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2019
YEAR IN REVIEW
PARALYMPIC
FOUNDATION
OF CANADA
YEAR IN REVIEW PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION OF CANADA 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Message from the Chair and Director 3
Sport Development Stories 4
Athlete Story: Mélanie Labelle 6
Recap: Lima 2019 7
Athlete Story: Alison Levine 8
Athlete Story: Rob Shaw 9
Financial Snapshot 10
Thank You to Our Donors 11
ParaTough Cup 12
Meet the Team 13
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MESSAGE FROM
THE CHAIR AND DIRECTOR
Inclusivity is one of our country’s Thanks to this support, in 2019 Peru, visiting friends, family members
greatest strengths. As a nation, we we were able to strengthen the and fans celebrated Para sport and
must continue to champion diversity Paralympic Movement, including cheered on the 151 Canadian Para
and acceptance in all aspects of our granting $1 million for Next athletes, pilots and guides who worked
culture, including in sport. Generation athlete programs, so hard to make it to the Games.
ensuring Canada’s Para sport
At the Paralympic Foundation of system will remain strong for Thank you for being part of these Para
Canada, we believe that by creating years to come. sport moments this year. Here’s to
more opportunities for Canadians sharing many more for years to come.
with a disability to be active in sport, In the past year, we felt the support
we can inspire an inclusive nation. from many parts of the country.
Our friends held fundraisers in
Whether we’re ensuring accessible our honour, from Canada Day
sport programs exist in communities barbecues in Calgary to 60th
across the country or providing birthday party cinq à septs in
up-and-coming Para athletes with Montréal. Our ParaTough Cup
the tools and resources they need series returned to four cities and
to reach their full potential, we’re gave hundreds of Canadians the
getting there with your help. When chance to try Para sport for an
we see Canadian Para athletes afternoon, all while raising more
represent our country on the world than $370,000 to support the
stage, we know – and they know – Paralympic Movement. At the Jim Westlake Dean Brokop
BOARD CHAIR DIRECTOR
your support is behind them. Parapan American Games in Lima,
The Canadian team enters the stadium for the Opening
Ceremony of the Lima 2019 Parapan American Games.
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SPORT DEVELOPMENT
CRUISERS SPORTS FOR THE PHYSICALLY DISABLED — MISSISSAUGA, ON
Finding the right facility was critical for
Mississauga, Ontario’s Cruisers Sports for
It’s been really exciting for
the Physically Disabled to be able to grow
me because we have all these
their track program.
people who are super interested,
and we now have the space
But once they found the right location
where we can get people in
– which took nearly a year to find an
throughout the season.
accessible location that fit their needs
— Lisa Myers
– being able to cover costs was another Director of Para Athletics
challenge. Thanks in part to funding from Cruisers Sports
the Paralympic Sport Development Fund,
Cruisers now has a suitable home for the much-needed opportunities for people
Para track program at Iceland Arena in with disabilities to participate in organized
Mississauga. sports such as boccia, Para ice hockey, In order to grow their programs, Cruisers Sports for the Physically Disabled
and wheelchair basketball at both the needed to find a new facility.
“We had to have something that we could recreational and competitive levels. Today it
hop in at any time, any day, any hour, where is one of the largest community-based Para
it has a locked door because the equipment sport programs in the country.
Cruisers received a grant from the 2019-2020 “We’ve had an overwhelming response to
is quite expensive,” said Lisa Myers, director
Paralympic Sport Development Fund, an our track and field program,” said Myers.
of Para athletics at Cruisers Sports. “We Previously, most of its indoor Para track
annual granting program run by the Canadian “Right now I have more people interested
had to ensure it was accessible and large programming was run out of coach Ken
Paralympic Committee and supported by the in track than I do functional racing chairs,
enough to grow into as we start to get Thom’s basement, which had a bonus of
Paralympic Foundation of Canada. The fund so it’s been really exciting for me because
more and more people involved in the track no rental fee but was limiting in size and
supports development initiatives by Para we have all these people who are super
program.” accessibility. Sadly Thom, who was a
sport organizations. Cruisers put the funds interested, and we now have the space
driving force behind the success of Cruisers,
towards facility fees and running have-a-go where we can get people in throughout the
The Para athletics program is one of a passed away suddenly in 2017 and a new
days for people to try out Para athletics. season.”
number of sports Cruisers offers, providing solution was eventually needed.
