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The NHL has demonstrably done nothing substantive to address or investigate the underlying cultural issues that have made hockey toxic, insular, and rife with abuse. So why have campaigns like “Hockey is for Everyone” and You Can Play been covered so uncritically by the media?
A trans athlete is an Olympic champion. Canada's thrilling victory over Sweden for soccer gold came down to penalties, with Canada's Julia Grosso making the winning kick. With that kick, Quinn, the Canadian midfielder, became the first publicly out trans and nonbinary Olympic medalist. The
When the Canadian Women's National Team defeated their American counterparts 1-0 to advance to the gold medal game at the Tokyo Olympics, they secured more than a historic birth in the final for Canada. It was also a moment to celebrate for trans and nonbinary
On Monday, The Athletic's Katie Strang wrote the latest edition of the now-annual "what will it take for an NHL player to come out as gay" piece. It's not the first (see: 2015 by Pierre LeBrun [https://www.tsn.ca/patrick-burke-nhl-is-ready-for-a-gay-player-1.388059]; Brian Burke to
As the season begins to wind down and playoff fates are sealed, and as FIFA honored its #TheBest of the world, it felt like a good time to celebrate some of the iconic performances of these wild past few weeks. You Shouldn't Get Awards for
It has always been time to talk about this, but we have been fucking up. Most socially conscious sports fans (and hopefully most readers of the Victory Press) know that racism is as American as apple pie or as Canadian as maple syrup. Both of