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National Post
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- National Post
Is Brett Sutter a rising star in the coaching ranks? The Calgary Flames believe so
Article content Flames fans don't need any sort of refresher on what happened in 2004, when 'The Jolly Rancher' spurred Jarome Iginla, Miikka Kiprusoff, Conroy and the rest of a hard-hatted squad on an improbable run to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final. If only replay technology was a little more advanced back then … Article content 'Even though Brett only has the one year of coaching experience, I just think the whole career part of it and the blue-collar work ethic that he has, quite honest, I think it leads up to a long career for him,' Darryl told Postmedia. 'He was raised in a locker room, so he understands the team part of it. I remember taking him into the locker room in Chicago when he was a little boy. You learn a lot being in the locker room, and he has basically done that his whole life. He's lucky in that sense. Article content 'Brett, his leadership skills are off the charts. He was captain of, what, three or four teams? And his hockey IQ is really high. He knows the game. I think he understands what it takes and the roles, that sort of thing. Article content 'And he's obviously familiar with the whole organization, from ownership right down to the trainers. So I think it's perfect for him and it's great for the Flames to develop a young coach like that.' Article content Wranglers looking to roster filled with young players Article content The pipeline has been a positive story for the Flames over the past few seasons, with Matt Coronato, Dustin Wolf and Connor Zary among the graduates from farmhand to fixture. Article content As Conroy seeks to build a contender, that trend must continue. Brett Sutter now plays a vital role. Article content The Wranglers' roster for this upcoming season should be stocked with youngsters. It's possible that more than half the guys in their lineup on any given night will be in their early 20s — among them, forwards Andrew Basha, Matvei Gridin, Sam Honzek, Rory Kerins, William Stromgren and Aydar Suniev, defencemen Hunter Brzustewicz, Artem Grushnikov, Yan Kuznetsov and Etienne Morin and goaltender Arsenii Sergeev. (The oldest dude on this list is 23.) Article content Article content Article content 'Brett understands that the job of the American League head coach is to, first and foremost, develop the young players for the NHL,' Conroy said. 'It's going to be, 'Hey, if you want to get to the NHL, you have to do X, Y and Z. You can't cheat. You don't want to be here forever. You want to get to the NHL. But if you don't put all this work in, it's not going to happen.' Because every year, there are more and more young guys coming. Everybody is fighting for the same jobs. Brett understands that better than anyone, and I think that's going to be a huge asset for us.' Article content The Wranglers' new skipper will tell you that sort of guidance has been a part of his everyday role for longer than his HockeyDB page might indicate, back before he was in charge of determining the lines or planning the drills for practice.
National Post
14 minutes ago
- National Post
FIRST READING: Canadian talent (and money) is fleeing to the U.S.
First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post's own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. Article content TOP STORY Article content Article content This month, one of the world's most well-known Canadian residents finalized his plans to leave Canada for good. Article content The term 'famous Canadian' almost always describes someone who no longer lives in the country of their birth. Neil Young, Justin Bieber, Malcolm Gladwell, Ryan Reynolds, Alanis Morrissette; all of them live full-time in the United States, and have done so for years. Article content Article content Until recently, Jordan Peterson was an exception. He could sell out stadiums in Europe and pen best-selling books in the United States, but his home base remained Toronto, where he retained his position as a psychology professor at the University of Toronto. Article content Article content But with Peterson officially putting his Toronto home up for sale as part of a permanent move to Arizona, he's effectively severing his last physical tie to Canada in what he's described as a ' painful parting.' Article content And news of the Peterson sale happened to break in the same week that another prominent figure announced that he was reluctantly abandoning his Canadian address. In a widely circulated op-ed for the National Post, Vancouver Jewish community leader Michael Sachs said he could no longer justify raising his family in Canada when the U.S. was an option. 'I have received multiple death threats over the last few years for advocating for my community. For my family, the luxury of patience has run out and our confidence in Canada's political leadership is gone,' he wrote. Article content Article content Both Peterson and Sachs have their own political reasons for leaving, but they're part of an accelerating trend. Canada has always struggled to stop capital and top talent from fleeing abroad, but what was once a steady trickle of people leaving may be ramping up. Article content In a Thursday social media post, the chief operating officer for Shopify, Kaz Nejatian, said he had multiple Jewish friends tell him their plans to leave. Article content 'They say they no longer feel safe sending their kids to school here,' he said. Article content That same day, the U.S.-based National Review profiled several Jewish Canadians who were either mulling a move to the U.S. for safety reasons, or had already done so. They included veteran Conservative political organizer Georgann Burke, who cited noticeable increases in both antisemitic hatred and anti-American hatred. 