CALGARY — Sheldon Kennedy feels the weight of what will be discussed at Hockey Canada's summit in Calgary.
The two-day"Beyond The Boards Summit" on Friday and Saturday is designed to tackle one root cause identified at the heart of racism, sexism, homophobia, discrimination and exclusion in hockey.
"I really feel it's important," Kennedy told The Canadian Press."It's critical that we get this right. The biggest thing is the acceptance of the fact that we have a problem and we need to deal with it. The agenda was developed based on research by Teresa Fowler, an assistant professor at Concordia University in Edmonton, who has written hockey works well for white heterosexual males and not as well for others.
"This is the one in a series. We want to get at the 'isms' as we move forward," he explained."It's really, really important that we start somewhere and so we've started with toxic masculinity.
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