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According to statistics, approximately 40,000 people a month arrived in Canada throughout 2021 and 2022 from all over the world. Some of them were students, others were immigrants or temporary foreign workers, and an increasing number were refugees from countries such as Ukraine, Afghanistan and Syria. With this complex new social reality comes both opportunity and challenge, which is why Sport for Life has chosen to revitalize its resource Sport for Life for Every New to Canada Participant.

Bermuda is getting serious about physical literacy and quality sport development.  Consisting of 181 islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, the British territory began participating in the Summer Olympics in 1936 and in the Winter Olympics in 1992. Since then their national sport organizations have been making steady progress, taking home their first gold medal in triathlon at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 – making them the smallest country to ever achieve this at a summer games. Now they’ve partnered with Sport for Life to continue fine-tuning their long-term athlete development system.

The latest addition to the keynote presenter lineup at the upcoming International Physical Literacy Conference in New York City is Dr. Brian Culp, an author and Professor at Kennesaw State University who specializes in youth physical activity, social climate, anti-racism, spatial justice, and leadership.

They’ve put together an eclectic team. When the community of 100 Mile House assembled their first partner table as part of the Physical Literacy for Communities (PL4C) initiative, it began with a trio of basketball coaches, a representative of the local soccer association, two members of a toddler…