Rio Olympic & Paralympic Games 2016 – a Showcase of Firsts!

Rio 2016 is just around the corner, and the athletes have begun arriving and checking out their new home away from home. For 22 days in August ( Olympics ) and 12 days in September ( Paralympics ) feats of strength, speed, agility and endurance will be on display on the Rio landscape as athletes from around the world come to show off their best. With over 10,000 athletes from more than 200...Read more

Join us for the 8th Annual SCRI Conference!

In 2005, as part of the Sport Canada Research Initiative (SCRI), Sport Canada launched a joint initiative with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) called the Sport Participation Research Initiative (SPRI). Sport Canada is funding the initiative to better evidence the benefits of, and barriers to, quality sport participation with the aim of improving Canadian...Read more

Canada Summer Games - Sherbrooke 2013

SIRC Newsletter now available online: Canada Summer Games - Sherbrooke 2013 The Canada Games is an exciting sporting event that will host 4,200 of Canada's top athletes as they compete in over 20 different disciplines. Supported by over 5000 volunteers, it brings all the provinces and territories together in the largest national multi-sport event for young athletes in Canada. This year it will be...Read more

Olympic Day!

Join in the fun on June 23, as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Olympic Movement celebrate the 65th annual Olympic Day ! The first Olympic Day was held on June 23, 1948 with nine Olympic Committees hosting their own celebrations, with Canada being one of the original participants. Today over 4,000,000 people celebrate this day worldwide. How did it all begin? Due to WWII, the...Read more

Sports Day in Canada!

Sports Day in Canada is a national celebration of sport at all levels. On the ground, in the week leading up to September 29, over a thousand organizations, schools, teams and towns will hold a blitz of Sports Day in Canada events, with community-wide festivals, try-it days, open houses, games, competitions, meet-and-greets, tournaments, fun runs, spectator events and pep rallies that celebrate...Read more

Draft: Event Management 101

So you work in the sports industry. Cool. And now you need to put on a sporting event. Sounds fun. But where do you start? There is more to a sporting event then just the field of play. Ask any successful event manager and they will tell you one of the most important components to ensure a great event is the actual integration of functional areas such as the daily run-time schedule, staffing,...Read more

2011 Canada Games

The 2011 Canada Winter Games start in just 3 days time with the Opening Ceremony slated for Friday, 12 February 2011 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. And wow, how far the Games have come! It all started in the winter of 1967 in Quebec City as part of Canada's Centennial celebrations, when 1800 athletes from 10 provinces and two territories joined together in what was to become the first of many of the...Read more

Do I need a license for that? Music and Copyright

Any public performance of music falls under Canada’s Copyright Act. This means that if you are playing music at an event you will need to have a license from SOCAN. For sport, recreation and physical activity Tariff 9, Tariff 19 and Tariff 21 are commonly requested licenses. Tariff 9 allows you to play music at events involving baseball, football, hockey, basketball, skating competitions, races,...Read more

What is sport tourism?

While there are varying definitions it is generally agreed upon that there are two primary characteristics of sport tourism: An individual must travel more than 80km and/or stay overnight to attend, compete, or otherwise be involved in a sporting event. Sport is the reason for travel in that an individual would not have otherwise traveled to that location had it not been for that specific event...Read more