Knowledge Nuggets

Recommendations from the new Canada Food Guide include: Eat plenty of vegetables and fruits, whole grain foods and protein foods. Choose protein foods that come from plants more often. Make water your drink of choice. Be mindful of your eating habits – healthy eating is more than the foods you eat; it is also about...

The Winter SIRCuit is now available! This edition is issue-packed, providing evidence-based and experience-informed insight through a variety of timely and topical articles: Increase your commitment to improving sport in Canada through an article on values-based sport. Contemplate the role of policy and practice in maintaining hazing culture, supporting the inclusion of transgendered athletes, and...

Whether you’re skating on the historic Rideau Canal or your local pond, ice skating is a Canadian tradition. Learn more about the process of ice formation and creating the ideal surface for skating on the Rideau Canal in this blog by the National Capital Commission.

Is there a future for kids’ multi-sport programming in Canada? This was the question during an interactive panel presentation at the 2018 Petro-Canada Sport Leadership Conference. Learn more about the discussion in today’s SIRC blog, the last in a series about the value and possibility of a multi-sport approach to sport and physical activity in...

Looking for a way to enhance your mood, improve your memory and slow cognitive decline? Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki talks about the short- and long-term brain-changing benefits of exercise in this insightful and personal Ted Talk.

Feelings of belonging are strongly linked to enjoyment of sport and physical activity, and are a good predictor of continued participation. Research from the University of Lethbridge found that a collective orientation was as important in individual sport contexts as it is in team sport contexts.

Sport practitioners are embracing a multisport approach to enhance skill development and reduce athlete burnout and injury. But could a multisport approach also lead to a longer life? An active, multisport life might be the secret of the “World’s Most Extreme Grandpa”.

An infographic from the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport identifies five stakeholder groups that play an important roles in advocating for, changing/developing, and implementing optimal sport and physical activity contexts for girls and young women – parents, peers, physical activity leaders, program leaders, and community leaders.

Are you trying to increase participation in a sport-related experience event, such as a loppet or gran fondo? Research published in the Journal of Sport Management, based on long distance running events, recommends two strategies to boost registration. First, turn novelty-seeking athletes into repeat customers by changing up key aspects of the race experience such...

“Social and emotional learning is the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.” Learn more about social and emotional learning through...