After a whirlwind experience at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games — including a gold medal win in men’s skeleton — Manitoba boy Jon Montgomery is returning home.
The 31-year-old athlete/car salesman/auctioneer will be the guest of honour at a community celebration in his hometown of Russell, Manitoba on Sunday, March 14 beginning at 1:30 p.m. [...]

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A radio station in Buffalo, New York refused to play Canadian music Monday in response to Team Canada’s gold medal hockey win over the U.S. Sunday.
103.3 The Edge announced its plans on their website prior to canning Canadian content. American listeners joined in on the fun, by encouraging the station to continue [...]

Four of Canada’s most celebrated figure skaters from the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games are coming to Winnipeg.
Gold medallists Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, along with bronze medallist Joannie Rochette and three-time Canadian National Champion Patrick Chan will take part in Stars on Ice on Thursday, May 6.
The star-studded lineup also includes Kurt Browning, Jamie [...]

Thousands of Winnipeggers poured into the streets of downtown after Team Canada’s 3-2 win Sunday over the U.S. in overtime shortly after Sidney Crosby put away the final and deciding goal.
The fun began as fans who packed MTS Centre to watch the game made their way to Portage and Main. An impromptu hockey game was [...]

Enjoy over a dozen photos of Team Canada’s win over the U.S. in the gold medal men’s hockey game on Sunday. If you didn’t already hear, we won 3-2.
More after the jump.

Gold baby, gold! We won 3-2. You know the rest.

The “scandal” surrounding the Canadian women’s hockey team may be over, but a ChrisD.ca reader writes:
Further to the uproar about the partying at centre ice after winning gold. Maybe one girl was under age for the province, but check out what Ovechkin did in the last Olympics after the Russians won gold against our Canadian [...]

It was bitter sweet Saturday for skip Kevin Martin and the Canadian men’s curling team. Comprised of John Morris, Marc Kennedy, Ben Hebert and alternate Adam Enright, the men defeated Norway 6-3 — the same team that crushed their gold medal dreams at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Norway ended up taking silver.
Canada’s [...]

Lyndon Rush of Saskatoon and his team of David Bissett, Lascelles Brown and Chris Le Bihan won bronze Saturday in four-man bobsleigh at Whistler Sliding Centre.
The United States won gold and Germany won silver.

Canadian Jasey-Jay Anderson of Val-Morin, Quebec cliched first place in the men’s parallel giant slalom snowboarding event at Cypress Mountain Saturday.
Anderson took home gold, while Benjamin Karl of Austria and Mathieu Bozzetto of France won silver and bronze.
Canada now has the lead in gold medals with 12, which sets a new Winter Games record for [...]

The Canadian men’s long track speed skating team picked up a gold medal Saturday at the Richmond Olympic Oval.
Mathieu Giroux, Lucas Makowsky and Denny Morrison came in with a time of 3:41.37.
The United States won silver and the Netherlands took bronze.

With a 3-2 defeat over Slovakia Friday night, Team Canada’s men’s hockey team will face off against the United States Sunday afternoon.
The big game will be broadcast at MTS Centre on four giant screens 18 feet above ice level.
Tickets are $5 each at Ticketmaster and one dollar from each ticket will go to support Winnipeg [...]