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Beyond the Stats: Understanding Sleeper Athletes with Dr. Joe Baker

In a sports culture obsessed with early success, Canada may be missing out on some of the best athletes, sleepers, those who develop later, defying the traditional timelines of talent. Dr. Joe Baker, a leading expert on talent development and professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, says…

Children and Youth
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Abuse-Free Sport
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High Performance
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Experts in the House – Q&A with Beckie Scott on Integrity in Sport
October 13, 2020
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SIRC and Beckie Scott
In this highly-anticipated SIRC webinar, Politics vs Principle: retaining integrity in sport, and why it matters, Beckie Scott discussed the importance of ethics and integrity in sport and safeguarding the rights of athletes in the face of increasing pressures to...
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Data and Analytics
Leadership
Program Design and Evaluation

Evaluating Impact using the RE-AIM Framework
October 4, 2020
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Veronica Allan, Research and Innovation Specialist, SIRC
For any organization, the ability to demonstrate impact — to funders, board members, and other stakeholders — is crucial. Demonstrating the value of an organization, project, or service is important to access financial support, engage stakeholders, and achieve organizational objectives...
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Capacity Building
Community Sport
Leadership
Revenue Generation
Volunteer Management

Building Capacity in Community Sport Organizations
October 4, 2020
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Patti Millar, University of Windsor
Community sport organizations (CSOs) occupy an important place in our communities by providing sport and recreation opportunities for all ages, as well as serving a wider social role within our communities (see, for example, Taking Action: Community Sport Organizations and...
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Coaching
Leadership
Professional Development

Supporting Leadership Learning: From Classroom to Boardroom to Playing Field
October 4, 2020
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Cari Din, University of Calgary
There are as many definitions of leadership as there are people writing about it. To me, a leadership learning facilitator and teaching faculty member, leadership is a body of skills and behaviours which enable the positive holistic development of people...
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Communications
COVID-19
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Leadership
Physical Health
Program Design and Evaluation
Quality Sport

Returning to Play…Better
September 16, 2020
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Sydney Millar, SIRC
When the initial shock of the COVID-19 lockdown passed, the attention of our sector turned to contemplating what sport and physical activity would look like in an era of public health restrictions. The development and implementation of return to play...
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Board Management
Leadership
Professional Development

Six Keys to Gold Medal Governance
August 26, 2020
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Rose Mercier, The Governance Coach
Unlike the young athlete who dreams of becoming a champion, few of us grow up dreaming about joining a board of directors. Many people join a board out of a sense of duty to an organization with which they have...
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Leadership
Professional Development

Tips for aspiring leaders – You don’t have to be “born with it”!
August 5, 2020
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Ampai Thammachack, Student, Queen's University
This blog is the second installment in a series in collaboration with Queen’s University. As an assignment to build knowledge mobilization skills, Dr. Luc Martin, Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, tasked students in his third year team...
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Coaching
Competition Manipulation
Data and Analytics
High Performance
Leadership

Match Manipulation and Gambling in Sport
July 15, 2020
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Jeremy Luke, Senior Director, Sport Integrity with CCES
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) and McLaren Global Sport Solutions Inc. (MGSS) hosted the first-ever Symposium in Canada addressing the issues of match manipulation and gambling in sport in 2019. Following the Symposium, a White Paper was...
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COVID-19
High Performance
Leadership

Learnings from the COVID-19 Lockdown – Stories from Event Cancellations
July 13, 2020
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Sydney Millar, SIRC
For many Canadian sport administrators, a global pandemic seemed the stuff of history books or science fiction movies. However, in March 2020, with COVID-19 sweeping the globe, a number of major sport events were cancelled in Canada. This article shares...
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Children and Youth
Community Sport
COVID-19
Leadership
Technology
Volunteer Management

Virtual Volunteering in Community Sport
July 13, 2020
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Haley Baxter, Katie Misener, Pam Kappelides, and Lowell Williamson
As community sport clubs begin their return to play phases, the short and long-term impacts of COVID-19 – on the field and in the office – are unmistakable. Physical distancing measures and stay-at-home protocols have illuminated how technology can keep...
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