Canada Rugby 1902-1903 Tour to UK – Part 1

The Forgotten Canadian Rugby Tour of 1902-1903: 22 Games Over 56 Days With Wins Over Ulster, Bristol, London Welsh, London Scottish and North of Scotland

The Canadian rugby tour of 1902-03 to the UK isn’t well documented. It’s a tour that deserves some recognition, it was the first Canadian rugby tour overseas, it even predates the famous All Blacks 1905 tour to the UK.

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PRO 14 Rugby

PRO 14 Wraps Up Regular Season This Weekend: Leinster & Ulster Through to Semis in Pool A; Edinburgh, Munster, Scarlets Battle it Out in Pool B

The PRO 14 wraps up their 2019-2020 regular season this weekend with the top four teams going into the semis next weekend.

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Provincial Rugby Updates – August 2020

Quebec Rugby Gets World Rugby Attention with Initiative to Send 20 Players to France to Play Professionally

It was a great initiative that caught the eye of World Rugby. They published the article on their French website, we made a modest effort to translate it to English (article appended below).

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Return to Play Updates – August 2020

ViaSport Enters “Progressively Loosen” Stage for Sports Activities Starting August 24th: BCRU Publishes Their Return to Rugby Plans for Touch and Flag Rugby

ViaSport, the provincial authority on Return to Sport protocol, announced the “Progressively Loosen” stage will start August 24th. “As of August 24, sport activities should adhere to the “Progressively Loosen” stage of the Sport Activity Chart.”

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PRO 14 Rugby

PRO 14 Wraps up 2019-20 Season Over Next Four Weeks: A Look at This Weekend’s Action

With Super Rugby Aotearoa over, we’re now going to switch our attention to the four week conclusion of PRO 14 which starts this weekend.

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From the Editor’s Desk – August 2020

Pacific Pride Updates; Grassroots Rugby Updates; BCRU Rugby Re-Engage Update; NZ North v South Rosters

Pacific Pride

I touched base with Jamie Cudmore over the phone to find out what’s happening there. They’re doing as much as they can while conforming to provincial health regulations. That means they’re focused on fitness and skills work in small groups, both inside in the gym and outside on the field.

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Super Rugby Aotearoa – Round Ten

Super Rugby Week Ten Results and Video Highlights

The Crusaders v Blues match was cancelled due to COVID and each team were awarded 2 points. With the Hurricanes loss to the Highlanders it didn’t effect the standings with the Blues finishing second and the Hurricanes third.

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Rugby World Cups 2025 to 2031

World Rugby Announces Process for Selecting Hosts of Men’s 2027 & 2031 and Women’s 2025 & 2029 World Cups

World Rugby will select the next four World Cups (2 for men, 2 for women) in the same process. The World Rugby article below gives more details but basically the process starts Feb 2021 with a dialogue phase. The formal phase starts May 2021 with submissions expected by January 2022. Evaluation by World Rugby starts February 2022 and a vote takes place in May 2022.

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From the Editor’s Desk – August 2020

Rugby Canada Awards; Thunder Rugby Invited to BC Legislature; Toronto Wolfpack in Trouble; Six Nations Rugby Resumes in October; Super Rugby Aotearoa Final Round in Jeopardy

There hasn’t been a lot of local rugby news and we’ve been focusing lately on where rugby is actually being played, in Super Rugby Aotearoa, NZ. But it’s time to catch up on some local news and what’s happening outside of NZ.

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