Katie Crysdale

Happy Friday! Fresh off of teaching a Certified Pool Operator (CPO) class in Calgary, I wanted to comment on new facility trends. I don't think we can necessarily extrapolate a wider aquatic industry shift from what I'm seeing, but I do think all three of these

Happy Friday for those off work on Saturday & Sunday, and a big THANK YOU to those who work a different schedule to support evening & weekend aquatic/recreation staff. I heard a podcast recently that talked about September 1 (after Labour Day) as the second biggest "New Year&

Good Morning, I fully realize this email is standing between you and a relaxing long weekend, so I'll keep it as brief as possible. ICYMI we have a developing aquatic/recreation infrastructure crisis. Many swimming pools were built to celebrate Canada's centennial (1967), and now we&

Friends, we had a technical glitch: last week's newsletter was not sent out as an email, but it was published to the site. Please click here if you'd like to read it. For the first time in over a decade, I decided to take a two

Welcome back, or welcome if you are new here. These weekly emails are an opportunity for me to share what I'm reading and thinking about the aquatics industry after Bill C-18 shutdown sharing news on Facebook in Canada. Let's jump right in. CrossFit Games Suspended After

Good Morning, I've worked in the aquatics industry for how long - 20 years?! - and my mother is still taken in by clickbait instead of actually asking me what's going on. Here's a recent text message: TL;DR as I say in a

If you run an outdoor pool, hang in there: we are less than 30 days away from Labour Day and your reprieve from summer staff shortages. I don't know about you, but I have been on a steady diet of replaying Olympic Swimming narrated by Byron MacDonald (who

Friends, if you do not reside in Alberta, you might not have heard about the wild fires that devastated the Town of Jasper a few nights ago. At least one client, Maligne Lodge, burned to the ground according to unofficial footage that's come out via social media. Parks

This shouldn't be the kind of thing that is so rare it requires a celebration, but each month I check Health Enforcement Orders on the provincial website, and only a handful of Recreational Facilities (pools) in Alberta were ordered shut in the last few months! Non-critical violations are