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SPORT DEVELOPMENT
NORTHERN ADAPTED SPORTS ASSOCIATION — PRINCE GEORGE, BC
When a Para ice hockey try-it session move around on the sleds, and then we
was held for the first time in Prince had to send all the equipment back.”
George, BC a couple of years ago, it was
clear there was a demand for the sport. And of course, it’s not just sleds that are
needed to run programming. Equipment
That’s where a local community needs also include things like sticks,
organization called Northern Adapted helmets, and elbow pads, and NASA
Sports Association (NASA) came in. wanted to make sure to have all this
The only problem was Para ice hockey available for anyone who wanted to
equipment can be quite expensive. participate.
“We had a year where we borrowed But this past year, Northern Adapted
equipment from BC Hockey, they sent Sports Association received $10,000
it up from the island, and we got a little of funding from the Paralympic
bit of ice time,” said Rob Stiles, program Sport Development Fund, a Canadian
coordinator at NASA. “The major issue Paralympic Committee grant that
was the equipment came in November supports Para sport development
and they needed it all back in January. programs. They now have 20 sleds and
So we had a few sessions, about 20 all the gear required, dedicated for use
Para ice hockey is one of Northern Adapted Sports Association’s newest sports.
people out each time, and we were just in Prince George.
getting to the point where people could
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MÉLANIE LABELLE
NEXT GEN ATHLETE — WHEELCHAIR RUGBY
For Canadian Para athletes, the journey her rehabilitation, she was introduced
to the Paralympic Games begins close to wheelchair rugby when local club
to home. Before they can win medals, team, the Montreal Machines, came
Canadians with a disability first need by her rehabilitation centre to do a
the opportunity to choose sport. They demonstration of the sport. Their visit
need access to the tools and resources opened her eyes to wheelchair rugby and
that will allow them to expand their presented her with an opportunity to be
potential in a sport they love. active again.
Through the Paralympic Foundation of With her interest in sport reignited, Mélanie
Canada’s ImagiNation initiative, funds joined the Machines that fall and began to
are raised to support five key areas for practice with them on a regular basis.
the “Next Generation” of Para athletes:
coaching, training environments, Mélanie’s strong performances on the
equipment, health and wellness court would draw the attention of Team
initiatives, and sport science. Canada’s coaching staff and in March
2019, just three years after her injury, she
For Next Generation athletes, the was selected as a member of the National
support can help propel them to the Team Program.
Mélanie Labelle made her Parapan American Games debut in 2019 in Lima, Peru.
world stage even faster than they
imagined. This summer, Mélanie attended the
Parapan American Games in Peru –
That’s what happened with Mélanie her first multi-sport Games event. Lima, where the Canadian wheelchair 2020 is amazing. I’m looking to do my job
Labelle. In 2016, she sustained a rugby team claimed a silver medal. “My out there. The experience of the sport has
spinal cord injury after she broke her “I was never expecting to represent quiet dream was 2024 and to be here right changed my life so much.”
neck while swing dancing. During Canada from the get-go,” she said from now and hoping to punch a ticket to Tokyo
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RECAP: LIMA 2019
HIGHLIGHTS FROM TEAM CANADA AT THE PARAPAN AMERICAN GAMES
The Parapan American Games were first Highlights from Medallists by
held in Mexico City in 1999 and featured Team Canada: province:
1,000 athletes from
18 countries competing in just The Canadian Parapan Am Team took home
four sports: 60 medals in total, with
Para athletics 114 members going home with a
medal out of 151 athletes, pilots, and sport
Para swimming assistants.
