Canadian Heritage committee  In a hard 15 seconds, thank you so much for that question. I first need to make a caveat: My experience with first nations is through our own children, who are of mixed race; they are first nations. Absolutely, I really believe that we need to pay more attention to indigenous sp

Canadian Heritage committee  From our research into men's ice hockey and in my experience as the parent of two athletes—two of our boys were competitive athletes—that's a big part of it. I'm just starting a new research project. I was sitting on the sidelines at soccer tryouts last night, listening to pare

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. Thank you for that question. Forgive me for my ignorance with respect to how parliamentarians and portfolios work, but from a research lens, we have theory. As a critical theorist, my lens is a certain way. If I am a quantitative researcher, my lens is a different way. Sp

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. My name is Dr. Teresa Fowler. My pronouns are she and her. I'm coming to you from Concordia University of Edmonton, which is in Treaty No. 6 territory, a Métis nation of region 4. Thank you to the committee for the time to present today and for allying parliamentarian

Status of Women committee  Sure. I have to first say that I am not a policy person. I understand policy only to spell it, but if we really think of the lens.... In research we talk about lenses, about how we approach our work, and there are different lenses to how we engage with our study. For example, as

Status of Women committee  Sure. Thank you. I appreciate the question. I think one of the things we certainly have learned or that has been exposed this summer is how institutionalized the coaching profession is with respect to hockey. For example, you have players who are now coaching young children who

Status of Women committee  Yes, I definitely agree. Calls have already come through regarding other parties investigating these incidents. We really need to look back and consider how these incidents have been handled and say that this is not how we need to do it and move on from there and have people inde

Status of Women committee  I—

Status of Women committee  To add to that, I feel like it's a bit of a paradox in that we need safe spaces for people who do not conform to these team standards. For example, in Calgary, there's a hocky league with teams that are all gay male players. They play similar teams. There are obviously women's t

Status of Women committee  We decided that Shannon was going to go first, but you asked me directly, so I'll go. We signed the letter as researchers who have been doing this work. As I mentioned, researchers have been doing this work for some of both decades, although not necessarily me. It was important

Status of Women committee  Yes. We actually mentioned, in the piece we wrote for The Conversation Canada, that we really need to—and that's what this committee is doing, which we're thankful for—interrogate these institutional practices that reward this particular brand of masculinity, and we need to consi

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that. That is a good point. Again I'll turn it over to Shannon, because everybody is implicated in this culture—not only parents but fans and media, as was mentioned before, with respect to the amount of broadcast time for men's sports over women's sports. All of us

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that big question. I'm sorry; the back-flow right away is putting me off a bit. Again, our study is grounded in hockey culture. That's not to take away from the experiences that other folks have shared, but what we see in our work is exactly what you're talking abo

Status of Women committee  Hi. I'm Teresa Fowler. As mentioned, I'm an assistant professor at the faculty of education at Concordia University of Edmonton. We'd like to thank the chair and committee for inviting us here today. Today we are going to share a few findings from a study we conducted in 2021 w