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By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 31, 2024 5:43 pm Updated May 31, 2024 11:53 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Hockey Canada has formed a committee of stakeholders to help structure the organization’s next women’s and girls’ hockey strategic plan. The …
Read More »Local women’s group organizing Day of Remembrance vigil in Guelph
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Marianne’s Park in Guelph will be the site of a vigil remembering those killed at L’École Polytechnique in Montreal. A gunman entered a classroom on Dec. 6, 1989 and opened fire, killing 14 women before turning the gun on himself. Wednesday’s Day …
Read More »Kingsbury, Sauvageau named general managers by Professional Women’s Hockey League
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 1, 2023 9:32 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size Gina Kingsbury is the general manager of the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s team in Toronto. Kingsbury, who has been GM of the Canadian women’s hockey team since 2018, was among six …
Read More »2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup ‘wide open,’ says Canadian coach – National
The FIFA Women’s World Cup is already setting records. But there have been growing pains getting to Thursday’s kickoff. The hope is the focus will now remain on football. Canada coach Bev Priestman predicts the expanded tournament will deliver heaps of entertainment and drama, across nine host cities in Australia …
Read More »FIFA women’s World Cup: Canadian interest higher than for men’s tournament, poll shows – National
As the Canadian women’s soccer team prepares for the start of the FIFA World Cup, there appears to be more interest and greater expectations placed on them prior to the event than were on the men last year, new polling shows. Team Canada, ranked seventh in the world, will play …
Read More »Brampton women’s shelter facing closure, in desperate need of provincial funding – Toronto
A women’s shelter in Brampton, Ont., is on the brink of closure, and may be forced to shut its doors as early as next month if it does not receive additional funding. This could leave dozens of single mothers and women fleeing intimate partner violence without a place to go. …
Read More »Calgary Foothills, Project 8 outline next steps for professional women’s soccer league – Calgary
Mya Jones could hardly believe the news as she stared down at her phone. As soon as she’d learned to kick a ball, her instincts were driving her toward a career in soccer. But even then, the goal involved playing in Europe or the United States. A pro team? In …
Read More »No guarantees, but search of Winnipeg landfill for women’s remains may succeed: experts
In 2002, investigators started a massive search of Robert Pickton’s pig farm in British Columbia and eventually found the remains of several women. Twenty years later, the lead forensic anthropologist on that effort says a search of a landfill north of Winnipeg for women’s remains has a chance of success, …
Read More »Freeland, Joly join condemnation of Iran’s women’s rights record
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly are among the key signatories to an open letter decrying Iran’s record on women’s rights. The letter, published in Sunday’s New York Times, condemns Iran’s violent crackdown on recent protests and calls for the country to be removed from …
Read More »Women’s health at risk as Lethbridge battles severe obstetrician shortage, doctors warn
A shortage of obstetricians in Lethbridge is being called a crisis, and it’s sparking concerns about patient safety. By the end of November, just one permanent obstetrician-gynecologist will be left to serve the southern Alberta city of more than 100,000 people and its surrounding areas. There’s funding for eight obstetrician-gynecologists. But since June …
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