IT WAS PAST MIDNIGHT and freezing out, but the skaters whirling around the Esplanade Tranquille rink last February in Montreal’s cultural district, the Quartier des Spectacles, didn’t seem to mind.
With the Winter Olympic Games held last year in Vancouver and Whistler, and Toronto winning the bid to host the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games, Canada has firmly put itself on the map as one of the ...