When working the "late shift," I'm usually working on my Red Wings overnight report, and I'm hoping to find a few interesting or unique stories to post for my fellow night owls.
This story leaves me in quite a quandary as to whether its intensions are sincere or part of a larger PR campaign, because the Globe and Mail's Tu Thanh Ha reports that Hockey Canada and Nike are making sure that the firms manufacturing Hockey Canada's merchandise overseas are adhering to "ethical" standards.
That's a bit strange to hear, and it certainly makes me think given that the vast majority of both the hockey merchandise that fans wear and the hockey equipment that players use to play the game is made in Asia these days, to the point that I'd say two thirds of what NHL players wear visibly and under their gear is made in China, Vietnam, Thailand or Malaysia. We've gotten to the point that sticks made in Tijuana count as, "At least North American and made by people who've been making sticks for twenty years."
Anyway, Than Ha reports that the terrible accidents happening in the garment industry in Bangladesh caused both Hockey Canada and Nike to act:
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