2020 Campeonato Paulista knockout stage
The knockout stage of the 2020 Campeonato Paulista began on 29 July with the quarter-finals and concluded on 8 August 2020 with the final. A total of eight teams competed in the knockout stage.


2020 Campeonato Paulista knockout stage, Round and draw dates
All draws were held at Federação Paulista de Futebol headquarters in São Paulo, Brazil.


2020 Campeonato Paulista knockout stage, Format
The quarter-finals were played over a single match at the stadium of the better-ranked team in the first phase. If no goals were scored during the match, the tie was decided via a penalty shoot-out. The semi-finals were played with the same format as the quarter-finals. The finals were played over two legs, with the team holding the better record in matches from the previous stages hosting the second leg.


2020 Campeonato Pernambucano
The 2020 Campeonato Pernambucano da Série A1 (officially the Campeonato Pernambucano estadium.bet 2020 for sponsorship reasons) was the 106th edition of the state championship of Pernambuco organized by FPF. The championship began on 18 January and ended on 5 August.


2020 Campeonato Pernambucano
On 14 March 2020, FPF announced that all the matches of Campeonato Pernambucano would be played behind closed doors to prevent the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19. Consequently, the match Santa Cruz v Decisão played on 15 March 2020 was played behind closed doors. On 16 March 2020, FPF announced the suspension of the tournament. Complying with the guidelines of the Governo do Estado de Pernambuco, the tournament resumed behind closed doors on 19 July 2020.


2020 Campeonato Pernambucano
Sport were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the first stage.


2020 Campeonato Pernambucano
The finals were contested in two-legged home-and-away format between Salgueiro and Santa Cruz. Tied 1–1 on aggregate, Salgueiro won 4–3 on penalties, winning the tournament for the first time in their history. As champions, Salgueiro qualified for the 2021 Copa do Brasil and 2021 Copa do Nordeste.


2020 Campeonato Pernambucano
Santa Cruz and Retrô qualified for 2021 Copa do Brasil as runners-up and best placed team in the first stage not already qualified, respectively.


2020 Campeonato Pernambucano
Sport (best team in the 2020 RNC) qualified for the 2021 Copa do Nordeste. Santa Cruz qualified for the 2021 Pré-Copa do Nordeste via RNC.


2020 Campeonato Pernambucano, Teams
Ten teams were competing, eight returning from the 2019 and two promoted from the 2019 Pernambucano A2 Championship: Decisão and Retrô.


2020 Campeonato Pernambucano, First stage
In the first stage, each team played the other nine teams in a single round-robin tournament. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, the following criteria would be used to determine the ranking: 1. Wins; 2. Goal difference; 3. Goals scored; 4. Fewest red cards; 5. Fewest yellow cards; 6. Draw in the headquarters of the FPF.


2020 Campeonato Pernambucano, First stage
Top two teams advanced to the semi-finals of the final stages, while teams from third to sixth places advanced to the quarter-finals. The four teams with the lowest number of points played a relegation stage.


2020 Campeonato Pernambucano, First stage
Best team not qualified for the finals qualified for 2021 Copa do Brasil. Top two teams not already qualified for 2021 Série A, Série B or Série C qualified for 2021 Série D.


2020 Campeonato Pernambucano, Relegation stage
In the relegation stage each team played the other three teams in a single round-robin tournament. The two teams with the lowest number of points were relegated to the 2021 Campeonato Pernambucano A2. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, the following criteria would be used to determine the ranking: 1. Wins; 2. Goal difference; 3. Goals scored; 4. Fewest red cards; 5. Fewest yellow cards; 6. Draw in the headquarters of the FPF.


2020 Campeonato Pernambucano, Final stages
Starting from the quarter-finals, the teams played a single-elimination tournament with the following rules:


2020 Campeonato Pernambucano, 2020 Campeonato Pernambucano team
The 2020 Campeonato Pernambucano team was a squad consisting of the eleven most impressive players at the tournament.


2020 Campeonato Rondoniense
The 2020 Campeonato Rondoniense de Futebol Profissional Série“A” was the 75th edition and the 30th professional edition of the state championship of Rondônia organized by FFER.


2020 Campeonato Rondoniense
The championship began on 1 February and ended on 5 December. On 17 March, FFER suspended the championship for 15 days due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, but on 1 April after a new meeting with some clubs, via videotelephony, FFER decided to extend the suspension indefinitely. Finally, the tournament resumed behind closed doors on 7 November.


2020 Campeonato Rondoniense
Porto Velho won their first Campeonato Rondoniense title after defeating Real Ariquemes 3–1 on aggregate in the finals. As champions, Porto Velho qualified for the 2021 Copa do Brasil, while the runners-up, Real Ariquemes, qualified for the 2021 Copa Verde. Both teams qualified for the 2021 Série D.


2020 Campeonato Rondoniense, Format
In the first stage, the 11 teams were divided into two regionalized groups. Each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The teams were ranked according to the following criteria: 1. Points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss); 2. Wins; 3. Head-to-head results (only between two teams); 4. Goal difference; 5. Goals scored; 6. Fewest red cards; 7. Fewest yellow cards; 8. Draw in the headquarters of the FFER. The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals.


2020 Campeonato Rondoniense, Format
In the semi-finals and the finals, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. The finals were played with the best overall performance team hosting the second leg. In the final stages, if tied on aggregate, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.


2020 Campeonato Rondoniense, Format
Initially, the teams with the lowest number of points of each group would be relegated to the Série B do Campeonato Rondoniense de 2021. However, FFER cancelled the relegations due to the suspension of the Campeonato caused by coronavirus pandemic.


2020 Campeonato Rondoniense, Participating teams
Originally eleven teams played the first stage, but after the suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic only four teams remained in the tournament.


2020 Campeonato Rondoniense, Participating teams, Team information
Teams in italic withdrew from the tournament during the suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Campeonato Rondoniense, Broadcasting rights
The most important matches, including the finals, will be broadcast by RedeTV! Rondônia and Globoesporte.com in addition to radio stations of Rondônia.


2020 Campeonato de España de Resistencia
The 2020  Campeonato de España de Resistencia is the eighth season of the Campeonato de España de Resistencia. It is the fifth season with the TCR class


2020 Campeonato de España de Resistencia, Calendar and results
Bold indicates overall winner for each car class (GT and CER).


2020 Campeones Cup
The 2020 Campeones Cup was planned to be the third edition of the Campeones Cup, an annual North American football match contested between the champions of the previous Major League Soccer season and the winner of the Campeón de Campeones from Liga MX.


2020 Campeones Cup
The match would have featured Seattle Sounders FC, winners of the MLS Cup 2019, and the winners of the 2020 Campeón de Campeones. The Sounders were planned to host the match at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, Washington, United States, on August 12, 2020. The match was canceled on May 19, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Can-Am League season
The 2020 Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball season was supposed to begin on May 14, 2020, but the season was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. This would have been the league's 16th season of operations. Following the 2019 season, the Frontier League merged with the Can-Am League, absorbing five of its teams to make a total of 14 teams.


2020 Canada Sevens
The 2020 Canada Sevens was a rugby sevens tournament held at BC Place in Vancouver on 7–8 March 2020. The tournament was the seventh event of the 2019–20 Sevens World Series for men's teams, and the fifth edition of the Canada Sevens.


2020 Canada Sevens, Format
The sixteen are drawn into four pools of four teams. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup playoffs and compete for gold, silver and bronze medals. The other teams from each pool go to the classification playoffs for ninth to sixteenth placings.


2020 Canada Sevens, Teams
Fifteen core teams played in the tournament along with one invitational team, Japan.


2020 Canada Sevens, Pool stage
All times in Pacific Standard Time (UTC−08:00). The pools were scheduled as follows:


2020 Canadian Championship
The 2020 Canadian Championship will be the thirteenth edition of Canada's national soccer cup tournament, awarding the Voyageurs Cup. It will be held as a final between one representative each from Major League Soccer and the Canadian Premier League. It will be hosted at a date to be determined at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, Ontario. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, a larger knockout tournament was to be held from June 16 to September 24, 2020, between twelve teams.


2020 Canadian Championship
The twelve teams originally planned to participate were the three MLS clubs, seven Canadian Premier League clubs, and the champions of League1 Ontario and Première Ligue de soccer du Québec. The city of Ottawa had looked to be absent for the first time since 2013, with Ottawa Fury FC having suspended operations in late 2019, and Atlético Ottawa having joined the Canadian Premier League after the original draw had been finalized.


2020 Canadian Championship, Format, Original format
The format of the competition was originally changed slightly from the 2019 edition to accommodate the departure of Ottawa Fury FC. Each round of the four-round tournament would be played in a two-legged tie format. The League1 Ontario champion Master's FA, Première Ligue de soccer du Québec champion A.S. Blainville, and six CPL clubs would enter in the qualifying round in June. They would be joined by the three Major League Soccer teams and the remaining CPL club (given bye as the furthest advancing club in the 2019 Canadian Championship) in the quarter-finals in July. The semi-finals would follow in August, and the finals would be in September. Atlético Ottawa were not included in the original format because they joined the CPL after the schedule was announced.


2020 Canadian Championship, Format, Original format
The format was adjusted in June to exclude the League1 Ontario and Première Ligue de soccer du Québec 2019 champions, who will instead qualify for the 2021 tournament. Atlético Ottawa's inclusion was also confirmed.


