09/01/2026
The Book Keeper and the Sarnia Community Foundation are excited to announce Rick Westhead, best-selling author of We Breed Lions: Confronting Canada’s Troubled Hockey Culture. Rick will be speaking in Sarnia on Wednesday, October 7th at 7 p.m. at the Great Lakes Secondary School auditorium.
Tickets are $30 and available exclusively at The Book Keeper in-store, online or by phone. Each ticket includes a copy of We Breed Lions.
Rick Westhead is an award-winning journalist with TSN and CTV National News. He is a two-time winner of Canadian Sportswriter of the Year, and he has been the recipient of the Arnold Amber Award for Investigative Journalism. In 2025, he was recognized for his “fearless reporting” by The Hockey News in its list of 100 People of Power and Influence in Hockey.
In his book, We Breed Lions: Confronting Canada’s Troubled Hockey Culture, Westhead does a deep dive into the state of hockey in Canada today. The book is a hard-hitting and powerful look at hockey's moment of reckoning in Canada, and the ways in which a game that is so universally loved has been rocked in recent years by court cases involving sexual assault and startling incidents of hazing and abuse throughout junior hockey.
Mike Barron, Executive Director at SCF had this to say, “it is important to understand how hard it is to break a cycle of toxic culture and be comfortable with knowing you are doing the right thing!” Barron went on to say, “reading Rick’s book, it’s so easy to see that we are past time and need everyone involved with hockey and sport who are reluctant to impose change from the outside and willing to sacrifice the well-being of their players and the community for profit for the better.”
Community partners for this event include The Book Keeper, Sarnia Community Foundation, The Centre, Male Ally Coalition, St. Clair Child and Youth, Face-Off for Mental Health, and George Murray Shipley Bell LLP.
