The FIFA decision to suspend Folarin Balogun’s red card is a compact case study in how power can shape the application of rules without ever rewriting them.
- Assistant Professor, Sport Management, Brock University
Les organes directeurs traitent le racisme comme un problème de relations publiques. Ce faisant, le système peut agir sans véritable changement structurel.
Governing bodies treat racism as a public relations problem. Doing so lets the system perform action without real structural change.
A proposed change to football’s offside rule will be tested in Canada from 2026, as FIFA looks for ways to reduce controversy in the VAR (video assistant referee) era.
As the 2026 Winter Olympics approach, Indigenous athletes reveal why using the Olympics to perform Canadian sovereignty is never simple.
Bien que tous les athlètes olympiques soient censés jouer et performer sous pression, les succès historiques du Canada aux Jeux d’hiver ont créé des attentes élevées.
While all Olympic athletes are expected to play and perform under pressure, Canada’s historical successes at the Winter Games have created heightened expectations.
A new NCAA rule allowing CHL players to participate is set to have significant impacts on the Canadian hockey landscape.
The National Aboriginal Hockey Championship honours the resiliency of Indigenous Peoples while presenting youth with the opportunity to grow personally and professionally.
This year’s NCAA tournament might represent another high-water mark for women’s sport as new standards are set for ratings and even more pressure falls on the game’s superstars.
In both mainstream and Indigenous communities across Canada, sport is neither inherently good nor bad. Rather, it is a tool that must be used responsibly.
The unique relationship between Nike and Hockey Canada makes the end of their decades-long sponsorship especially notable.
As the rivalry between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-funded LIV Golf ends not with a bang, but with a merger, it’s clear both sides are far more interested in financial gain than issues of morality.
Why do many Canadian hockey fans feel the urge to support teams they would ordinarily delight in rooting against?
While changing the name of the Lou Marsh Trophy is a necessary first step, the weight of Marsh’s legacy will be felt until we fully understand the damage done by his history of sports journalism.
Fifty years later, the Summit Series still occupies a heightened role in the Canadian cultural consciousness.
Hockey Canada has fallen short of its mission to ‘Lead, Develop and Promote Positive Hockey Experiences’ in its handling of sexual violence perpetrated by and against Hockey Canada players.
True gender equity in sport is not simply a matter of paying lip service to equal rights and opportunities. It involves interrogating outdated assumptions and being open to rewriting the rule book.
Canadian sport is still allowed to police itself when it comes to dealing with abuse and harassment.
Hockey’s scandals don’t have to persist if the federal government and the leagues can come together around the new safe sport policies.
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