2020 Canadian Championship, Format, Revised format
On August 13, 2020, the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) announced that the tournament will consist solely of a single match final to be held between the winner of the head-to-head series between a Canadian team from Major League Soccer and the champion of the Canadian Premier League. On November 25, 2020, the CSA announced that due to pandemic-related travel restriction and scheduling conflicts, the final would be scheduled for the first quarter of 2021. During the fourth quarter of 2020, Toronto FC had been playing in the 2020 MLS Cup Playoffs in the United States, while Forge FC had been competing in the 2020 CONCACAF League across several locations in Central America and the Caribbean.


2020 Canadian Championship, Format, Revised format
In early March 2021, several outlets reported that the final would be played on March 20, 2021. The winner of the Canadian Championship final would qualify for the 2021 CONCACAF Champions League which begins in early April 2021. Forge FC owner Bob Young raised concers over the date of the final noting that as of March 6, 2021, his club had not yet been granted permission to train by local health authorities. On March 8, Toronto FC – who had been training as a team since February 17 – announced that several members of their team had tested positive for COVID-19 and that they had halted training.


2020 Canadian Championship, Format, Revised format
On March 11, 2021, it was announced that the final would be postponed beyond March and that Toronto FC would automatically qualify for the Champions League.


2020 Canadian Championship, Qualification, Major League Soccer
As part of the MLS regular season, Canada's three Major League Soccer clubs played each other three times from August 18 to September 16. The team with the most points from this series, Toronto FC, qualified for the Canadian Championship.


2020 Canadian Championship, Qualification, Canadian Premier League
The winner of the 2020 Canadian Premier League season, Forge FC, qualified for the Canadian Championship. The season was held from August to September in three stages – a first stage, group stage, and final.


2020 Canadian Championship, Final
On March 11, 2021, it was announced that the match could not be completed in time for the start of CCL competition; a compromise was reached where Toronto FC would be named to the CCL slot, while Forge FC would be permitted to host the match once it is finally played. On March 25, 2021, Canada Soccer president Nick Bontis said that the final may end up taking place as late as July 2022.


2020 Canadian Figure Skating Championships
The 2020 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships were held on January 13–19, 2020, in Mississauga, Ontario. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance on the senior, junior, and novice levels. Although the official International Skating Union terminology for female skaters in the singles category is ladies, Skate Canada uses women officially. The results were part of the Canadian selection criteria for the 2020 World Championships, the 2020 Four Continents Championships, and the 2020 World Junior Championships.


2020 Canadian Figure Skating Championships
Mississauga was announced as the host in January 2019. The city previously hosted the event in 2013 and has also previously hosted Skate Canada International four times (2000, 2003, 2011, and 2016). Competitors qualified at the Skate Canada Challenge held in Edmonton, Alberta in December 2019 or earned a bye.


2020 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Entries
A list of qualified skaters was published on December 20, 2019.


2020 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Men
Messing placed first in the short program while defending champion Nguyen was second. Sadovsky ranked first in the free skating and won the title with a 17-point margin.


2020 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Women
Pineault, who missed the previous edition due to injury, placed first in the short program. Bausback, fourth after the short, won the free skate and the title.


2020 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Pairs
Moore-Towers / Marinaro won the pairs' title after ranking first in both segments.


2020 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Ice dance
Gilles / Poirier won both segments of the event. They had a wardrobe malfunction in the rhythm dance when her hair became caught in his costume.


2020 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, World Championships
The 2020 World Figure Skating Championships will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from March 16–22, 2020. Skate Canada announced some assignments on January 19, 2020. The teams were updated on February 13, 2020 and finalized on February 24, 2020.


2020 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, Four Continents Championships
The 2020 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships will be held in Seoul, South Korea from February 4–9, 2020. Skate Canada announced the assignments on January 19, 2020.


2020 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, World Junior Championships
Commonly referred to as "Junior Worlds", the 2020 World Junior Figure Skating Championships will take place in Tallinn, Estonia from March 2–8, 2020. Skate Canada announced some assignments on January 19, 2020. The teams were updated on February 13, 2020 and finalized on February 24, 2020.


2020 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, Winter Youth Olympics
The 2020 Winter Youth Olympics were held in Lausanne, Switzerland from January 10–15, 2020. The Canadian Championships were held after the Winter Youth Olympics.


2020 Canadian Honours List
The following are the appointments to various Canadian Honours of 2020. Usually, they are announced as part of the New Year and Canada Day celebrations and are published within the Canada Gazette during the year. This follows the custom set out within the United Kingdom which publishes its appoints of various British Honours for New Year's and for monarch's official birthday. However, instead of the midyear appointments announced on Victoria Day, the official birthday of the Canadian Monarch, this custom has been transferred with the celebration of Canadian Confederation and the creation of the Order of Canada


2020 Canadian Honours List
However, as the Canada Gazette publishes appointment to various orders, decorations and medal, either Canadian or from Commonwealth and foreign states, this article will reference all Canadians so honoured during the 2020 calendar year.


2020 Canadian Honours List
Provincial Honours are not listed within the Canada Gazette, however they are listed within the various publications of each provincial government. Provincial honours will be listed within this page as they are announced.


2020 Canadian Honours List, Provincial Honours, Order of Newfoundland and Labrador
No appointments were made during 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Canadian Honours List, Territorial Honours, Order of Nunavut
The 2020 appointments to the Order of Nunavut have not been announced.


2020 Canadian Honours List, Territorial Honours, Order of the Northwest Territories
The 2020 appointments to the Order of the Northwest Territories have not been announced; the investiture has been postponed due to COVID-19.


2020 Canadian Honours List, Erratums of Commonwealth and Foreign Orders, Decorations and Medal awarded to Canadians, Correction of 29 February 2020
The notice published on page 4533 of the December 28, 2019, issue of the Canada Gazette, Part I, contained an error. Accordingly, the following modifications are made - Delete the following award: From the President of the French Republic, the National Defence Medal, Bronze Echelon to Major Francis Lavoie replace with the following: From the President of the French Republic the National Defence Medal, Bronze Echelon with “Armée de terre” clasp to Major Francis Lavoie.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships
The 2020 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships was held from January 18 to 26 at the Langley Curling Centre and the George Preston Recreation Centre in Langley, British Columbia. The winners represented Canada at the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships
In the women's final, Mackenzie Zacharias and her rink of Karlee Burgess, Emily Zacharias and Lauren Lenentine out of the Altona Curling Club in Altona, Manitoba capped off a perfect 11–0 record defeating Alberta's Abby Marks rink 10–3 including a score of four in the eighth end. It was a third championship win for Burgess as she also won the title in 2016 and 2018. In the men's final, Jacques Gauthier and his team of Jordan Peters, Brayden Payette and Zack Bilawka curling out of the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba defeated Newfoundland's Daniel Bruce rink 8–6 to make it an all Manitoba sweep in both the men's and women's events.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Alberta
The Alberta Junior Championships were held from January 1 - 5, 2020 at the Lloydminster Curling Club in Lloydminster, Alberta.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Alberta
The championship was held in a round robin format, which qualified three teams for a championship round.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, British Columbia
The BC Junior Championships were held from December 28, 2019 - January 2, 2020 at the Victoria Curling Club in Victoria, British Columbia.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, British Columbia
The championship was held in a round robin format, which qualified three teams for a championship round.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Manitoba
The Telus Junior Provincial Championships were held from December 31, 2019 - January 5, 2020 at the Dauphin Recreation Centre in Dauphin, Manitoba.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Manitoba
The championship was held in a round robin format, which qualified four teams for a page-playoff championship round.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, New Brunswick
The New Brunswick Papa John's Pizza U21 Championships were held from December 27–30, 2019 at the Thistle St. Andrews Curling Club in Saint John, New Brunswick.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, New Brunswick
The championship was held in a modified triple-knockout format, which qualified three teams for a championship round.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Newfoundland and Labrador
The Junior Provincials were held from December 27–29, 2019 at the Bally Haly Golf & Curling Club in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Newfoundland and Labrador
The men's championship was held in a double round robin format, the women's event was held in a best of five series between two rinks.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Northern Ontario
The Best Western Junior Provincials were held from December 28–30, 2019 at the Hearst Community Curling Club in Hearst, Ontario.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Northern Ontario
The championship was held in a double round robin format, with the top two teams competing in the championship final.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Northwest Territories
The NWTCA Junior Curling Championships were held from December 13–15, 2019.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Northwest Territories
The men's championship was held in a best of five series between two rinks, the women's event was held in a double round robin format.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Nova Scotia
The AMJ Campbell U21 Championships were held from December 27–31, 2019 at the Lakeshore Curling Club in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Nova Scotia
The championship was held in a modified triple-knockout format, which qualified three teams for a championship round.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Ontario
The Ontario U-21 Curling Championships were held from December 27–30, 2019 at the Guelph Curling Club in Guelph.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Ontario
The championship was held in a round robin, which qualified the top three teams for a championship round.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Prince Edward Island
The Pepsi PEI Provincial Junior Curling Championships were held from December 27–29, 2019 at the Crapaud Community Curling Club in Crapaud, Prince Edward Island.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Prince Edward Island
The championship was held in a modified triple-knockout format, which qualified three teams for a championship round.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Quebec
The Quebec Performance Brush U21 Provincials were held from January 6–8, 2020 at the Club de curling Rivière-du-Loup in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Quebec
The men's championship was held in a round robin format, the women's event was held in a best of five series between two rinks.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Saskatchewan
The Junior Provincials were held from December 27, 2019 – January 1, 2020 at the Sutherland Curling Club in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Saskatchewan
The championship was held in a round robin format, which qualified four teams for a page-playoff championship round.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships – Men's tournament
The Men's tournament of the 2020 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships was held from January 18 to 26 at the George Preston Recreation Centre and the Langley Curling Centre.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships – Men's tournament
In the final, Jacques Gauthier and his team of Jordan Peters, Brayden Payette and Zack Bilawka curling out of the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba defeated Newfoundland's Daniel Bruce rink 8–6 to make it an all Manitoba sweep in both the men's and women's events.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Round Robin Results
All draw times are listed in Eastern Standard Time (UTC−5:00).


