swimming

Strong winds and almost freezing temperatures didn’t deter hundreds of brave souls from jumping into Lake Ontario in a New Year’s Day tradition.  Some 750 people took part in the Courage Polar Bear Dip in Oakville., Ont., just west of Toronto on Wednesday.  Aiden Peel, who travelled more than 100 kilometres from Innisfil, Ont., to […]

The arrival terminals at airports in Toronto and Montreal were filled with cheers on Monday as fans and family gathered to give a hero’s welcome to Canadian Olympians returning home from the Paris Games with a record-breaking medal haul.  The Summer Games saw Team Canada bring home an unprecedented number of medals — nine gold […]

The iconic Lawson Aquatic Centre on Elphinstone will be torn down, and replaced with a brand new, state of the art facility. The biggest question is where will it go. Right now the city is looking at keeping the new facility adjacent to the old one, on the site of the old Taylor Field. There […]

A 36-year-old man from Central Butte is missing after jumping into Lake Diefenbaker on Canada Day to help some children who were having some distress while swimming Saskatchewan RCMP say they responded around 11 a.m. to hear of the man who had been in a boat and jumped out to help the kids.  The children […]