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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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Ski like a girl: Researchers reveal hidden histories of women in Nordic sport
March 18, 2024
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Oumar Salifou
From a U of A varsity ski club to the Canadian Birkebeiner and the Olympics, women have always been part of the landscape of winter sport. When Lyndsay Conrad dove into her archival research on early 20th-century ski history in...
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Abuse-Free Sport
Maltreatment
Safe Sport
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Embracing Excellence: Cultivating Success Through Positive Sport
March 14, 2024
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Erin Willson
Introduction and Context Safe Sport continues to be a top concern in Canada, with continued efforts to address maltreatment at all levels of sport. While sexual violence is discussed most frequently in research and practice, with the rhetoric being that...
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Concussion

Follow-up visits after a concussion: time to take preventive measures
March 13, 2024
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Scott Ramsay
Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey legend, is famous for the quote “Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.” Behind this saying is the thought of instead of chasing what’s already happened, try to get a...
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Coaching
Gender Equity
Women and Girls

Addressing gender inequities in Canadian university coaching
March 8, 2024
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Hayley Baker
Over the last 50 years, significant progress has been made in access and opportunities for girls and women to participate at all levels of sport in Canada. Despite this progress, the number of women in coaching remains alarmingly low (Banwell...
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Mental Health

Bullying does not provide a competitive advantage, it just harms brains
February 28, 2024
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Jennifer Fraser
Too often we hear older generations, especially in sports, use put downs like “snowflake,” “entitled,” “soft,” sometimes accompanied by swear words and homophobic slurs. All forms of bullying. What many coaches and parents do not realize is that from a...
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Disability
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

How organized sport can foster and support finding belonging for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
February 21, 2024
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Francis Routledge, Runqun (Helen) Zheng, Callum Denault, and Rebecca Renwick
Belonging has been understood in many ways across lived experiences and fields of study. The sense of belonging, or lack thereof, can feel different for everyone. Carter (2021) explored 10 dimensions of belonging described by people with intellectual and developmental...
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Health and Wellbeing
Safe Sport
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Being Alive and at Risk: Building a Meshwork of Risk and Health Among Young Adults 
February 19, 2024
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Braden McKenzie
Introduction and Context  The research explores the concept of risk in relation to young adults’ participation in diverse sport and leisure environments. Because of the many broad and divergent definitions of risk as well as its all-encompassing and evolving nature...
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Pioneering change: Inside Canada Basketball’s EDI Committee for officiating
February 14, 2024
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Paula Baker
SIRC’s Paula Baker sat down and interviewed the Canada Basketball team spearheading the organizations EDI strategies and advancement to share their innovations. In recent years, Canada Basketball has embarked on a transformative journey towards equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), reflecting...
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Indigenous
Safe Sport Environments
Sport Participation Research Initiative

A better way to do sport? Exploring the Indigenous Engagement Program’s* impact on cultural awareness and safety, Indigenous cultural inclusion, and reciprocity among U SPORTS teams 
February 12, 2024
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Nickolas Kosmenko
*Note that the Indigenous Engagement Program was previously called the Front Runner Project, but we are no longer using the latter name.  Introduction and Context Equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts are becoming commonplace among sport organizations.  It is not uncommon,...
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Sport Participation

Diversifying sport participation: a winning approach 
February 7, 2024
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By Mathieu Bélanger, Ph.D. and François Gallant, Ph.D. Images created by Michaël Garcia
It turns out that what we thought was evidence-based… was not. You heard it loud and clear many times before; we should encourage children to engage in a large variety of sports and avoid falling into the trap of early...
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