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships – Women's tournament
The women's tournament of the 2020 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships was held from January 18 to 26 at the George Preston Recreation Centre and the Langley Curling Centre.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships – Women's tournament
In the final, Mackenzie Zacharias and her rink of Karlee Burgess, Emily Zacharias and Lauren Lenentine out of the Altona Curling Club in Altona, Manitoba capped off a perfect 11–0 record defeating Alberta's Abby Marks rink 10–3 including a score of four in the eighth end. It was a third championship win for Burgess as she also won the title in 2016 and 2018. Team Zacharias represented Canada at the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships in Krasnoyarsk, Russia and won the gold medal.


2020 Canadian Junior Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Round Robin Results
All draw times are listed in Eastern Standard Time (UTC−5:00).


2020 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship
The 2020 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship was held from November 3 to 9, 2019 at the Foyer des loisirs et de la culture in Jonquière, Saguenay, Quebec.


2020 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship
Quebec won the event, having gone undefeated throughout the tournament. It was only the second championship for La Belle Province. Quebec skip Jean-Sébastien Roy had home ice advantage as a native of Jonquière.


2020 Canadian Open (curling)
The 2020 Meridian Canadian Open was held from January 14 to 19 at the Gallagher Centre in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. It was the fourth Grand Slam event and third "major" of the 2019–20 season. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it would end up being the last Grand Slam of the season, and the last Slam to be held until the 2021 Champions Cup held in April 2021.


2020 Canadian Open (curling)
In the men's final, Team Jacobs won their third straight Grand Slam by beating Team Epping in a tight 6–5 game. In the women's final, Team Hasselborg also won her third straight event defeating young Team Kim 7–5 in an extra end.


2020 Canadian Open (curling), Qualification
Sixteen teams compete in the Canadian Open, including the seven top-ranked teams on the World Curling Tour's Order of Merit rankings as of December 16, 2019, the seven top teams on the Year-to-Date rankings as of December 16, the Tier 2 winner of the 2019 Tour Challenge, and a sponsor's exemption. The first matches will be set per the rankings on December 24, 2019


2020 Canadian Premier League Final
The 2020 Canadian Premier League Final determined the winner of the 2020 Canadian Premier League season. It was played on September 19, 2020, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, between Forge FC, the defending league champion, and HFX Wanderers FC. Those teams qualified as the winner and runner-up of the group stage of The Island Games tournament.


2020 Canadian Premier League Final
The event was to be contested between the top-seeded team after the regular season and the winner of a one-game playoff but the season format was revised after being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The winner will earn a berth in the 2020 Canadian Championship Final and 2021 CONCACAF League.


2020 Canadian Premier League Final
Forge FC won the Final 2–0 with the winning goal coming in the 60th minute from Alexander Achinioti-Jönsson.


2020 Canadian Premier League Final, Background
Forge FC entered the Final as the defending league champions, having defeated Cavalry FC in the 2019 Finals after finishing 2nd in the regular season. HFX Wanderers FC played in their first Final, improving from a last place finish in their inaugural season in 2019.


2020 Canadian Premier League Final, Background
This was the seventh meeting all-time between the two clubs with each team having recorded one win and four draws against each other. Forge and HFX Wanderers faced off twice during the 2020 season with both matches ending in a 1–1 draw.


2020 Canadian Premier League season
The 2020 Canadian Premier League season was the second season of the Canadian Premier League, the top level of Canadian soccer.


2020 Canadian Premier League season
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CPL announced a 14-day hold on all pre-season training on March 13, 2020. On March 20, the league announced that it would be postponing the start of the season from the previously scheduled date of April 11.


2020 Canadian Premier League season
A shortened 2020 season tournament, branded as The Island Games, was played at the University of Prince Edward Island from August 13 to September 19. All players were required to self-isolate for 14 days before travelling, self-isolate for five more days upon arrival, and receive two negative COVID-19 tests before being allowed to play. As of July 29, PEI had the lowest number of COVID-19 cases among provinces, at 36.


2020 Canadian Premier League season
Initially, all matches were held behind closed doors. On August 8, the league announced a partnership with the province and PEI Soccer to allow 50 minor soccer players per game to attend matches.


2020 Canadian Premier League season
Atlético Ottawa joined the league as its first expansion team, bringing the total number of teams to eight. Hamilton's Forge FC defended their inaugural CPL title, blanking HFX Wanderers FC 2–0 in the final.


2020 Canadian Premier League season, Overview, Teams
The seven teams that participated in the inaugural 2019 Canadian Premier League season are set to compete in this season. They are joined by Atlético Ottawa, an expansion team who were created after USL Championship side Ottawa Fury FC suspended operations after being unable to secure approval from USSF and CONCACAF.


2020 Canadian Premier League season, Overview, Original format
Before being postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular season was intended to be played from April 11 to October 4. The split-season format of the inaugural season was to be replaced by a single table and full double round-robin. The eight teams would have met their rivals twice at home and twice away for a total of 28 games, the same number as in 2019. The top ranked team in the regular season would have qualified for a spot in the championship final and would have been joined by the winner of a playoff between the second and third ranked teams.


2020 Canadian Premier League season, First stage
The eight teams played against each other once each for a total of seven matches. The top four teams advanced to the group stage.


2020 Canadian Premier League season, Group stage
The four group stage teams met their opponents once each. The top two teams advanced to the final.


2020 Canadian Premier League season, Player transfers, U Sports Draft
The 2019 CPL–U Sports Draft was held on November 11 in Montreal, Quebec. Draftees were invited to team preseason camps, with an opportunity to earn a developmental contract and retain their U Sports men's soccer eligibility. HFX Wanderers selected Cory Bent with the first overall pick. Two players were selected by each returning CPL team, with a total of 14 players being drafted including 10 Canadians. Ottawa had not yet joined the league and did not participate in the draft.


2020 Canadian Premier League season, Player transfers, Foreign players
Canadian Premier League teams may sign a maximum of seven international players, out of which only five can be in the starting line-up for each match. The following players are considered foreign players for the 2020 season. This list does not include Canadian citizens who represent other countries at the international level.


2020 Canadian Premier League season, Player transfers, Foreign players
Players in italic denote players new to their respective clubs for the 2020 season, sorted chronologically by their announcement.


2020 Canadian Premier League season, Awards, Canadian Premier League Awards
The nominees for the four CPL awards were announced on September 18, one day before the league final. The awards take into account all matches from The Island Games and are voted on by reporters across Canada. The winners were announced at a ceremony on November 26, 2020.


2020 Canadian Premier League season, Awards, Team of the Week
The Gatorade Team of the Week is selected by OneSoccer staff.


2020 Canadian Premier League season, Media
OneSoccer broadcast all matches of the tournament. CBC Television televised nine matches on Saturdays, and CHCH-TV in Hamilton broadcast Sunday matches. To visually enhance the venue for broadcast as it is only a pitch, an augmented reality "virtual stadium" was employed by host broadcaster Mediapro, rendering CGI grandstands with virtual sponsor placements. An AI-based automated camera system was used for 19 matches, using similar technology to what was used for the CEBL Summer Series.


2020 Canadian Soccer League season
The 2020 Canadian Soccer League season was the 23rd season under the Canadian Soccer League name. The season commenced on August 15, 2020 and concluded with the CSL Championship final on October 17, 2020. FC Vorkuta defeated the reigning champions Scarborough SC at Racco Park in Vaughan, Ontario and secured their second championship. While Scarborough made their fourth consecutive appearance to the championship final and claimed their first divisional title.


2020 Canadian Soccer League season
As the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the opening of the season the league ultimately released a modified shorten schedule which began in early August with the matches taking place within Toronto at Esther Shiner Stadium, and Centennial Park Stadium with the exception of the championship final being moved to Racco Park at Concord/Thornhill Regional Park in Vaughan, Ontario.


2020 Canadian Soccer League season, Summary
The events throughout the regular season resembled the previous season with the main theme being Scarborough SC and FC Vorkuta competing for the divisional and championship titles. As both teams were tied in points the title was decided on the final match of the season with Scarborough receiving their first division title by accumulating the most wins in the league's tie-breaker rules. In a bid to successfully defend their championship title the eastern Toronto side made adjustments to the roster with the acquirement of additional imports. The additions proved successful as Scarborough remain competitive and primarily battled with Vorkuta for the top spot and held the position for the final four weeks of the campaign. Their rivalry would conclude in the CSL Championship final with Vorkuta securing their second championship title.


