Sudbury extends arena lease for 'Shorsey' filming
Sudbury's planning committee voted Monday to extend the Capreol arena's temporary use bylaw for three years, allowing "Shorsey" to continue filming. Capreol Minor Hockey hopes to leverage the show's popularity to fund arena upgrades, citing urgent needs like dressing rooms and parking.
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'I have 9 lives': Canadian diver reflects on terrifying cliff fall, overcoming near-death experience
Social Sharing After a near-death experience slipping off a 22-foot diving cliff, Canadian diver Molly Carlson says she'll celebrate the next time she gets on the diving board again. The 26-year old was competing at the second stop of the Red Bull cliff diving World Series in Polignano a Mare, Italy, on June 28th, when the fall happened, leading her to drop out of the competition. "Watching it again, it's always terrifying. You don't expect yourself to slip off a 22-metre platform after years of doing it perfectly," Carlson told CBC Sports. "I'm just really proud of myself for knowing what to do in the air in such a scary situation." WATCH | Molly Carlson joins CBC Sports to discuss traumatic slip: Canadian cliff diver Molly Carlson spoke to CBC Sports after a 'near-death' experience during competition in which she slipped off a 22m platform. The professional diver told host Anastasia Bucsis about the scary experience, her amazement that her body 'knew' what to do, and how excited she is to compete for Canada in high diving at the world Aquatics championships beginning July 23rd. The next morning, the diver woke up with a black bruise covering the sole of her right foot. "I was like, okay, I need to be smart about this," she said. "The shock is over. I am in pain. Let's just make sure that I'm good for the world championships. And so I flew home early and I got an X-ray and it was all clear." Now, she's rewriting her own narrative and celebrating her courage on the diving board. "I live with anxiety, and I know that other people do too," she said. "And for me, I'm just trying to really find deep down like, 'You have to do this for you. You can't be jumping off platforms for other reasons. You can't be trying to people-please the whole time.'" WATCH | Molly Carlson shares struggles with anxiety, and overcoming: Cliff diver Molly Carlson talks about the importance of staying authentic 3 months ago Later this month, Carlson will compete in Singapore for Team Canada at the World Aquatics Championships 2025. As she prepares to return to the world stage, supportive teammates are what grounds the diver, she says. "Knowing that I have my coach, I have my teammates, I have Summer McIntosh ready to come cheer for me at the World Championships," Carlson said. "I think that's the coolest thing ever, and I just can't wait to prove to everyone that I can do this dive." While Carlson is gunning for the podium at World's — becoming a world champion has always been a dream — her greater goal is to inspire those watching. "At the end of the day, I've learned that success is so much more than outcomes. It's absolutely about how much you can connect with the audience, how much you can inspire," she said. "It is truly through inspiration, and I hope that I am helping someone out there feel less alone."
