Mitchell Dickau
Mitchell Dickau wants Montrealers to be able to keep skating. His Concordia University undergraduate honours thesis shows that unless we reduce carbon emissions by the end of the century, it will only be cold enough to skate outside 10 days a year in his adopted city.
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Montrealers love to skate. There are 250 rinks in the city, five within a three-block radius of my home. For 50 days a year or more each winter after work, each day and all day on weekends they are crowded. We have a city-wide love affair with skating. Whether we are playing pickup hockey or freestyle exercising together, regardless of our ages or abilities, with our hot chocolate or coffee, it is part of being a Montrealer.