Canada has more than 30,000 referees, linesman and other game officials working in hockey. Each year more than 10,000 quit, largely because of verbal abuse.
Andrea Skinner has resigned as interim chair of the Hockey Canada
Board of Directors - days after offering support for the under-fire
organisation's leadership before Parliament.
Hockey Canada’s board of directors called an emergency meeting Thursday night under mounting pressure from top corporate sponsors, political leaders and provincial organizations stemming from the group s apparent unwillingness to address its handling of alleged sexual assaults.
Hockey Nova Scotia announced Brent O'Handley as the winner of the 2022 coach of year award for rec-c-level. A grade 12 student at Guysborough Academy, O'Handley joined the Canso Minor Hockey Association when he was 5, and went on to play with the Novas, the Cabot Highlanders, and was an affiliate with the Cape