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It’s only fitting that boxing occurred during Week Two of this year’s Canada Winter Games, coinciding with Women’s History Month, which runs the month of March.

For the first time in Canada Games history, medals will be awarded in mixed doubles curling. The event made its historic debut this week at the Montague Curling Club.

Team Alberta’s figure skater, Lia Cho, is this year’s youngest athlete at Canada Winter Games. She is only 10 years old and stands just over four rulers high.

On day 13 of the 2023 Canada Winter Games, the host province, Prince Edward Island, landed on the podium for the first time. Lucas Macdonald of Stratford, claimed the silver medal in the Men’s +81 kg Judo division Thursday afternoon.

At the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alberta’s Evelyn Beaton took home a gold medal for the individual female - 44 kg Judo division.

When people speak of the legacy of the 2023 Canada Winter Games the conversation usually focuses on two things, the lifelong memories people take away from the Games and the new sports facilities the Games leave behind.

Chants of “Novaaa Scotiaaa” echoed throughout Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre in Charlottetown as proud fans watched Ritu Shah and Thomas Ashton add two silver medals to Team Nova Scotia’s growing medal count.

Elaine Hong celebrates her gold medal win in the female épée event during fencing competition Tuesday at the Canada Winter Games in Charlottetown.

Sport and competition often draw metaphoric comparisons to life. For PEI’s Crawford family, it’s remarkable how a sport with a tiny target has brought life’s bigger picture into clear view.Sport and competition often draw metaphoric comparisons to life. For PEI’s Crawford family, it’s remarkable how a sport with a tiny target has brought life’s bigger picture into clear view.

Sporting bright green and blue uniforms, the PEI 2023 volunteers are a dedicated and committed group, intent on making sure the Games provide the best possible experience for the young athletes representing their respective provinces and territories.

Sibling rivalries are burning fires inside most families. On a rare occasion, we see family come together on a team. The Vancouver Canucks had the Sedin twins, and the Milwaukee Bucks have the Antetokounmpo brothers. However, the Newfoundland & Labrador Wheelchair basketball team has even more family ties.

Team Alberta gymnast Artur Troyan saw his training, experience and dedication to his sport pay off this past week when he and teammate Cody Cyman captured a bronze medal in the synchro trampoline competition.

Taking home a gold medal from the Canada Winter Games is the ultimate goal for Canada’s next generation of athletes. For many, it will be a goal out of reach, but for 18-year-old Gleb Evstigneev, the dream of taking a gold medal back home to Newfoundland and Labrador became reality Wednesday evening when he performed two flawless routines in the individual male trampoline competition.

The loss of an arm can be a devastating injury, but Paralympian Mark Arendz has never allowed that injury, the result of a tragic farm accident at the age of seven, to hold him back.

To celebrate black history month, the PEI 2023 Canada Winter Games has partnered with the Confederation Centre of the Arts to deliver a new art exhibit spotlighting Island athletes of colour.

Malcolm George Farris heard the screams of his fellow Bluenosers loud and clear last night when he stepped onto the podium to receive his bronze medal.

Up until eight months ago, Joanna Raj of Moncton had never played Table Tennis. This week the 12-year-old is a member of Team New Brunswick’s first Table Tennis team to compete at the Canada Winter Games in 20 years.

If you needed one more reason to be proud of this great country, you would have found it at the EastLink Centre Saturday night where the finest young athletes from across Canada paraded their colours for the official opening of the 2023 Canada Winter Games.

Alex Mysko of British Columbia claimed one of the first gold medals awarded at the 2023 Canada Games. He finished with a total score of 123.16 in Men’s freestyle skiing aerials. Mysko’s score topped Alberta’s Brian Burnyeat by a narrow 2.7 points.

Oonah Gamboa and Haruki Mori of team British Columbia claimed the first-ever gold medals to be awarded for Karate at the Canada Games. Their medals were awarded this afternoon following the Kata event at Canada Games multi-sport Dome at Credit Union Place.

Twin sisters Ocean and Spring Ma, members of the Team B.C. Girls Squash Team at the Canada Winter Games, are the top-seeded players in their age group. The 16-year-old twins have immense passion for the game.

When squash was first introduced at the Canada Games in Charlottetown in 1991 the man coaching Alberta’s promising young squash players was a genial expatriate Englishman named Arthur Hough. Thirty-two years later Hough is back in Charlottetown coaching yet another team of aspiring young squash players for Alberta.

Meet the official flagbearers of the PEI 2023 Canada Winter Games.

