Mayor Announces New Venue for 2022 Canada Summer Games

On the eve of the 12-month countdown to the start of the 2022 Canada Summer Games in Niagara, St Catharines Mayor Walter Sendzik announced that the former GM site has been named as an additional venue.  

“Let’s be proud of our City,” the mayor commented at a recent press conference. “The former GM plant in its current condition is a perfect venue for additional competitions.  And it’s a site that is both accessible and highly visible to all the thousands of visitors who will be flocking to St Catharines a year from now.”

Though the exact schedule of events to be held at the partially demolished brownfield site has yet to be announced, the SubStandard has learned that the following competitions are being carefully considered:

• Fire Extinguisher Throw – From the window on the top floor of the Bayshore Office contestants will vie for the longest throw through the window and across Ontario Street. 
• Riflery – Firing from the west side of Ontario, points awarded for hitting the Bayshore stickers on the front door. 
• Catwalk Dismount – A crowd pleaser of high wire gymnastics above Ontario Street
• Stack Climb – Competing climbers try to be first to plant flag on top of smokestack. (CANCELLED)
• High Dive – Into oil pits from open doorways in buildings on West side in full hazmat suit 
• Fence Jumping – with plywood
• Fence Jumping – without plywood
• Twelve Mile Creek PCB Rowing 8s – Teams race from storm sewer outlets below GM site to Martindale Pond. Points are awarded for teams most closely following PCB plume. Winning teams are strongly advised not to throw coxswain into water. (Note: winning team will be awarded the Gowling Trophy, which will not be released to the victors but kept under lock and key by the City.)
• Asbestos collecting – Winning team accumulates the most pounds of asbestos in five-minute time period
• Copper stripping – Similar to asbestos collecting, but winning team extracts most pounds of copper wire from electrical cables without setting fire to the building.  
• Obstacle run – Daring race on 4K course that winds between piles of toxic waste, sharp metal edges, fetid containment ponds, mounds of insulation covered in green mould and stairways that open to two-storey drops.

In keeping with City policy, all events will be held in-camera.