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Fencing for Change retweeted
While today’s announcement from 🇨🇦 Minister of Sport to establish a ‘Future of Sport in Canada Commission’ isn’t the national inquiry athletes have been calling for, it shows that the gov. has recognized that the sport system is broken & needs repair.
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Today we are sharing an important athlete story - often, amateur athletes end up working as coaches within their training centers to help support themselves. This can leave them in a VERY vulnerable position when their livelihoods and futures as athletes are so linked.
Luis Patterson, Paris 2024 hopeful hailing from Cuba, came to Canada in 2019. He has since been training and working as a coach in BC, where he has experienced significant abuse/exploitation at his workplace. He feared that his employer would revoke his work permit if he spoke up
This is his statement - more details to come as we progress through provincial and federal investigations. We stand with Luis and his story
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From @rwesthead - Western University women’s hockey team players wrote to school president Alan Shepard that they’ll boycott all practices/games if coach Candice Moxley continues in her role after a third-party investigation into allegations of misconduct: tsn.ca/western-women-s-hocke…
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Still no commitment to a national public inquiry into sport.
Abuse in sport is not a new problem, but one that was ignored for decades.
How many more athletes and how many more stories before Canada does the right thing and calls an inquiry? #safesport ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer…
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“The national inquiry is purposeful for ensuring every child, every athlete, including all marginalized participants, have an absolute right to access sport in safety.” — Judge Rosemarie Aquilina @AquiRosemarie
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2023 Ignoble Awards - Nominee
The Canadian Government - this well-resourced, rich country has turned a blind eye to countless incidents of abuse & harassment in their national sports. Thousands of athletes have appealed for an inquiry the politicians have refused.
Forced kiss claim leads to 'helplessness' for accuser who turned to Olympics abuse-fighting agency apnews.com/article/forced-ki…
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Today's joint statement reiterates the unanswered demands for a national inquiry into the toxic culture of abuse that exists across all levels of Canadian sport.
Read bit.ly/c4nic
@JustinTrudeau @CQualtro 2/2
@Gym4ChangeCan @Fencing4Change @FSforChangeCan @SAACS23
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The #AthleteVoice began the call for a national inquiry but as evidence of Canada's toxic sport system mounted, prominent organisations joined: @TeamCanada @ownthepodium @EthicsInSPORT @CdnHumanRights @WomenandSportCA @CAC_ACE
📣 @JustinTrudeau @CQualtro we are wating 1/2
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As @ameliagrace1989 & I say in the article, @Gym4ChangeCan team is very optimistic about a Minister who has lived experience with both the positive & negative aspects of the 🇨🇦sport system and who believes in the gravity of what survivors have been saying. We won’t have to start over bc no doubt, @CQualtro will hit the ground running. Collaboration, inclusion and truth will lead us to a much needed solution.
Amid safe sport crisis, former Paralympian Carla Qualtrough made sports minister again in cabinet shuffle after her 2015-17 stint. My updated @CdnPressSports report. Adrian Wyld photo. @TeamCanada @ownthepodium @CDNParalympics
timescolonist.com/national-n…
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Dear @PascaleStOnge_ this is the system Canada and the @CRDSC_SDRCC has replicated.
The Canadian system does not work. The primary reason athletes and advocates are calling for an inquiry.
@GlobalAthleteHQ @Gym4ChangeCan @Fencing4Change @SportCanada_EN
theguardian.com/sport/blog/2…
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This is *one* youth centre and allegedly *one* perpetrator… and 200 kids.
Collectively @Gym4ChangeCan @GlobalAthleteHQ @Fencing4Change @FSforChangeCan have received thousands of stories too.
Just imagine the scale of this problem. It’s almost unfathomable. It can’t continue.
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Madison Payette said her "stomach dropped" when she heard her former coach had been given a three-year ban after she filed an assault complaint, rather than the lifetime ban she'd been hoping for cbc.ca/1.6850256
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Spending time last week with @AquiRosemarie & listening to her address 🇨🇦Parliament was an honour. But to be repeatedly asked by her, “What more can I do to help?” caught me by surprise each time. I wish @PascaleStOnge_ or @SportCanada_EN would ask us that. Once.
@Gym4ChangeCan @GlobalAthleteHQ
"Could set the precedent of how children are treated."
Judge @AquiRosemarie, who sentenced disgraced US Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, is calling for an independent judicial inquiry into sport in Canada.
"That would really set a high bar and make Canada a leader in the world."
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Former wrestler 'shocked' by disciplinary decision after filing sexual assault complaint against coach cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c…
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ICYMI: Judge @AquiRosemarie, who sentenced disgraced US Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, is calling for an independent judicial inquiry into sport in Canada.
She speaks with guest host @grahamctv. iheartradio.ca/580-cfra/audi…