Sport can boost young people's physical health, mental well-being and social skills, and fewer girls participating means more of them are missing out on these benefits. But with women's sports surging worldwide, closing Canada's gender gap in participation ...

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From the moment I started school, I took every opportunity to run, jump, skip and hop that I could. PE lessons, sports days, playground games of tag and hopscotch – I loved it all, and so did the majority of my classmates. As an innately competitive ...