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Beyond sports: USask Athletics fostering Indigenous inclusion and empowerment

In 2018, the Saskatoon Residential School Survivor Circle supported the request of the Huskie Cross Country team’s desire to race in orange singlets in honour of Residential School Survivors and the thousands of children who never made it home. This tradition continues today and has evolved to include all visiting athletes choosing to wear orange…

2020 Arctic Winter Games: Cultural Program & Gala – A Circumpolar Approach

This is the fourth blog of a series leading up to the 2020 Arctic Winter Games that will be hosted by Whitehorse, YT March 15-21, 2020. Check out the previous blogs about the development of the Games, volunteer recruitment, and First Nations engagement. Since the Arctic Winter Games (AWG) began in 1970, cultural exchange and…

Volunteer Recruitment at the 2020 Arctic Winter Games

Eight people posing next to the Whitehorse Canada Winter Games

This is the third blog of a series leading up to the 2020 Arctic Winter Games that will be hosted by Whitehorse, YT March 15-21, 2020. Check out the first blog, about the development of the Games; and the second about the incorporation of reconciliation in the Games. The Yukon might be large in size (the territory…

Reconciliation as a Social Legacy of the 2020 Arctic Winter Games

Five people posing next to a Whitehorse 2020 Arctic Winter Games banner

This is the second blog in a series leading up to the 2020 Arctic Winter Games that will be hosted by Whitehorse, YT March 15-21, 2020. Check out the first blog, about the development of the Games. Watch for the next blog, focused on volunteer recruitment and retention, in October. The Yukon leads the way as…