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CBF Annual General Meeting: SEPTEMBER 16

As announced previously, the Annual General Meeting previously held during the Canadian Championships, will henceforth be held online. allowing more people to attend and participate. We invite you to attend the 2025 AGM on Tuesday, September 16, at 7:30 PM ET on Zoom.
The agenda includes the approval of amendments to the By Laws, the presentation of the reviewed financial statements, and other business of primary importance for the CBF.
Continue reading to get the link to the meeting and all the documents.

Canadian Teams at the 47th World Bridge Games

The 2025 World Bridge Championships take place in Herning, Denmark, from August 20 to August 31. This championship will include the Bermuda Bowl (Open Teams), Venice Cup (Women Teams), D’Orsi Senior Trophy (Senior Teams), and Wuhan Cup (MIxed Teams).
WBF website: 47th World Bridge Championships.
Continue reading to see the teams/players representing Canada at these championships.
The World Transnational Teams follow the round robin of the afortournament championships.

Bridge Canada – June 2025 Issue is Online

June Issue of Bridge Canada is now available online. A special issue in which you will like to see some photos of the medallists from the recent Canadian Bridge Championships, and read a report from the winners of 3 major events: CNTC Open, CSTC, CMTC. You'll also enjoy reading the responses and comments from the panel of experts at the Canadian Bidding Contest on the latest set of problems, the IBPA files, and other articles of interest to all.
You can access the magazine of the CBF through the top menu or the red tab on the left side of this page.

The Great Canadian Bidding Contest – September 2025 Problems

You can review the last set of problems in the June 2025 issue of Bridge Canada, along with the responses and comments from the panel of experts. five panelists tied with 49, for the top score for June: Keith Balcombe, Neil Kimelman, Paul Thurston, David Turner, and Edward Xu.
Enter your bids for the September set of problems by August 7th, by sending your choices to editor@cbf.ca. Scoring and expert responses will be included in the September issue of Bridge Canada. Have fun!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Canadian Championships

Congratulations to the winners of all the events:
. CNTC A – Jason Feldman, Daniel Miles, Daniel Lavee, Jacob Freeman, Jeff Smith, Frédéric Pollack
. CNTC B – Sheila Xu, Mingqiang Bao, Lai Qing Luo, Mingmin Zhu, Kelvin Shu, Jerry Lan
. CNTC C – Charles Faille, Frédérick Faille, Francis Savaria, Dominique Béland
. CWTC - Yuan Chen, Lisa Chen, Weijun Chen, Xia Hong, Rose Hou, Jingyuan Gong
. CMTC - Barry Senensky, Barbara Shnier, Marielle Decelles-Brentnall, Bob Kuz
. CSTC - Dan Jacob, Piotr Klimowicz, Michel Lorber, Zygmunt Marcinski, David Turner, Roy Hughes
. COPC - Fengming Chen - Marie Duval
Information on the 2025 CBC / Photo Gallery.

2025 Canadian Hall of Fame Induction & Lifetime Achievement Award

The Hall of Fame committee has elected Gloria Bart and Joan Eaton as the 2025 inductees into the Canadian Bridge Hall of Fame. Gloria and Joan are top players who had an outstanding record of success for more than three decades, in Canada and at at the international level.

And the CBF Board of Directors have elected to award the CBF Lifetime Achievement Award to Neil Kimelman in recognition of his long and outstanding service to Canadian bridge and the CBF for over 45 years.

The induction ceremony for the Hall of Fame and the Lifetime Achievement Award will take place in Toronto, during the Canadian Championships, on Thursday April 17 at 7:00 pm. Continue reading for more information..

President’s Message – June 2025

June 2025
The last few months have been a busy and productive time for our Board as we work on making positive changes. Our goal is to listen to our members, and to implement financially sound initiatives that will both help grow our membership, and help raise funds to benefit not only our International players, but our Canadian Clubs and Club players. Read on for what’s happening at the CBF: New Board Members, Canadian Championships, New initiatives and events, Online AGM.
Shelley Burns, CBF President