It was on October 2, 2003, a Thursday afternoon, when 137 employees of Nike Bauer’s hockey stick factory in the Hespeler section of Cambridge, Ontario, learned they were losing their jobs. Nike Bauer ...

BRANTFORD, Ontario (AP) — Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an earsplitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each ...

BRANTFORD, Ontario -- Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an earsplitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each ...

ATLANTA — Almost every National Hockey League team has one — and only about one. They are the dinosaurs, the holdouts, the traditionalists. On the Atlanta Thrashers, he is Bobby Holik, the last player ...

Tuesday’s Pittsburgh Penguins practice was staged at their state-of-the-art modern Cranberry Township facility, and it was run under the specter of some very 2021 coronavirus-related protocols. But ...

Roustan Hockey, Canada's last major wooden hockey stick factory, faces challenges from trade tensions. Located southwest of Toronto, the factory has roots dating back to the 1800s. It survived ...

Kelvin Chan BRANTFORD, Ontario — Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an earsplitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end ...

Wooden hockey sticks are stacked as they move along the assembly line at the Roustan Hockey factory, which is the last major manufacturer of hockey sticks in Canada on Aug. 27, 2025 in Brantford, ...