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"The Future of Sport in Canada Commission, led by former Chief Justice Lise Maisonneuve, has issued nearly 100 calls to action that range from immediately increasing funding to the sport system, to a long-term goal of creating a “centralized sport entity” to oversee sport in Canada.

“As we examined the Canadian sport system, it became very clear that the challenges in Canadian sport are profound — from underfunding and governance deficits, duplication of efforts among organizations, fragmentation and a lack of integration of policies and programs, to an unhealthy focus on high-performance outcomes over participant safety and dignity,” Maisonneuve wrote in her report."

'Fragmented, inconsistent, unsafe': Commission calls for sweeping change to sport in Canada | CBC Sports A commission studying the future of sport in Canada has called for sweeping change to the way sport is structured, after its work found “the widespread presence of maltreatment and abuse” in a poorly resourced and organized system.

Law Society of Ontario event May 6 online. This year’s program will feature a short documentary on Benjamin Ferencz (1920-2023), the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials.

“Nuremberg was also the site of post-World War II trials, which operated between 1945 and 1946 under the administration of the International Military Tribunal (IMT), established by the Allies. The surviving leaders of N**i Germany were tried for crimes committed during World War II, including the Holocaust. Trials of former N**is continued outside of Nuremberg, including the 1962 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel and the more recent trial of Oskar Groening, in Germany in 2015.” Link https://lso.ca/news-events/events/events-2024/holocaust-remembrance-day-program