The Island Tide v Ontario Blues match coming up Sunday at 4:15pm PT. Tide released their 28 player roster and Blues announced their 28 player travelling roster. Some interesting potential matchups.
1876 Where Rugby in BC Began: The Canteen Grounds in Esquimalt – Vancouver Island Rugby Union 150th Anniversary @JasonBeck82 @bcrugbyunion
BC Premier Finals Predictions & Rosters: Men’s Premier #1 Ravens vs #6 UVic; Women’s Premier #3 Thunderbirds vs #4 Westshore – Full Rosters All Divisions
BCRU Annual Report 2025
BCRU Release 2024-25 Annual Report
The BCRU released their annual report with financials. The 2024-25 Annual Report in .pdf format is available for viewing online. We’ve highlighted some quotes below and a graph of their numbers. An overall evaluation, from my point of view, is that they’ve done well at the age-grade levels growing the game, the Kamloops 7s is a case in point. There’s work to do in the high performance end, especially with the senior men which has been quiet at the regional and provincial level. The reality is the financials are one of the major constraining factors which is why they brought in a new CEO to tackle that issue.
From the Editor’s Desk – June 2025
Tyler Duguid Selected for France XV; Liam Poulton Top Canadian Try Scorer in RPL India; MLR Semis Include 15 Canadian Players
A couple of stories from across the world involving Canadian rugby players. Tyler Duguid who plays for Montpellier in the Top 14 has been selected for the France XV vs England XV. It’s unclear whether this is the official France “A” team which would capture Tyler for France and eliminate him from potential Canada selection down the road or if this is just a France XV which doesn’t officially capture him for France. Either way the chances of him playing for Canada now seem very slim. The match will be streamed on rugbypass.tv on Saturday.
Throwback Thursday – June 2025
Video Replay of 2018 Men’s Canadian Club Championship at Klahanie: UBCOB Ravens vs Brantford Harlequins
It’s late Thursday and on a slow rugby news day I’m calling the #TBT option, Throwback Thursday. It all started when RugbyPass the news site owned by World Rugby ran an article on club championships around the world, you can read the article here. It was titled, “Every champion in club rugby across the world in 2024/25”, of course Canada wasn’t mentioned, it mentioned South America, USA, Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, England, Netherlands, Ireland, Wales, Germany, Romania, Georgia, Argentina, Japan, South Africa, NZ… but not Canada.
Canada Women’s XVs – June 2025
Coach Kevin Rouet Names 38 players for Ontario Training Camp Prior to South Africa Tour
The Canadian women assemble for a camp in Perth, Ontario from June 20 to 27 before departing to South Africa for matches on July 5th and 12th. The 33 players from the Pacific Four Series are joined by 5 additional players Sophie de Goede, Madison Grant, Paige Farries, Pamphinette Buisa and Carissa Norsten. The big news is the return of Sophie de Goede, her first action since she tore her ACL about a year ago. After the training camp 32 players will be named for the travelling squad.
Rugby Premier League 2025
Rugby Premier League (RPL) Kicks Off in Mumbai, India with 7 Canadian Players Participating
The Rugby Premier League kicked off on Sunday, it’s a 2 week 7s tournament in Mumbai, India. The reason it’s of interest to Canadian rugby fans is there are 7 Canadian players competing. The competing players are Liam Poultan (Bengaluru Bravehearts); Kyle Tremblay, Ethan Turner, James Thiel (Kalinga Black Tigers); Elias Hancock, Rhys James, Briar Barron (Mumbai Dreamers). There are 6 teams in the league and 3 have Canadian players.
MLR Rugby – Quarter Finals 2025
MLR Quarter-Finals This Weekend: 23 Canadians Playing – New England, Chicago, Utah and Houston Into Semi-Finals
There are 23 Canadian players taking part in the MLR quarter-finals, 4 of the players aren’t on the Canada extended list Guiseppe du Toit, Reegan O’Gorman, Seth Purdey, Josh Larsen with Ethan Fryer listed as Injury Pending.
Canada Summer Games 2025
Canada Summer Games BC U20 Men’s Rugby 7s Trials on Monday, June 16th, at Shawnigan 5pm-7pm – Public Welcome
The Canada Summer Games are taking place in St. John’s, Newfoundland between August 8-25. The Rugby 7s takes place Aug 11-13. In 2022 it was just U18 women’s Rugby 7s, won by BC, but in 2025 it will be men’s U20 and women’s U18 Rugby 7s.
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