Experts in the House webinar with Beckie Scott: Politics vs Principle
Transgender Women Athletes and Elite Sport: A Scientific Review
True Sport Report 2022: Analyzing the key findings | Rapport Sport pur 2022: Analyse des conclusions
Gender equitable boards
Effective and innovative leadership takes advantage of best practices and emerging opportunities, including gender-equitable boards of directors. A gender diverse and balanced board can help ensure that multiple perspectives are considered, addressing issues of fairness and creating opportunities for optimized performance.
Technology in officiating
Officials use technology to support decision making in sports such as tennis, basketball and American football. In 2018, the video assistance referee (VAR) was introduced into professional soccer to advise referees of clear and obvious errors during matches. Research shows that the use of VAR significantly increased the accuracy of key match decisions from 92.1%…
How fraud occurs
Did you know that today is International Anti-Corruption Day? Protect your sport organization from financial fraud by proactively addressing the risk factors. This infographic presents four common indicators to help organizations understand how and why fraud occurs: pressure, rationalization, capability, and opportunity.
The True Sport Experience: Bringing physical and ethical literacy to life in and out of the classroom
Physical and health education teachers and coaches are experts at helping kids learn new skills. By patiently walking students through each learning step, they build the blocks of learners’ physical literacy. However, sport and recreation experiences aren’t built on physical skills alone. Instead, the experiences are wrapped in life lessons, personal growth and a few…
A True Sport Journey: Gymnastics Canada’s new Values-Based Coaching Module
“Build the foundation. Create champions. Inspire the nation.” Although Gymnastics Canada’s (GymCan) mission statement refers to the sport of gymnastics, it could also describe their new project with the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) to create a True Sport e-learning course for coaches. What is True Sport? If you’re involved in community sport,…
Creating a Values-Based Sport System in Canada
Across playing fields, courts and ice rinks in Canada, demands for improvements in the quality of the sport experience are growing. While sport has long been celebrated for its role in developing the character of our nation, stories shared in the media or by word of mouth are calling into question the type of environment…
The Athlete Biological Passport: Enhancing clean sport
Promoting fair play and implementing ethical sport policies are among the options for promoting clean sport. Rules and regulations are created in order to protect the health and safety of participants – as well as the integrity of sport. However, in the world of elite performance, in which millimeters, milliseconds and milligrams matter, the equipment…