Educators call for federal inquiry into 'widespread abuse' in Canadian sports

Dozens of Canadian and global sport scholars have joined the chorus in calling for an independent inquiry into sport in Canada

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The letter comes amid growing calls for an inquiry after athletes from bobsled, skeleton and gymnastics, plus several members of Parliament have pleaded with Canada’s sport minister Pascale St-Onge for an investigation similar to the Dubin Inquiry into doping in 1989.Article content Experts have said the number of maltreatment complaints exploded in Canada in 2022, with athletes in more than a half dozen sports waging wars against leaders, levelling allegations of toxicity and abuse, and pleading for widespread change.Testimony also began last month before members of Parliament for the Standing Committee on the Status of Women’s hearings on the safety of women and girls in sport.

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