Rugby Canada Add Two More UK Hirings to be Shared with Toronto Arrows – Bombrys States Arrows Provide Canada’s Only Professional High Performance Environment

New CEO Nathan Bombrys is doubling down on bringing in offshore expertise and doubling down in his belief the Toronto Arrows are the solution to the men’s XVs problems. Rugby Canada announced Alex Lee, previously with Ealing Trailfinders, and Richard Owen, previously with the Welsh Rugby Union, will be hired and embedded with the Toronto Arrows for the season. Outside of the MLR season they’ll be assigned Rugby Canada team duties. It’s an arrangement similar to Robert Howley’s, there’s no word if World Rugby are also paying these salaries, as they do for Howley.

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Rugby Canada Announces New MOU with Canadian Rugby Players Association: A Look Back on the Player Strike of 2018 and Formation of CRPA in 2020

Rugby Canada announced a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed with the Canadian Rugby Players Association (CRPA) which marks the beginning of discussions on a new collective agreement. The CRPA was started in 2020 and its first chair was Jeff Hassler.

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Rugby Canada Hires Hong Kong Women’s 7s Coach: Background at Glasgow

News out of Hong Kong is that Rugby Canada has hired Iain Monaghan who is currently the coach of the Hong Kong women’s 7s team. His role wasn’t specified in the South China Morning Post article, the article mentions “the Scotsman will have a roving brief across the Sevens programme as part of his job”.

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Cudmore Looks to Rebuild Bridges, Return to Canadian Rugby Scene – Article from Canadian Press

When Rugby Canada want to say something informally, they usually bring in Neil Davidson. Hopefully that is the case with this article published on September 20th by major news outlets that run Canadian Press articles.

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Rugby Canada AGM and Financials Posted: Two New Directors Added, One Director Resigns

The Rugby Canada AGM recently took place, the financials and annual report are listed below along with the Rugby Canada media release.

There are two new Directors, Lauren Wolman (Toronto, ON) and Sandy Donald (Brandon, MB). Bill Webb of the Toronto Arrows resigned.

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Rugby Canada Announce Test Match Against Belgium for Men; Italy and Wales for Women; Also Men to Face French Barbarians

This is what it looks like when you don’t qualify for the World Cup, one test match against 27th ranked Belgium this summer. The men also get a game against the French Barbarians. The Belgium match is hosted in Halifax and the French Barbarians match is in Ottawa.

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Rugby Canada Announce Nathan Bombrys as New CEO – Starts This Summer

OK, in the Guess the New Rugby Canada CEO contest, whoever guessed an American from small town Michigan who studied filmmaking and majored in film at Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts wins the grand prize. Well done you!

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Rugby Canada Announce 2021 Hall of Fame Inductees

from Rugby Canada

Rugby Canada is pleased to announce the class of 2021 Hall of Fame Inductees. These six Canadian rugby icons and one outstanding team join the Class of 2020 as the most recent members of the Canadian rugby community to have their legacy cemented in the Hall of Fame.

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Jamie Levchuk Named Interim CEO of Rugby Canada

Jamie first showed up in our database in 2014 as a referee and then showed up frequently in our match reports as a referee up till 2019. He then showed up in media releases as the Rugby Canada Managing Director of Business Operations in 2021.

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Canada Sevens in Vancouver Resurrected on Easter Weekend – LA Sevens Moves to August

The Canada Sevens in Vancouver have changed their dates, gone is the February 26-27 date, due to COVID concerns. The tournament has been moved to April 16-17, the Easter long weekend.

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