In this issue
How Sports Transform a City
The World Cup is a reminder of the massive influence sports can have over a place like Toronto—reshaping our geography, sparking celebration or mourning, and remaking our experience of the city.
Where Are All the Female Coaches?
Canada is in a moment of unprecedented expansion in women’s sports. But structural barriers and unclear pathways into coaching mean that women are being deprived of opportunities to lead the next generation of young athletes.
Yasiel Puig at Christie Pits
A free Maple Leafs baseball game at my local playground has long been the best community event in the city. Then the team signed a former Major League Baseball star awaiting sentencing.
Kids Aren’t Active Enough. Youth Sports Are Part of the Problem.
As competitive, specialized athletics dominate gyms and community fields, the children who need physical activity most are the ones being left out.
The Grand Ambitions and Grubby Indignities of the Aspiring Soccer Referee
Making it pro as a referee in Canada is in many ways harder than making it pro as a player. That doesn’t stop this corps of exacting, self-serious officials from trying.
An Illustrated Guide to the FIFA World Cup in Toronto
How many private jets could this pay for? Seven illustrations to make sense of the costs and payoffs of hosting the World Cup.