Kristin Jenkins, VP of communications for the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation, acknowledges that the watercourse is incomplete but stresses that “it can be extended as the financial resources become available.” “The races take place so far from the shore because the course is not deep enough at the shoreline.” ![]() “ didn’t want to spend the extra money and commit to a full dredging of the shoreline,” says Kerkman. Mike Kerkman, VP of Great White North, the organization that helped bring the dragon boat races to T.O., says more money will have to be sunk into the project to make the facility usable for future races. Just another case of political interests overriding the wishes of the local waterfront community? It’s hard not to agree. Residents have begun referring to the breakwater that dominates the course as Parkdale’s Berlin Wall. What’s left for the community now that the race is over? And how did Parkdale get stuck with a watercourse that’s only half-finished? What remains is a glut of garbage, stretches of dead grass and a $23 million stone wall. ![]() The 11-metre dragon boats are long gone, their drumbeats faded, and the predicted audience of 100,000 for the boat race at Marilyn Bell Park turned out to be a few thousand of the faithful.
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