An Evening with Rick Westhead (We Breed Lions: Confronting Canada's Troubled Hockey Culture)

Name: An Evening with Rick Westhead (We Breed Lions: Confronting Canada's Troubled Hockey Culture)
Start: 2025-11-27T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-11-27T20:00:00-06:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

Schedule

Thu Nov 27 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB

Join us for a special evening with acclaimed journalist Rick Westhead as he visits Winnipeg in support of his new book, We Breed Lions: Confronting Canada's Troubled Hockey Culture (Random House of Canada).
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781039012936/rick-westhead/we-breed-lions
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/8wYj1w5Q6RM
In We Breed Lions, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Rick Westhead does a deep-dive into the state of hockey in Canada today. He gives voice to those who have been sexually assaulted by hockey players, revealing the struggles they've had with local police officials in their efforts to seek justice. He also goes inside the dressing room to find out how attitudes of misogyny and homophobia continue to flourish, and speaks to former players who were forced to perform degrading acts of initiation in order to “be one of the guys.”
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 and willing to sacrifice the well-being of their players and the community for profit. Westhead offers hope for hockey's future, profiling those individuals and organizations who are committed to educating players around issues of consent, putting an end to hazing and redefining what it means to be a man on and off the ice.
Rick Westhead is TSN’s Senior Correspondent and a two-time winner of Canadian sports writer of the year, presented by Sport Media Canada. 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 various TSN properties. In 2025, he was recognized for his “fearless reporting” by The Hockey News in its list of 100 People of Power and Influence in hockey. Prior to joining TSN, Westhead served as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star, where he reported on the ground in countries that included Afghanistan, China, and Saudi Arabia.