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Excellent interview Sylvia - thank you for sharing this! :)

The set list for the tour has been posted here for anyone who is interested: https://www.starsonice.ca/music

The more mileage programs have in a competitive setting, the better. I think we are quite spoiled these days in a way by the live streaming of a lot of these Challenger Series-type events. Many of the smaller fall competitions were really designed so that skaters could test out new programs in...

An absolute legend in the sport. :( If you haven't listened, Allison Manley's interview with Sjoukje on The Manleywoman Skatecast was amazing: https://manleywoman.com/episode-75-sjoukje-dijkstra/

If it were up to me, I'd want them wrapped up by 8. :lol: As Jamie Lee Curtis once said, "Mommy goes to bed early... There's nothing good happening with me after 9 o'clock. Nothing. Zero!"

Loena skated very well! Her first number was very poppy - "One Kiss" by Amber Leigh Irish & Calvin Harris/Dua Lipa and her second number was a slower piece a version of Remo Forrer's song "Heaven or Hell". The lyrics to her second program ("like fire and ice") seemed to go over well with the crowd.

Exactly! :) He was the only skater to do one program instead of two, because he kind of had a mini-solo during one of the group numbers in the second half.

Review of opening night of Stars on Ice in Halifax: https://www.skateguardblog.com/2024/04/starsonice2024.html You can find some more short clips of the show on the blog's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SkateGuard If anyone has questions about the show, don't hesitate to ask!

Can't wait to welcome you all to this beautiful city! If anyone has any questions about things to do while you're in town (and not at the Scotiabank Centre) fire away! :)

The petition has now reached over 7000 signatures and those who signed are being encouraged to write a letter to their Member of Parliament. The petition provides some wonderful resources on best practices for crafting letters to MP's. I wrote my letter to Andy Fillmore this morning! :) If...

Over 1000 new signatures today! 👏👏👏

Signed! I don't think it could hurt for the petition organizers to send along a copy to whoever Deanna's MP is. Petitions don't always spark change put they do spark awareness. I really hope that Deanna gets her citizenship. She's a wonderful Ambassador for Canadian figure skating and deserves...

Thank you for the info and sorry to anyone for confusion! The date IngramSpark and Nielsen provided booksellers is September 3 and it is listed as a pre-order in most bookstores. The book will be released in September. :)

R Sorry for any confusion! The release date is September 3 (9/3) but some European retailers are entering the data from IS as 3/9. It’s in pre-order status and it won’t actually be released until September 3. If you can’t wait and want to read it now, there’s an ARC Reader sign-up form on the...

Blurb, teaser trailer and pre-order info for my new book Sequins, Scandals & Salchows: Figure Skating in the 1980s, coming this fall: https://www.skateguardblog.com/p/sequins-scandals-salchows-figure.html