Commonwealth Sport Canada

Canadian judokas were fierce competitors at the Commonwealth Championships in Cardiff, Wales once again today. After a six medal haul Wednesday in Junior level matches, Senior team members earned another twelve medals!

Tonga has one big swimming pool – the ocean. On a sunny day at the American Wharf in Nuku’alofa, hundreds of Tongan children play in the water, diving and flipping off the point. Yet very few actually know how to swim. They’re uncomfortable in water above their waist, and there is no program to teach children in Tonga the basics of water safety and swimming skills.

When I was first offered my current role as a Capacity Support Officer (CSO) in the Falkland Islands as part of Commonwealth Games Canada’s (CGC) Capacity Support Program (CSP), I had an overwhelming feeling of nerves. How can I impact sport at a national level at age 29, two years after completing a Masters’ in sport management, and having focused my career until now at the community level? My knowledge of sport at a national level came from a Canadian and British education, both are countries where there are layers and layers of governing bodies and the experience required to work at any of those levels far outweighs what I have done to date. Combine these worries with a da

Nicole Forrester is an Olympian, 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist and the reigning Canadian high jump champion.

Partnerships within the Sport for Development field are evolving beyond traditional donor/recipient arrangements to an increasingly efficient model based on equality, respect and co-operation from which everyone can benefit. That was the central theme of the 4th Next Step Conference, held Nov.

Commonwealth Games Canada (CGC)’s second annual Game of Life Run/Walk is set to take place on April 29, 2012 in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Halifax—marking the event’s expansion from coast to coast.

(Ottawa, Ontario – December 13, 2011) – The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport is proud to announce that Olympic gold medalist Kyle Shewfelt is the newest member of its board of directors.“It’s an honour to have s

Looking back, I never could have imagined where sport would take me and what it would teach me in life.

OTTAWA- Athletics Canada congratulates today Chantal Petitclerc of Montreal, Que., who has accepted a coaching position with UK Athletics for the upcoming 2012 Paralympic Games in London.