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Age is Only a Number, Apparently

January 28, 2020 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Apparently, it’s never too late. You’re never too old. While there’s breath in the body, there is hope. And hang the doubters. Deanna Stellato and Maxime Deschamps were new faces among a small wave of new faces in the pair event at the at the recent Canadian Tire National Skating Championships. And although they finished […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Bruno Marcotte, Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Deanna Stellato, Ian Connolly, Maxime Deschamps, Nathan Bartholomay

A hair-raising experience

January 18, 2020 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Think you’ve had a bad hair day? That somebody took the last Timbit? That you missed the last bus to Barbados in a snowstorm? That the television cable went out in the middle of the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships? So you think YOU have had a bad hair day? Just ask Piper Gilles. She […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Marjorie Lajoie, Paul Poirier, Piper Gilles, Zachary Lagha

Messing’s Hard Journey

January 16, 2020 By Beverley 1 Comment

Keegan Messing lived the best of times and the worst of times, all within a couple of months; married in a charming Alaska-style wedding in August, then stunned by the loss of his younger brother, Paxon, in a motorcycle accident in September. Life seemed to stop. In his heart, you could hear a moth pass. […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Keegan Messing, Nam Nguyen, Paxon Messing, Ralph Burghart

Corey Circelli, Artist and Meniscus Manager

January 16, 2020 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  Corey Circelli isn’t the norm. He’s a junior skater who stands 6-foot-1 in his socks. And he seems to be an overachiever, energetic enough to compete in both dance and men’s singles at high levels. Throw all of that into the mix with a bum knee, and it’s astonishing that the 17-year-old skater was […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: abBaC, Alec Guinzbourg, Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Corey Circelli, Gabriel Blumenthal, La Scala, Matthew Newnham, Moonlight Sonata, Wesley Chiu

Fast rise to success: junior dance champions

January 15, 2020 By Beverley 1 Comment

(Photos to come) Flash of lightning: that was Emmy Bronsard and Aissa Bouaraguia waking up the sparse crowd in their rhythm dance at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships on Jan. 6, upending Carol Lane proteges Nadiia Bashynska and Peter Beaumont, the elegant red head. There seems to be a bit of a rivalry emerging […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Aissa Bouaraguia, Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Emily Bronsard, junior dance, Marie-France Dubreuili

Gabby Daleman: Bumpy Times

January 11, 2020 By Beverley 2 Comments

  For two years, Gabby Daleman has been treading the quaking edge of a bog, trying to find her way out of it, sliding back in. Two steps forward, three steps back. Or is it three steps backward and one step forward, fortified by spirit alone? Always, no matter what happens, Daleman has no intention […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Celine Dion, Gabby Daleman, Kaetlyn Osmond

The Tango Romantica Blues

January 18, 2019 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Weaver and Poje

  That Tango Romantica dance? It’s easier said than done. What a twisty, ticklish, gnarly, knotty, exacting, formidable dance it is. It’s no picnic, for sure. It’s been a jaw-breaker for ice dancers all season, and Canada’s best will be giving it a go Friday at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships. None of the […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Hubbell and Donohue, Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, Papadakis and Cizeron, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, rhythm dance, Sinitsina and Katsalapov, Tango Romantica

The Road Less Travelled

January 14, 2019 By Beverley Leave a Comment

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  It had to happen this way: Keegan Messing finding an endlessly adventurous way to prepare for a figure skating competition. There are no straight lines in his approach. He has swung up ladders with heavy merchandise on his back, hurled his way up tall poles, Leaped across a mountain peak or two, picked through […]

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