GLOBAL: RCX Sports has officially launched NHL STREET, a youth hockey league (for children ages 6-16) that will bring new style, energy, and gameplay to the sport, offering families an affordable, neighborhood-based model that gives kids across North America an opportunity to learn and play hockey. The seven markets chosen for the Phase I rollout are Austin, Boston, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Winnipeg.
NATIONAL: Corona Canada is now offering jet-setters a positive spin on their travel nightmares with a chance to find paradise through "Corona Lost & Found." The program will give a select number of unlucky Canadian travelers the chance to flip the script on their negative travel experience (excluding Quebec and New Brunswick). The brand is engaging with those who have shared their recent travel setbacks on Twitter—and giving Canadians of legal drinking age a chance to enter to win an all-expenses paid trip to Corona Island, an island paradise in the middle of the Caribbean, that's owned by the beer brand.
CALGARY: With just under one year to go until the Special Olympics Canada Winter Games Calgary 2024 Opening Ceremony on Feb. 27, 2024, Calgary is ready to welcome the nation. Last week, the local organizing committee launched its branding and announced the dates, sport venues, volunteer program, and first major sponsors. The volunteer program, presented by TC Energy, is open for registration on the games' new website.
EDMONTON: The Edmonton Convention Centre's executive chef, Serge Belair, recently returned from the Canadian Culinary Championship in Ottawa where he and his team won a bronze medal. Serge finished on the podium in third place out of nine chefs from across the country who all won their regional qualifiers. He was the only chef in the competition representing a convention venue.
TORONTO: The Alpine Club of Canada Toronto Section will present the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema from March 17-19. The Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is held every fall at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Following the festival, a selection of the best films tour around the world, with stops planned in roughly 550 communities and more than 40 countries.
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