2020 Canadian Soccer League season, Summary
Vorkuta managed to retain their core veteran imports with former general manager Denys Yanchuk serving as the head coach. As a result Vorkuta was a consistent challenger with the strongest defensive record and shifted between the first and second position throughout the regular season. The Vaughan based team earned their dividends in the championship final where they defeated reigning champions Scarborough. Included in that race for the divisional title were Hamilton City SC, where the Steeltown club held the third position for the majority of the season with only a single point difference in claiming the title. Though Hamilton secured a postseason berth the organization was prevented by the league from participating after finishing in a Not-in-Good Standing state.


2020 Canadian Soccer League season, Summary
The final playoff berth was secured by the Serbian White Eagles, which marked their fifteenth consecutive season of clinching a playoff berth since their return to the professional scene in 2006. The western Toronto side produced the best offensive record in the regular season, but were eliminated in the first round of the championship playoffs to Vorkuta. For the second consecutive season Brantford Galaxy concluded the season at the bottom of the standings, and managed to dodge a winless season by winning their final match of the season.


2020 Canadian Soccer League season, Changes from 2019
On March 29, 2020, the CSL released a tentative match schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following recommendations from health officials the schedule was prolonged for another month with intentions of fulfilling the entire season by scheduling matches on the weekdays. On July 8, 2020, the league announced their schedule with the commencement of the league beginning in early August with seven teams returning from the previous season. All the matches were scheduled to take place at Centennial Park Stadium in Toronto, Ontario with Kingsman SC, FC Ukraine United, and SC Waterloo Region not participating for the season. The schedule was postponed for another week with the season starting on August 15, 2020.


2020 Canadian Soccer League season, Changes from 2019
On June 27, 2020, the league officially released their 2020 schedule and confirmed the kickoff date for August 15, 2020, with all matches being played at Esther Shiner Stadium in August, and the remainder months at Centennial Park Stadium. Originally CSC Mississauga and SC Real Mississauga were announced as participating teams, but were not included in the revised schedule.


2020 Canadian Soccer League season, Playoffs
Three teams advanced to the playoffs. Third seed Hamilton City ended the season in "Not-in-Good Standing", which resulted in their disqualification from the playoffs. The CSL Championship final was originally scheduled to take place at Centennial Park Stadium in Toronto, Ontario, but due to further provincial government restrictions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic the venue was moved to Racco Park at Concord/Thornhill Regional Park in Vaughan, Ontario.


2020 Canadian Touring Car Championship
The 2020 Canadian Touring Car Championship (known as CTCC presented by Pirelli for sponsorship reasons) is the thirteenth season of the Canadian Touring Car Championship. The season started on 25 July 2020 at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and is scheduled to end on 30 August 2020 at the Calabogie Motorsports Park.


2020 Canadian Touring Car Championship
Zachary Vanier won in the TCR class, while Orey Fidani won in GT class.


2020 Canadian Touring Car Championship, Teams and drivers
All teams are Canadian-registered. Pirelli is the official tyre supplier.


2020 Canadian Touring Car Championship, Calendar and results
A provisional calendar was announced on 24 December 2019 with 12 races across Canada and the United States. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the calendar was shortened to just six races across Canada.


2020 Canadian electoral calendar
This is a list of elections in Canada scheduled to be held in 2020. Included are municipal, provincial and federal elections, by-elections on any level, referendums and party leadership races at any level. In bold are provincewide or federal elections (including provincewide municipal elections) and party leadership races.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests
The 2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests were a series of civil disobedience protests held in Canada. The main issue behind the protests was the construction of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline (CGL) through 190 kilometres (120 mi) of Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation territory in British Columbia (BC), land that is unceded. Other concerns of the protesters were indigenous land rights, the actions of police, land conservation, and the environmental impact of energy projects.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests
Starting in 2010, the Wetʼsuwetʼen hereditary chiefs and their supporters made their opposition to the project known and set up a camp directly in the path of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines, a path similar to that which would later be proposed for the Coastal GasLink Pipeline. Northern Gateway was officially rejected in 2016, but the CGL project moved through planning, indigenous consultations, environmental reviews and governmental reviews before being approved in 2015. However, the approval of all the Wetʼsuwetʼen hereditary chiefs was never granted.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests
In 2018, the backers of the pipeline project gave the go-ahead to the CA$6.6 billion project and it began construction. Access to the Coastal GasLink Pipeline construction camps in Wetʼsuwetʼen territory was blocked and the Coastal GasLink project was granted an injunction in 2018 to remove the land defenders. In January 2019, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) of British Columbia removed the blockades and CGL pre-construction work in the territory was completed. Subsequently, the blockades were rebuilt and Coastal GasLink was granted a second injunction by the BC Supreme Court in December 2019 to allow construction.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests
In February 2020, after the RCMP enforced the second court injunction, removing the Wetʼsuwetʼen blockades and arresting Wetʼsuwetʼen land defenders, solidarity protests sprang up across Canada. Many were rail blockades, including one blockade near Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory which halted traffic along a major Canadian National Railway (CNR) line between Toronto and Montreal and led to a shutdown of passenger rail service and rail freight operations in much of Canada. The Eastern Ontario blockade was itself removed by the Ontario Provincial Police. Blockades and protests continued through March in BC, Ontario and Quebec. Discussions between representatives of the Wetʼsuwetʼen and the governments of Canada and British Columbia have led to a provisional agreement on the Wetʼsuwetʼen land rights in the area.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Coastal GasLink pipeline project
The Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline is a 670-kilometre-long (420 mi) natural gas pipeline designed to carry natural gas from mines in north-eastern British Columbia to a liquefaction plant located at the port of Kitimat. The project is intended to supply natural gas to several Asian energy companies, who are partners in the project. The pipeline's route passes through unceded lands of several First Nations peoples, including 190 kilometres (120 mi) of Wetʼsuwetʼen territory. Within the Wetʼsuwetʼen territory, the pipeline does not pass through reserves, only through traditional territory.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Coastal GasLink pipeline project
The consortium developed its plans for the pipeline route in the early 2010s, securing the approval of several First Nations councils along the route, but did not secure the approval of the Office of the Wetʼsuwetʼen, the hereditary government of the Wetʼsuwetʼen peoples, although most of the elected band councils of the Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nations did enter into a benefits agreement with TCEnergy, the owner of the pipeline project. In 2014, British Columbia authorities approved the environmental assessment of the project, then approved permits to construct the project in 2015 and 2016. TC Energy was given final approval by its partners to begin construction of the project in 2018, still without the consent of all of the Wetʼsuwetʼen hereditary chiefs. Only one of the nine sitting house chiefs, Samooh (Herb Naziel) supports the project.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Background
The Wetʼsuwetʼen are an Indigenous nation made up of five clans including the: Gilseyhu (Big Frog), Laksilyu (Small Frog), Gitdumden (Wolf/Bear), Laksamshu (Fireweed) and the Tsayu (Beaver Clan). These five clans' territory lies in the central western portion of British Columbia. The language spoken by the Wetʼsuwetʼen people is Babine-Witsuwitʼen, one of the Athabaskan languages. Their traditional government, predating Confederation, is a system of chiefs representing each clan, called the hereditary chiefs. The chiefs have been represented by the non-profit Office of the Wetsuweten since 1994, before having a joint office with the Gitxsan. The elected band councils were created by order of the Government of Canada, under the Indian Act, to govern the reserves put in place, of which the Wetʼsuwetʼen have several.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Background
According to hereditary chief Na’Moks (John Ridsdale), "it's the hereditary chiefs' duty to protect the territory". According to Na’Moks, the pipeline "is going along rivers, it will go over rivers and even in some instances, it will go under. One hundred and ninety kilometres of the proposed route will run through our territory. It threatens our water, our salmon, and our rights, our title, our jurisdiction". The pipeline would also go through areas of cultural significance to the Wetʼsuwetʼen.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Background
In 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada issued the Delgamuukw-Gisdayʼwa decision, which ruled that aboriginal title exists as an exclusive territorial right for indigenous people. The ruling was made in an appeal of a Supreme Court of British Columbia decision, which had ruled against recognition of Wetʼsuwetʼen and Gitxsan land rights. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a new trial was warranted, but encouraged a negotiated settlement. The Wetʼsuwetʼen and Gitxsan then entered the treaty process with the BC government.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Background
However, the BC government's position that the Nations would only receive 4 to 6 per cent of their territory was unacceptable and the nations walked away from the process. Hence, the boundaries of the Wetʼsuwetʼen and Gitxsan nations' traditional territories are not yet recognized in Canadian law. In the absence of an agreement over aboriginal title and rights, the hereditary chiefs' position is that their full consent is required for any energy or resource projects within their territory, and the CGL does not have their consent. The rights and title issue has also been the basis for several solidarity protests, which have also objected to the actions and presence of the RCMP within the Wetʼsuwetʼen traditional territory (known in Babine-Witsuwitʼen as yintah).


