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We bring together community leaders, athletes, policymakers, practitioners, and funders to build the relationships, standards, strategies and practices that will help sport live up to its promise.
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Past Events
The Right to Play: Sport & Culture as Foundations of Human Dignity
Together with the Aga Khan Museum, we gathered for an evening talk asking a simple but radical question: what new possibilities for connection, meaning, and belonging open up when sport, play, and culture are recognized as foundations of human dignity?
Keynote speaker Janelle Joseph — award-winning scholar, Canada Research Chair in Racial Justice, Health, and Sport, and Founder of the IDEAS Research Lab — set the stage, joined by community organizers, activists, and thought leaders for a panel on putting a rights-based approach into practice.
Panellists included Hossam Khedr (Canadian Street Soccer Association), Marika Anthony-Shaw (PLUS1), and Shireen Ahmed (CBC Sports), with a light reception and a preview of the Museum's Game On! exhibition to close the night.
Inspiring the World Cup Legacy:
Access, Opportunity and Dignity Beyond 2026
We explored how Canada can create a lasting and meaningful legacy from the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup.
Renata Simril, President & CEO, LA84 Foundation / Play Equity Fund shared insights from the LA84 Foundation’s 40-year experience leveraging global sport events for lasting community impact
Community leaders from Toronto discussed how to advance equity, accountability, and investment beyond the tournament moment.
Speakers included
Rosemarie Powell, Executive Director, Toronto Community Benefits Network
Tanya Mruck, Vice President, Community Engagement & Social Impact, MLSE and Executive Director, MLSE Foundation
Zenia Wadhwani, Director, Community Resources, City of Toronto
Toronto Sport Equity Hub convening
We hosted a Toronto region Forum at Victoria College, UofT for our Sport Equity Hub to help turn shared challenges into collective action.
The Sport Equity Hub brings together practitioners, policymakers, and community organisations to strengthen governance, expand access, and embed dignity in local sport systems.
Over three days in Toronto, we convened a pan-Canadian summit to reimagine sport, play, and movement as human rights, bringing together leaders from across sport, community, health, education, culture, and government. PowerShift was built as an active, working space rather than a sit-back conference. A place to debate, design, and build together.
Across keynotes, panels, and storytelling, the summit moved from naming the gap between Canada's commitments and people's lived experience, to looking abroad for proof that rights-based sport governance is possible. We also explored what sport looks and feels like when communities define it on their own terms.
Throughout, every participant moved together through three facilitated workshop tracks — Policy, Practice, and Perception — that together produced a shared framing, a collective agenda, and the first act of building a Canadian Bill of Rights for Sport and Play.
Read more about the Summit here.
PowerShift 2026: Making Sport Everyone’s Game
