2021 Volume: Edition 11
To our Sport for Life champions,

Are you ready for the changes coming?

There’s no question that these past two years have come with societal challenges and opportunities, and a growing awareness of the inequities across sectors. With our 2022 Sport for Life Canadian Summit, we’re trying to lean into that change and discover the ways our future will be better than our past. But it’s going to take hard work to get there, and we all need to work together to make that positive impact. 

In this issue of the newsletter, you’ll find an introduction to one of our 2022 Summit keynote speakers, a story about innovative work being done by Swim BC, a link to a physical literacy podcast, and information on ParticipACTION’s annual report card. We also have some great opportunities to participate in our digital offerings.

In spring 2020, Swimming Canada unveiled their new Athlete Development Matrix (ADM) to the provincial/territorial sport organizations (PTSOs) nationwide. The matrix provides guiding principles for PTSOs to take back and tailor to their own program’s needs and goals.

For Swim BC and their Technical Director Cory Beatt, the new ADM provided a framework for a cross-organization shift in athlete development which is currently being implemented.


Dorota Blumczyńska has been named the opening keynote speaker for the 2022 Sport for Life Canadian Summit. A long-time refugee advocate and current CEO of the Manitoba Museum, she will bring powerful insights into accomplishing inclusivity and community cohesion in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and into the future.

Bringing communities together and inspiring visitors to live in harmony with the world that surrounds them is the work that she most passionately lends her heart and skills to.

Released a few weeks ago, the 2021 ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Adults represents a comprehensive summary of the literature and national-level surveys in the field of physical activity, recreation and sport —including an exploration of the impacts of the pandemic on North America’s sedentary living crisis. 

Virtually every person living in Canada experienced a tremendously challenging 2020 and 2021, with the onset of the COVID-19 bringing uncertainty to our physical health, mental well-being, financial security and social connections.

This year, the Physical Literacy for Communities (PL4C) Move for Life project was supported by the Peace Arch Hospital Foundation to launch the Power to Heal podcast.

For their fourth episode, Sport for Life Senior Director of Physical Literacy Drew Mitchell joined host and broadcaster Wayne Cox for “Move for Life”, an episode highlighting the Move for Life program that promotes physical activity for all ages.


PL 501 will help participants to understand the importance of physical literacy development for participants with disabilities. This workshop will take participants through what universally accessible programs are and how to plan and create them. It will also help participants to develop their adaptations to fundamental movement skills to allow for different disability types to participate and have a quality first involvement experience.

Volunteers are the public face of community events, non-profit organizations, and the corporate sponsors that support those events and organizations. Volunteer workforces should be diverse and inclusive, and every volunteer should feel safe, respected, and appreciated at all times.

This course educates volunteer workers about acceptable and unacceptable attitudes and behaviours, how to respond appropriately, and their role in supporting a respectful, productive volunteer environment.

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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. 
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