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Blockades, injunctions and RCMP interventions, 2010
Beginning in 2010, the Wetʼsuwetʼen hereditary chiefs and their supporters set up barricades and checkpoints along the Morice West Forest Service Road that provides access to the construction of pipeline projects that threatened their territory, originally the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines, and later also Coastal GasLink (planning for which began in 2012). The largest of those camps is Unistʼotʼen Camp, directly in the path of the pipeline, established in 2010 as a checkpoint, and has since added a healing centre.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Blockades, injunctions and RCMP interventions, 2018
After TC Energy received its partners' go-ahead in November, it appealed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia to grant an injunction to stop the blockade of its intended route through the Wetʼsuwetʼen territory. A temporary injunction was issued in December by BC Supreme Court Judge Marguerite Church to allow CGL pre-construction work.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Blockades, injunctions and RCMP interventions, 2019
On January 7, the RCMP conducted a raid to enforce TC Energy's injunction, removing the barricades on the Morice Forest Service Road and arresting 14 of the Wetʼsuwetʼen land defenders. The RCMP faced criticism from protesters for the amount of force used in the bloodless raid, including police snipers. The RCMP set up a continuous presence along the road, setting up a local detachment called the Community Industry Safety Office. The Wetʼsuwetʼen remained in place along the road, but did not make any further efforts to disrupt the CGL pre-construction work.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Blockades, injunctions and RCMP interventions, 2019
In December, TC Energy prepared to start construction in the Wetʼsuwetʼen territory. It applied for an extension of the injunction order as the land defenders had resumed blockading access after the pre-construction work was done. This injunction was extended by Judge Church of the BC Supreme Court on December 31. The extension included an order authorizing the RCMP to enforce the injunction.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Blockades, injunctions and RCMP interventions, 2019
In her decision, Church stated: "There is a public interest in upholding the rule of law and restraining illegal behaviour and protecting of the right of the public, including the plaintiff, to access on Crown roads," and "the defendants may genuinely believe in their rights under indigenous law to prevent the plaintiff from entering Dark House territory, but the law does not recognize any right to blockade and obstruct the plaintiff from pursuing lawfully authorized activities." In a public statement, the Wetʼsuwetʼen chief rejected the decision.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Blockades, injunctions and RCMP interventions, 2020
On January 1, after rejecting the injunction, the hereditary chiefs ordered the eviction of the RCMP and Coastal GasLink personnel from the Wetʼsuwetʼen territory.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Blockades, injunctions and RCMP interventions, 2020
On January 30, the RCMP announced that they would stand down while the hereditary chiefs and the province met to discuss and try to come to an agreement. On February 3, the Office of the Wetʼsuwetʼen asked for a judicial review of the environmental approval for the pipeline. All parties issued statements on February 4, 2020 that the talks had broken down.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Blockades, injunctions and RCMP interventions, 2020
On February 6, the RCMP began removing the blockades on Wetʼsuwetʼen territory, arresting 28 land defenders at camps along the route between February 6 and 9. All were released within two days. The RCMP also detained several reporters and were accused of interfering with the freedom of the press. Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Grand Chief Stewart Phillip stated that "we are in absolute outrage and a state of painful anguish as we witness the Wetʼsuwetʼen people having their title and rights brutally trampled on and their right to self-determination denied." During the enforcement action by the RCMP, a large amount of advanced equipment was used, including heavily armed tactical teams, division liaison personnel, regular uniformed officers, canine units, helicopters, drones and snowmobiles, according to CBC News.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Blockades, injunctions and RCMP interventions, 2020
On February 11, the RCMP announced that the road to the construction site was cleared and TC Energy announced that work would resume the following Monday. After the hereditary chiefs made it a condition for talks with government, the RCMP closed their local office and moved to their detachment in Houston on February 22.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Blockades, injunctions and RCMP interventions, 2020
Throughout February and March, solidarity protests and blockades were held across the world. Most in-person actions were halted in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but online solidarity rallies continued.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Blockades, injunctions and RCMP interventions, 2020
On June 5, the BC Prosecution Service issued a statement saying that criminal contempt charges for 22 members of the Wetʼsuwetʼen Nation and their supporters would not be pursued. Additionally, Coastal GasLink issued a statement that they would not pursue civil contempt charges against the protesters.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Meetings and memorandum of understanding
On February 27, 2020 meetings began between the hereditary chiefs and the Canadian and BC governments, represented by Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and BC Indigenous Relations Minister Scott Fraser. The meetings were planned to last two days. They took place in Smithers, British Columbia. For the duration of those two days, the RCMP agreed to stop all patrols on the Morice West Forest Service Road and to shut down their mobile detachment (CISO) in the area. In addition, Coastal GasLink agreed to suspend operations in the territory during the talks. RCMP and CGL work resumed on the territory once the meetings were complete.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Meetings and memorandum of understanding
On March 1, after three days of meetings, the Canadian Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister, the BC Indigenous Relations Minister and representatives of the Wetʼsuwetʼen, including hereditary chiefs and matriarchs announced a proposed agreement to address the Wetʼsuwetʼen land rights, title and a protocol for addressing any future projects impacting on their territory, in the form of a memorandum of understanding (MOU). Specific details of the agreement were not immediately released, because the MOU had to first be seen and ratified by the broader Wetʼsuwetʼen nation. However, it was made clear by all parties to the discussions that the agreement did not concern the Coastal GasLink Pipeline project.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Meetings and memorandum of understanding
On March 10, a statement was released by Theresa Tait-Day, president and one of three founders of the Wetʼsuwetʼen Matrilineal Coalition (WMC), who was stripped of the subchief name Wiʼhaliʼyte in the mid-2010s over her support of the pipeline project and suspected conflict of interest. Tait-Day stated that the proposed agreement made on March 1 was not inclusive of the entire community, saying "the government has legitimized the meeting with the five [sic] hereditary chiefs and left out their entire community. We can not be dictated to by a group of five guys [sic]." According to Tait-Day, "over 80 per cent of the people in our community said they wanted LNG [First Nations LNG Alliance] to proceed."


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Meetings and memorandum of understanding
Meetings were held among the individual clans of the Wetʼsuwetʼen throughout March. The memorandum of understanding was ratified by the attendees of one meeting of the Laksilyu (Small Frog Clan). They held a meeting via Zoom on April 22. According to the hereditary chiefs, the Gilseyhu (Big Frog Clan) met once and endorsed the MOU, as did the Laksamshu (Fireweed and Owl Clan) and the Tsayu (Beaver Clan) after two meetings. The Gitdumden (Wolf and Bear Clan) met twice, but their third meeting (scheduled for March 16) was cancelled due to a death in the community.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Meetings and memorandum of understanding
A planned all-clans meeting on March 19 was cancelled, for a variety of factors including concerns among the hereditary chiefs over the spread of COVID-19 and death in the community (unrelated to COVID-19).


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Meetings and memorandum of understanding
On April 30, the hereditary chiefs made a joint statement with the provincial and federal governments that all five clans had agreed to ratify the MOU after having reviewed and discussed it in the prior weeks. However, the elected chiefs of five Wetʼsuwetʼen band governments (Nee Tahi Buhn Indian Band, Skin Tyee Nation, Ts'il Kaz Koh First Nation, Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation, and Witset First Nation) released their own joint statement in response the following day, calling on the agreement to be withdrawn, saying they weren't consulted properly.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Meetings and memorandum of understanding
A further statement released on May 11 called once again for the agreement to be withdrawn so the elected governments could be consulted properly, and further calling for Minister Bennett to resign. The May 11 statement was not signed by Chief Sandra George of Witset or Chief Cynthia Joseph of Hagwilget.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Meetings and memorandum of understanding
The draft agreement was finally distributed to the elected band councils on May 7, to all other Wetʼsuwetʼen the following day, and finally it was published on the Office of the Wetʼsuwetʼen website on May 12.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Meetings and memorandum of understanding
The MOU was signed by hereditary chiefs, Minister Bennett, and Minister Fraser on May 14, 2020, in a virtual ceremony via Zoom. The memorandum does not address the Coastal GasLink Pipeline project, nor does it alter Wetʼsuwetʼen rights and title. The MOU states that the Canadian and British Columbian governments recognize that those rights and title are held under the Wetʼsuwetʼen's own system of governance, and commits Canada and BC to a three-month process to craft a formal Affirmation Agreement that confirm aboriginal title as a legal right. It also establishes a twelve-month timeline for negotiation on jurisdiction including over land-use planning, resources, water, wildlife, fish, and child and family wellness. Further, it acknowledges that reunification of the rift between the hereditary leadership and the elected band councils is an essential part of the implementation of the MOU.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Further developments, October 2020 BC Supreme Court hearing
On October 1, 2020, a Office of the Wet’suwet’en began a hearing in the BC Supreme Court. The Office of the Wet’suwet’en requested that the Court reject the province's decision to extend CGL's environmental certificate for five years. Lawyers for the Office of the Wet’suwet’en claimed the Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) did not meaningfully account for the final report on Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG), published in June 2019, as well as the pipeline company's long history of non-compliance with the EAO's own conditions and standards. The EAO's position was that there was no basis for judiciary review of their decision.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Further developments, October 2020 BC Supreme Court hearing
In a decision published on May 20, 2021, Justice Norell found that the assessment office had asked CGL to consider how indigenous nations would be involved in identifying and monitoring social impacts of the project, and deemed those comments to "not indicate a failure or refusal of the [assessment office] to consider the [MMIWG] inquiry report, but the opposite."


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Further developments, October 2020 BC Supreme Court hearing
As for the company's history of non-compliance, Justice Norell also disagreed that the EAO had not accounted for that, stating that "Both the frequency and nature of the non-compliances are addressed [in the statement of the environmental assessment certificate]" and further, that "the Evaluation Report concludes that: the non-compliance which had occurred had been addressed by the enforcement process; and CGL was committed to compliance, and had either rectified or was in the process of rectifying any non-compliance."