Para table tennis
Wheelchair basketball
Medals by sport: 24 4 1
Para swimming — 21 — 6 7 8
20 ALBERTA
MANITOBA 27 PRINCE
EDWARD
BRITISH
Para cycling — 13 — 4 6 3 COLUMBIA 4 28 QUEBEC ISLAND
Para athletics — 7 — 3 3 1
SASKATCHEWAN ONTARIO 2
Para badminton — 5 — 1 2 2
4 NOVA
SCOTIA
NEW
boccia — 3 — 1 2 BRUNSWICK
This year at the Lima 2019 Parapan Read on to find out how
wheelchair basketball — 2 — 1 1
American Games, a record of boccia’s Alison Levine and
goalball — 2 — 2
wheelchair tennis’ Rob Shaw
1,850 athletes sitting volleyball — 2 — 2
made their mark in 2019 and
competed in
17 sports, Para table tennis — 2 — 2 what they have in store in
two more than Toronto 2015, making wheelchair tennis — 1 — 1 Tokyo – and beyond.
it the biggest Parapan American wheelchair rugby — 1 — 1
Games to date. Para judo — 1 — 1
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ALISON LEVINE
BOCCIA
In the precise sport of boccia, Canada’s Alison Lima, won the gold in pairs at the World Open stop
Levine is on target for a medal at the 2020 in Portugal in November to guarantee Canada’s
Paralympic Games. spot in that event as well in Tokyo.
A successful 2019 season culminated in October Back in May, Levine climbed to No. 2 in the world in
with an announcement that every athlete dreams of the BC4 singles after her first career international
hearing: ‘’World Number One”. victory at the Montreal World Open in May 2019 to
set the tone for the rest of the season.
That is exactly the news Levine received when the
Boccia International Sports Federation put her at ‘’It is definitely within my range to be at the top
number-one in the world rankings for BC4 players. at the world championships and Paralympic
She moved to the top position after a third-place Games,’’ said Levine, 29, diagnosed with idiopathic
finish at the World Open stop in Brazil, becoming muscular dystrophy at age 12.
the first woman to ever reach the peak of the
rankings in that class. In her climb to the top of her sport, Levine is
also making a difference off the playing field as
But Levine wasn’t only satisfied with her lot. She a member of the Canadian Paralympic Athletes’
wanted to make sure her fellow Canadian BC4 Council. On the council, she hopes to create
players also qualified for the Paralympics in pairs. opportunities for other athletes with severe
‘’I don’t want to go to Tokyo without my impairments to gain their own independence just
teammates.’’ as she has.
Levine, her mentor Marco Dispaltro, and Iulian It seems that whatever she sets her mind to,
Alison Levine topped off her 2019 season by becoming the top-ranked player in the world.
Ciobanu, fresh from a bronze at the Parapan Ams in Levine achieves.
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ROB SHAW
WHEELCHAIR TENNIS
He didn’t get the same attention as
Bianca Andreescu, Denis Shapovalov
Pre-injury, I was super athletic.
or Félix Auger-Aliassime but Rob Shaw
Because of that, my identity as a
made Canadian tennis history too in
person became very rooted in that
2019 by becoming the first player, stand-
sport identity: being identified as
up or wheelchair, to win a multi-sport
an athlete or being identified as
Games medal in singles.
a coach. Post-injury, I felt like
not only was I physically more
It happened at the 2019 Parapan
disabled than I was before but
American Games this past August in
I had lost a part of who I was.
Lima. Shaw defeated world No. 2 David
I could no longer identity with
Wagner of USA, known as one of the best
that side of me. Post-injury it was
to ever play the game, for the gold medal
super important for me to push
6-1, 6-3 in the quad singles tournament.
myself and see if I could recover
part of that identity. I was able to
It was his first win in eight career
connect with my former self.
— rob shaw
matches against Wagner.
Shaw, 30, from North Bay, Ont., and now
Shaw, ranked ninth in the world, also residing in Kelowna, B.C. “It’s definitely the
became the first quad tennis champion at a biggest win so far of my career.’’
Parapan Am Games, with the classification
making its debut in Lima. It was Shaw’s While being one of the best in the world in
first appearance at a multi-sport Games. wheelchair tennis, Shaw is also completing Rob Shaw made Canadian tennis history at the 2019 Parapan American Games.
his PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at the
“There’s just a really big tennis wave University of British Columbia Okanagan
right now going through Canada,’’ said campus in Kelowna.
