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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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Athlete Development
High Performance
Sport Participation

Partnering in the pursuit of putting people first
May 13, 2024
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George Johnson
The objectives haven’t changed. The pathway in endeavouring to reach them, though, most certainly has. The aim is in the name. Pursuit. Pursuit in providing improved, impactful coaching and technical assistance to Canadian high-performance athletes. In increasing investment, both financial...
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Athlete Development
High Performance
Sport Participation

Team Canada athletes share the best advice they’ve received
May 13, 2024
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Caela Fenton
All athletes know that participating in sport is a learning process, no matter what level you play at. We asked some of Team Canada’s top athletes across a variety of sports for the best advice they’d ever been given–and almost...
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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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Abuse-Free Sport
Capacity Building
Coaching
High Performance
Maltreatment
Safe Sport
Safe Sport Environments
Sport Integrity
Team Culture

The challenges of shifting to a safer sport culture: High performance coach and administrator perspectives
August 21, 2023
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Eric MacIntosh, Shannon Kerwin and Alison Doherty
Highlights High performance coaches and administrators are key stewards of a shift to safer sport In our research, coaches and administrators identified 6 challenges to culture change in high performance sport: Sport is inherently unsafe Turbulent, unstable sport environment Lack...
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High Performance
LGBTQI2S
Recreation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Transitioning to inclusive sport:  Understanding barriers to transgender Canadians’ participation in recreational and high-performance sport
July 17, 2023
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Sarah Teetzel
Project summary  How and where trans athletes participate in sport is highly contested and inconsistent due to the competing, and often contradictory, policies in force throughout the country in different sport disciplines at a different levels of competition. This study...
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Anti-Doping
Competition Manipulation
High Performance
Program Design and Evaluation
Sport Gambling
Sport Integrity

All that glitters is not gold: The rising threat of competition manipulation
May 24, 2023
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Megan Cumming
You’d be hard pressed to visit a large Canadian city these days and not see a billboard for sports gambling. Maybe you’ve noticed a similar trend while watching TV, of athletes and celebrities telling us not only which sports books...
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High Performance
Program Design and Evaluation

Canadian high performance athletes’ use of retirement resources
May 10, 2023
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Iman Hassan, Cassandra M. Seguin and Diane M. Culver
Earning a roster position as a nationally carded athlete is no easy task (“carding” refers to financial assistance from Sport Canada’s Athlete Assistance Program). Athletes spend years working on their craft to represent Canada on the international stage. The length...
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Anti-Doping
High Performance
Physical Health

Cannabis and sport: What athletes and sport organizations need to know
April 24, 2023
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Christian Cheung
Highlights With the exception of CBD, cannabinoids remain prohibited by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport during the competition phase of the athletic season and therefore are not to be used by athletes Although some cannabis and CBD products...
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High Performance
Maltreatment
Mental Health
Program Design and Evaluation
Safe Sport Environments

Taking a person-first approach to high performance sport in Canada
March 13, 2023
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Teddy Katz
Highlights Over the course of 2022, athletes and supporters have consistently raised concerns about maltreatment and lack of transparency in the Canadian sport sector In this SIRCuit article, Teddy Katz explores athlete concerns, as well as changes being made within...
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Athlete Development
High Performance
Mental Health
Social Media
Sponsorship
Technology

Managing the competing tensions of social media as a high performance athlete
January 23, 2023
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Caela Fenton
Highlights Social media has had an enormous impact on the sport sector, economically and culturally Athletes may use social media as a platform for personal updates or activism, or as a venue to work with sponsors in a financial relationship,...
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