TORONTO — A new study finds there's a disconnect between how hazing on sports teams in Canada is perceived and the realities of toxic culture.
TORONTO — A new study finds there's a disconnect between how hazing on sports teams in Canada is perceived and the realities of toxic culture.
"People will often say to me about hazing specifically 'what? that's still happening?' and I will say back, 'well, who stopped it?'" said Allison Forsyth, founder of Generation Safe and a former Canadian Olympic Alpine skier."We get stuck thinking that when we put in place a hazing policy, that suddenly the behaviour is going to miraculously disappear, but we don't educate and have respect for where that behaviour was coming from in the first place.
"Hazing is a spectrum from pranks all the way to criminal activity and what we need to do is not decide, as human beings with our own bias and experience, 'well, that's not bad,' because we're always going to do what's reflective of our own experiences," she said."What we have to do is remove the conditions where really egregious things can occur."
"Team-building is really important so how can we give you solutions to do that but are different than maybe some of the activities that are currently happening?"Until the CAO's survey was completed there was a general lack of research around the topic of hazing. Cross said the report's findings fill in some blanks, not just in Ontario but across Canada and in other countries.
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