Internships and Short-term Staffing

Does your organization have a project that needs extra work, or a short-term position that needs to be filled? With spring on the way many students are looking towards securing summer employment or post-term internships. A few simple tips could help fill a resource need at the same time as providing powerful on-the-job work experience for students looking to get into the sport administration...Read more

Muskoka – Home of the 2010 Ontario Winter Games

The Ontario Winter Games took place on March 4th to 7th in Muskoka and Sudbury. Amanda Street-Bishop from SIRC’s Toronto Regional office was lucky enough to be a part of the event. The Ontario Winter Games is a unique multi-sport event that provides young athletes with development and competitive opportunities that prepare them for national and international competitions. Approximately 3,300...Read more

2010 Vancouver Winter Paralympics

Check out the latest SIRC Newsletter - 2010 Vancouver Winter Paralympics ! With the completion of a very successful 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics the world's focus now shifts to the 2010 Vancouver Paralympic Games held from March 12 – 21, 2010. These games will go down in history for Canada as the first every Paralympic Games to be held in Canada. Canada will host 1350 athletes and teams...Read more

The Paralympics Torch Relay starts in Ottawa!

On March 3, 2010 the Paralympic Torch Relay started in Ottawa and will travel to Vancouver over the next nine days. There are 55 Canadian athletes expected to participate in the Games. If you check out the Canadian Paralympic Committee website you can find the athletes that have been nominated. The official announcement is March 8th . That is cutting it close!! Wondering what to watch? If you...Read more

Coaches Association of Ontario – The Time is Now

This past weekend SIRC attended the 4th Annual Coaches Association of Ontario Coaches Conference – The Time Is Now . The conference was attended by almost 300 delegates from across Ontario and was held at the University of Guelph . SIRC participated in the trade show portion of the conference and Amanda Street-Bishop, Information Specialist at the SIRC Regional office in Toronto, presented a...Read more

It makes you proud to be Canadian…

We are now in the lull of the storm. The Olympic Games wrapped up leaving two weeks until the opening ceremonies of the Paralympic Games . If you are living in one of the other three Canadian time zones it’s just enough time to catch up on some sleep. The last three weeks of the Olympic Games were amazing, fantastic, exciting, unforgettable…the list goes on. There were 2500 athletes from 82...Read more

Words from Whistler

O Canada, The women continue to bring the house down. Canada won gold in women’s hockey. The game vs the USA was electric to the end and the cheers were thunderous as the Canadian women reclaimed their Olympic title. While the Canadian anthem was playing in Vancouver tonight, it was also reverberating off the mountain walls in Whistler for the double medal ceremony for women’s bobsleigh where...Read more

The 12 Minute Sport Lawyer – Toronto Edition

February 23rd marked the first SIRC/CSL Knowledge Management Series session for the Toronto Regional office. The event was fast paced, informative and well received by all who attended. Many provincial sport organizations were in attendance including basketball, softball, squash, badminton, boxing, waterpolo and triathlon, all finding the information relevant to their particular sport and...Read more

Words from Whistler

Canadian Athletes Rule on February 24 What an outstanding day for our Canadian athletes. Our women won both gold and silver in Bobsleigh, the women’s short track speed skating team won silver, Clara Hughes won bronze and the men’s hockey team soundly beat Russia in the quarter finals. Coincidentally, February 24 is also the day the men’s hockey team won gold at the Salt Lake City, Olympics...Read more

Words from Whistler

Whistler Proud of Ashleigh McIvor, Ski Cross Olympic Champion Ashleigh McIvor, from Whistler B.C., sent her fans and family into an instant frenzy as she became the first Olympic champion of Women’s Ski Cross. She showed complete focus and control and never seemed to waver as she skied the race she wanted to run and captured the gold medal. While the race through the difficult white out...Read more