The ‘Out with the Old-School’ series is based on the findings from Donna Cumming’s MA thesis. The study involved interviews and focus groups with 11 Canadian varsity women hockey players about their hockey leadership experiences, perceptions, and intentions. Most of this series will focus on women and hockey leadership, but this first post is all…
“It’s just the old boys’ culture of hockey that serves as a barrier of entry for women to get into leadership positions because it’s like an exclusive club, and they don’t really want to let you in. There’s a lot of sexism in it really, the men at the top just want to keep their…
Canada’s Drag Race (CDR) is a Canadian spin-off of the hit reality television show RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR). On the show, twelve drag queens compete for the title of “Canada’s Next Drag Superstar.” Each week the queens compete in different “mini” and “maxi” challenges to impress the judges and avoid elimination. One queen is eliminated…
As a kid, I revered the Hockey Canada logo. I think it’s an objectively good looking logo but, more than that, it represented something good about Canada. I bought my first Hockey Canada hat in high school and it was my most prized possession for a long time because the people who I looked up…
This week, Rogers cancelled Hometown Hockey, a weekly broadcast from a different Canadian “hometown” each week. I will not miss the program’s presentation of Canada as a mythic settler colonial state.
There were two particularly damaging issues in Smith, Renney, and Andrew’s testimony.
Another June, another Pride month. As the NHL and its various hockey clubs gear up to participate in pride month, we see a growth of support from different teams in their support for the 2SLGBTQI+ community. For example, the Toronto Maple Leafs announced that they would be marching in the Toronto Pride Parade to demonstrate support for…
Co-Authored by Courtney Szto and Brett Pardy. Rosie Dimanno, columnist for the Toronto Star, came out guns-a-blazing when she wrote that the women’s hockey competition is “an easy gold” due to the lack of parity in the game. She referenced Canada’s first two wins where they outscored their opponents 23-2 as “abomination domination.” The weird…
To read the English version [Click Here] Depuis les cinq derniers jours, un groupe auto-proclamé de patriotes occupe les rues autour de la Colline du Parlement à Ottawa (et à la frontière de Coutts dans le sud de l’Alberta). Il a été nommé le « Convoi de la liberté ». Il est supposé que le convoi va grandir…
To read the English version [Click Here] Il y a juste 10 ans, j’ai eu la folle idée de partir un blogue de hockey qui porte un regard critique sur le sport et sa culture. J’ai alors acheté un domaine Word Press vers la fin de 2011 et lancé Hockey dans la Société. Je n’aurais jamais…
Dear Theoren Fleury, You might not know me, but I have watched you play since I was a child. Even though I was a Vancouver Canucks fan growing up, I was amazed by your competitiveness and skill despite your smaller physical stature. I was too young to truly understand why the Calgary Flames traded you…
Pour lire la version FRANÇAISE clique [ICI]. For the last five days, a group of self-proclaimed patriots have occupied the streets around Parliament Hill in Ottawa (and at the Coutts border crossing in Southern Alberta) under the title of a “Freedom Convoy.” The expectation is that the convoy will grow in size over the weekend…
Hockey in Society / Hockey dans la société 