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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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Coming of Age With Relative Age Research: Origins, Consequences, and Potential Solutions
January 22, 2019
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Laura Chittle, Jess C. Dixon, Sean Horton, and Joe Baker
On October 17, 2018, Relative Age Effects: An International Conference was hosted at York University where leading international scholars gathered to discuss the implications of athletes’ dates of birth on sport, health, and education. This article highlights the history of...
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Abuse-Free Sport
Children and Youth
Coaching
Mental Health
Program Design and Evaluation
Varsity Sport

Changing the Culture of Hazing in Canada
January 22, 2019
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Dr. Jay Johnson and Dr. Margery Holman
Allegations emerging in media reports from Toronto’s St. Michael’s College in the fall of 2018 have made hazing top of mind for athletic staff at Canada’s secondary and post-secondary education institutions. Unfortunately, it is not an isolated event. Reports of...
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Children and Youth
Community Sport
Leadership
Physical Health
Sport Participation

Putting Multi-sport into Practice
January 15, 2019
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Jim Grove, Active for Life
The Coaching Association of Canada’s 2018 Petro-Canada Sport Leadership Conference focused on fostering positive change in the sport system through influence. One panel discussion attracted attention with the simple question: Is there a future for multi-sport in Canada? Led by...
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Children and Youth
Mental Health
Sport Participation

Cut from the team: How parents can help their kids cope
November 21, 2018
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Kacey Neely, University of Stirling
Deselection (or being cut) from a sports team can be a crushing experience for young athletes. After being cut, athletes often experience a range of negative psychosocial and emotional consequences such as a loss of athletic identity, sense of self, friendships, connectedness...
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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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Children and Youth
Community Sport
Leadership
Program Design and Evaluation
Sport Participation

Promising practices to support multi-sport programming
October 18, 2018
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Jim Grove, Active for Life
When kids specialize early in one sport or activity, it doesn’t guarantee they will be successful athletes in the long term (Malina 2010). To the contrary, research has revealed that they tend to get injured more frequently, burnout, and quit...
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Children and Youth
Coaching
Quality Sport
Sport Participation
Varsity Sport

Increasing engagement by addressing de-selection practices in youth sport
October 10, 2018
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Jonathan Mauro, Douglas Gleddie, and Lauren Sulz
As researchers and educators who have been (and still are!) extensively involved in sport, back to school time also means back to school SPORT time! Through our personal experience and our research, we know firsthand the positive impact that participation...
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Athlete Development
Children and Youth
Coaching
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Mental Health
Program Design and Evaluation

Taking Athlete Development to a New Level: Understanding the Value of a Trauma-Informed Approach
October 10, 2018
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Tanya Forneris, University of British Columbia Okanagan
Increasing attention in research and practice has focused on the physical and psychological impacts of trauma and violence, for example from living in conflict zones or experiencing family violence. In North America, such work has led to an increased understanding...
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Athlete Development
Children and Youth
Life Skills
Long-Term Development
Quality Sport
Sport Participation

The Development of Executive Functions and Social and Emotional Learning Skills Through Sport
October 10, 2018
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Vicki Harber
One of the biggest stories coming out of the 2018 Winter Olympics was the success of the Norwegian Team, who topped the overall medal count with 39 medals (7.33 medals/million population), compared to Canada’s third-place standing with 29 medals (0.81...
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Athlete Development
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Talent Identification

Issues in Athlete Identification and Selection: Are We Compromising Talent?
October 10, 2018
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Joe Baker, Nick Wattie, and Jörg Schorer
Despite some important ethical and developmental concerns, early identification and selection is the modus operandi of high performance sport. Most sport systems internationally have limited resources for high performance athlete development and, as a result, have to make predictions about...
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