Special Olympics Canada | Olympiques Spéciaux Canada
125 medals

won by Team Canada at the 13th Special Olympics World Summer Games held in Athens, Greece in 2011

50 per cent

of Special Olympics athletes work. They are 5 times more likely to work than adults with an intellectual disability not enrolled in Special Olympics.

Our Calendar

Upcoming events.

Between competitions, fundraising events, campaigns to raise awareness and several other notable items, our calendar is often filled with plenty of things to be a part of.

Athens 2011: A Triumph of Spirit
At the 13th Special Olympics World Summer Games with Team Canada
Assorted air dates on TSN & TSN2

5th annual Special Olympics Month
November 2011

11th annual Special Olympics Day on TSN
Saturday, November 19, 2011 on TSN
Told through the stories of its athletes and volunteers, this one-hour special celebrates the power of this movement to create meaningful change in so many lives.

Special Olympics Canada Awards
This annual program, now marking its 23rd year, recognizes and celebrates the outstanding performances and contributions of Special Olympics athletes, coaches and volunteers to our movement.
Evening of Thursday, December 8, 2011
The Capitol Event Theatre
Midtown Toronto
By invitation.

The 29th annual Special Olympics Festival
Friday, December 9, 2011
Sheraton Centre Toronto

Highly anticipated and quite simply, unforgettable. This annual Toronto tradition, one of the city’s most popular, returns on December 9, 2011. The daylong festival gives sport fans the chance to support an amazing cause, Special Olympics Canada, while mingling with some of our city’s, if not our country’s, sport heroes and legends, past and present.

Breakfast from 7:30 to 9am | Doors open at 7am | Includes autograph session
Gala, begins at 6pm
Includes dinner, silent and luxury live auctions, music performance and after party with DJ
For more information or to purchase tickets or tables, please visit http://www.specialolympicsfestival.ca/.