women’s world hockey championships a “spontaneous, fear-based decision” based on the spike in COVID-19 cases happening in other parts of the country.“The abrupt decision to have the worlds cancelled was a little bit too fast,” Jill Saulnier told Global News in a phone interview Thursday. “I just think there were so many steps that could have been taken to have the other countries here safely.“This has been something we’ve been looking forward to for over a year now, so to have it cancelled for reasons that I don’t really agree with was pretty tough.”On Wednesday, the province announced the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship would be cancelled because of the evolving situation with COVID-19 and the circulation of variants.