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Further developments, 2021 Wedzin Kwa blockade
Given that the MOU did not touch on the issue of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, and that construction has continued, opposition from the Gidimtʼen Access Point and Unistʼotʼen groups has continued throughout the pandemic. On September 25, 2021, Cas Yikh house and Gidimtʼen clan members erected new blockades on the Morice West Forest Service Road to block CGL's attempts to drill under the Morice River (known as Wedzin Kwa in Babine-Witsuwetʼen). Sleydoʼ (Molly Wickham), one of the leaders of Gidimtʼen Access Point, claimed that the work near the river would disrupt her people's livelihoods as well as the salmon population.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Further developments, 2021 Wedzin Kwa blockade
She called on supporters to join the new blockades. A Gidimtʼen Access Point press release called the Wedzin Kwa "sacred headwaters that nourish the Wetʼsuwetʼen Yintah [territory] and all those within its catchment area". Coastal GasLink president Tracy Robinson issued a statement about the drilling, saying "the clearing is now complete, and our crews will utilize a micro-tunnel method which is a type of trenchless crossing that is constructed well below the riverbed and does not disturb the stream or the bed and banks of the river".


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Wetʼsuwetʼen opposition, Further developments, 2021 Wedzin Kwa blockade
Robinson claimed that micro-tunnelling was deemed to be the safest and most environmentally-responsible method after consulting with experts, regulations, and best practices. She also noted that there was still an enforceable injunction to prevent any opposition to CGL carrying out its work. In the days after the new blockades went up, the RCMP moved in to remove two of them, in the process arresting at least one individual.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests
Protests on January 20, 2020 disrupted BC ferry service leaving from Swartz Bay, which is Victoria's main ferry link to the BC mainland. BC ferries later obtained a preemptive injunction to prevent anticipated future demonstrations from blocking Vancouver–Victoria ferry service.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests
Once the RCMP began to take down the Wetʼsuwetʼen blockades, protests sprang up across Canada in solidarity with the hereditary chiefs and the land defenders. On February 11, protesters surrounded the BC Legislature in Victoria, preventing the traditional ceremonies around the reading of the Throne Speech by the Lieutenant Governor. Members of the Legislature had to have police assistance to enter or used alternate entrances. Other protests took place in Hamilton, Nelson, Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Sherbrooke, and Halifax.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests
Several major protests blocked access to the Port of Vancouver, Deltaport, and two other ports in Metro Vancouver for a number of days before the Metro Vancouver police began enforcing an injunction on the morning of February 10, 2020, arresting 47 protesters who refused to cease obstructing the port.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests
Protests on February 15 over 200 people in Toronto blocked Macmillan Yard, the second largest rail classification yard in Canada. On February 16 and 17 temporarily blocked the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, Ontario and Thousand Islands Bridge in Ivy Lea, Ontario, two major border crossings between the United States and Canada. At the same time, Miꞌkmaq demonstrators partially blocked access to the Confederation Bridge, the sole road link to Prince Edward Island. On February 18, several activists were arrested for trespassing at BC Premier Horgan's residence. On February 24, 2020 individuals shut down a major junction in Hamilton, ON.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests
A nation-wide student walkout occurred March 4, with university students across the country showing their support for the Wetʼsuwetʼen protesters.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests
The protests led to the creation of several hashtags, used widely on social media in relation to coverage of the protests. These include #ShutDownCanada, #WetsuwetenStrong, #LandBack, and #AllEyesOnWetsuweten.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests
By September 21, over 200 Facebook users had been blocked from posting or sending messages on the site. All the blocked accounts had shared information about an online rally held on May 7 in support of the ongoing struggle against the construction of the CGL pipeline. When asked by organizers why the accounts had been suspended, a spokesperson from Facebook said, "our systems mistakenly removed these accounts and content. They have since been restored and we’ve lifted any limits imposed on identified profiles."


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Rail disruptions
Other First Nations, activists and other supporters of the Wetʼsuwetʼen hereditary chiefs targeted railway lines for their demonstrations of solidarity. Near Belleville, Ontario, members of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation began a blockade of the Canadian National Railway rail line just north of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory on February 6, 2020, causing Via Rail to cancel trains on their Toronto–Montreal and Toronto-Ottawa routes. The line is critical to the CNR network in Eastern Canada as CNR has no other east–west rail lines through Eastern Ontario. However, in order to mitigate major economic disruption, CNR brokered a "workaround" agreement with Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to share tracks in order to avoid the Mohawk protesters.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Rail disruptions
Other protests blocking rail lines halted service on Via Rail's Prince Rupert and Prince George lines, running on CNR tracks. Protests on the CNR line west of Winnipeg additionally blocked the Canadian, the passenger rail route operated by VIA Rail from Vancouver to Toronto. Protests disrupted multiple GO Transit rail services in Toronto, Hamilton and Exo's Candiac line in Montreal. CPR rail lines were also disrupted in downtown Toronto and south of Montreal. The Société du Chemin de fer de la Gaspésie (SCFG) freight railway between Gaspé and Matapedia was blockaded on February 10 by members of the Listuguj Miꞌgmaq First Nation.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Rail disruptions
Starting on February 6, Via Rail announced passenger train cancellations on a day-to-day basis. Trains on the Toronto-Ottawa and Toronto-Montreal routes were cancelled first. Prince George-Prince Rupert service was suspended on February 11. Canadian National Railway (CNR) rail freight traffic was also halted along these lines. Other Canadian routes were intermittently disrupted as well.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Rail disruptions
On February 13, CNR shut down its rail lines east of Toronto. On the same day Via Rail, which rents these lines for its passenger service, announced it would be shutting down its entire network, with the exception of the Sudbury–White River train line and the Winnipeg–Churchill train between Churchill and The Pas, until further notice.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Rail disruptions
Amtrak international service from New York City to Toronto and Montreal was not affected. Amtrak rail service between Seattle and Vancouver on BNSF Railway Company lines was intermittently blocked; Amtrak's bus operation over the same route was not affected.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Rail disruptions
CNR issued multiple injunctions against the protesters, including several separate injunctions against the Mohawk protesters near Belleville. The Ontario Provincial Police decided not to act immediately on the injunctions.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Rail disruptions
The rail blockade of Prince Rupert was lifted on February 14. On February 18, VIA announced partial restoration of passenger service starting February 20, between Ottawa and Quebec City. Via later announced it would resume some south-western Ontario routes. Trans-Canada passenger service was not restored.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Rail disruptions
On February 19, a group of about 20 protesters from a group called "Cuzzins for Wetʼsuwetʼen" erected a blockade on a CN rail line in west Edmonton, Alberta. CN obtained a court injunction, and less than twelve hours after the blockade began, it was dismantled by counter-protesters after a CN legal representative arrived to serve the injunction.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Rail disruptions
On February 19, activists set up a blockade on the Mont-Saint-Hilaire rail line in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, promising to stay until the RCMP leaves the disputed zone in Wetʼsuwetʼen territory. The blockade caused Via Rail to postpone resuming service between Montreal and Quebec City. The Mont-Saint-Hilaire rail line was cleared on February 21, 2019 after Quebec Police arrived to enforce a CNR injunction.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Rail disruptions
On February 20, another blockade of CPR tracks sprang up between Kamloops and Chase in British Columbia. The protesters left voluntarily on February 21, after the RCMP offered to leave the Wetʼsuwetʼen land. The group vowed to return in four days if a dialogue was not started between the prime minister and the hereditary chiefs. This was followed by CPR writing an open letter to Prime Minister Trudeau, asking him to speak directly with the hereditary chiefs. The Mont-Saint-Hilaire rail line was cleared on February 21, 2020 after Quebec Police arrived to enforce a CNR injunction.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Rail disruptions
On March 5, the rail blockades in Kahnawake and the Gaspé Peninsula were removed peacefully by the First Nations involved.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Rail disruptions
In early March, Canada's medical officer had advised against gatherings, as part of the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and by the second week of March, most blockades had come down. Despite the widespread closures in response to the pandemic, CGL is continuing construction in the disputed territory. Pipeline opponents launched a letter-writing campaign urging the company to stop on March 21.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Rail disruptions
Businesses attacked by protesters, such as CN Rail, have filed lawsuits against protesters to recover damages.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Impact
The blockades led to the shutdown of CNR's Eastern Canadian network, causing a complete halt of freight traffic from Halifax west to Toronto. On February 19, Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters estimated that CA$425 million in goods were being stranded each day of the shutdown. An executive of the Business Council of Canada called the shutdown "potentially a catastrophe for the economy" and said that rail "is the backbone of infrastructure in this country."


