Category: Canadian Athletics – Discourse

Info Board Hot Takes OKAY. IT’S A-C-X-C time. A Worlds XC year always brings out the best to the Canadian Championship and this year the entry list DOES NOT disappoint. Unfortunately, the 2026 Worlds XC edition is being hosted by USA’s Track and Field body under an authoritarian government that has been funding outright...

ENTER HERE Yeah, we’re going steaming pot of soup mode and mixing it up this ACXC season with a new team format. If you’re signed up to race in the Open Women or Open Men divisions make sure you enter for a chance to win some New Balance shoes! If you have any questions...

Info Board Hot Takes Cold Open And when the clock strikes 12, tell me where you gonna be? Cleaning up the mess we’ve made or watching your TV? -Billy Talent, Turn Your Back The 2025 Athletics Canada Track and Field Championships will be the second edition held since the start of Israel’s mass murder...

Info Board Prediction Quick Hitters “OKAY. It’s A-C-X-C time. I can’t take this anymore. Everyday I check entries and it’s RISING.” Listen to your yearly dose of 2021 Hard Rock Nick and then toss us a key because we’re cranking these out faster than you can shotgun a root beer. But first of all,...

Hot Takes & Tweet Archive Interviews Olympic Team Breakdown Notes world athletics invite*: was previously outside the Olympic quota, but qualified after enough international athletes scratched from the event. Q: How can an athlete make the Olympics if they are ranked 90th in the world and the quota for their event is only 42...

Negative 5 million degrees outer space mode cold open Yeah, let’s eat the low-hanging fruit to start shall we? FIRST, when we were doing research for this event and checked out the Canadian Track and Field Tour results page, we realized that all the results listed were still from 2023. It took us 30...

Yeah, Bell? Don’t need em. Bring the Canadian telecoms under public ownership (extra reading here, here, and here). ALSO, see all the info you need for the 2024 Canadian Track and Field championships below. But first, enjoy our meme (OR, if you’re a corporate sellout, DON’T). Extra Info...

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For more writing on the CTFL, see our previous article: “For the CTFL to Fulfill Its Goals, The Athletes Have to Make It Happen.” We’re nearing the completion of the second CTFL season here and the Spitfires are killing it. Partly because they share a name with the best OHL team that league has...