OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada will send six skaters, for a total of four entries to the first stop on the 2017-2018 ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Brisbane, Australia. Canada will have one entry per discipline in men’s and ladies, and two entries in ice dance at the competition which will run from […]
REGINA, SK: Single Session Tickets for the 2017 Skate Canada International will go on sale on Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 10 a.m. MST. The event will take place in Regina, Saskatchewan from October 26-29, 2017 at the Brandt Centre. The line-up in Regina features Canadian favourites including Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, Meagan Duhamel […]
OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada is proud to announce six new entries being inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame. The class of 2017 will include athletes Joannie Rochette and Jennifer Robinson, coaches Sadie and Albert Enders and Josée Picard and Éric Gilles, and builders Ron Vincent and Steve Milton. The Hall of Fame was […]
OTTAWA, ON: Tickets for the 2017 Autumn Classic International will go on sale this Thursday, July 13 at 10:00 a.m. (ET). The event will be held in the Montreal, Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough, at the Sportplexe Pierrefonds from September 20-23, 2017. Tickets can be purchased at Eventbrite.ca in advance and online only. All tickets are general admission […]
OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada is pleased to announce the 2017-2018 National Team. The team is comprised of 32 senior members, which includes five men, five women, five ice dance teams and six pair teams. To be named to the National Team a skater must finish in the top five in senior singles, pair and ice […]
VANCOUVER, BC: All-event tickets for the 2018 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships go on sale on Thursday, June 22, at 10:00 a.m. (PT). The event will take place in Vancouver, B.C., at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre from January 8-14, 2018. The 2018 event will serve as a qualification event for the team that […]
OTTAWA, ON: Two- time world pair champions Meagan Duhamel, 31, Lively, Ont., and Eric Radford, 32, Balmertown, Ont., have updated their coaching team for the 2017-2018 season and will no longer be coached by Richard Gauthier. “Meagan and I thank Richard from the bottom of hearts for all he has done for us. His influence […]
OTTAWA, ON: This past weekend, Skate Canada celebrated 22 award winners during its annual Achievement Awards Gala and Banquet, part of the 2017 Skate Canada Ice Summit in Ottawa, Ont. Hosted in the nation’s capital in honour of Canada’s sesquicentennial anniversary, Skate Canada also celebrated its 130th anniversary since its inauguration in 1887. The winners […]
OTTAWA, ON: Fourteen Canadian skaters returned this week from the International Skating Union’s Adult Figure Skating Competition with a total of nine medals among them. The annual event took place in Oberstdorf, Germany, from May 22-27, 2017. British Columbia skater Linda Maundrell, 74, won the first medal of the Canadian skaters, a gold medal, in […]
After a very long and exciting season and then being asked to be in Stars on Ice I was ready to come home and regroup for the Olympic year. Stars on Ice was a dream come true for me and working with the incredible cast with so much talent had me over the moon. I […]
OTTAWA, ON: Canada’s skating delegates are on their way to the nation’s capital for the 2017 Ice Summit. The conference will take place from June 2-4, 2017 and will consist of a wide range of opportunities for members at all levels within Skate Canada. This year will be particularly special as Canada celebrates its sesquicentennial […]
OTTAWA, ON: The International Skating Union (ISU) has announced the line-ups for the six 2017 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating events. Canada will host the second stop on the circuit, the 2017 Skate Canada International in Regina, Saskatchewan, from October 26-29, 2017, at the Brandt Centre located at Evraz Place. The line-up in Regina […]