A year and a half ago, facing allegations of an unsafe environment at our Senior National Team and at a time when social and sporting worlds were calling for increased diversity, representation, inclusivity and safety, Canada Artistic Swimming (CAS) embarked on [...]
Canada Artistic Swimming is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement to join Abuse-Free Sport, the new independent program to prevent and address maltreatment in sport. Canada Artistic Swimming and its stakeholders at the national level will have access [...]
A one-step confidential reporting mechanism has been added to Canada Artistic Swimming’s (CAS) comprehensive practices to create a safe and welcoming sport environment. Clicking on the Make a Report button takes users from the CAS or Member website directly to a bilingual, [...]
Following months of work and extensive consultation, Canada Artistic Swimming (CAS) has unveiled its comprehensive Safe and Welcoming Sport Policy Suite. The suite was developed by the CAS Governance Committee, working closely with Benoit Girardin of LBB Sport and in consultation [...]
As she leads Canada Artistic Swimming’s (CAS) extensive culture change program, Lindsay Duncan, Chair of the Rise Up Management Committee (RUMC) says “We know that culture change takes time. Though we can see some encouraging progress, we know there is a [...]
Canada Artistic Swimming has published a summary of the actions and ongoing projects related to “Rise Up: an action plan for a safe and inclusive environment”, initiated in April 2021. During the quarter, we have focused on a number of [...]
The Rise Up Management Committee (RUMC) has published its first quarterly report, based on the action plan for a safe and inclusive environment, initiated last April. In these initial months of "Rise Up", we have focused on putting together a strong [...]
A team of leaders from the Canada Artistic Swimming (CAS) community is drawing together to “Rise Up” to address the cultural challenges faced by CAS and to direct and support cultural change across all levels of the organization. The Rise [...]
A strong signal from Canada Artistic Swimming in the pursuit of its action plan for safe and inclusive sport. Today, Canada Artistic Swimming (CAS) announced a new partnership with ALIAS, a Canadian company specializing in on-line reporting mechanisms. This [...]
Canada Artistic Swimming has been wrestling with a series of challenging safe sport situations over the past few months. These situations have shone a light on the connection between safe sport and diversity and inclusion. CAS was undertaking work to create [...]
