Canada Day: Some cities rethinking parades amid rising costs, funding challenges
Several cities say the rising cost of security and insurance, in addition to troubles securing funding, is forcing them to rethink their celebrations.
"The parade receives a grant so it is very much like receiving a check for the same amount every year," he wrote in an email. "This year the funding was to go back to 2015 levels at 2022 prices." "Unfortunately, our success coupled with the many recent incidents at other parades in Canada and the United States has significantly increased the risks associated with parades and the onus on the event organizers," executive director Todd Banks wrote in a message.
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, which cancelled that city's Canada Day parade in 2018 over rising prices, announced this year it would neither host a parade nor present a fireworks display, citing "rising costs for safety and security, and across the events industry," adding that it would instead focus on other events.
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