'I have received a series of really nasty emails. One was from someone who actually threatened to kill me,' she said. Article content Another, Toronto real estate developer Avi Glina, characterized Canada's steep rise in Jewish hate not as something distinct from the country's various economic ills, but a symptom of it. Article content 'Antisemitism is a symptom of a broken economy and nation state,' he said. Article content As far back as 2022, U.S. data was showing a noticeable spike in Canadians moving across the border. When that year's incoming Canadians were compared against outgoing Canadians, the U.S. Census Bureau determined that they had taken in a net 42,825 newcomers. It was the fastest growth in Canadian immigration they'd seen since 2013. Article content And Canada's own figures are also tracking a spike in departures. Article content In the first three months of 2025, Statistics Canada counted 27,086 emigrants permanently leaving the country. That's up from 25,394 in the first quarter of 2022. Article content Emigration figures include both citizens and permanent residents, so some of those departures may include recent immigrants who are ditching Canada for new horizons. Article content But regardless, it represents a near-unprecedented rate of established Canadians deciding they don't want to live here anymore. Article content 'Aside from a spike in 2017, this is the highest sustained outflow since the 1960s,' reads an analysis of the emigration figures by Better Dwelling. Article content Article content Over the 12 months preceding the April federal election, a total of 106,900 were added to the Canadian emigration rolls. On whatever day that Peterson finally left Canada for good, he would have been among about 300 Canadians doing the same. Article content Canada's chief weakness in retaining talent and money is economic. Article content In fields ranging from engineering to law, the average Canadian professional can not only make more money in the United States, but face dramatically lower housing prices and cost of living expenses. Article content The disparity has long been most obvious in the tech sector. In some years, the University of Waterloo's software engineering department has immediately lost up to 85 per cent of its graduates to jobs in the United States. Article content As one Canadian engineering student put it in a lengthy 2022 blog post about the Canadian brain drain, ''Cali or bust' and 'US or bust' are common terms I heard throughout my undergrad in engineering.' Article content The two countries used to be much more comparable for housing and wages, but the last 10 years have seen U.S. per-capita GDP surge ahead of Canada, while Canadian housing unaffordability has simultaneously surged ahead of the U.S. Article content Article content And if Canada's economy is scaring away people, it's also scaring away money. A Thursday update by Statistics Canada confirmed that both Canadian and foreign investors have been feverishly divesting from the Canadian economy, with $83.9 billion having been divested from Canadian securities in just the last four months. Article content According to Statistics Canada, a lot of that divested money was being poured into the United States instead. Article content One of the most illuminating polls from Canada's current trade war with the United States was a January survey finding that four in 10 Canadian young people would vote to dissolve their country if it meant that they could receive U.S. citizenship. Article content The question was whether respondents would vote for Canada to become a part of the United States provided the U.S. 'offered all Canadians full U.S. citizenship and a full conversion of the Canadian dollar and all personal financial assets into US dollars.' Article content The cohort that liked the idea more than anyone else was Canadians under 34; 43 per cent said they would trade their country's sovereignty for such a deal.
CTV News
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- CTV News
Canadian star swimmer Oleksiak notified of anti-doping rules violation
Canadian swim star Penelope Oleksiak has been notified that she committed three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period between October 2024 and June 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young TORONTO — Swim star Penny Oleksiak of Toronto has been notified of an apparent anti-doping rule violation by the International Testing Agency. According to the ITA, Oleksiak committed three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period between October 2024 and June 2025. She has been made aware of the case and has accepted a voluntary provisional suspension pending the resolution of the matter. She has the right to provide her explanations for each of the three whereabouts failures. Given that the case is underway, there will be no further comments from the ITA, World Aquatics or Oleksiak during the ongoing proceedings. That implies that the third missed test came after Oleksiak qualified for the Canadian team at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. In a now-deleted Instagram post, Oleksiak announced two weeks ago that she was withdrawing from the World Championship team and accepting a voluntary provisional suspension. Any eventual sanction would be reduced by the amount of time she was suspended under the voluntary provisional suspension. In the post, Oleksiak asserted 'I am and always have been a clean athlete' and that the case 'does not involve any banned substance; it's about whether I updated my information correctly.' Swimming Canada echoed the sentiment and said 'We support her decision and believe she is a clean athlete who made an administrative mistake.' A Whereabouts Case is an Anti-Doping rule violation that can affect athlete eligibility even if they have never taken a banned substance. The World Anti-Doping Code defines a Whereabouts failure as any combination of three missed tests or filing failures in a 12-month period. Athletes who are members of the 'Registered Testing Pool' which is the highest tier of athlete testing, are required to report an accurate and up-to-date filing of their whereabouts at all times. This is so they can be drug tested at any time and any place with no advance notice. According to World Aquatics, if an athlete in the testing pool submits 'late, inaccurate or incomplete whereabouts that lead to (them) being unavailable for testing, (they) may receive a Filing Failure.' This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 19, 2025.
