A troubling new snapshot is shedding light on an uneven racial playing field through the lens of Canadian sports here’s ctv’s Colton PR on stick handling the pervasive problem three years after rakee Aloo blew the whistle on racism in hockey progress has been slow some people are scared enough in in these leagues that
Have control to do the bare minimum but we still haven’t got to a place where we really got people’s minds and hearts um opened up to real change a new report from statistics Canada shows nearly one in five Canadians say they’ve experienced or witnessed acts of racism and discrimination in sports Aloo says
It shows how little things have changed since he was victimized by his former NHL coach sometimes you sit there and you blame yourself maybe I should have been called the NW right like crazy things go through your mind but the incident spread far beyond NHL ice even past athletes themselves the report
Found Spectators were more like likely to be victims of discrimination or racism something former professional women’s hockey player sya Tinker is familiar with so um in that sense my mom would even hear a lot of the things that were said around her when people didn’t realize that I was her daughter racism
Was the most common form of discrimination experienced as were attacks based on gender or sexual orientation often times abuse was verbal with nearly half of all reported incidents involving insults or name calling threats and harassment in physical assaults occurred at a lesser degree Advocates say victims are often
Relying on resolutions from the same sporting organizations in charge of the environment where they were abused so we need to make sure that we have an independent third party that is experienced in sport matters and that has the right type of representation and inclusive representation critics say too often complaints are being registered
But not properly dealt with by provincial and National sporting bodies they’re pushing for more concrete consequences or funding cuts for those who don’t comply Omar all right Colton thanks
Colton Praill reports on a new report highlighting the prevalence of racism and discrimination in Canadian sports.
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If u keep talking about racism it won’t go away,news agencies are the racist’s
????? i thought diversity was our strength. Sunny ways! ????
Coached minor hockey in Vancouver and a bunch of other sports for 8 years. I could count on one hand the number of times I saw anything racist and it was not tolerated. You know how to stop racism, by stopping it when you see and not gaslighting on the news.
No one believes this anymore
Antiwhiteism is systemic in Canada.