Winter Olympics watch party welcomes fans to Celebration Square in Mississauga

Mississauga is hosting a two-week outdoor watch party for those who want to join others in cheering on Canada’s Winter Olympic athletes and teams — and it starts Friday at Celebration Square.

Even if you’re pulling for other countries’ teams and athletes to make it onto the medal podium in northern Italy over the next 16 days, the City of Mississauga also invites you to watch the daily action on the big TV screens from “the snowy lawn” at the popular downtown Mississauga venue.

City officials say select live screenings from the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games will be shown each day in the square.

Action from the Winter Olympics will be shown on the screens from Feb. 6-22, with coverage running from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

That will be followed by coverage of the 2026 Winter Paralympics, which run March 6-15, also in the northern Italian city of Milan. Daily Celebration Square screenings will also take place each day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for those Games.

“Watch select live screenings on the big screen and watch Canada take the podium,” city officials said in an online description of the upcoming watch party.

“There’s nothing more truly Canadian in the winter than bundling up and spending time in the snowy outdoors, sipping on a warm beverage and catching live winter sports close to home,” they added.

The public screenings are free and accessible.

City officials note that while action from the Winter Games will be streamed daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., screenings are scheduled around other events at the square, and schedules are subject to change.

Not all competitions will be streamed at Celebration Square, the city added.

Celebration Square in Mississauga’s downtown core. It hosts numerous events throughout the year, including occasional screenings of major sports events. (Photo: City of Mississauga)

From time to time, the city hosts screenings of key sports events at Celebration Square, including World Cup soccer matches back in late 2022, the Toronto Raptors’ final-round run to the NBA title in 2019 and last fall’s exciting baseball action as the Toronto Blue Jays marched to the World Series before losing in heartbreaking fashion to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Historically, city officials said earlier, they limit such screenings to major international competitions, such as the World Cup, and final playoff rounds of major North American sports leagues given both other bookings at Celebration Square and the high cost of acquiring rights to broadcast the professional sports games.