Canadian Paralympic Committee

• Canadian Paralympic Committee CEO calls for more investment after dip in medals

  Canada finished eighth in the gold-medal standings with just three. As for total medals, Canada placed sixth, with four silver and eight bronze.

  Canada

  Mar 15
  
• 2030 Olympic bid not quite dead, but B.C. government must join talks: First Nations

  ‘We want meaningful dialogue. If we want true reconciliation, we need to be in the room, talking amongst and with you as an equal voice.’

  Sports

  Oct 28, 2022
  
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• Blind Soccer: Paralympic sport team to join lineup of London, Ont. soccer club

  According to the Canadian Paralympic Committee, Blind Soccer, also known as Blind Football, Football 5-a-side, is an adaptation of soccer for athletes with a visual impairment.

  Sports

  Jul 14, 2022
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• Former senator Joyce Fairbairn dies at 82

  Joyce Fairbairn began her career as a journalist working in the parliamentary press gallery before entering the political realm. She retired from the Senate in 2013.

  Politics

  Mar 30, 2022
• Canadian Paralympic athletes want financial rewards for medals — like Olympians get

  Canadian Olympic athletes who medaled in Tokyo or Beijing received $20,000 for a gold, $15,000 for a silver and $10,000 for a bronze. Paralympic medalists got nothing.

  Sports

  Mar 18, 2022
• Canadian women’s basketball coach supports COC decision to pull out of Olympics

  Canada's senior women's basketball coach Lisa Thomaidis says not sending athletes to the Olympic Summer Games due to the global COVID-19 pandemic is the right call.

  Sports

  Mar 23, 2020
• Canadian Paralympic committee disappointed, but respects Calgary Olympic plebiscite vote outcome

  Marc-Andre Fabien, president of the Canadian Paralympic Committee, says home games would have "united the nation'' and energized people across the country.

  Nov 14, 2018
• Rio 2016: Team Canada ‘concerned’ Paralympics could face funding cuts amid Rio budget crisis

  A warning from the International Paralympic Committee that a budget crisis could lead to cuts to athlete services has Team Canada concerned ahead of the upcoming Paralympic Games in Rio in September.

  Sports

  Aug 17, 2016
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• Boston cancels Olympic bid as Toronto considers making its pitch

  Boston's withdrawal from the race to host the 2024 Summer Olympics could make a potential Toronto bid "far more attractive," particularly if no other American city steps up to the plate, experts said Monday.

  Sports

  Jul 27, 2015
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• As Pan Am Games end, Toronto’s Olympic push begins

  First came apathy, then dread. But by the time the Pan American Games wrapped up Sunday, Toronto had been won over by the excitement of the international competition with some calling for the city to make a pitch for the Olympics.

  Sports

  Jul 26, 2015