Event Profiles

ScotDance

The Event Competitive Highland dancing blends artistic expression, cultural tradition and physical rigour—it’s been likened to sprinting on your toes while wearing 10 pounds…

Staal Foundation Open

In July 2016, the Staal Foundation Open presented by Tbaytel, held in Thunder Bay, Ont., announced a $250,000 donation to local charities: the largest…

Sole Sisters

THE EVENT When your event is billed as “the biggest tutu race in the world,” fun is a foregone conclusion, and that’s exactly the…

Ontario Lacrosse Festival

Ontario Lacrosse Festival

The Event Lacrosse has been called Canada’s first organized sport because it originated with First Nations people. So it’s fitting that Iroquois Park Sports…

Red Bull Crashed Ice

By Charlene Brooke, Fall 2014 Edmonton is renowned for embracing cold-weather sports and winter 2015 promises to be no exception as the city prepares…

Mud, Sweat & Tears

  Fall 2014 THE EVENT Mudd, Sweat & Tears is a 10K obstacle course mud run that combines a location’s natural challenges with constructed obstacles….

WINTER WONDERS

WINTER WONDERS

By Connie Jeske Crane, Spring 2014 The managers of three much-beloved annual winter events describe how smaller communities can achieve impressive and influential events…