Captain Canuck

ALT "There's a deeper problem when people are defacing a basketball court," she said. "Something is broken in the neighbourhood." https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-tale-of-two-basketball-courts/article695944/

ALT shoutout to all Raptors fans, except for those east-end Toronto homeowners who demanded basketball nets be removed every evening in the summer to keep kids from public housing off the courts https://twitter.com/asmaam/status/1134819629770186758?s=21

ALT In Toronto, basketball nets are taken down after school hours. The rims are actually removed, leaving only a backboard & empty wall. The neighbourhood is left without a place to play. I'm trying to change this policy & bring back our nets: https://www.change.org/p/bring-back-our-basketball-nets-toronto-district-school-board

ALT She said one option being floated is to install basketball nets that would be open for community use after hours at nearby Blake Street Junior Public School, which is undergoing a schoolyard revitalization. “It’s not so close to direct residents so maybe that’s more appropriate,” Story said, ...but said she also gets an equal amount of emails from those who are “equally frustrated” about noise and other concerns.