Team Alberta is coming off a Canadian U18 girl’s curling championship – for the second straight year, in fact – and will carry the title as favourite when the Canada Winter Games competition begins on Sunday at the Silver Fox Entertainment Complex in Summerside, PEI.

The class of 2023 includes decorated Olympians Marc Gagnon, Heather Moyse, and Sami Jo Small, trailblazing builder Vicki Keith, and distinguished Games alum Dr. Heather Morrison.

Fresh from an overnight cross-country charter flight, Team BC athletes are on the ground in PEI and are adjusting to a new province, local weather and life in a multisport Games Village.

As soon as you walk through their front door, you can see proof of the Zhang family's love of hockey everywhere. It's the photos hanging on the walls, the framed newspaper clippings sitting on coffee tables, and the countless black dents in the garage door behind a well-used hockey net — evidence of the years of wrist shots Brian Zhang has practised there.

Cyriah Richard is one of two goaltenders selected to play on the female hockey team for the 2023 Canada Games.

The City of Charlottetown, in partnership with the 2023 Canada Games Host Society, has purchased and installed a portable artificial outdoor rink system for the greenspace in front of Founders Hall. The rink opened to the public on January 28, 2023 with skaters already taking the opportunity to test the ice.

Prince Edward Island is set to welcome thousands of visitors for the 2023 Canada Winter Games, and Confederation Centre of the Arts is thrilled to collaborate on a variety of cultural activities.

The 2023 Canada Games Host Society interviewed four Islanders about volunteering with the Games.

Officially half-way to our goal of 5000 volunteers, the 2023 Canada Games Host Society was happy to catch up with Carla DiGiorgio, our 2,500th volunteer.

Having represented Prince Edward Island as an athlete in Cape Breton in 1987, a spectator in PEI in 1991 and 2009, and a coach in Red Deer in 2019, Robinson saw the hard work volunteers put in, so when the opportunity presented itself to volunteer for the 2023 Canada Winter Games in her home province she jumped at the chance.

Learn more about Rustico's Katherine Morrow, our 1000th volunteer!

It can be daunting to follow in the considerable footprints left by one of curling’s best, but that's not stopping Brad Gushue's nephews. While Gushue was competing for a second world championship, his nephews Parker Tipple, 16, and his 15-year-old brother Spencer — the sons of Gushue’s sister, Natasha — were competing for a curling championship of their own.

Biathlon athletes and volunteers alike tested their skills ahead of the 2023 Canada Winter Games this weekend.

Myla Doucette felt a feeling of accomplishment as the 2023 Canada Winter Games official mascot made its first appearance.

A new $5-million indoor sports dome in Summerside, P.E.I., was officially opened by city officials Thursday morning. The Dome, a 65,000-square-foot indoor turf field, was built for the 2023 Canada Winter Games.

Summerside's Billy Bridges and Mark Arendz of Hartsville, P.E.I., heading to Beijing with different hopes

On behalf of the 2023 Canada Winter Games Host Society, we would like to thank all Islanders and friends of the Games who participated in our 2023 Canada Games Spirit Day on February 17th!

The Host Society for the 2023 Canada Winter Games being planned for Prince Edward Island has its first big sponsor: Atlantic Lottery.

P.E.I.'s Mark Arendz competes in the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in PyeongChang. Arendz will compete in his fourth Paralympics for Team Canada in Beijing, March 4-3.

With just 10 days to go from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, athletes around the globe are gearing up to compete on the world’s biggest stage. Among the many Canadian athletes heading to Beijing is PEI’s very own, Brett Gallant, who will be making his Olympic debut on the ice.

Sarah MacEachern and Logan MacDougall understand what it’s like to represent P.E.I. at the Canada Games. They agree Team P.E.I. members are in for a memorable experience when Canada’s smallest province hosts the 2023 Winter Games from Feb. 18 to March 5...

Jess Cameron and Luke Beck will be the head coaches for Prince Edward Island’s hockey teams on home ice when P.E.I. hosts the Canada Games in 2023. Hockey P.E.I. announced the staffs for the girls and boys teams on Tuesday, June 29...

A mother was brought to tears as she watched her daughter’s shocked reaction in finding out her drawing was selected as the winner in the 2023 Canada Winter Games mascot design contest...

Every February, Canadians across the country celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of Black Canadians who, throughout history, have played a significant role in making Canada the culturally diverse, compassionate and prosperous nation that it is today.

The Canada Games Council (CGC) invites Canadians to celebrate sporting excellence and outstanding achievement on and off the field of play by nominating acclaimed alumni for the 2022 and 2023 Canada Games Hall of Honour.