Canadian athletes will be busy competing in several events at the Tokyo Olympics Tuesday, including a chance for the women’s softball team to win a bronze medal.
For Canadian fans, events will begin Monday evening and continue overnight into Tuesday.
Here’s when you can see Canada compete in several sports (all times Eastern). Events with multiple showings for Canada will be marked with starting times.
Canadians Joanna Brown and Amélie Kretz will compete in the women’s individual triathlon, beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET.
Rugby Sevens – 8 p.m. ET
Canada’s men’s team will face Japan in the third round of qualifying starting at 8 p.m. ET Monday.
The team later qualified for the quarter-final against New Zealand, which will kick off at 4:30 a.m. ET Tuesday.
Swimming – 9:30 p.m. ET
At 9:30 p.m. ET, Penny Oleksiak will compete in the women’s 200-metre freestyle semifinal, after placing second in the qualifier. Oleksiak already has one silver medal under her belt in the women’s 100-metre relay, which she and her teammates won on Sunday.
Summer McIntosh will then compete in the second round of the 200-metre freestyle semifinal at 9:36 p.m. ET.
At 9:51 p.m. ET, Kylie Masse will look to earn a spot on the medal podium in the women’s 100-metre backstroke final, after winning her semifinal race the day before.
Then at 10:59 p.m. ET, Sydney Pickrem will race in the women’s 200-metre individual medley semifinals. She placed third in her heat over the weekend.
On Tuesday morning, Joshua Liendo Edwards and Yuri Kisil will both compete in the men’s 100-metre freestyle at 6:17 a.m. ET.
Liendo Edwards will then face off in the seventh heat at 6:16 a.m. ET, followed by Kisil in the eighth heat at 6:18 a.m. ET.
Beach Volleyball – 10 p.m. ET
The pair of Heather Bansley and Brandie Wilkerson will continue through the preliminary rounds by taking on Argentina at 10 p.m. ET Monday.
Judo – 10 p.m. ET
Both the women’s under-63 kg and men’s under-81 kg elimination round events will kick off at 10 p.m. ET Monday, with athletes squaring off in continuous matches.
Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard will take on Denmark’s Laerke Olsen in the women’s event, while Antoine Valois-Fortier faces Alexios Ntanatsidis of Greece in the men’s event.
Beauchemin-Pinard has since qualified for the semifinal rounds, which will kick off at 4 a.m. ET Tuesday.
Weightlifting – 10:50 p.m. ET
Tali Darsigny will lift in the women’s 59 kg competition at 10:50 p.m. Monday.
Then at 6:50 a.m. ET Tuesday, Maude Charron will try to win a medal in the women’s 64 kg lift.
Sailing – 11:05 p.m. ET
Alexandra Ten Hove will take the helm with crewmate Mariah Millen in three races in the women’s 49er skiff event. The first race kicks off at 11:05 p.m. ET Monday.
At the same time, Sarah Douglas will start the first of two races for the day in the women’s one-person laser radical dinghy event.
Then Nikola Girke will compete in three races in the women’s RS:X windsurfer event. The first race starts at 2:05 a.m. ET Tuesday.
Archery – 11:26 p.m. ET
In the individual elimination rounds, Stephanie Barrett will take on Turkey’s Yasemin Anagoz in the women’s event at 11:26 p.m. ET Monday.
At 12:31 a.m. ET Tuesday, Crispin Duenas will face Moldova’s Dan Olaru in the men’s event.
Softball – 12 a.m. ET
Canada faces Mexico for the bronze medal in softball, starting at 12 a.m. ET Tuesday.
The gold medal game at 7 a.m. ET will see home team Japan take on the United States.
Canoe Slalom – 1 a.m. ET
Florence Maheu will race in the women’s kayak semifinal starting at 1 a.m. ET Tuesday.
Diving – 2 a.m. ET
The duo of Meaghan Benfeito and Caeli McKay compete in the women’s 10-metre platform synchronized diving final, beginning at 2 a.m. ET.
