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Concussions in Sport: What Parents Need to Know About the Youngest Athletes 

Each year in Canada, more than 200,000 athletes experience a concussion. The numbers are striking, and so is the fact that until recently, the youngest athletes were almost absent from research and public conversation about these injuries.  Dr. Miriam Beauchamp is a professor at the University of Montreal, a researcher at Sainte-Justine Hospital, and Canada…

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Athlete Development
Disability
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Sport Participation

Examining Difference: LTAD and Athletes with a Disability
April 6, 2016
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Jason Dunkerley
Canada’s Long Term Athlete Development Model offers an important conceptual framework to chart athlete development along the continuum of sport participation from playground to podium. Yet among athletes with a disability, each of whom enters and engages within the sport...
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Athlete Development
Coaching
Physical Health
Professional Development
Sport Participation

Revising the Game Plan: Retirement is just one Choice for Athletes in Transition
March 30, 2016
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Jason Dunkerley
As athletes, we face the existential dilemma of deciding when enough is enough. Pushing our bodies through pain and past injury is sustainable only for so long. And yet, every athlete values the positive experiences and achievements which flavour their...
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Coaching
Professional Development

To Teach or to Do: Do the Best Players Make the Best Coaches?
March 23, 2016
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Jason Dunkerley
As the old adage says, there are those who teach and those who do. In the world of sports, there are both great athletes and great coaches. But is it possible to be good at both? Do the best athletes...
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Children and Youth
Knowledge Mobilization
Physical Literacy
Sport Participation

IMPACTS ON CHILDREN’S PARTICIPATION IN ORGANIZED SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES AND ACTIVE FREE PLAY
March 16, 2016
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SIRC is pleased to be working together with Sport Canada to share current research on topics informing policy and promoting quality sport programming. This week we are sharing highlights of a recent article examining IMPACTS ON CHILDREN’S PARTICIPATION IN ORGANIZED...
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Communications
Data and Analytics
Leadership
Technology

Crunching numbers: De-mystifying digital analytics for sport organizations
March 9, 2016
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Michelle Caron
We all seem to hear the words digital analytics and ‘big data’ tossed around a lot in our world of information sharing, but few people really understand what analytics are and how applying them can benefit a sport organization. Digital...
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Imagining Community: Women’s Ice Hockey, High Performance Sport and Rural Survival in Southern Alberta
March 7, 2016
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Carly Adams
Project Summary Statistics Canada data indicate that by 1931, more citizens (54%) lived in urban centres than rural communities. By 2006, this percentage had reached 80%. This demographic shift has serious ramifications for rural communities. For Warner, a Southern Alberta...
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Athlete Development
Physical Health
Sleep and Recovery

Sleep and Athletes: Is there a Magic Number?
March 2, 2016
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Jason Dunkerley
Although conventional wisdom suggests that athletes need at least eight hours of sleep each night, quantity is not the only parameter that promotes athletic success. Most of us believe that we need a set number of hours of sleep and...
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Disability
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Sport Participation

Addressing Barriers to Physical Activity
February 24, 2016
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Being physically active is such an important part of everyday life. Research has shown that being physically active goes a long way in helping prevent many different diseases, including Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, and depression. Despite this research, statistics...
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Leadership
Strategic Planning

Planning for the Future: Creating and implementing strategic plans
February 17, 2016
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Michelle Caron
A strategic plan is a essentially a road map that outlines who the organization is, what it stands for, its vision for the future, and how it’s going to get there. It communicates organizational goals, direction, strategies, and programs, as...
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Disability
High Performance
Para Sport
Program Design and Evaluation

The Paradox of Integration: Building a Panacea or Exacerbating a Partition?
February 10, 2016
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Jason Dunkerley
Canada prides itself for celebrating difference. In recent years, NSO’s too have embraced diversity by welcoming athletes with disabilities through a policy of integration intended to level the playing field and elicit podium success. Although this progressive approach aims to...
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