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PARATOUGH CUP FUELLED BY
ALIMENTÉ PAR
The 2019-2020 ParaTough Cup fuelled by Petro-Canada series
I first heard of Para sport at the 2010 Paralympic
returned to events in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver Winter Games. After participating today in several sports,
this year. I have so much respect for our Paralympians. I don’t know how
they do it so well. It’s great fun but we were only barely
scratching the surface of what these athletes can do.
— Sabira Charlesworth, Team Pfizer
ParaTough Cup fuelled by Petro-Canada - Vancouver
Congratulations to the winners of the 2019-20 ParaTough Cup series!
MONTREAL VANCOUVER CALGARY TORONTO
NOVEMBER 7, 2019 NOVEMBER 22, 2019 FEBRUARY 20, 2020 MARCH 5, 2020
1 ST Fasken 2 1 ST Petro-Canada 1 ST Hudson’s Bay 1 ST Canadian Tire 1
Company
RAISED RAISED RAISED RAISED
$104,000 $67,000 $76,000 $132,000
THANKS TO PRESENTING SPONSOR PETRO-CANADA
AND GOLD SPONSOR PFIZER CANADA FOR THEIR
Wheelchair basketball is one of the Para sport events included at the ParaTough Cup.
CONTINUED SUPPORT OF PARATOUGH CUP
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The Paralympic Foundation of Canada is greatly supported
SOURCES OF through financial donations from individuals and corporate
partners. This year we received revenues totaling $1,211,648
REVENUE from the following initiatives:
6%
Unrestricted
2%
In Kind
Fundraising
UNRESTRICTED FUNDRAISING includes donations made to our
annual campaign and unsolicited donations that help ensure
programs, equipment and people are in place to propel more
Canadians with a disability all the way from their communities
7% to the Paralympic podium.
Circle of
Champions $10.32 CIRCLE OF CHAMPIONS donors that have pledged their multi-year
the amount it cost the
support to ensure sport is accessible and available to all.
Foundation to raise $100.
4%
Cause
* CRA calculation
CAUSE MARKETING funds are derived from sales of select
Marketing merchandise from Foundation supporters like Hudson’s
Bay Company.
$1.05 EVENTS includes the ParaTough Cup series and fundraisers held
million in our honour, that engage and entertain participants while shining
a spotlight on Para sport in Canada.
Granted to the Canadian
24% Events
Paralympic Committee
to support early athlete IMAGINATION FUNDS support early athlete development and
development and Next Canada’s “Next Generation” athletes. These funds will be matched
Generation athlete by the Government of Canada, creating $10 million in opportunity
57%
ImagiNation Campaign
programs. for Canadians with a disability.
IN-KIND PAYMENTS include the value of products or services
provided at no or discounted cost to the Paralympic Foundation
* 2018-19 Audited Financial Statement of Canada.
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GOLD MEMBERS
Thanks to the generous gifts of
Canadian Tire Jumpstart Mawer Investments Mike & Linda Shaikh
individuals, corporations and
Fasken Martineau Pfizer Canada Suncor Energy
foundations, the Paralympic Foundation
Hudson’s Bay Company Craig & Cara Senyk Jim and Deborah Westlake
of Canada is working to provide
more Canadians with a disability
the opportunity to be active in their
communities and to strive for success
on the world stage.
SILVER MEMBERS
Adler & Lipkus Foundation CIBC HBC Foundation Quinn Sports Management Inc.
Meet the Circle of Champions Barney River Investments Ltd. Marc-André Fabien Hillberg & Berk Royal Bank of Canada
Nathalie-Anne Beliveau Louise Fernandes ICU Medical Summit Customs Brokers
Circle of Champions members have Bell Canada Fondation Mirella & Intelliware Development Inc.
shown their commitment to a strong Cambia Development Foundation Lino Saputo Pengrowth Energy Corporation
Canadian Para sport system with a Robert Cassius de Linval Beth Hamilton-Keen Protection Fer Inc.
donation starting at $500 per year.