Cycling – 2 a.m. ET
Canadians Catharine Pendrel and Haley Smith will race in the women’s cross-country mountain bike event starting at 2 a.m. ET, in the hopes of earning a medal.
Table Tennis – 3:30 a.m. ET
In the women’s singles round, Mo Zhang will take on China’s Meng Chen starting at 3:30 a.m. ET Tuesday.
Badminton – 5:40 a.m. ET
At 5:40 a.m. ET Tuesday, the pair of Kristen Tsai and Rachel Honderich will face Egypt’s Doha Haney and Hadia Hosny in the women’s doubles competition.
Then at 6:20 a.m. ET, Brian Yang will take on Sweden’s Felix Burestedt in men’s singles.
Finally, Jason Ho-Shue and Nyl Yakura will compete in men’s doubles against Malaysia’s Aaron Chia and Wooi Yik Soh at 7 a.m. ET.
Boxing – 6:54 a.m. ET
In the women’s welterweight preliminaries, Canada’s Myriam da Silva will face off with Maria Altagracia Moronta Hernandez of the Dominican Republic at 6:54 a.m. ET Tuesday.
Soccer – 7 a.m. ET
Team Canada will continue its quest for gold in women’s soccer, taking on Great Britain starting at 7 a.m. ET Tuesday.
Hockey – 7:45 a.m. ET
The men’s hockey team will face the Netherlands at 7:45 a.m. ET Tuesday in its third match of the Games.
Demands for government intervention in Air Canada labour talks could negatively affect airline competition in Canada, the CEO of travel company Transat AT Inc. said.
“The extension of such an extraordinary intervention to Air Canada would be an undeniable competitive advantage to the detriment of other Canadian airlines,” Annick Guérard told analysts on an earnings conference call on Thursday.
“The time and urgency is now. It is time to restore healthy competition in Canada,” she added.
Air Canada has asked the federal government to be ready to intervene and request arbitration as early as this weekend to avoid disruptions.
Comments on the potential Air Canada pilot strike or lock out came as Transat reported third-quarter financial results.
Guérard recalled Transat’s labour negotiations with its flight attendants earlier this year, which the company said it handled without asking for government intervention.
The airline’s 2,100 flight attendants voted 99 per cent in favour of a strike mandate and twice rejected tentative deals before approving a new collective agreement in late February.
As the collective agreement for Air Transat pilots ends in June next year, Guérard anticipates similar pressure to increase overall wages as seen in Air Canada’s negotiations, but reckons it will come out “as a win, win, win deal.”
“The pilots are preparing on their side, we are preparing on our side and we’re confident that we’re going to come up with a reasonable deal,” she told analysts when asked about the upcoming negotiations.
The parent company of Air Transat reported it lost $39.9 million or $1.03 per diluted share in its quarter ended July 31. The result compared with a profit of $57.3 million or $1.49 per diluted share a year earlier.
Revenue totalled $736.2 million, down from $746.3 million in the same quarter last year.
On an adjusted basis, Transat says it lost $1.10 per share in its latest quarter compared with an adjusted profit of $1.10 per share a year earlier.
It attributed reduced revenues to lower airline unit revenues, competition, industry-wide overcapacity and economic uncertainty.
Air Transat is also among the airlines facing challenges related to the recall of Pratt & Whitney turbofan jet engines for inspection and repair.
The recall has so far grounded six aircraft, Guérard said on the call.
“We have agreed to financial compensation for grounded aircraft during the 2023-2024 period,” she said. “Alongside this financial compensation, Pratt & Whitney will provide us with two additional spare engines, which we intend to monetize through a sell and lease back transaction.”
Looking ahead, the CEO said she expects consumer demand to remain somewhat uncertain amid high interest rates.
“We are currently seeing ongoing pricing pressure extending into the winter season,” she added. Air Transat is not planning on adding additional aircraft next year but anticipates stability.
“(2025) for us will be much more stable than 2024 in terms of fleet movements and operation, and this will definitely have a positive effect on cost and customer satisfaction as well,” the CEO told analysts.
“We are more and more moving away from all the disruption that we had to go through early in 2024,” she added.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2024.
