The fallout was swift: faithful sponsors, like Canadian Tire and Tim Hortons, bailed, the entire board of directors stepped down, and Sport Canada temporarily froze federal funding. Even the Prime Minister weighed in: Canadians were right, he said, to be disgusted.
Katherine Henderson was saddened too. In September, the devoted hockey mom and high-level sports exec-previously at the Pan and Parapan American Games-became the first female president and CEO in Hockey Canada's history. In her most recent gig as CEO of Curling Canada, Henderson fought for (and won) pay equity for the sport's female players, so she's certainly equipped to correct hockey's festering bro culture. Consent training, governance reviews and a new dressing-room policy are a few measures meant to right the ship. Will they be enough to take Hockey Canada office?
Are you a hockey person? I know you're sort of the hockey person now, but...
I am, but I'm not a player myself. My dad played in university-the rec, fun kind of hockey. My brother played in the local league in Thunder Bay. I learned how to skate at the Carrick Park Rink, a rec centre in the city. They had a pot-bellied stove we used to sit around when it was 30 below.
You came to Hockey Canada from curling, another of Canada's beloved ice sports. Did you experience culture shock? Curling seems a little less hardcore than hockey. I could be wrong!
At the elite level, curling is really competitive, but there's a social aspect to it that's different. This is mostly in Eastern Canada, but the winners buy the losers a drink after games. I wouldn't dream of heading home after a game without spending at least half an hour with my opponent. There's a lot of handshaking.
So you're not going to get into a bareknuckle brawl at a match.
Maybe out in the parking lot afterwards.
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Canada's Economy Is Stronger Than It Seems
Fixating on GDP blinds us to our other assets, like good health care and happiness
Pipe Dream
Winnipeg's pumphouse is a heritage building retrofitted for the housing crisis
Reuse Construction Materials
Much is lost when homes are demolished in the name of speed. With careful disassembly, high-quality materials could be used to make something new.
Trade wars, climate change, Bitcoin-B.C. Premier David Eby is preparing his province for everything
BACK IN JANUARY, with an inconveniently prorogued Parliament and the U.S. president pressing on their necks with some very un-ally-like tariff threats, Canada's premiers decided to defend themselves.
Early Retirement
I'm a university student who moved into a seniors' home in Calgary. I get affordable housing, and the residents get companionship.
"I repaired war-torn homes in Lebanon.Now I'm building houses in Canada."
I work on a construction site, overseeing a 19-acre housing development in Brampton, Ontario.
Why America Will Never Invade Canada
Donald Trump's nonsensical threats are an attempt to distract from his own country's self-destruction
HARLEM OF THE NORTH
A new exhibit spotlights the birthplace of Montreal's Black anglophone community
DEATH WISH
A group of Canadians with crushing mental illness are suing the federal government for the right to physician-assisted death. The ethics are muddy, the country is divided and the world is watching Canada's next move. Inside the crusade for a polarizing cause.
GLASS ACT
A couple trade Toronto condo life for a sun-powered hideaway in farm country
