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At a Glance  Listen to this article: “It was a very chaotic time.” That is how Suzanne Paulins, CEO of Swimming Canada, remembers the start of April 2024. News had just broken that Montreal’s Olympic pool would be closed indefinitely...

At a Glance  Listen to this article: We’ve all been in that meeting. The agenda is packed, the conversation drifts, a few voices dominate, and by the end, it’s unclear what was actually decided or why.  Now raise the stakes: this isn’t just any meeting. It’s a Board meeting....

At a Glance: Listen to this article: Hockey is often described as a place where communities come together. But in recent years, a growing number of stories have challenged that idea, raising important questions about who feels welcome in the...

At a Glance: Listen to this article: Concussions are a significant health concern in sports, with ongoing challenges in diagnoses, management and associated long term health risks (Carson et al., 2022; Hallock et al., 2023). In Canada, approximately 40,000 sport-related concussions (SRCs) occur annually with one in every 10 Canadian...

At a Glance: Listen to this article: The Health at Every Size (HAES) framework, created by Dr. Linda Bacon, takes a refreshing approach to well-being, shifting focus from weight loss and toward healthy behaviours that actually support health, no matter your body size. ​(Dimitrov Ulian et...

At a Glance: Listen to this article: There is a lot of focus on safe(r) sport recently and, for the most part, suggested solutions have tended to be “one size fits all.” But there are many kinds of sporting harms disabled...

Every four years, Canadians eagerly welcome a new generation of high-performance winter athletes at the start of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games with patriotic fervor. But beneath the excitement, a chilling reality is settling in: the very foundation of winter sport – cold temperatures, steady ice, and dependable snowfall – is melting away. This is not a distant problem. Climate change is already impacting winter sports across...

Canada is a winter sport nation. From community rinks and ski hills to Olympic and Paralympic podiums, athletes across the country regularly train and compete in cold environments. While much attention is placed on training programs, technical skill, and physical preparation, one critical...

References  Baker, J., Cattle, A., McAuley, A., Kelly, A., & Johnston, K. (2025). Will artificial intelligence solve the riddle of athlete development? A critical review of how AI is being used for athlete identification, selection, and development. Psychology of Sport and...

Every Olympics brings something new. At Beijing 2022, women’s monobob and freestyle skiing’s big air joined the program. PyeongChang 2018 introduced big air snowboarding and mixed doubles curling.  Now, for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games, ski mountaineering, often referred to as skimo, will...