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Impact
Due to a poor growing season which resulted in an unusually late harvest just before Christmas, Canadian wheat and barley shipments were already in a backlog and were further impacted by the rail blockades. Spring farm supplies such as fertilizer were also delayed by the rail shutdown. Canadian grain farmers have previously advocated to have rail transport declared an essential service. Canadian Federation of Agriculture president Mary Robinson warned of "huge financial consequences" as farmers do not get paid until products are delivered to the market.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Impact
Dennis Darby, president and CEO of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Association, states that Canadian manufacturers rely on 4,500 rail cars per day, which represent both supply chain and delivery of finished products. Many of these products are too large or bulky to be shipped by other means. The total value of these deliveries amounts to CA$200 billion annually. Chemicals trade group Responsible Distribution Canada warned of shortages of chlorine to purify drinking water.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Impact
Supply chains for chlorine, jet fuel and de-icing fluid all rely on rail transport: "You can't put it in a truck and send it down the 401" said an executive of the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada. Mining, which accounted for 20% of Canada's 2018 exports, also moves "most" of its output by rail. By February 21, four thousand containers reportedly sat on the docks of Montreal waiting for transport and no grain had arrived for shipment at the port. In Halifax, the Atlantic Container Line has diverted to New York and Baltimore. In Vancouver, goods waiting to be shipped east led to a backlog of 50 ships waiting to be unloaded.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Impact
The disruption of propane rail shipments was expected to lead to shortages and rationing, during a time when many communities were experiencing extremely cold weather. In Atlantic Canada, at the end of the propane supply line, reserves fell to a five-day supply by February 14. Superior Propane, Canada's largest supplier, rationed distribution in Atlantic Canada.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Impact
SCFG laid off five of its 30 employees on February 14. On February 18, CNR laid off 450 employees for reasons related to the pipeline disruptions; the company has stated that as many as 6,000 of its 24,000 employees could be laid off. On February 19, Via Rail announced temporary layoffs of up to 1,000 people due to the blockades. By the first week of March, the majority of the laid-off Via Rail employees and all of the affected CNR employees were recalled.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Solidarity protests, Impact
On March 13, Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux released a report that the protests would leave "a minimal dent in the pace of economic growth", estimating that the blockades would reduce Canadian economic growth by 0.2% for the first quarter of 2020. For the whole year, the expectation was for the GDP to fall by CA$275 million, about 0.01% of the total GDP, which Giroux referred to as "a blip", despite the warnings by businesses of shortages, referred to by the PBO as "overblown". The PBO said that the COVID-19 pandemic would likely have a greater impact on the economy.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Federal government response and reaction
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said politicians should not be telling the police how to deal with protesters and that resolution should come through dialogue. The Canadian government does not tell the police what to do operationally. In any case, the police services are under provincial or municipal control.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Federal government response and reaction
On February 12, Canada's Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller began a dialogue with several indigenous leaders from different parts of Canada. On February 15, Miller met the Mohawks in a ceremonial encounter on the CNR train tracks to renew a 17th-century treaty between the Iroquois and the British Crown known as the Silver Covenant Chain. Miller then discussed the blockade with the leaders of Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation, along with Kanenhariyo, one of the primary organizers of the protest near Tyendinaga.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Federal government response and reaction
Miller asked for a temporary drawback of the protest but his request was refused after Wetʼsuwetʼen hereditary Chief Woos, who was on the phone, stated that the RCMP was still on his territory and "they are out there with guns, threatening us." Leaked audio of the meetings included a Mohawk resident in the meeting telling the minister to "Get the red coats out first, get the blue coats out … then we can maybe have some common discussions". Miller returned to Ottawa and met with Prime Minister Trudeau and other members of the Cabinet called the "Incident Response Group". Trudeau had returned from a foreign relations trip to deal with the issue.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Federal government response and reaction
On February 18, the House of Commons of Canada resumed after the winter break. Trudeau addressed the Commons asking Canadians for patience as the government sought a negotiated end. "On all sides, people are upset and frustrated. I get it. It's understandable because this is about things that matter—rights and livelihoods, the rule of law and our democracy." Opposition leader Andrew Scheer condemned the government's refusal to use the police to stop the illegal blockades, calling it "the weakest response to a national crisis in Canadian history. Will our country be one of the rule of the law, or will our country be one of the rule of the mob?" Trudeau held a private meeting with the other opposition parties' leaders, barring Scheer after his comments.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Federal government response and reaction
On February 18, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) held a press conference in Ottawa. AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde called for all parties to engage in dialogue. "It's on everybody. It's not on any one individual. I'm just calling on all the parties to come together, get this dialogue started in a constructive way."


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Federal government response and reaction
On February 20, according to a statement from Canadian Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, the RCMP agreed to move its personnel from Wetʼsuwetʼen territory to nearby Houston. The next day, Prime Minister Trudeau held a press conference to state "Canadians have been patient. Our government has been patient, but it has been two weeks and the barricades need to come down now. The government had made repeated overtures to the hereditary chiefs to hold meetings but had been ignored. You can't have dialogue when only one party is coming to the table. Our hand remains extended should someone want to reach for it. We have come to a moment where the onus is now on Indigenous leadership."


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Federal government response and reaction
Shortly after Trudeau's statement on February 21, the Wetʼsuwetʼen hereditary chiefs released a statement reaffirming that discussions would continue once all RCMP and CGL personnel vacate the Wetʼsuwetʼen territory. At the same time, the Mohawk of Tyendinaga asserted that their rail blockade would be removed as soon as Wetʼsuwetʼen legal observers confirm that the RCMP is off their land. On February 24, the day of the Mohawk blockade removal by the OPP, Indigenous Services Minister Miller repeated that the Liberal government was "still open for dialogue" and willing to negotiate.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Federal government response and reaction
On February 24, in a statement signed and supported by over 200 Canadian lawyers and legal scholars, Beverly Jacobs and Sylvia McAdam of the University of Windsor, Alex Neve of Amnesty International, and Harsha Walia of the BC Civil Liberties Association responded to the calls for the "rule of law." In their opinion, it is the Canadian federal and provincial governments that are breaking international law, not the Wetʼsuwetʼen hereditary chiefs.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Federal government response and reaction
They also pointed out that the requirements laid out in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples have continued to be ignored by Canadian courts, although Canadian governments have expressed a willingness to follow the UN resolution. They call for an end to the violation of indigenous persons' right to free, prior and informed consent.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Federal government response and reaction
In early May, the elected chiefs of several Wetʼsuwetʼen band councils (primarily Nee-Tahi-Buhn, Skin Tyee, Tsʼil Kaz Koh, and Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nations) called on Minister Bennett to resign, as the Canadian and BC governments, along with the hereditary chiefs, pressed forward with the memorandum of understanding. In a statement on May 11, before the signing of the memorandum, the elected chiefs called on Minister Bennett to resign due to her "disregard for [their] special relationship". They repeated this demand in a statement on May 14, after the signing of the MOU, and added a call for Minister Marc Miller to speak up about his "intention to protect the programs and services the Wetʼsuwetʼen people depend on".


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Federal government response and reaction
On October 2, CBC News reported that information related to protests in February that they had requested from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) under the Access to Information Act had been withheld. CSIS cited section 15 of the Act in withholding the information, which defines "subversive or hostile activities" as including sabotage, terrorism, actions directed at a "government change," activities that "threaten" Canadians or federal employees, and espionage.


2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, Federal government response and reaction
Documents obtained by CBC News found that in the two years of their occupation of the Morice Forest Service Road, the RCMP had spent over CA$13 million on policing. Chief Naʼmoks compared that very high level of spending with the perceived inaction by the RCMP over violent attacks and harassment of Mi'kmaw fishers in Nova Scotia.


2020 Canberra Capitals season
The 2020 Canberra Capitals season is the 37th season for the franchise in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL).


2020 Canberra Capitals season
University of Canberra remain as the owners and naming rights partner of the Capitals for the seventh consecutive season.


2020 Canberra Capitals season
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a North Queensland hub is set to host the season. The season was originally 2020–21 and would be traditionally played over several months across the summer, however this seasons scheduling has been condensed. The six-week season will see Townsville, Cairns and Mackay host a 56-game regular season fixture, plus a four-game final series (2 x semi-finals, preliminary final and grand final). Each team will contest 14 games starting on 12 November, with the grand final scheduled for 20 December.


2020 Canberra Challenger
The 2020 Canberra Challenger was a professional tennis tournament that was played on outdoor hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was a part of the 2020 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bendigo, Australia between 6 and 12 January 2020. The tournament was relocated to Bendigo due to the hazardous air quality in Canberra from the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season.


2020 Canberra Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2020 Canberra Challenger – Doubles
Marcelo Demoliner and Hugo Nys were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2020 Canberra Challenger – Doubles
Max Purcell and Luke Saville won the title after defeating Jonathan Erlich and Andrei Vasilevski 7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–3) in the final.


2020 Canberra Challenger – Singles
Hubert Hurkacz was the defending champion, but chose not to defend his title.


2020 Canberra Challenger – Singles
Philipp Kohlschreiber won the title after defeating Emil Ruusuvuori 7–6(7–5), 4–6, 6–3 in the final.


2020 Canberra Rugby League, CRRL Cup (First Grade)
The 2020 CRRL will be the 1st season of the cup, the top division Rugby League club competition in Canberra. The 2020 competition was renamed due to the competition being given amateur status for 2020. The 2020 CRRL Cup will consist of 9 regular season rounds that will begin on the 25th of July and end on the 20th of September. There will be a Grand Final to decide the premiers, which will be played on the 27th of September. Queanbeyan United Blues are the defending premiers.


2020 Canberra Rugby League, CRRL Cup (First Grade), Teams
There will be 4 teams playing in 2020, 5 less than 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. there will be 3 teams from Canberra and 1 from Queanbeyan


2020 Canberra Rugby League, CRRL Cup (First Grade), Teams
3 of the 4 clubs will field a team in the reserve grade competition.


