Last weekend of the regular season in the BC Premier. Lomas @ Burnaby, Westshore @ Caps, UBC @ Bays, UVic @ CW – Women’s Premier Westshore @ Thunderbirds, Lomas @ Burnaby
Edmonton and Winnipeg Selected as Host Cities for Nations Cup Matches in July vs Spain, Portugal, Zimbabwe
Canada with matches against Spain, Portugal and Zimbabwe in Edmonton and Winnipeg.
The inaugural @WorldRugby Nations Cup heads to the Americas in July.
With 18 matches hosted across the continent, the #NationsCup is designed to accelerate competitiveness, create certainty, and provide revenue opportunities to participating teams.
https://www.world.rugby/nations-cup/en/news/1043084/world-rugby-nations-cup-heads-to-the-americas-in-july-for-inaugural-2026-edition
BC Premier Week 17 Predictions & Rosters: Ravens @ Westshore, JBAA @ Capilano, Burnaby @ UVic, UBC @ CW – Women’s Premier Thunderbirds @ CW, Ravens @ Westshore
Top 10 Canadian Rugby Influencers
A Look at the Top 10 Canadian Rugby Influencers on Instagram
It’s that gap between xmas and new year when there’s not much rugby news so we went searching on Instagram for some stories and came up with the idea to do a top 10 Canadian rugby “influencers”. The graph is below, we’ve added some insights that Ai came up with. We originally used Ai to create the list but typical Ai, it got a lot of the data wrong and missed a few people, it’s a useful tool to do some of the grunt work but still needs human oversight to make sure the data is correct and complete. If we forgot someone, mention it in the comments section below.
2025 in Review – October to December
A Review of 2025 from October to December: Canadian Men Drop 3 in Europe, SVNS Series Starts for Women, University Titles Decided Guelph Win Men’s – UBC Win Women’s, BC Youth Club Titles Decided
The October to December window saw the men’s XVs team travel to Europe for the November tests, they dropped games to Romania, Georgia and Portugal. The University championships kicked off with UBC winning the women’s title over UVic and Guelph winning the men’s title over ETS. The SVNS series started for the women with stops in Dubai and Cape Town, the women finished 6th in both tournaments. MLR dropped a bombshell in October, only 7 spots for non-USA players per team, and Canadian players were included as imports. The BC club youth championships wrapped up in December with Abbotsford taking both U16 and U18 girls, CW winning U18 boys and Capilano U16 boys.
2025 in Review – July to September
A Review of 2025 from July to September: Canadian Women Win Silver at World Cup, Canadian Men Qualify for RWC 2027, BC Women Win Gold at Summer Games & U19 Nationals, BC Premier Starts 2025-26 Season
The July to September window had a lot of highlights, the Canadian women won Silver at the World Cup after going 3-0 in the pool rounds, defeating Australia in the quarter-finals and NZ in the semi-finals. The Canadian men qualified for the 2027 World Cup with their win over USA. The return of Tyler Ardron and Evan Olmstead for that one match was crucial. The BC Premier 2025-26 season kicked off in September. BC women won Gold at the Summer Games and at the U19 Nationals.
2025 in Review – April to June
A Review of 2025 from April to June: BC Club Finals, Pacific Four Series, Challenger 7s Series, High School Finals, U20 Men in Oceania Tournament, World Rugby 7s Final, MLR Final
The period from April to June saw the BC Club leagues wrap up with the Ravens winning the men’s Premier, Thunderbirds the women’s. The national women started their Pacific Four series in the USA, they would defeat USA and Australia and draw with NZ. The men’s 7s team were in the Challenger 7s series and finished top four winning admission to the World Rugby 7s Final in LA. Unfortunately they didn’t finish top 4 there and have to start back at the RAN 7s and SVNS 3. The women won Bronze in LA. The BC high school finals took place with St. George’s winning the top competition for boys, G.P. Vanier for girls. The U20 men did exceptionally well in the Oceania U20 tournament, defeating Samoa and Tonga but losing to eventual winner, Fiji. New England with 7 Canadians won the MLR title in June.
2025 in Review – January to March
A Review of 2025 from January to March: U18, MLR, BC Rugby Season, Men’s and Women’s 7s, U20, High School, University, Pacific Pride, Editorials
We posted over 300 articles last year and we’ll go through some of the key ones from January to March. We’ve highlighted 21 articles that give a quick overview of the first quarter of the season, starting with U18, to MLR, BC Rugby season, men’s and women’s 7s, U20, high school, university, Pacific Pride, guest posts and Rugby Canada shenanigans at the admin level.
Happy Holidays 2025
It’s that time of year, time to take a rest, rejuvenate, enjoy friends and family and put rugby on the back burner for a day or two. We’ll be back on December 26th to start our review of the year’s highlights and look at what’s coming for 2026.
So Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Solstice whatever name you put to the end of year celebrations. See you in a couple of days to review the year and look ahead to the new year.
Mark
Editor BCRN
BCRU Updates – December 2025
What’s Happening with BCRU Board? Two Recent Resignations; Hall of Fame Nominees Not Ratified and HoF Event Cancelled
The recent media release from the BCRU (see below) was short and to the point, Board President Andy Margolis was resigning. I received a message from a long time member of the BC Rugby community shortly after, “Can’t believe the guy quit or was relieved after three months [ed. more like 5 months], I have a hard time accepting someone of his calibre changes his mind about the state of rugby in BC in just three months. Any hard hitting journalism about the BCRU coming out?” I was being called out, probably the only person resembling a rugby journalist in BC nowadays, what’s Patrick Johnston doing these days, and Dan Fumano, they’re real journalists but they have real jobs as well. OK, I’ll spill my guts and tell you what I know.
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