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Latest Resources

1. Fitness of Canadian Children & Youth: Results from the 2007-2009 Canadian Health Measures Survey

2. Fitness of Canadian Adults: Results from the 2007-2009 Canadian Health Measures Survey

3. Team Sport Coalition Release

4. 9th Annual National Report Card on Health Care

5. Canadian Survey on Giving, Volunteering, and Participating

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Latest News Items

July 20: Govs invest in Sport for Aboriginal People in Quebec

June 28: Cops-and-kids league effective in Montreal community

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"How government looks at sport?" - May 2009

SMG Call for Applicants For the Senior Leadership Position

Click here to read about the position. Click here for the background reading material: The Sport Matters Group: “Un-organizing” the Future of Canada’s Not-for-Profit Sector.

Public Policy

The Working Together Initiative (WTI)

Next meeting - August 31st, 2010

Standing Committee on Finance

Check out the call for submission which where due on August 13th. Click here to read about our 2 primary recommendations and tell us what you think.

Canadian Sport Policy renewal

This process is about to get started in earnest in the coming weeks. As a first step, please read and review the memo from the FPT Sport Committee (fed and prov/terr government's working table) and the independent Evaluation by the Sutcliffe Group on the Canadian Sport Policy. Kudos to the SMG working group that has been pitching in on this process. Let us know if you'd like to help out.

Click here for more background information about the Canadian Sport Policy.

Sept. 17 2010- Celebrating 10 years of SMG

It’s hard to believe that 10 years have passed since those first meetings of beer and pizza which put into motion what we now call the Sport Matters Group. Come join us in Ottawa to celebrate what we’ve accomplished together so far and as we look ahead towards a new vision for sport in Canada. More details are coming soon.
Let us know if/how you’d like to be a part of the day.

October deadline- Immigration and sport

If you use sport in a cross-cultural way with youth or with new Canadians, you'll want to have a closer look at this call for Proposals from Citizenship and Immigration Canada here…

Innovation

Sport for Development Gathering
In June, SMG & The Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society held the 2010 Sport for Development Gathering in Ottawa.
Click here for the powerpoint presentations and more details.