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BC Lions and TELUS Raise the Game Campaign Donates $20,000 to I·SPARC

                     FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2021/152) November 24, 2021 BC Lions and TELUS Raise the Game Campaign Donates $20,000 to I·SPARC Football campaign supports the health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples in BC Traditional Territory of the Quw’utsun (Cowichan) Tribes / Duncan B.C. (November 24, 2021) – The Indigenous Sport, Physical Activity and Recreation Council (I·SPARC), the BC Lions and TELUS are pleased to announce that the CFL Raise the Game Campaign [...]

By |2025-04-04T16:33:05-07:00November 24th, 2021|0 Comments
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Honouring Residential School Survivors and Children Who Did Not Make It Home

Orange Shirt Day - 2021 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation A time to honour and uplift Survivors of residential schools Today, September 30, 2021, we take time to honour the lost children, Survivors of residential schools, their families, and communities. We, at I·SPARC, understand that the tragic and painful history and reality of residential schools continues to have ongoing negative impacts on our peoples, families, and communities. Through sport, physical activity, and recreation, we can come together unified in strength to heal [...]

By |2022-06-01T01:44:26-07:00September 30th, 2021|0 Comments
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Halifax 2023 North American Indigenous Games Announced

Victoria, BC (July 12, 2021) – Following the postponement of the Halifax 2020 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) due to the COVID-19 pandemic, today the NAIG Council and the Halifax NAIG Host Society announced that the next Games are confirmed to take place July 15 to 23, 2023 in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) and Millbrook First Nation, Nova Scotia. This is welcome news that we hope will inspire and motivate youth who have the goal of competing at the Games. The Halifax [...]

By |2022-06-01T01:44:26-07:00July 12th, 2021|0 Comments
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2021 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships Cancelled Due to Uncertainty of COVID-19

(OTTAWA, ON - September 22, 2020) - The Aboriginal Sport Circle (ASC), through its Board of Directors, has passed a motion to cancel the 2021 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships (NAHC). The games were to be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 1-9, 2021, hosted by the Manitoba Aboriginal Sports and Recreation Council at the Seven Oaks Arena. The ASC's decision to cancel next year's event was made to safeguard the health of its fans, players, volunteers and the Canadian community at [...]

By |2022-06-01T01:44:28-07:00October 5th, 2020|0 Comments
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Halifax 2020 North American Indigenous Games Postponement Plan Extended

Victoria, BC (September 18, 2020) – Today, the North American Indigenous Games Council announced that the Halifax 2020 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) will be further postponed due to the ongoing situation with the global COVID-19 pandemic. The Halifax 2020 NAIG was set to bring together over 5,000 Indigenous participants from across North America to compete in the multi-sport event and to celebrate cultural heritage in July of 2020.  Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced on March [...]

By |2022-06-01T01:44:28-07:00September 18th, 2020|0 Comments
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NAIG at HOME: Interview with Waneek Horn Miller

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN!  Information: Jarvis Googoo (Associate Director of Health for the Atlantic Policy Congress) and Indigenous Canadian Olympian Waneek Horn Miller discuss mental health, sport and how the pandemic has impacted indigenous communities. NAIG at Home is hosted by the NAIG 2020 Host Society in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) in Mi'kma'ki on the traditional and ancestral lands of the Mi’kmaq Nation. Join Jarvis Googoo on Tuesday at 7pm ET for a conversation on mental health with Waneek Horn-Miller. Join [...]

By |2022-06-01T01:44:28-07:00July 9th, 2020|0 Comments
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Team BC basketball players win Provincial High School titles

Team BC 16U team member Lakresha Edwards (left) won the girls AAA championships with the Abbotsford Panthers. While 19U Team BC development squad members Lagi Vaa, Tiana Sacco and Jewel Leeson won the AA girls championships with the Britannia Bruins. Team BC basketball players win Provincial High School titles Team BC 19U development squad players Kai Leighton and Kaden Pagens helped the Charles Haynes Rainmakers win the BC High School Sports AA Basketball Championships. Congratulations go out to [...]

By |2022-06-01T01:44:28-07:00March 25th, 2020|0 Comments
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Video: Basketball truly a family-affair for Lafontaines

By Kristi Patton Team BC Communications Coordinator Basketball truly is a family affair for Team BC's Lafontaine family. Coaches, referees and players - Team BC's Lafontaine family has it all. The Métis family, from Kelowna, B.C., have a long history with the Team BC program where they chase their dreams and give back to the game of basketball. Kaitlyn Lafontaine Hait, an alum of the Vancouver Island University Mariners varsity basketball program and the oldest of the four [...]

By |2022-06-01T01:44:28-07:00February 26th, 2020|0 Comments
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Team BC 14U male basketball team will have a big presence on the court

14U male basketball tryouts in Richmond, November 2019. Team BC 14U male team will have a big presence on the court When it comes to basketball height matters and fortunately for the Team BC 14U male team, that will compete at the Halifax 2020 North American Indigenous Games, they have it.  “I have three traditional point guards and many players six feet or taller and all are pretty good ball handlers, which is impressive,” said head coach Kenneth [...]

By |2022-06-01T01:44:28-07:00January 23rd, 2020|0 Comments
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16U female basketball players the right ‘fit’ for Team BC  

16U female basketball players the right ‘fit’ for Team BC   Nothing has been more difficult in Terry Monture’s coaching career than narrowing down the roster for the 16U female basketball team that will represent B.C. at the Halifax 2020 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) in July.  “I have been coaching for 47 years and that was a tough, tough weekend,” said Monture, referring to the recent BC Indigenous Provincial Basketball Camp  for basketball, held at the Richmond Olympic Oval, where [...]

By |2022-06-01T01:44:29-07:00December 4th, 2019|0 Comments
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