It is the first report released by the agencies investigating the incident and communicates that the worker deaths were caused by aging equipment failure and poor decisions: findings point to the City’s failure to replace aging equipment despite expert advice.

This year, the Day of Mourning is particularly profound, after City workers Wayne Hornquist, Lloyd Smith, and contractor Jason Podloski lost their lives in the tragic incident at Fernie Memorial Arena

The group wants to get the ice surface complete by Christmas and they’re getting noteable donation from the Calgary Flames Foundation

There is a sadness in all of us. The sadness will not go away with time. Nor should it.

Three workers at the Fernie Memorial Arena are reported to have died as a result of an ammonia leak.