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Concussions and Confidence: Why Mental Readiness Matters in Recovery 

For most of her career, Jen Kish was known as one of the best and most fearless female players in rugby sevens. She captained Canada’s women’s team to an Olympic bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. And, she also endured more than 30 concussions with only five of them formally diagnosed.  “Your brain health…

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Sport for Development
Sport Participation

Sport for Development and Peace in Canada over the last 50 years
November 27, 2023
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Simon C. Darnell, Russell Field, Bruce Kidd
Introduction  Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) refers to the organization and mobilization of sport to meet non-sport goals of international development, such as health promotion, gender empowerment, education, and peace building and conflict resolution. The overall field or sector...
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Sport Participation

SIRC at 50: A half-century of shaping Canadian sports through knowledge and collaboration
November 27, 2023
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Debra Gassewitz & Paula Baker
The Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC) has been a pivotal organization in Canada’s sporting landscape for half a century. Founded with the vision to provide valuable research and knowledge to support the sport community, SIRC along with its partners have...
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Abuse-Free Sport
Maltreatment
Safe Sport

Elevating athlete voices: The path to safe sport in Canada
November 22, 2023
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Elana Liberman & Eric MacIntosh
Centralizing the voice of the athlete is a critical step in ensuring Safe Sport is realized. This was the primary theme of our talks on the panel “The future of safe sport: Hooked on hope not fishing for problems” at the...
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Governance
Sport Participation

Enhancing accountability and alignment within Canadian Basketball clubs through collaborative governance
November 8, 2023
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Daniel Wigfield & Sandy MacIntosh
State of basketball programming in Canada Beginning in 2022, Canada Basketball sought to innovate the way clubs are aligned to form the amateur basketball system in this country. Since 2015, the popularity of basketball has grown an unprecedented amount. As...
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SIRC Strengthens Leadership Team with New Board Members and Communications Specialist
November 2, 2023
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Canada’s most trusted partner in advancing sport knowledge has added industry expertise and new talent to key roles within the organization Ottawa – The Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC) is proud to announce the appointment of two distinguished professionals to...
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Concussion

Concussion Awareness Week 2023 reached Canadians from coast-to-coast-coast
November 1, 2023
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Together we reached over 5 million Canadians during this year’s Concussion Awareness Week. From coast-to-coast-to-coast, the activities spanned September 24 to September 30, 2023, including Ontario’s Rowan’s Law Day on September 27, and showcased the collective strength in our goal to encourage...
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Abuse-Free Sport
Community Sport
Governance
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Sport Participation Research Initiative

Rink Rage: Spectator Violence in Minor Hockey in Canada
October 24, 2023
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Curtis Fogel
Project Summary This study examines the prevalence, causes, and responses to parental violence, aggression, and abuse in minor hockey in Canada. It draws on 122 semi-structured, qualitative interviews with minor hockey stakeholders across Canada, and the textual analysis of media...
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Sport Participation

How to foster inclusive physical activity for immigrants in Canada
October 18, 2023
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El Zahraa Majed & Lucie Lévesque
One in 4 Canadians is an immigrant, and this number is expected to reach 30% by 2036 (Statistics Canada, 2017). When immigrants arrive in Canada, their health is often good to optimal. As time passes, they may experience the multiple...
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Games and Hosting
Gender Equity
Girls and Women
Life Skills
Sport Participation

Four strategies to support girls through sport-based mentorship
October 11, 2023
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Caroline Hummell & Dr. Corliss Bean
Sport has the potential to foster girls’ healthy development, leading to outcomes such as enhanced self-esteem, physical health, and mental well-being. Sport can reduce adverse health outcomes for girls, such as depression (Canadian Women & Sport, 2022; Eime et al.,...
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Capacity Building
Governance
Leadership
Research to Practice
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Advancing an agenda for research partnerships in sport
October 9, 2023
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Majidullah Shaikh
Introduction and context The goal of this research was to create an agenda that will advance support and capacity for research partnerships in sport. Effective partnerships between academics (e.g., faculty, students, consultants) and sport sector members (e.g., organizations, coaches, athletes,...
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