Para sport update:Tyler Turner television series premieres Thursday on AMI-tv

OTTAWA- Paralympic Games champion Tyler Turner stars in All In, an eight-part television series premiering Thursday on AMI-tv and AMI+ at 8 p.m. ET (also check your local listings).

The 30-minute episodes follows the Para snowboarding star trying a range of sports and adventures, beginning with cold-water freediving off East Sooke Park with instructor Chris Adair.

Future episodes feature Turner alongside several elite athletes, including Olympic bobsledder Cynthia Appiah, former professional baseball player Tyson Gillies, big-wave surfer Chuck Patterson and Olympic gold medallist Ashton Bell, as he takes part in snowboarding, sit-skiing, surfing, baseball and hockey.

Turner has won three Paralympic Winter Games medals in Para snowboarding including gold and bronze in 2022 and a bronze this past March in Milano Cortina.

‘’It’s been crazy, hosting a TV show is a new thing for me,’’ Turner told CBC. ‘’It’s always something I was interested in and now that I’m in the door I absolutely love it.’’

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Turner is no stranger to national TV exposure. In addition to his Paralympic Games exploits, he starred in The Amazing Race Canada in 2023, one of the Canada’s most popular TV shows.

“The lines in sport are often blurred now and I always want to try new things,” Turner told the Times-Colonist. “In the end, I just want to prove that every sport is for everybody.”

Turner lost both legs below the knee because of a skydiving accident in 2017, a freak crash after filming a guest complete their first tandem skydive from 10,000 feet.

He faced many challenges in a difficult recovery but has come back to making multiple jumps as a skydiving instructor in addition to his sports success.

Canadian championships in wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby and goalball

The Canadian championships in wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby and goalball are set for this week in Ottawa and Richmond, B.C., featuring many Paralympians from across the country.

The wheelchair basketball nationals and goalball nationals will both take place May 15-17 as part of the inaugural OneAbility Games in Richmond, B.C. The wheelchair rugby nationals will be held Thursday through Sunday at Carleton University in Ottawa.

In wheelchair basketball, the women’s competition features Paralympians Cindy Ouellet and Élodie Tessier on Team Quebec, along with Puisand Lai and Tamara Steeves on Team Ontario.

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On the men’s side, watch for Paralympians Garrett Ostepchuk on Team Saskatchewan, Bo Hedges on Team B.C., and Lee Melymick on Team Ontario.

Ryan Straschnitzki, a survivor of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in 2018, was named to Alberta’s wheelchair basketball team and will make his nationals debut.

His teammates on Team Alberta include Paralympians Nik Goncin, Chad Jassman and Reed De’Aeth.

The round robin portion of the tournament tips off on Friday, May 15, at 8:30 am PDT, and the medal round games tip off on Sunday, May 17, at 8:00 am PDT.

For more information: https://wheelchairbasketballcanada.websites5.rampinteractive.com/category/4041/masterschedule

2026 Wheelchair Rugby National Championships

The 2026 Wheelchair Rugby National Championships start Thursday in Ottawa at 10 a.m. at the Ravens Nest with two games: the Ontario Lightning against the B.C. Rapids and the Ontario Storm versus the Alberta Prospects and continue through the weekend.

The Division 1 gold medal match is at 2:45 p.m. on Sunday.

As is the case for goalball and wheelchair basketball there is no shortage of Paralympic Games stars.

Matt Debly, Rio Kanda Kovac, Cody Caldwell, Patrice Dagenais and Travis Murao headline the powerful Ontario Thunder while on Team Quebec, Mélanie Labelle, Fabien Lavoie and Anthony Létourneau lead the charge.   

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Quebec also includes Para ice hockey Team Canada goaltender Jean-François Huneault.

For more information: https://wheelchairrugby.ca/2026-national-championships/

Meanwhile, also in Richmond, the Canadian Goalball Championships will be held at J.N. Burnett Secondary School and will include men’s and women’s teams from across Canada including members of Canada’s fifth place women’s squad at the 2024 Paralympic Games.

Watch for details at https://canadianblindsports.ca/  and https://www.oneabilitygames.com/