On Sunday August 26, Skate Canada will participate in Ottawa’s Capital Pride Parade. This is the second year the organization will walk in the parade, demonstrating its support of our LGBTQI2S (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, two-spirit) registrants and members. Diversity, inclusion, and safe sport practices are important to Skate Canada and we welcome […]
Clubs and Skating Schools! 2018-2019 Registration Now Available
Registration for the 2018-2019 season is now open! Be sure to register your organization and registrants through the Membership Site > Org Management. Skate Canada clubs and skating schools may now proceed to: Registering your club or skating school: Org Management > Organization Membership Registering your skaters, officials, Board members and on-ice volunteers: Org Management […]
Coaches! 2018-2019 Registration Now Available
Registration for the 2018-2019 season is now open! Be sure to complete your coach registration through the Membership Site’s coaching tab > Membership. You must ensure that you have met ALL in good standing requirements prior to coaching this season. Visit your Coach Dashboard for direct links to access and complete all requirements: First Aid […]
ISU Communication 2190
The ISU has replaced ISU Communication 2095 with ISU Communication 2190. Contents of Communication: Marking of GOE’s of Synchronized Skating Elements Referees, Judges and Technical Panel Deductions Judges – Adjustments to Grade of Execution (GOE) Judges – Program Component Criteria
Competitive Technical Requirements Guides
The Skate Canada Singles, Pairs and Ice Dance Competitive Technical Requirements Guides are now available. These guides provide a summary of technical requirements by category. Note that where Skate Canada has developed technical requirements different from the ISU, these will be included here. In addition, these documents contain links to ISU and Skate Canada rules […]
ISU Communication 2186
The ISU has replaced ISU Communication 2168 with ISU Communication 2186. Contents of Communication: Updated Scale of Values Updated Levels of Difficulty of Single/Pair Skating Elements (season 2018/19) Updated Guidelines for marking +GOE of Single/Pair Skating Elements (positive aspects) Updated Guidelines in establishing GOE for errors in Short Program and Free Skating All updates since […]
CanPowerSkate UPDATE
Skate Canada’s CanPowerSkate program has been revised to include the following: NCCP designation Alignment with LTAD Customized delivery options Increased focus on skill development for the Learn to Train stage of Hockey/Ringette We are currently working on finalizing all documentation and resources. For the 2018- 2019 season, clubs/skating schools may choose to offer the old […]
ISU Technical Panel Handbooks
The ISU Technical Panel Handbooks for Singles, Pairs and Ice Dance are now available on the ISU website: Technical Panel Handbook Singles Skating 2018-2019 Technical Panel Handbook Pairs Skating 2018-2019 Technical Panel Handbook Ice Dance 2018-2019
Competitions and Scoring of Skate Canada Competitions Rule Updates
The ISU approved rule updates at their recent Congress, June 4-8, 2018. Many of these have been incorporated into Skate Canada rules. In addition, and following an internal review, additional rule changes have been made. Below is a summary of these updates, all of which take effect July 1, 2018 Competitions Rule Throughout document: updated […]
SOCAN and Re:Sound Fee Increase
Re:Sound and SOCAN are separate organizations that represent different stakeholders in the music recording industry. Re:Sound is the Canadian not-for-profit music licensing company dedicated to obtaining fair compensation for artists and record companies for their performance rights. SOCAN (the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) is a not-for-profit organization that represents the […]