It may be clutching at soccer straws to note that two of Canada’s group opponents in the 2022 World Cup, Croatia and Morocco, are through to the semifinals. Or it might be a valid point as Canada looks to co-host in 2026 with the U.S. and Mexico.
The entire remainder of the VISL season has been scrubbed by the board of governors. The irony is the league managed to stage the Jackson Cup last year by delaying it to the summer from its usual late-March date. The season cancellation also comes just as things are opening up again in sports with the Western Hockey League and B.C. Hockey League granted permission to play. “My phones are blowing up,” said Greco. That’s not surprising because the top end of the VISL is highly competitive, having produced World Cup players George Pakos, Jamie Lowery, Ian Bridge and other multi-capped Canadian national team performers such as Brian Robinson, Bob Bolitho and Ike MacKay.
Craveiro was about to arrest the driver when the 20-year-old man suddenly detonated dynamite in his car, dying at the scene. Craveiro, who was the closest officer to the vehicle when it blew up, was seriously injured in the explosion. He lost his left eye, his ability to taste and smell diminished and he had chronic back pain, said his son Nico Craveiro. “He was in the hospital for quite some time.” Many years later, a shard of glass from the blast was removed from his head. Nonetheless, Craveiro, who died Tuesday of heart failure at age 74 at Victoria General Hospital, later returned to policing, a job he loved, retiring in 2004.