Word: canadians
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Jennifer Botterill ’02-’03 and Sarah Vaillancourt ’08-’09 took home Olympic gold in front of a home crowd at Canada Hockey Place in Vancouver last night, as the Canadian women’s hockey team defeated the United States...
Three minutes later, Poulin-Nadeau lit the lamp again, and though American goaltender Jessie Vetter would settle down to play spectacular hockey in the second two periods, Canadian netminder Shannon Szabados was unbeatable...
...Hudson's Bay Co., a 339-year-old retailer that is the oldest in North America, signed a sponsorship deal with the Canadian Olympic Committee through the 2012 Olympics. Hudson's Bay owns 92 Bay department stores in Canada, the Canadian general-merchandise chain Zellers and the Lord & Taylor retail chain in the U.S. Jeffrey Sherman, who was installed as CEO in September 2008, after Hudson's Bay was bought by Connecticut-based private-equity firm NRDC Equity Partners, wanted to use the Vancouver Olympics as a platform to reconnect the company with its Canadian heritage. He gave his design...
...company has sold about 3.5 million pairs since their October 2009 debut; thanks to the Olympics, 1.5 million have cleared the shelves since Feb. 1. But get this: Hudson's Bay does not make a dime off the phenomenon. Net proceeds from mitten sales go right to the Canadian Olympic Committee to fund athletes' programs. To date, Sherman says the mittens have generated $12 million in net proceeds. Does he regret not negotiating a cut? "Not at all," he says. "We entered into this to do the right thing." What's more, Sherman notes that mitten-mania has increased traffic...
...Asada rivalry isn't dramatic enough, the women's event also features one of the most courageous athletes of the Games: Canadian Joannie Rochette, who competed on Tuesday just two days after learning of her mother's unexpected death from a heart attack. Taking to the ice in front of an appreciative but apprehensive audience that seemed ready to mentally lift her through her program, Rochette put them at ease with a solid program that landed her in third place. It was only after she finished that she allowed herself to acknowledge the affection from the crowd, breaking down...