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Bruce Kidd

Sport, Legacy and Sustainability: Is it Worth It?

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Rick Hansen

Sport and Challenge: Is Anything Possible?

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Waneek Horn-Miller

Sport and Inclusion: Are Major Sporting Events Inclusive of First Nations and Other Groups?

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Johann Olav Koss and participants

Sport, Peace and Development: How Can Sport Contribute to Positive Social Change?

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Richard Pound

Sport, Ethics and Technology: Is High Performance Sport Inconsistent with Ideals and Ethics?

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Stephen Owen

Global Sport and Global Issues: From Ping Pong to Climate Change

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James Meadowcroft

Accelerating the Transition to Sustainable Development

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Alain Haché

Ice, Body Checks and Slap Shot Tricks

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Gregor Wolbring

Who will be the future Olympic and Paralympic athlete? The impact of advances in science and technology and bodily assistive devices on Sport.

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Joe Velaidum

Attaining Spiritual Heights: The Meaning of Life and the Quest for Transcendence

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David Barber

On Thin Ice: Prophetic Ramblings of an Arctic Climate Scientist

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Whitney Lackenbauer

Canada and the Changing Circumpolar World

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Mary Louise Adams

Why Don't More Men Figure Skate? The Persistence of Gender Stereotypes in Sport

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LeAnne Petherick

A Cultural Celebration of Inclusion? Gender Parody and Athletic Excellence on the Olympic Stage.

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Neil Boyd

Canada’s Legal Landscape: More than just Mounties on Ice?

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Matthew Hayday

“They like us, they really like us!” — Defining Canada through International Accomplishments

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Stephen Wenn

The Olympic Movement and the Road Ahead: Status Quo or Will the IOC Tackle the Big Issues?

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Janice Forsyth

The Illusion of Inclusion

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Shawn Dalton

Climate Change: Local Perspectives on a Global Issue

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Kathy Lewis and Rob van Adrichem

A Green Economy and the Value of Rural Places

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Jim Rupert

Gene Doping and the Construction of Future Athletes

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David Legg

Issues in the Paralympic Games and Movement: What They've Been and Where They're Taking Us

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Kevin Wamsley

Vancouver — the 6th North American Winter Games: What Does History Tell Us about Hosting the Olympic Games?

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Steven Mannell

Making change happen: University Leadership for a Sustainable Future

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Margaret Somerville

Laughing, Dreaming and Sweating: The Olympic Games as a Global “Shared Ethics” Forum

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Judy Illes

In Perilous Pursuit of Perfection: The Ethics of Neuroscience in Sport

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Dennis Pilon mp3

The Politics of the Olympics

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Simon Hudson mp3

The $6 Billion Question: Is it Worth it?

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Vera Pezer

Sports: What insipres us and what we're missing. Are there better ways to define success? That's the topic discussed by Dr. Vera Pezer, chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan, in this Intellectual Muscle podcast (19:12)

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Bruce Kidd

What do the Olympic Games Contribute to Society?

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