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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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Training for Effective Mentees: Supporting mentorship experiences for coaches

March 16, 2022
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Catalina Belalcazar, Andrea Johnson and Bettina Callary
Sport organizations are increasingly turning to mentorship programs as a powerful way for coaches to learn from their own experience by working with a mentor. To support the development of women in coaching, the Coaching Association of Canada (CAC) has...

Mom’s Got Game! Stories of world-class athletes and gold-medal moms

March 2, 2022
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SIRC with Derek Johnston
Fourteen months ahead of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, curler Jennifer Jones had a nasty accident, tearing a major ligament, the ACL in her knee. She was pregnant with her first child and hoping to represent Canada at the Olympics. “Because...

Beyond the medals: The health of retired high performance female athletes

February 16, 2022
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Casey Rosen and Jane Thornton, Western University
Swimmer Summer McIntosh. Fencer Jessica Guo. Artistic swimmer Rosalie Boissonneault. These teenagers were among the youngest Canadian competitors in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Their intensive training will likely continue for many years to come as they search for even...

New True Sport Report sheds light on the potential power of sport in a changing world

February 2, 2022
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SIRC with the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport
On February 1, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) published “Power of Sport: The True Sport Report.” The new publication builds on “What Sport Can Do: The True Sport Report” (2008) that provided conclusive evidence of how good...

Why youth sport isn’t just for kids: it benefits mom too!

January 24, 2022
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Jordan Sutcliffe, University of Wollongong
Highlights Sport mom (noun, ???? spohrt mahm) Parents with a child or teen involved in sport know that along with the daily responsibilities of parenting, youth sport demands time, money and a degree of emotional restraint (Hayward et al., 2017)....

Blossom where you’re planted: Mental health considerations for Indigenous sport participants

January 24, 2022
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Veronica Allan, Sharon Anne Firth and Chantale Lussier
Highlights: The first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation took place on September 30, 2021. This day honours the survivors of the residential school system, their families and their communities. Reflecting on truth and reconciliation in Canadian sport, this article...

Opportunities for mental health promotion in Canadian university sport

January 24, 2022
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Kurtis Pankow, Tara-Leigh McHugh, Amber Mosewich and Nicholas Holt, University of Alberta
Highlights If you’re reading this article, chances are you’re passionate about Canadian university sport. And why wouldn’t you be? University sport provides students with opportunities to connect and enhance their confidence through building skills. It also gives students something to...

The mental health strategy for high performance sport in Canada: What national sport organization leaders and staff should know

January 24, 2022
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Natalie Durand-Bush and Krista Van Slingerland
Highlights Brave testimonies by Canadian athletes such as Clara Hughes, Nadia Popov and Brittany MacLean as well as tragedies like the suicide of university basketball player Alex McLaughlin shed light on the fact that mental health challenges happen to athletes...

Lessons about mental health from the Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo

January 24, 2022
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SIRC with Teddy Katz
Highlights For athletes, coaches, and others who worked tirelessly to make the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games a success, the global COVID‑19 pandemic increased stress and added to the already pressure-packed environment. When USA Gymnastics legend Simone Biles put her...

Is it time to rethink our long-term sport participation models?

January 19, 2022
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François Gallant and Mathieu Bélanger, Université de Sherbrooke and Centre de formation médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick
In Canada, Sport for Life’s long-term athlete development model (Balyi, Way, & Higgs, 2013), now known as Long-Term Development (LTD) in Sport and Physical Activity, has served as the guiding framework for national, provincial and territorial sport programming since 2005....

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