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For the Love of the Game

When Sports Fans Change the Game

June 16, 2021June 16, 2021 - by Shireen Ahmed

Equal pay across genders, renaming racist teams—owners are finally listening and boardrooms will never be the same

Illustration of a Women's Hockey Team on the Ice

Sports

Women’s Sports Aren’t About Bake Sales and Role Models

March 25, 2018March 9, 2021 - by Kate Reddy Taylor

The Canadian Women’s Hockey League deserves more funding—and more respect

Sports

Canada Will Never Beat Iceland

June 28, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Richard Poplak

We have the population of 100 Icelands, and we still can’t field a decent soccer team

Christine Sinclair runs on the soccer field.

Feature / June 2013

The Game Not Played

June 15, 2013December 18, 2019 - by Richard Poplak

Christine Sinclair, the greatest female soccer player in the world, won’t get the career she deserves

Feature / March 2012

Seeing Red

March 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Richard Poplak

No other sport reveals a country’s soul as well as soccer does (yeah, we said it, Don Cherry). So what does our neglect of the beautiful game say about us? A patriot explains why it should be Canada’s national sport

December 2005/January 2006 / Sports

The Greater Goal

December 12, 2005May 20, 2020 - by Natalie Alcoba

freetown—On a dusty pitch, on the edge of one of the poorest countries in the world, a one-legged man is playing soccer. There is skill here. A trapped ball, a …

Feature / September 2005

Foreign Billionaires Bring English Football to World, Agony & Ecstasy to Fans

September 12, 2005May 11, 2020 - by Timothy Taylor

If this keeps on, we’ll end up with the ground full of football tourists