Knowledge Nuggets

Activity and Exercise We know that being physically active goes a long way in helping prevent and manage various diseases and illness. Recent research is looking into the direct relationships between physical activity and mental health. The Health Study of Nord-Trøndelag County (HUNT) examined whether physical activity provides protection against new-onset depression and anxiety, the...

“Top 10” Lists Are you a parent of a young hockey athlete who is looking for some resources or advice around basic skills and movement for your young athlete? Check out these 11 articles from Active for Life that focus on hockey and physical literacy that help children to be better hockey players, and better...

“Top 10” Lists Are you a parent of a young hockey athlete who is looking for some resources or advice around basic skills and movement for your young athlete? Check out these 11 articles from Active for Life that focus on hockey and physical literacy that help children to be better hockey players, and better...

“Top 10” Lists Are you a parent of a young hockey athlete who is looking for some resources or advice around basic skills and movement for your young athlete? Check out these 11 articles from Active for Life that focus on hockey and physical literacy that help children to be better hockey players, and better...

“Top 10” Lists Are you a parent of a young hockey athlete who is looking for some resources or advice around basic skills and movement for your young athlete? Check out these 11 articles from Active for Life that focus on hockey and physical literacy that help children to be better hockey players, and better...

Leadership Looking for a way to help your office incorporate a philosophy of active wellness? Check out ParticipACTION’s UPnGO simple, evidence-based workplace wellness program that helps deskbound workplaces seamlessly integrate fun, rewarding, and healthy behaviour programming into the workday to help employees be at their best.

Coaching Tip The Coaching Association of Canada (CAC) and the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (Canadian Centre) are working together to keep kids safe in sport. By adding the Centre’s Commit to Kids for Coaches online training to the Responsible Coaching module the two organizations have collaborated to provide specialized training to empower coaches and...

SIRC Blog Financial literacy can be similarly defined as: “mastering a basic understanding of financial systems, terminology, and reporting to enable an individual to read the financial health of an organization and make appropriate decisions that protect the assets and contribute to the achievement of goals and objectives.” Check out this week’s blog for more...

Activity and Exercise PARC presented a webinar entitled “How to Integrate Screen Time into our Daily Lives Without Sacrificing Physical Activity” that summarized current research, presented key messages related to the topic and an overview of physical activity interventions. Check out this interview with the speaker Dr. Allana Leblanc as she recaps the key messages...

Nutrition Athletes are highly aware that what they put in their bodies to fuel their training and competition has an important impact on performance outcome. Making sure to choose healthy foods leads to athlete contemplating whether pursuing an organically based diet will enhance performance and whether these foods are more nutritious than their non-organic counterparts.