2020 Cannes Film Festival
The 73rd annual Cannes Film Festival was scheduled to take place from 12 to 23 May 2020. On 13 January 2020, Spike Lee was named as the president of the Jury. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, festival management announced on 14 April 2020 that the festival could not be held in its "original form", with alternative means of observing the festival being explored. It was canceled for the first time since 1946 during World War II.


2020 Cannes Film Festival
Earlier, festival management considered holding the festival in June or July, after not cancelling the event. In mid-March, the festival's main venue, the Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière, was converted into a temporary homeless shelter. In May 2020, it was announced that no physical edition of the festival would take place, but a revised Official Selection of films was confirmed on 3 June 2020.


2020 Cannes Film Festival
Before announcing the list of films from the official selection, Thierry Frémaux the director of the Cannes Film Festival, said in an interview that he was talking with Spike Lee and also was hoping to have him as president of the jury on the 2021 edition. He also confirmed that Lee's film Da 5 Bloods was supposed to be the return of Netflix to the red carpet in the Out of Competition category.


2020 Cannes Film Festival
In September, organizers announced that a limited outdoor festival, featuring screenings of four official selection films, the short film competition and the Cinéfondation Selection would take place on the Croisette from 27 to 29 October. The Semaine de la critique program also launched a free online screening of its short film selections in October.


2020 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection
The Official Selection has been divided in sub-categories, as directors or genres, not as competitors.


2020 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Short films
The films selected for the short film competition were announced on 19 June, a few weeks after the rest of the official selections. Despite the cancellation of the overall festival, the short films were announced with an indication that the  competition would still proceed in the fall, with the exact dates and jury members to be named at a later date; in September, it was announced that the short films would be screened as part of the special outdoor screening series on the Croisette in October.


2020 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Short films
At the end of the Croisette screening series, the Short Film Palme d'Or was awarded to Sameh Alaa for the film I'm Afraid to Forget Your Face.


2020 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Cinéfondation Selection
The Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury composed of Damien Bonnard, Rachid Bouchareb, Claire Burger, Charles Gillibert, Dea Kulumbegashvili and Céline Sallette, has awarded the 2020 Prizes of the Cinéfondation film school competition on 28 October 2020 on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière as part of “Cannes 2020 Special”. The First Prize was awarded to Ashmita Guha Neogi for the film Catdog, the Second Prize was awarded to Yelyzaveta Pysmak for the film My Fat Arse and I and the Joint Third Prize was awarded to Lucia Chicos for the film Contraindications.


2020 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Cannes Classics
The full line-up for the Cannes Classics section was announced on 17 July 2020.


2020 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, International Critics' Week
The following films have received a special and official label, delivered by the International Critics' Week.


2020 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, Directors' Fortnight
A full Directors' Fortnight selection could not be announced due to it being incomplete when the festival was cancelled. However, two titles were announced in July 2020 so that they could utilise the Director's Fortnight label.


2020 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, ACID
The following films have received a special and official label, delivered by the ACID (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema).


2020 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, ACID
The ACID Trip #4 program, which should have been dedicated to young Chilean cinema, has been postponed to the next edition, in 2021.


2020 Canoe Slalom World Cup
The 2020 Canoe Slalom World Cup was a series of multiple races in several canoeing and kayaking categories organized by the International Canoe Federation (ICF). It was the 33rd edition.


2020 Canoe Slalom World Cup
Only 2 out of the 5 rounds were held due to the COVID-19 pandemic and no overall winners were declared by the ICF.


2020 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Calendar
The series was originally scheduled to start in Ivrea, Italy, but all of the races were either canceled or postponed.


2020 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, World Cup Race 1
16-18 October in Tacen, Slovenia. The races were contested by a depleted start list with several of the leading nations not participating.


2020 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, World Cup Race 2
6-8 November in Pau, France. Once again the races were contested by a depleted start list with several of the leading nations not participating.


2020 Canon O'Brien Cup
The 2020 Canon O'Brien Cup was a hurling game played to determine the champion of the Canon O'Brien Cup for the 2020 season. University College Cork defeated the Cork senior hurling team by 2-18 to 1-20. The game was played on 7 January 2020 in the Mardyke, Cork. This was the seventh staging of Canon O'Brien Cup since 2013.


2020 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs season
The 2020 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs season is the 86th in the club's history. They are competing in the National Rugby League's 2020 Telstra Premiership. Dean Pay was the coach from Round 1 to Round 9. He formally resigned from this position on 14 July 2020 and this was confirmed by an Official Media Release/Statement by the Bulldogs. In that statement, Steve Georgallis was named as Pay's interim replacement, effective immediately. It was reported that, following Pay's resignation and Georgallis's appointment, the clubs other Assistant Coach, Steve Antonelli also resigned from his position. In Round 2 the NRL announced a shortened Season from 26 rounds to 20.


2020 Capital Football season
The 2020 Capital Football season is the 67th season in Capital Football. All NPL and grassroots competitions were suspended due to the impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. The season resumed on 18 July.


2020 Capital Football season, 2020 National Premier Leagues Capital Football
The 2020 National Premier Leagues Capital Football season, is the eighth season of the National Premier Leagues Capital Football in Australia. The regular season commenced on 18 July 2020, delayed due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. Promotion/relegation has been suspended for the 2020 season. The NPL Premier normally qualifies for the national NPL finals series, but the 2020 National Premier Leagues finals series was cancelled in July.


2020 Capital Football season, 2020 National Premier Leagues Capital Football, League tables
After the first 7 rounds of the season, the teams were split into a Top and Bottom four, with teams in each section playing each other once, with all points and goals reset to zero. The two highest placed teams from the upper group qualify for the season's Grand Final, and two highest placed teams from the lower group qualify for a Playoff game.


2020 Capital Football season, 2020 National Premier Leagues Capital Football 2, League table
Each team played each other once for a total of 10 rounds, plus a finals series for the top 4 teams. Promotion/relegation was suspended for the 2020 season due to the disruptions to the season caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia.


2020 Capital Football season, 2020 Women's National Premier Leagues ACT
The highest tier domestic football competition in the ACT is known as the ACT Women's National Premier Leagues (WNPL). Each team played each other once for a total of 8 rounds, plus a finals series for the top 4 teams. Promotion/relegation was suspended for the 2020 season.


2020 Caribbean Club Championship
The 2020 Caribbean Club Championship (officially the 2020 Flow CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 22nd edition of the Caribbean Club Championship (also known as the CFU Club Championship), the first-tier annual international club football competition in the Caribbean region, held amongst clubs whose football associations are affiliated with the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), a sub-confederation of CONCACAF.


2020 Caribbean Club Championship
The winners of the 2020 CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship would qualify to the 2021 CONCACAF Champions League, the second and third place teams would qualify to the 2020 CONCACAF League, while the fourth place team would play against the winners of the 2020 CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield in a playoff match to determine the final Caribbean spot to the 2020 CONCACAF League. However, as the final stage of the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the results in the group stage were used to determine the teams which qualified for the 2021 CONCACAF Champions League and the 2020 CONCACAF League.


2020 Caribbean Club Championship
Portmore United were the title holders, but were eliminated in the group stage.


2020 Caribbean Club Championship, Teams
Among the 31 CFU member associations, four of them were classified as professional leagues and each may enter two teams in the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship. However, one association was not allowed to enter this season, and as a result, only six teams from three associations entered the 2020 CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship.


2020 Caribbean Club Championship, Group stage
The draw for the group stage was held on 4 December 2019, 10:00 EST (UTC−5), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami, United States. The six teams were drawn into two groups of three. The two group stage hosts from Jamaica, Waterhouse and Portmore United, were placed in Pot 1 and assigned to Groups A and B respectively. The two teams from the Dominican Republic were placed in Pot 2, while the two teams from Haiti were placed in Pot 3. This ensured that teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.


2020 Caribbean Club Championship, Group stage
The group stage was played between 29 January – 9 February 2020, at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex in Kingston, Jamaica. All times local, EST (UTC−5).


2020 Caribbean Club Championship, Group stage
The ranking of teams in each group is determined as follows (Regulations Article 12.1):


2020 Caribbean Club Championship, Final stage
The final stage was originally scheduled to be played between 8–13 May 2020, at the Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. On 3 April 2020, CONCACAF announced the suspension of the final stage due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the new dates to be confirmed later. On 7 August 2020, they provided an update on the final stage of the tournament, where they would make a final decision by the end of August to determine if it could be resumed towards the end of September. On 25 August 2020, CONCACAF announced that as it was impossible to organize the tournament in September in order to provide qualification for the 2020 CONCACAF League which would start in October, the final stage was cancelled.


2020 Caribbean Club Championship, Final stage, Bracket
The winners of SF1 and SF2 would play in the final, while the losers of SF1 and SF2 would play in the third place match. The losers of the third place match and the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield winners would play in the CONCACAF League playoff.


2020 Caribbean Club Championship, Final stage, Third place match
Winners would qualify for 2020 CONCACAF League preliminary round. Losers would advance to CONCACAF League playoff against 2020 CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield winners for a place in 2020 CONCACAF League preliminary round, as long as the Shield winners comply with the minimum CONCACAF Club Licensing requirements for the CONCACAF League.


2020 Caribbean Club Championship, Final stage, Final
Winners would qualify for 2021 CONCACAF Champions League. Losers would qualify for 2020 CONCACAF League round of 16.