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Girls' softball was an inclusive sport in Alberta. For this teen, a new law could end that
Riley Simpson has been playing softball since they were nine years old. They fell in love with the sport after watching their older sister play. In June, their softball team won the Edmonton city championship and Riley was hoping to play on higher-level teams as they grew and got better. In Alberta, where Riley is from, most competitive softball teams are girls' teams. This has never been a problem for Riley, who recently turned 15 years old and is non-binary, thanks to inclusive sporting policies, a co-ed mentality in softball and pre-puberty androgyny. But the provincial government has enacted a controversial new law excluding athletes assigned male at birth from women's sports teams — known as Bill 29, or the Fairness and Safety in Sport Act — which goes into effect on Sept. 1. Athletes not assigned female at birth will have to leave any girls' sports team belonging to any school, collegiate or provincial amateur competition level or play in boys' or co-ed divisions. Some say that unfairly targets young athletes in recreational leagues. The legislation is already having repercussions on some young athletes in the province: on June 24, Riley played what could effectively be their last competitive softball game ever. WATCH | Alberta's Bill 29 has caused polarized debate: Alberta government releases details on a bill about transgender athletes 1 month ago The provincial government has released details about how it intends to enforce its ban on transgender athletes competing in women's and girls' sports. CBC's Sam Brooks takes us through the implications of Bill 29. "We won the city championship that day, so that's a good memory. But I also remember sitting on the pitching plate after the game, feeling so sad," Riley wrote, replying to emailed questions from CBC News. Riley's mother, Eldyka Simpson, was at the game in Edmonton and, over the phone, recounted how most of her child's teammates weren't up to date on the reality of the new law until the team was drinking a ginger ale toast and one of the coaches announced it would be Riley's last game, and that she was proud they were a part of the team. "Then people started to cry," Simpson said. The team went to Dairy Queen for Blizzards afterward, but Riley stayed back and sat on the pitching mound "and just cried and cried, and cried," Simpson said. Inclusion policy soon moot It had been a difficult season for the teenager, who earlier in the year was turned away from a higher-level under-15 team, then qualified for an even-higher calibre U17B team — but was later voted off in what Simpson can only explain as transphobic sentiment coming from a small number of parents. Simpson says one of them told her "boys don't belong" on a girls' softball team because they could have an advantage over the female players. Simpson, who is also an umpire and has three other children, was frustrated. She says there were girls on the team stronger than Riley, who would have been probably the third or fourth pitcher. She turned to Softball Alberta — the association overseeing Riley's team — asking it to enforce its inclusion policy. The policy, which has been in place since 2018, says the provincial association adopts the practices outlined by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, including that players "should be able to participate in the gender with which they identify … nor should there be any requirement for hormonal therapy or surgery." In an email correspondence with the association, Simpson says it didn't appear to have any mechanisms for enforcing the policy and suggested the new law would render it moot anyway. Softball Alberta confirmed to CBC News that Riley was registered in one of its U15 girls' teams this year, but only forwarded information regarding the bill when asked about not having enforced the policy. Simpson said she was disappointed by the lack of support and, to her, it showed that gender had seemingly not been a problem in the sport before the United Conservative Party government introduced its bill. "Do we need to have rules at college level? Sure. Do we need to have rules at Olympic level? Sure. Do we need to have rules at scholarship level? Sure," she said. "But we're talking about kids playing community sport here." 'Forcing kids to stop playing the sport they love' In an emailed statement, Andrew Boitchenko, Alberta's minister of tourism and sport, said the province was working to create and expand co-ed divisions "so that transgender athletes can meaningfully participate in the sports of their choice." But Riley and their mom doubt there are currently enough players to fill a co-ed division right away. Instead, Riley said they are considering playing in an adult league with co-ed options next year. "I really don't want that. It makes me angry that the government is literally forcing kids to stop playing the sport they love," Riley said. Sara Kim, the co-ordinator of community care at Skipping Stone, an organization helping and advocating for trans people in Alberta, has been outspoken against the law and says the fact it includes recreational sports is an overreach. A hockey player herself, Kim says she won't be able to play in the two teams she's currently a part of come September. "It's humiliating," said Kim, who plays on an inclusive team with old friends, but won't be able to continue because the team plays for Hockey Alberta, an amateur sports organization subject to the legislation. "We're just normal people who want to enjoy our lives." When it comes to its effect on young people, Kim says the law is dragging children into a political debate they didn't ask to be a part of since it has no age barrier for who it applies to. Simpson, Riley's mother, says sports are inherently unfair — whether some kids are naturally stronger, more skilled, more passionate, have the right coaches, live in rural or urban communities and whether they have the capacity and the money to do training camps. She says she believes the government is introducing a problem where there had not been any and feels caught in the crossfire "It's a very big problem for a very small number of kids, but I am that family. My kid is that kid," she said. According to her, the law "makes a mockery of the strong girls that we're raising."
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Dive into the story of hockey great Guy Lafleur at Gatineau pop-up
To beat the heat, CBC Ottawa's Hallie Cotnam soaks up stories from the ice at a pop-up exhibit for hockey great Guy Lafleur.
