OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada will send five skaters, for a total of three entries to Bratislava, Slovakia, for the first stop on the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating. Canada will have one entry in men’s, and two entries in ice dance at the competition which will run from August 19-23, 2015. There will […]
When Daniel Beland was 16 years old, he blazed a significant trail on the world scene. Back then, in 1977, he was the first Canadian man to win a world junior championship title. There have been three others since: Dennis Coi in 1978, Andrei Rogozine in 2009, and Nam Nguyen in 2014. In taking that event, […]
On a blistering, hot February day in Africa, Elladj Balde looked into the eyes of his 99-year-old grandfather for the first time and discovered who he really was. Balde, 24, had never set eyes on his grandfather, Elhadj Mamadou Oury Balde, who is an imam in Tombon, a tiny village in the mountains of Guinea […]
OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Shannon Davidson as Chief Marketing Officer effective July 8th. She will work from and oversee the management of Skate Canada’s Toronto office. With over 18 years of sport and event marketing experience, Davidson has had one of the most dynamic careers in the industry. […]
Elvis Stojko is back. Mexico is in his rear-view mirror and so are the tangerine and papaya trees of Ajijic, where he lived for 12 years. He’s come home to Canada a happy man, married to Gladys Orozco for five years, and a career that now takes him in multiple directions: skating, race car driving, […]
Skate Canada CEO Dan Thompson is giving back to a sport – and a community – that has given him so much. With the 2015 Pan Am Games currently in full swing in Toronto and the surrounding GTA, Thompson, a former Olympic swimmer himself, is volunteering at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatic Centre, the […]
The year was 1999 when Megan Maxwell and her friend Ashley Renard, both students at the University of Manitoba, decided to put together a Synchro team as a way to get people together and enjoy skating. It was a bumpy start. How do you attract members? Who will coach? What are the goals … the […]
Toller Cranston, skating champion, artist, bon vivant, and force of nature, would have been positively bursting at the sight of it: a posh party honouring him. Surrounded by old friends, chocolates, and best of all: at the Art Gallery of Ontario, a place he was never able to professionally penetrate in his life. But finally […]
When former figure skating competitor Lorne Edwards from Winnipeg started his own Facebook page during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, he had no idea he had a tiger by the tail. “It had a figure skating thread that was becoming too long” admits Lorne. But it prompted him to think about skating as a whole new […]
Bethany Tory’s passion, drive and commitment to excellence will be honoured with the unveiling of a new coaching award in her memory. Skate Canada Chief Executive Officer Dan Thompson announced the creation of the Coach Education Scholarship, in honour of Bethany Tory, the organization’s Chief Operating Officer, who passed away suddenly in April. “We are […]
OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada is pleased to announce the 2015-2016 National Team. The team is comprised of 29 senior members, which includes five men, six women, five pair teams and four ice dance teams. To be named to the National Team a skater must finish in the top five in senior singles, pair and ice […]
Elvis Stojko is home again. After more than a decade living in Mexico, Stojko has returned home to Canada, the country he won a trio of world titles for two decades ago. It wasn’t planned, the exodus south of the border. Growing up at the mercy of Canada’s relentless winters and training daily inside frigid, […]