diverse neighbourhood
I know they sent out one for 5 hours of OT pay to write a $35 parking ticket because I parked my truck on the street in front of my house at 1130pm on a Saturday night because I didn’t want to back into my driveway with a very loud back up alarm after 11…. since it was a neighbour complaint that resulted in the ticket, there was no more courtesy given.
Leftism: The paralyzing fear that someone, somewhere, is having fun.
Still, this is Toronto/Oshawa. They voted for this. This is what they wanted. They should get it. Good and hard.
On the plus side, all those city workers are going to get some much needed outdoor exercise putting up snow fencing across all the regular toboggan hills in town.
City official: “How much to put up a snow fence on this hill?”
City worker: “How much ya got on ya?”
Oshawa is represented by a Conservative MP. I’m assuming you voted for Trudeau so deserve to get it good and hard since he’s the PM. Logic isn’t exactly your strong point is it.
Dear sir, if Toronto votes Liberal as it generally does (and as it certainly did last time), then it doesn’t matter what the rest of Ontario votes. Math not your strong point, I take it?
Also, nobody votes for Toronto/Oshawa City Councils except Toronto/Oshawa residents. This is all 100% on them.
I just think they should get what they wanted. Until they bleed, if possible.
And Canadians voted for our PM and are getting it good and hard.
This isn’t the point I’m sure, but it’s doubtful any of the “new Canadians” know what tobogganing is anyways. There generally isn’t too much snow where they’re from, and everything not permitted is against the law.
It is absolutely the opposite of having grown up in a “free country” as Canada was for the most part. But we don’t live there anymore.
As for the lawyers not saying anything about this, nor “taking a case” … it is similar to the threats against Jordan Peterson and compelled speech, no doubt the Law Society will have some problems with lawyers who take up this cause.
And don’t forget that tobogganing is rooted in white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, misogyny and Nazism. And homophobia and transphobia. And xenophobia. And fat shaming. And mansplaining.
And global warming.
Leftist, intrusive, authoritarian governments and groups need to get out of our faces and leave us alone.
And that also includes the individual Karens who want us to be as miserable and fearful and devoid of humour and a healthy sense of irony as they are.
OK, I am going tobagganing now, down a steep hill. Bringing my smokes and flask of whiskey, too.
Leave us alone.
An older friend of mine spent time in Eastern Europe before the Wall came down. He said it was striking how gray everything was. Even the toys on sale in a few pathetic stores were gray toys. He said colour was clearly too happy and cheerful. Also expensive … paint is expensive.
Commies don’t want to see happy citizens having fun. Happiness lies outside top-down control. Someone who can find happiness outside of commie decrees is suspect. Harder to control. Might make decisions for him or herself instead of automatic obedience to the state .
They’re trying to take down hockey, too.
You can see the “gray” descending, those of you with your eyes open… you can see it.
No meat, no electricity, no individual means of transportation , no religion, no privacy, no gatherings with friends and family … no joy.
Tobogganing… kids having great care-free fun and memories … is just one more domino to fall.
That’s communism for you.
An aside about toys, not even the Chinese will buy their own toys. They will buy foreign (specifically, Japanese) toys because they are safer (ie – no lead).
Did the “accident” involve an aids/shit encrusted City Gubmint Free Needle sticking a toddler?
I’m looking forward to watching the cops chasing the toboggans down the hills.
The city hall fun suckers here have portable billboards extolling $750 fines for snowboards, skiis, sleds on city snowplowed piles high over curbs. Not really a problem this season in Calgary.
D’oh.
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Canadians aren’t raising a fuss about liquor (as I thought that they might) so I don’t how this will be any different.
I ain’t raising a fuss about liquor because I ignore them and enjoy my drink ( flask o whiskey) while tobogganing down a steep hill in the dark and chain smoking.
Ignore, mock as necessary, and live free.
We no longer have that luxury, stevie.
Kevin Johnston sounds a little unhinged. Communism? Really? It’s more like the nanny state stepping in (bicycle helmets on tricycle for instance). I also expect t it has to do with legal liability given the obstacles at the bottom of the hill at Christie Pits. Does anyone doubt that parents of a child injured colliding with the poles or other concrete items at the hill wouldn’t hesitate for a minute to sue the city. Remember, few people accept responsibility for their stupid actions.
Was reading some stuff about the first Top Gun movie and the concept of NOFOD (No Observable Fear Of Death) – or very similar – that is apparently a real condition air forces monitor with their pilots. It is considered a ‘Bad Thing’ as it allows pilots to disregard risks and get people killed.
Having a Fear of Death is a ‘Good Thing’.
Hence as brutal as it sounds kids need to be allowed to push their boundaries so they learn that reality HURTS and needs to be treated with respect. Protecting children from their own stupidity (looking at you, Greta) is a good thing, but they must be allowed to learn for themselves – painfully if necessary – that the world is filled with dangers.
Laws do not protect you from injury. They just give formal direction on who to legally blame.
Case point, as a car owner I am not legally allowed to collide with pedestrians… running full pace across crossing lights… in driving rain.
Sure, the guy who ended up slapping his hand on the roof of my car and yelling abuse at me was LEGALLY in the right, but I am sure that would have given him a lot of comfort if I had gone over him and ended up breaking both his legs.
Only YOU can prevent yourself from doing stupid things.
I’m relieved to hear that tobogganing isn’t banned city-wide, and I suppose I can appreciate the concern for safety, but instead of banning the activity in these “danger zones,” couldn’t the city simply wrap the dangerous poles and fencing with protective padding, or something? Is there a reason why this wasn’t even considered by the respective cities? Maybe instead of an outright ban, the city can insist on participants wearing helmets pads, and other similar forms of protection.
I dunno… I’m just brainstorming here… tossing out ideas and alternatives that the “experts” seemingly couldn’t think of on their own.
Don’t tell me that after government’s wild spending ways, that the city suddenly became skittish at the cost of protective padding… or something…
You seem to be the only one that read the article.
Tobaggoning is not banned city wide.
It is banned at Chistie Pitts.
Why the drama?
Yes, the safety nazis are at it.
Consider this, whenever the rulers or enforcers want to dicktate (sic), and are losings the argument, they come with a trump card, “SAFETY”. Once that happens, you are supposed to roll over and play dead … they got you.
Actual safety has nothing to do with it.
Arresting kids for playing hockey outdoors, fining them for sliding down a snowy hill, trampling old ladies with horses, shutting down hundreds of small businesses, locking down entire populations, coercing them to get jabbed with some untested goo…
Gov’t cartels controlling everything from light bulbs and milk and chicken to energy and fertilizer.
The state chopping of tits and dicks with gay abandon.
Parents bring their kids to get ogled by trannies.
This is Canada. A country populated by pure scum who take delight in sucking all the joy out of life, finding more and more excuses to sick armed goons on their fellow citizens on the slightest pretext.
What a freakin shitehole!
Tucker Carlson: This is the purest expression of power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNt1JYEh-Cg
The Canadian people make the Dims look like pikers.
Will the same police that were fervently enforcing the idiocy of covid be standing at the bottom of snow covered hills to quickly remove children to the safety of a police car or jail?