Canada

Up and Under is a weekly feature on Americas Rugby News which reviews the best and worst from games involving the Americas teams over the previous week. UP PRO Rugby The announcement of the player rosters for the inaugural PRO Rugby season was a tremendous success. The American rugby community is …

The rugby world today mourns the loss of former Canadian international centre John Cannon, who passed away suddenly yesterday morning at the age of just 35 from a suspected heart attack. The Abbotsford, British Columbia, native graduated through the now-defunct CCSD (Pacific Pride) development program under the guidance of coach …

One of the best features of the Americas Rugby Championship was the exposure of some of the top up and coming talents in the Americas. Every team featured uncapped players at some point, some more so than others, and in doing so we got a glimpse of some of the …

With there having been no international competition in the Americas this weekend there are no changes to the Americas Rankings this week. As of March 20 2016 Rugby World Cup 2015 competitors Argentina, USA, Canada and Uruguay remain ranked one through four in that order. There have, nonetheless, been alterations to …

One could be forgiven for not knowing that there is to be a round of Aviva Premiership taking place in England this weekend. With attention firmly directed at Super Saturday and, specifically at Le Crunch the domestic competition will see week 17 taking place and a number of Americas players are to be involved. …

We’ve debated and arm wrestled and thrown names in a hat, but finally decided on our top XV from the Americas Rugby Championship. Because of the nature of the inaugural tournament we had to lay down a couple stipulations – players had to have started a minimum of two matches to …

After the excitement of the Americas Rugby Championship this week’s selection seems downright boring. Los Jaguares were on a bye, as was the whole of the Guinness Pro 12, and most of the top Americas exports were either not playing well or not at all. In some cases we’ve simply …

PRO Rugby has revealed their player rosters for the inaugural season – sort of. A list of five squads has been released, with a total of 98 players spread between teams comprised of between 15 and 22 each. Of course that means there are numerous players still to join up, …

Following up on rumors emanating from Rugby Canada HQ in Victoria, the New Zealand Herald is now reporting that Mark Anscombe has been offered the job of National Senior Men’s Head Coach, though the deal has yet to be finalised with financial terms and official start date to be confirmed …

Canada will have at least four players in the inaugural season of PRO Rugby. Prairie Wolf Pack duo Hubert Buydens and Nick Blevins will join the new organization shortly, with Buydens set to join Phil Mackenzie at San Diego and Blevins earmarked for San Francisco. The pair will join Americas …