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Former NHL and Canadian world junior hockey player Alex Formenton has surrendered himself to police in London, Ont. in connection with an alleged sexual assault by members of Canada’s 2018 world junior team.
Formenton is one of five team members expected to face related charges. Regardless of the outcome, it’s a sign that sexual assault charges can no longer be silenced or swept under the rug in sport.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Jennifer Walinga from Royal Roads University writes about the need for a comprehensive overhaul of sport organization in Canada.
Walinga argues that Hockey Canada needs to go beyond just removing a few “bad apples” and restructure the entire system to create a sport culture of true integrity and accountability.
She writes: “Leaders must remove the bad apples while addressing systemic issues — only then will they be able to create and maintain quality, lasting barrels. Otherwise, the existing bad apples will poison the new, rotting the barrel from the inside.”
Also today:
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Eleni Vlahiotis
Assistant Editor, Business + Economy
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Five hockey players have been granted leaves of absence from their teams after reportedly being told to surrender to London police to face charges related to an alleged sexual assault.
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Jennifer Walinga, Royal Roads University
Hockey Canada has a new board and CEO, but it won’t make a difference unless the systemic issues are addressed through our sport leadership and governance structures.
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Poverty reduction has the potential to initiate a beneficial cascade that would improve the lives of children and youth.
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Nicole Racine, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Shainur Premji
Over one million Canadian children live in poverty. Child poverty is a pernicious childhood adversity that has detrimental long-term impacts on health, development and well-being throughout life.
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Impacts of excessive use of digital technologies range from physical problems to emotional concerns.
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Bindiya Dutt, University of Stavanger; Mary Lynn Young, University of British Columbia
The growing absence of non-digital alternatives to everyday tasks, like government services and health care, is contributing to digital dependence. This, in turn, affects people’s wellbeing.
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A woman celebrates after the final result was announced in the Irish referendum to liberalize abortion laws in May 2018. The referendum followed an Irish citizens’ assembly on the issue.
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Seána Glennon, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
As Canada’s nearest neighbour grapples with serious attacks on democracy, a fresh approach to citizen engagement in Canada is an exciting prospect, worthy of serious consideration.
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Catan experienced a revival over the pandemic. However, the most potent and painful relationship between Catan and our world today remains largely unexamined.
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Biz Nijdam, University of British Columbia
The Settlers of Catan codified a certain kind of game play based on the history of settler colonialism.
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La Conversation Canada
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Andrée-Ann Baril, Université de Montréal; Matthew Pase, Monash University
Le sommeil semble jouer un rôle essentiel dans plusieurs fonctions cérébrales, comme la mémoire. Un sommeil de bonne qualité pourrait donc jouer un rôle primordial dans la prévention de la démence.
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Défilé national-socialiste à Berlin célébrant l’accession au pouvoir d’Adolf Hitler. Sa nomination à la chancellerie, le 30 janvier 1933, a consolidé la mainmise absolue du parti nazi sur le pays en quelques mois, prélude à la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
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David Dyzenhaus, University of Toronto
Dans l’Allemagne de l’entre-deux-guerres, la montée au pouvoir d’Adolf Hitler a été facilitée par les tribunaux et les avocats. Une situation similaire existe aujourd’hui aux États-Unis.
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Arts
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Alexander Carter, University of Birmingham
This is the story of how music became a battleground in the 1980s and 1990s, as antifascists fought fascism with guitars and microphones.
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Environment + Energy
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Sasimonthakan Tanarsuwongkul, University of South Carolina
Green plants produce a specific gas when under attack to both directly ward off herbivores and pathogens and indirectly lure in herbivore predators.
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Politics
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Dov Waxman, University of California, Los Angeles
A scholar of Israeli politics explains why Israelis are increasingly turning against Netanyahu and his promise that Israel can quickly defeat Hamas and bring Israeli hostages home.
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