Charity plans NHL alumni game in Iqaluit next year
Hockey Helps the Homeless to bring Jordin Tootoo, ex-Leafs to city to help local charities
From left, Emma Langlois of Hockey Helps the Homeless alongside sponsors Emma Tomkins and Jason Sparaga of Red Jar Energy Partners are organizing a weekend of festivities in Iqaluit to support two local charities. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)
An Ontario charity is lacing up for what it says will be four days of hockey, fun and supporting community organizations in Iqaluit next year.
And it plans to bring some former National Hockey League stars along to be a part of it. The headline event will be a charity hockey game.
“It’s a big operation for sure,” said Emma Langlois, business development manager for Hockey Helps the Homeless.
The organization is planning events from March 19 to 22 at venues including the Arctic Winter Games and Arnaitok arenas.
A Hockey Helps the Homeless all-star team led by captain Jordin Tootoo — the first Inuk to play in the NHL — and featuring other former pro players will face off against a team of Toronto Maple Leafs alumni expected to include Rick Vaive, Brad May, Al Iafrate and Todd Gill.
Those players will also spend some time coaching young Iqaluit hockey players and meeting fans.
A crew from Rogers Sportsnet will be in Iqaluit for the event to record a segment for Hockey Night in Canada, Langlois said.
She and her team are working with southern and local sponsors to bring 60 people to Iqaluit for the celebrations, including hockey players, staff and sponsors.
Money raised will go to two non-profits: the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre and the Annauma Community Foundation.
“One hundred per cent of our net proceeds for any event stay local,” she said.
Langlois and some sponsors were in Iqaluit last week to prepare for the event.
On Oct. 28, they secured city council’s approval for free ice time at the two arenas. They also were promised a $2,000 donation from the city, and councillors expressed hopes that the city will do even more to support them.
On its website, Hockey Helps the Homeless says it has raised $33 million since 1996 to help people who are homeless.
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but no story on the 3 PWHL players including one Olympic gold medalist and 2 professional women coaches who were just in Iqaluit running an all girls camp. Patriarchy.
“How can I make this about women”
The coverage for the non-profits is about something much, much worse than patriarchy ever was. And, as a thing, patriarchy no longer is.
The coverage in the story is about faux-wokness, you know, when those who professional to be progressive are typically unaware but glossy, pretentious and classist
There are many, many flaws in HHH’s agenda and process. At best, pennies-on-the-dollar of money raised will get to the two local non-profits and even fewer pennies of those pennies will get to the client’s. It’s the Liberal way