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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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Health and Wellbeing
High Performance
Indigenous
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

The relocation experiences of aboriginal athletes pursuing sport in Euro-Canadian contexts
March 29, 2021
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Amy Blodgett
View the summary of this research here. Project summary Researchers have documented the importance of sport in the lives of Aboriginal people, emphasizing how it can improve health and wellness. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the cultural...
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Gender Equity
Girls and Women
Sport Participation

“Dwelling in the tensions:” Research in the intersections of second-generation teen girls’ sport experiences
March 23, 2021
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Amina Haggar and Greer Gemin
In 2019/2020, Canadian Women & Sport partnered with graduate student Amina Haggar to explore the experiences of second-generation African Canadian teen girls in a community sport program in Ottawa, Ontario. Haggar, an MA Candidate under the supervision of Dr. Audrey...
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Children and Youth
Life Skills
Long-Term Development
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Grappling for answers: Exploring the process of life skills development in youth mixed martial arts athletes
March 22, 2021
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Theresa Beesley
Project summary Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a full contact combat sport that integrates striking and grappling techniques from a variety of other combat sports (i.e. martial arts, boxing, sumo, wresting, karate, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, kickboxing, and Tae Kwon Do). MMA...
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Community Sport
COVID-19
Leadership

Resilience Through Adaptation: How Sport Organizations Responded During the COVID-19 Pandemic
March 17, 2021
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Kyle Rich, Kerri Bodin, Kristen Morrison, Karen Lawford, and Sheranne Fairley
Directions from public health organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic drastically altered the sport sector, causing many sport decision makers to reconsider what their organization does and how they do it. Although the full scope of the short- and long-term impacts...
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Athlete Development
Children and Youth
Long-Term Development
Physical Health
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative
Talent Identification

The effects of adolescent physical growth and maturation on selection into sport and the long-term effects on sports participation
March 15, 2021
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Adam Baxter-Jones
Project summary Sport Canada’s Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model acknowledges that there are limitations to ensuring appropriate development of team sports, especially with regards to selecting into chronological age (CA) bands. Adolescent of the same CA can be 4...
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Celebrating the moms in our lives
March 8, 2021
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Peter Morrow
My first memory of sport and physical activity as a child was with my grandmother, Wallie. We played badminton in the front yard, on a sunny day in the summer of 1994. She wasn’t training me to become a future...
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High Performance
Sport Participation Research Initiative
Underserved Groups

A level playing field? Bias in Canadian high performance sport 
March 8, 2021
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Joseph Baker
Project summary Sport is often extolled as a key activity for the development of healthy and productive youth as well as for the optimization of health and functioning across the lifespan. However, there is evidence that the delivery of sport...
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Community Sport
Financial Management
Leadership
Volunteer Management

Reducing Vulnerability to Fraud in Sport Organizations
March 3, 2021
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Katie Misener, Lisa A. Kihl, Pamela Wicker, and Graham Cuskelly
Community sport clubs in Canada can be vulnerable to financial fraud, where someone uses their position for personal gain by deliberately misusing an organisation’s resources or assets. According to our research, recently featured in a CBC Sports investigation, the impact...
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Indigenous
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Barriers to participation in physical activity for Shibogama First Nations
March 1, 2021
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Courtney Mason
Project summary This research examined the barriers to participation in sport and physical activity for Shibogama First Nations communities in northwestern Ontario. Aboriginal peoples face significant barriers to participation in physical activity in comparison to Euro-Canadians or other minority populations....
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Abuse-Free Sport
Anti-Racism
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Varsity Sport

Tackling Racism on Campus
February 23, 2021
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Devon Bowyer and Jada Roach, BIPOC Varsity Association, University of Toronto
George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and D’Andre Campbell are names of Black men and women who were killed this past year. Their tragic deaths sparked a global conversation about anti-Black racism, police brutality, white supremacy and the...
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