2022 Volume: Edition 4
To our Sport for Life champions,

What are you doing to ensure a better future for Canadian participants in sport and physical activity?

When it comes to having an impact on the quality sport and physical literacy ecosystem in Canada, meaningful culture change can take time. And it takes a lot of people working together. It’s been over 15 years since our organization unveiled our flagship creation Long-Term Development in Sport and Physical Activity, and we have seen the way it has already transformed the system. This work will continue far into the future, so the question is: what role are you going to play?

In this eNewsletter, we have a column from our storyteller Will Johnson about our Physical Literacy for Communities initiative and his experience watching his young son’s physical development. We also have a story about the latest additions to our staff team, a call for new committee members on the Sport for Life and Physical Literacy for Life boards, and the results of a nationwide Safe Sport strategy. Finally, we’re happy to share the latest information about the 2022 Sport for Life Canadian Summit.

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 for Life officially pledged to become a program signatory of the SDRCC’s independent safe sport mechanism at the end of March. 
 
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 (LTD) into their volleyball careers. 


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 fatherly encouragement as he tentatively found purchase, allowing him to pivot his tiny body into position and slide backwards towards me.

He dropped to the step with a slack fluidity, and then the one after that, regularly shoulder-checking like he was backing up a garbage truck. As I marveled at his newfound grace and speed, it occurred to me that if he was beginning to acquire an alphabet’s worth of physical literacy letters, then I was witnessing his ABCs.
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 scope, resulting in being able to work with team members from all over the country.

As we embark on a number of new initiatives, our Victoria-based non-profit has brought on 12 additional staff members who are located across five different provinces. This will ensure we have the staff in place to support each of our many projects.

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 encourage you to check out and share widely this opportunity to get involved with our growing organization and contribute to positive system change and societal impact through organizational stewardship. 

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 all of the host communities in real time from May 11 to 12.
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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. 
Sport for Life |  (778) 433-2066 | www.sportforlife.ca