Commonwealth Sport Canada

The Make It Happen program is an exciting and unique Toronto 2015 Games initiative that brings together high-performance athletes and Grade 9 and 10 students to inspire them to set achievable goals, get involved in their communities and pursue healthy, active living. Based on the success of a small pilot test in fall 2010, the program was expanded to include 20 schools in southern Ontario for the 2011–2012 school year, with the hopes of expanding it year over year to 2015.

As Canada’s Olympic Team makes final preparations for the start of the London Games later this week, close to 100 athletes and coaches will be drawing on the competitive advantage they’ve gained from experience at the Commonwealth Games.

Following two years of preparation the renewed Canadian Sport Policy (CSP) 2012 was endorsed by Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers responsible for sport, physical activity and recreation on June 27, 2012 in Inuvik, Northwest Territories.

York Region Soccer Association’s Technical Director Bobby Lennox, recently ran several soccer coaching workshops in Dominica under Commonwealth Games Canada's SportWORKS program - placing Canadian sport leaders in developing Commonwealth countries to make a difference and become different.

July, 07, 2012 MONTREAL – With the Olympic Games set to start in three weeks, Canadian Olympic nominee Barbara Jardin of Montreal has been able to control her excitement as she races at the Canada Cup swimming competition, her last event before London 2012.

July 8, 2012, EDMONTON—Canada’s men’s and women’s triathletes dominated the podium with two gold and two silver medals in the World Cup sprint race of the Edmonton Triathlon Festival, presented by COLD-FX on Sunday.

(Ottawa, Ontario – July 5, 2012) – Phase 2 of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) rules consultation is under way with the release of a first draft of the World Anti-Doping Code that will come into effect January 1, 2015. The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) has compiled a summary of the major changes, and is collecting feedback from the Canadian sport community to fuel Canada’s national response to this draft.

OTTAWA, ON(July 1, 2012) - Over 750 runners, ranging in age from under 2 years to over 75 years, got their Canada Day in the Nation’s Capital off on the right foot by participating in the inaugural “Game of Life” 5km fun run and 1km kid’s race along the beautiful Ottawa River Parkway. The event was a huge success raising $25,000 for Commonwealth Games Canada’s (CGC) international development through sport programs.

MADRID – Canada won the silver medal on Saturday in the team combo event at the 2012 Spain Open synchronized swimming competition.

BOLZANO, Italy – Pamela Ware and Carol-Ann Ware of Beloeil, Que., won the silver medal on Sunday on the women’s 10-metre synchro event to conclude the final stop on the FINA Grand Prix diving circuit.