Author of We Breed Lions
One of Canada's top investigative reporters, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Rick Westhead discusses We Breed Lions, his hard-hitting and powerful look at hockey's moment of reckoning in Canada, with CHCH TV news anchor Annette Hamm. We Breed Lions is a deep-dive into the state of hockey in Canada and the ways in which a game that is so universally loved has been rocked by court cases involving sexual assault and startling incidents of hazing and abuse.
Looming large in Westhead's extraordinary reporting are the gatekeepers of the game—league officials, team owners, and members of the sport's governing bodies—who are reluctant to impose change from the outside. Westhead also offers hope for hockey's future, profiling those individuals and organizations who are committed to educating players around issues of consent, ending hazing, and redefining what it means to be a man on and off the ice.
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Rick Westhead is TSN’s Senior Correspondent and a two-time winner of Canadian sports writer of the year. Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression recognized him in 2023 with the Arnold Amber Award for Investigative Journalism. Westhead breaks news of consequence and has won six Canadian Screen Awards for his original features for TSN. Prior to joining TSN, Westhead reported on the ground in countries including Afghanistan, China, and Saudi Arabia as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star.
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Annette Hamm is a veteran Canadian news anchor at CHCH-TV, co-hosting Morning Live since 2005. She is an Alumni of Distinction (2016) from Hamilton’s Mohawk College, and has been part of the CHCH News team since 1986. She was named a Hamilton Woman of Distinction (2015) and is a Paul Harris Fellow.
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