Canadian Winter Amateur Sports News
According to CBC Sports on Wednesday, Canadian Paralympic gold medalist Josh Dueck of Kimberley, British Columbia has been named the Chef de Mission for Canada at the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing. Dueck won the gold medal for Canada Read more
With coronavirus continuing to dominate the globe and impacting not only sporting events, but society as a whole, Curling Canada has had to readjust its schedule for 2021. As a result, Calgary’s Markin MacPhail Centre will be hosting the 2021 Read more
Former Canadian alpine skier Kelly VanderBeek of Kapuskasing, Ontario has tested positive for coronavirus according to CBC Sports on Saturday. VanderBeek currently lives in Canmore, Alberta, with her husband, David Ford of Edmonton, a former Canadian Olympic canoer, and son, Read more
Three Canadian Olympic gold medalists will receive the Order of Canada according to The Canadian Press on Friday. They are figure skaters Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of London, Ontario, as well as swimmer Mark Tewksbury of Calgary, Alberta. Virtue Read more
The University of McGill is changing its name for university men’s sports from the Redmen to the Redbirds according to CBC News on Tuesday. The University of McGill had been known as the Redmen from 1927 to 2019 for its Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Catriona Le May Doan of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan has been named the Chef de Mission for Canada at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing according to Scott Russell of CBC Sports on Tuesday. There is no Read more
Canadian broadcaster Alex Trebek of Sudbury, Ontario, passed away at the age of 80 on Sunday of pancreatic cancer according to Brian Lowry and Dakin Andone of CNN. Even though most know of Trebek as the host of Jeopardy! since Read more
Keegan Messing of Edmonton, Alberta has won the bronze medal for Canada at the 2020 Skate America in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday. Messing is the only Canadian competing on the International Skating Union Grand Prix circuit this season because Read more
There will be no national championships at the Canadian university level in basketball, hockey, swimming, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling in 2020-21 due to coronavirus according to Signa Butler of CBC Sports on Thursday. The decision to cancel the Read more
Skate Canada has been cancelled for 2020 according to CBC Sports on Wednesday. The competition was to take place at Toronto Dominion Place Arena in Ottawa, Ontario from October 30 to 31. This is the second significant international figure skating Read more