Developing physical literacy and delivering quality sport
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Sport for Life is thrilled to announce that Dr. Ibram X. Kendi will be one of the keynote speakers during this year’s Summit, speaking on how Canadian sport and physical activity organizations can rise as a catalyst for racial equity. Dr. Kendi is author of five straight #1 New York...
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By Will Johnson My son Kristopher was pointing his toe like a ballerina. Down on all fours at the top lip of our house’s central staircase, my one-year-old had side-crawled himself into position before sending out an exploratory foot to find the step below. Watching with arms outstretched, I chanted...
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Canada now has a Sport Integrity Commissioner. Earlier this month, the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC), federally appointed to lead the development and implementation of an independent national safe sport mechanism, announced the selection of Sarah-Ève Pelletier as the first to oversee Canada’s new safe sport program. Sport...
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Two days, 10 cities. For the first time ever, the Sport for Life Canadian Summit will take place in multiple communities simultaneously. To optimize accessibility for communities throughout Canada, it will be a simultaneous, multi-community extravaganza that features both live, local content as well as virtual content that will connect...
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A father-son duo will take the stage together as keynote speakers during the upcoming 2022 Sport for Life Canadian Summit, which takes place on May 11 and 12. Keynote speakers Glenn and Nick Hoag will share their firsthand experience of implementing the Long-Term Development in Sport and Physical Activity framework...
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Sport for Life, and its charitable arm Physical Literacy for Life, are looking for passionate people to join our Boards’ Governance and Finance & Audit Committees. Whether you have experience in the sport and physical activity sector, a passion for quality sport, physical literacy, or anything in between, we...
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The Sport for Life team is growing. As the pandemic continues to disrupt the lives of Canadians, the work of improving the quality of sport and developing physical literacy continues. Our organization has pivoted to virtual work, so we’ve been able to fundamentally change our hiring practices to expand our...
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It’s about way more than soccer. When the founders of Caribbean Canadian Artistic Stars (CCAS Inc.) talk about their programming for marginalized and newcomer girls, the foundation of their work is equitable and inclusive quality sport coupled with art. But really, they have larger ambitions than that. They’re interested in...
Read morewithin the basic Long-Term Development framework