BRONZE MEMBERS
1798492 Ontario Ltd. Caroline Charton Clément Gascon Neil Kravitz Frank Mariage Performance Coaching Inc. Société Radio-Canada
Antoine Alywin Denis Chaurette Arisha Ghani Marie Lafleur Marianopolis Real Estate Mathieu Piché-Messier Margaret E. Southern
Raymond Bachand Vince Chiara Hugues Gibeault Lallemand Inc. Limited Partnership Polytechnqieu Montréal Stark-Jensen Family
Rick Baker Nabil Chikh Mithoo Gillani Rem Langan Bertrand Massicotte Marie-Bernard Poulin Starratt Family Foundation
Jeffrey Barkun Gerald Chipeur Andrew Goss Jean Michel Lapierre Anne Mayrand Emmanuelle Poupart Strider Apparl
Anne Barnes Carole Chouinard Bernard Grenier Serge Lapointe Robert McDowell Power Corporation of Canada TEAM Transport Services Ltd.
Luc Béliveau Claude E. Jodoin & Yves Grosseillers Stéphane Laporte Ron McRobie Alain Ranger Tourisme Montréal
Louis Belleau Karen Kear Family Foundation François Guay Stéphanie Lavallée Menkès Shooner Dagenais Pierrette Rayle Toyota Canada
Annie Bernard College Stanislas Felix Gutierrez Christian Leblanc LeTourneux Architectes RBC Foundation Transcontinental Inc.
Nikolas Blanchette CORIM Christophe Guy Jack Lee Miss Edgar’s & Miss Cramp’s School Jean Renaud Benoit Turmel
Bombardier Inc. Marc Deschamps Sarah Hall Guy Lefebvre Marie-France Moquin Sébastien Richemont Greg Turnbull
Louis Bourassa Laurent Després Jonathan Halwagi The Legg Family Marc-André Morin Alain Riendeau Michael Urquhart
Sylvie Bourdeau Desrosiers Conseils Inc. Hillary Hansen and Alan Barkun Les Diplômés Université Tyler Mosher David B. Ritcey Claire Vachon
Sophie Borque Julie Derosiers Doug and Karen Haughey de Montréal Mosti Modiale Inc. François Robert Peter Billani
Lindsay Bradley René Doyon Héroux-Devtek Inc. Les Studios Moment Near North Customs Brokers François Rolland Sandra Walby
François Brais & George Edgson Marie Josée Hogue Factory Inc. Marie-Josée Neveu Rosenberg Family Foundation WCPD Foundation
Isabelle Ducharme Michael Edgson Dale Hooper Dominique L’Heureux Kathy-Jo Newkirk François Roy Werklund Foundation
Maurice Brais ExCellThera Ross Hunt Mariella Lopapa Mark Nitoslawski Victor Salvaggio Bernice Westlake
William Brock Peter Feldberg Patrick Jarvis L’Oratoire Saint-Joseph Darren Noseworthy J. Serge Sassville W.P. Scott Charitable Foundation
Dean Brokop Fondation De La Famille Alain Joffe du Mont Royal Marc Novello Diane Sauvé John Wright
Canadian National Railway Claudine Et Stephen Bronfman Lynne Kassie Geoff Lyster Angela Onesi Chris Semerjian Karen Jane Wyke
Canadian Olympic Committee Stéphane Forget Audrey Kenney John MacAulay Robert Pare Louise-Hélène Sénécal Jacqueline Yost
Nicolas Caprio Salvatore Fratino Keyera Julie Magner Rob and Patricia Peabody Howie & Sher Shikaze YUL Aéroport International
Jean-Pierre Chamberland Camille Gagnon Craig Klinkhoff Yasmin Majeed Pierre Karl Peladeau Eric Simard Montréal-Trudeau
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS STAFF CONTACT US
Paralympic Foundation of Canada
foundation@paralympic.ca
www.paralympicfoundation.ca
613-569-4333 Ext. 248
Jim Westlake Mike Shaikh Robert Cassius Dean Brokop
CHAIR TREASURER DIRECTOR
de Linval 100-85 Plymouth Street
Ottawa, ON K1S 3E2
The Paralympic Foundation of Canada’s
charitable registration number is
813904190 RR0001.
Deborah Rhonda Marie-Bernard Julie Hawrishok
FUNDRAISING AND
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SPECIAL PROJECTS
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