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Breaking Ice: Connecting Indigenous Culture and Sport Through Blind Hockey 

In partnership with Canadian Blind Hockey  June is National Indigenous History Month, a time to reflect on the strength, resilience, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. It’s also a time to acknowledge the gaps that still exist, particularly in areas like sport, where Indigenous youth, especially those with disabilities, continue to face…

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Meaning, Trust, and Belonging: Exploring the Factors that Foster Elite Refugee Athletes’ Growth

January 22, 2024
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Cole Giffin
Introduction and Context Within the last decade there has been increased attention in supporting elite refugee athletes through sport. This attention includes international teams in the Olympics and national teams within their new countries. Many of these athletes have competed...

“They’re not yelling at you. They’re yelling at your shirt”: Canadian sport system faces officiating crisis

March 13, 2023
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Caela Fenton
Highlights “They’re not yelling at you. They’re yelling at your shirt,” is the refrain that Nicole Pagliaro, a Harassment Officer for the Huronia District Soccer Association, repeats to her young referees, so that they’re armed with mental defenses for dealing...

Creating welcoming, equitable spaces for new Canadians in sport

March 13, 2023
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Veronica Allan
Highlights: Sport can help to promote physical and mental health, build social connections and support integration into Canadian communities among newcomers to Canada Research shows that newcomers face unique barriers to sport participation, including cost, transportation, language, access to information,...

Using life skills to promote social justice: Youth sport as a vehicle for social change

February 1, 2023
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Corliss Bean, Tarkington J. Newman, Martin Camiré, Leisha Strachan
As youth sport researchers, we seek to understand how youth develop and transfer life skills. In recent years, cultural issues have urged us to evolve our understanding of life skills. For instance, the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements continue...

Data for change: Embracing demographics to advance equity in sport

April 22, 2022
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Bryan Heal, Marika Warner and Jackie Robinson, MLSE LaunchPad
Highlights “You can’t manage what you don’t measure” is a popular saying in leadership circles. However, knowing what to measure to inform change is a craft altogether. To advance equity and inclusion in sport, the “who” of measurement is fundamentally...

Mentoring Black women coaches: Developing confidence through relationships and learning

April 22, 2022
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Alex I McKenzie and Janelle Joseph, University of Toronto
Photo credit: Conestoga College Condors Athletics Highlights Anyone involved in sport knows that confidence is key. Whether coach, athlete or participant, the importance (and fragility) of confidence can’t be overlooked. The vital and tenuous nature of confidence means steps must...

Shaping inclusive sport policy and programs

April 22, 2022
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Joanne Kay, Lindsay Larue, Klara Steele, and Benoit Gendron, Sport Canada
Highlights Over the past few years, the racism and discrimination brought to light throughout society and within the sport sector have forced a necessary reflection on policies and practices. While the concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion were seeded in...

2021 year in review: How SIRC embraced the “new normal”

December 22, 2021
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SIRC
After 2020 surprised us all with a global pandemic, many of us looked to 2021 with hope for a gradual return to our pre-pandemic “normal.” And with the widespread rollout and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines across the country, the activities...

Racing towards 2030: Using the Sustainable Development Goals to move inclusion forward in sport

March 30, 2021
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Andrea Carey, INclusion INcorporated
If there was ever a time in our history to consider how to not leave anyone behind, 2020 was that year. As people and organizations seek to reconcile the impact of COVID-19, we need to think about how we build...

Tackling Racism on Campus

February 23, 2021
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Devon Bowyer and Jada Roach, BIPOC Varsity Association, University of Toronto
George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and D’Andre Campbell are names of Black men and women who were killed this past year. Their tragic deaths sparked a global conversation about anti-Black racism, police brutality, white supremacy and the...

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