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In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

  
  Welcome to Sport Canada!
Sport Canada works to help Canadians participate and excel in sport.
Sport Canada's funding programs enhance our sport development system, advance the goals of the Canadian Sport Policy, and help Canadian organizations or organizing committees to host international sport events and the Canada Games.
Sport Canada also has a number of special initiatives to advance the goals of the Canadian Sport Policy.
www.pch.gc.ca /progs/sc/index_e.cfm   (152 words)

  
  Sport in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canada has previously hosted the games twice, at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and Vancouver is scheduled to host the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Canada is traditionally strong in the sports of ice hockey, figure skating, and speed skating (especially the short track variation), and every Canadian men's and women's teams have won curling medals since the sport was added to the Olympic program.
Canada is categorised as a 'Second Tier' nation in rugby by the International Rugby Board and the national team have qualified for all five Rugby World Cups.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sport_in_Canada   (2666 words)

  
 SportHorseCanada.com ~ Index
Sport horses are horses used for the show ring, dressage, hunter-jumper, driving, eventing and so on.
That is our goal with the horses that we breed, sport horses whose temperament, conformation, athletic ability and movement can excel from in the show ring, to dressage to simply being exceptional pleasure horses.
This is truly a majestic horse with presence and nobility, found at home and excelling as a hunter, jumper or dressage, and equally outstanding on a trail ride or as a pleasure horse.
www.sporthorsecanada.com /index.htm   (426 words)

  
 Sport Pony Canada
Sport Pony Canada is a group of pony breeders dedicated to promoting the breeding, showing, and sales of sport ponies in Canada and North America.
A sport pony is defined as a pony that is bred to compete in one of the performance sport disciplines of jumping, dressage, eventing, reining, or combined driving.
Unheard of in Canada, where it is next to impossible to get a ridden show record on a pony stallion (this being a well-known problem for pony breeders, as juniors can’t show stallions, and adults can’t show ponies).
www.sportponycanada.com /whoweare.html   (808 words)

  
 Sport Participation Research Initiative - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Accordingly, in order to build Canada's capacity to conduct research on and related to participation in sport, Sport Canada, a branch of the Department of Canadian Heritage, in consultation with the sport research community, the policy research community and the federal research granting agencies, has developed the Sport Canada Policy Research Program (SCPRP).
Sport Canada has funding available for those standard research grant applications that propose programs of research relevant to its policy priorities and that the SRG adjudication committee has recommended for funding, but which, due to budgetary constraints, did not receive a regular Standard Research Grant.
Sport Participation Postdoctoral Fellowship Supplements are tenable for 12 months and are worth $10,000 in addition to the annual $35,028 value of the SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship.
www.sshrc.ca /web/apply/program_descriptions/sport_can_e.asp   (1299 words)

  
 Reference Material by Sport Systems Canada Inc.
That same year, the YMCA spread the sport to Canada, the Orient as well as the southern hemisphere.
In 1928, Volleyball was introduced as a demonstration sport at the Olympics held in Amsterdam.
It wasn't until 1964, that volleyball was inducted as an official olympic sport.
www.sportsystemscanada.com /reference-material/Volleyball-reference-index.php?what=history   (309 words)

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