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The bounce-back illusion: Why real postpartum bodies deserve the spotlight

Let’s begin with a familiar image. A woman, newly postpartum, stands in her living room. Her baby is nestled in a sling across her chest, and she’s attempting something between a squat and a stretch while simultaneously rescuing a plush giraffe from under the couch. She is not wearing Lululemon. She has not “bounced back.”…

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Anti-Racism
High Performance
Newcomers to Canada
Sport Participation Research Initiative

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...
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Newcomers to Canada
Program Design and Evaluation
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Immigration, integration, and intersectoral partnership: A critical examination of introductory winter sport programmes for newcomers to Canada
March 20, 2023
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Simon Barrick
View the summary of this research here. Project summary The objectives of this project were threefold: This project was based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I co-designed the WNP with intersectoral community partners from WinSport (a community-based sport facility) and Center...
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Anti-Racism
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
Newcomers to Canada
Sport Participation

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,...
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Children and Youth
Governance
Newcomers to Canada
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Soccer and Christianity in greater Vancouver: Bodies, relations, and formations in Canadian settler-colonialism
May 10, 2021
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Nicholas Howe Bukowski
Introduction and context The focus of the research is the relationship between sport and Christianity (evangelical and Pentecostal) in Greater Vancouver. In a world of increasingly individualism, and disintegrating mass institutions (mass political parties, civil services organisations, mainline Protestant churches)...
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Community Sport
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Newcomers to Canada

Five Recommendations to Authentically Engage Newcomers in Sport
February 2, 2021
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Simon Barrick, Cape Breton University
Events of 2020 provided a catalyst for sport administrators and community leaders to more directly consider how to create inclusive sport and physical activity opportunities for underrepresented communities (e.g., ethno-racial minorities, LGBTQ2S communities, persons with disabilities). One community receiving increasing...
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Health and Wellbeing
Newcomers to Canada
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Chinese-Canadians’ perspectives on health & sport participation
March 23, 2020
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Chunlei Lu
Project Summary The main objective of the project was to investigate Chinese-Canadians’ perspectives about health and sport practice. Overall, participants reported both positive and negative changes in their perspectives and practices related to health and sport participation after immigrating to...
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Children and Youth
Community Sport
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Leadership
Newcomers to Canada
Physical Health
Sport Participation

Inclusion requires action! Creating inclusion for newcomers to Canada
October 24, 2018
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Pierre Morin, Réseau Accès Participation
It is clear that the next generation will be diverse, multicultural and, apparently, much less fit than the previous generations. Research points in this general direction, but results from the recent TOPO survey, released in May 2018, demonstrates this trend...
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Knowledge Mobilization
Newcomers to Canada
Sport Participation

NEWCOMERS EXPERIENCES WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN CANADA
March 22, 2017
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SIRC is pleased to be working together with Sport Canada to share current research on topics informing policy and promoting quality sport programming. This week we are sharing highlights of a recent article reviewing a research study evaluating NEWCOMERS EXPERIENCES...
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