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Interview: Parlaympic Sledger Greg Westlake

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by Rob Howatson.

In Sweden, in the 1960s, a group of paraplegic hockey fans decided they weren’t ready to hang up their skates, so they sat on them — and the sport of sledge hockey was born. Players in this fast, hard-hitting, low-to-the-ice game sit on metal frame sleds, which are in turn mounted atop two hockey skate blades. The athletes hold mini hockey sticks in each hand, using the metal-tipped, butt-end of the shafts to propel themselves across the ice. Surprisingly, Canada has been late in achieving dominance in this sport. Paralympic gold did not come our way until Torino in 2006 . . .

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Gone Newfie

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by Sonu Purhar.

The Rock boasts more culture than most visitors can absorb — unless they are embedded

by James Glave

“If you’re extra lucky, you’ll get yourselves invited to a kitchen party,” Terri Shea told Elle and me in the days leading up to our Newfoundland vacation. “Friends and neighbours get together and play instruments and sing and tell [...]

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Diary of a Torchbearer (part two)

Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by Bernice Paul.

OLYMPICS UPDATE

So what does it feel like to carry the torch? Expectations exceeded – vastly.

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Northern B.C.: Swim the Skeena

Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Dave Quinn.

I thought a 10-day canoe trip on a wild northern river was pretty hard-core. That is, until I heard of Ali Howard’s truly epic 28-day, 610-km swim of the Stikine’s big-sister-river, the Skeena. Yes, that’s right, swim. Ali Howard immersed herself in the frigid Skeena to raise awareness of the threats of Shell’s proposed coal-bed methane drilling in the Sacred Headwaters

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