{"id":79666,"date":"2022-07-29T12:37:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=79666"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:40","slug":"mckee-fixing-the-problems-at-hockey-canada-will-be-difficult-without-leadership-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/07\/mckee-fixing-the-problems-at-hockey-canada-will-be-difficult-without-leadership-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"MCKEE: Fixing the problems at Hockey Canada will be difficult without leadership changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor McKee, Assistant Professor of Sport Management at Brock University, had a piece recently published in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/fixing-the-problems-at-hockey-canada-will-be-difficult-without-leadership-changes-187751?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20July%2029%202022&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20July%2029%202022+CID_32ffbbbe0a97c23bdbd2e529f5315f80&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Fixing%20the%20problems%20at%20Hockey%20Canada%20will%20be%20difficult%20without%20leadership%20changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about the ongoing scandal at Hockey Canada and the troubling response of the organization\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTwo gruelling days of\u00a0parliamentary hearings into Hockey Canada\u2019s sexual assault scandals\u00a0have revealed deep troubles with the organization\u2019s governance, leadership and culture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Most troubling was how Hockey Canada and Canadian Hockey League officials who appeared before the committee chose to respond to questioning from members of Parliament. Their recalcitrant attitudes suggest that change under the current leadership will be impossible.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The House of Commons\u00a0committee on Canadian Heritage\u00a0was looking into Hockey Canada\u2019s handling of allegations of the group sexual assault of a woman by members of the 2018 men\u2019s world junior team at a celebration event in London, Ont., held months after the tournament.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A number of sports experts from across the country sent\u00a0an open letter\u00a0to the parliamentary committee expressing their concerns that \u201csexual violence and misogyny are deeply rooted problems in men\u2019s ice hockey.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Unfortunately, at the end of two days of hearings, there are far more questions regarding Canadian hockey culture than answers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/fixing-the-problems-at-hockey-canada-will-be-difficult-without-leadership-changes-187751?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20July%2029%202022&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20July%2029%202022+CID_32ffbbbe0a97c23bdbd2e529f5315f80&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Fixing%20the%20problems%20at%20Hockey%20Canada%20will%20be%20difficult%20without%20leadership%20changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/fixing-the-problems-at-hockey-canada-will-be-difficult-without-leadership-changes-187751?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20July%2029%202022&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20July%2029%202022+CID_32ffbbbe0a97c23bdbd2e529f5315f80&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Fixing%20the%20problems%20at%20Hockey%20Canada%20will%20be%20difficult%20without%20leadership%20changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor McKee, Assistant Professor of Sport Management at Brock University, had a piece recently published in the The Conversation about the ongoing scandal at Hockey Canada and the troubling response of the organization\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,6],"tags":[7488,57,10657,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79675,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79666\/revisions\/79675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}