Hal Bond has informed us that the Hamilton bid for holding the Canadian Youth Chess Championship this summer has been withdrawn due to COVID restrictions. There will be a new bid for 2022 at a later date.

This bid was the direct result of our involvement with Sport Tourism Canada (the new name for CSTA or Canadian Sports Tourism Alliance) and their CEC conference which took place in Ottawa in 2019. The 2020 conference which was to be held in Edmonton was cancelled due to COVID. Hal Bond and I were scheduled to attend. The 2021 CEC is scheduled to take place online. I plan on attending and hope at least one more CFC rep will also be able to attend.