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HEADACHES AND A NIGHTMARE FOR LACROSSE CANADA’S PRESIDENT

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by Pierre Filion pierrefilion@bell.net Matt Shearer has been president at Lacrosse Canada since October 2025; that is six months ago. Two of his colleagues on the Board of Directors (Alan Preyra and Brad Cann) have recently left the Board; they had been elected at Lacrosse Canada’s AGM in late 2025. Alan Preyra, you’ll remember , was presented as ‘’an award-winning lawyer and legal scholar ’’ while Brad Cann was a financial services executive with more that 20 years of leadership experience’’. Heavyweights they were! They have both left a few days ago. Obviously, Lacrosse Canada’s website did not inform the members; neither of their departure nor of the reasons for their departure! Darkness prevails. On Friday February 27 th the provincial presidents (there are 11) were informed, through email, that the Executive Director, Terry Rayner, was no longer with Lacrosse Canada . In full transparency (!) the presidents were told that ‘’as this was a person nel matter further detai...
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REFLECTIONS ON LACROSSE CANADA FIRING ITS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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  by Pierre Filion pierrefilion@bell.net Last Friday (February 20 th ) Lacrosse Canada’s president (Matt Shear er ) informed the provincial presidents and provincial staffs that LC was transitioning the Executive Director role effective immediately. This indicates the beginning of a process to change leadership, to ensure the departure of the ED, to hire a successor , to train and motivate the new leader. It will also require that Lacrosse Canada reviews its planning and organizational strategies while also managing the staff’s stability and morale. Now, firing the Executive Director (the top man in the organization) ‘’effective immediately’’ is no small decision . It indicates many things, and the confidentiality surrounding the decision and the carry over, is indicative of serious reasons for terminating the Executive Director. The reasons for firing the Executive Director will eventually all come out in the open but, at this time , THINK LACROSSE is not very concerned , nor...
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LACROSSE CANADA; IT CAN’T GET ANY WORSE

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  by Pierre Filion pierrefilion@bell.net For some time now I’ve been looking at Lacrosse Canada 2026-27 budget and waiting with great interest for Lacrosse Canada to release its March 31st 2026 financial statements. Because those documents give us, and will give us, a clear picture of what Lacrosse Canada is all about. They tell us what Lacrosse Canada does and mostly what it has elected not to do. Now don’t get me wrong; we do need a National Association. The first obvious conclusion that one can readily come to, when looking at the 2026-27 budget of 4,143,675$ is that Lacrosse Canada has very little ability to raise money and , in fact, raises very little. Lacrosse Canada will receive 1,265,162$ from Sport Canada in form s of grants. What the budget does not tell anyone is how much money will go for general governance and how much for High Performance programs (the National Teams). Now anyone who has worked with grant requests will tell you that this is easy money to collec...
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Merv Marshall “One of the greatest”

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Merv Marshall was the goaltender for six seasons (1963-1968) w ith the Oshawa Green Gaels when the Gaels won seven straight Minto Cup championship s. It is fair to say no other team has dominated the OLA Junior “A” League as the Gaels did during their seven consecutive Minto Cup run. Marshall was quick and agile and was the catalyst for the offence and he strived to move the ball up the floor after making a save. Some of the greatest Green Gaels played during this era including Merv Marshall, Johnny Davis, Chuck Li, Elmer Tran , Gaylord Powless, Terry Rowland, Charlie Marlowe, Brian Thompson, Larry Lloyd , Jim Higgs and others. Merv Marshall was the Most Valuable Player of the 1963 Minto Cup, the Ontario Lacrosse Association Most Valuable Player in 1965 and a first team all-star in 1967. He collected 128 assists thorough his junior career. Marshall was part of the Brooklin Mann Cup team in 1969, a Windsor Warlocks Senior “B” Presidents Cup team in 1971 and with the Rochester ...
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