Federal government says it will restore funding to Hockey Canada — with conditions
The federal government is restoring its funding to Hockey Canada, saying the organization must fulfil several conditions in exchange for the financial support.
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Federal funding to support community sports in Brampton 'a beautiful investment,' mayor says
Brampton's Mayor Patrick Brown has welcomed an announcement of $175,000 in financial support from the federal government for community sport activities to 25 local organizations in the city.
National sport organizations face safe-sport deadline, risk losing funding
A flurry of national sport organizations signing up with the new Office of the Sports Integrity Commissioner is expected in the coming days, or their funding could get cut off.
Culture crises across sports are a warning siren: we cannot keep ignoring the lessons
L ike waves, culture crises roll in and out of our sporting shores. Rugby and cricket have been in the headlines recently. A string of reviews have investigated Olympic and Paralympic sports including cycling, archery, bobsleigh, para-swimming, judo and gymnastics. The problem with this regularity of cultural emergencies is that it’s fast becoming the norm, part of what we expect in high-performance sport, rather than a warning sign that something is going badly wrong in these environments and that the fixes to date are not working.
Sport Minister St-Onge says there's 'no coherence' in Canada's safe sport system
Canada's Sport Minister said Monday jurisdictional issues continue to hamper the government's ability to implement a meaningful safe sport system that would properly protect hundreds of thousands of Canadian children, but refuted the suggestion her government was trying to pass on the responsibility to provincial and local authorities.
Solving safe sport crisis requires buy-in from all levels, says integrity commissioner
Sports are rife with stories of coaches facing allegations of maltreatment from a club or provincial organization, who, under the cover of jurisdictional borders, move to another club, province or even another sport, and no one is the wiser.
Educators call for federal inquiry into 'widespread' abuse in Canadian sports
Dozens of Canadian and global sport scholars have joined the chorus in calling for an independent inquiry into sport in Canada, saying Canadian athletes deserve better.