Games

It's not the cake's fault

Peter Stockland

February 7, 2012

Bennett was, many responses went, a mug, a bug, a mope, a dope, a know-nothing know-it-all unable to understand that a game is just a game. Worse, he was guilty of making some readers, in the immortal words of Elmer Fudd, "vewy, vewy angwy" for his misguided missive.

Kyle Bennett, Comment magazine's reviews editor, stirred up a fuss among readers last week with an essay scalding makers of a popular board game for designing it to provok...

Children and tears

Peter Menzies

January 4, 2012

Canada is not, of course, suddenly going to be lacking in training and expertise in hockey. What is and will be lacking, however, are children . . . which in turn means there will be a smaller pool of potential hockey stars to choose from. Add to that the fact that in the past generation the participation rate of children in sports has declined from 57% to 51% and, well, the prospects don't get any brighter, do they? Oh, and the majority of those kids is not playing hockey—soccer is the preferred activity now.

If you are currently attired in torn sack cloth and covered in ashes as a result of Canada's recent denouement on the ice of the World Junior Hockey Championships, it may be best to get used to it.

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