Tag: politics
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Haiti’s Triumph: From Vertières to the World Stage
On the anniversary of Vertières, Haiti’s 2026 World Cup qualification reclaims a history of resistance, uniting the nation and reshaping how the world sees it.
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Winnipeg Hosts Grey Cup on 140th Anniversary of Riel’s Execution
On the day Canada marked 140 years since Louis Riel’s hanging, the Grey Cup celebrated Indigenous visibility, revealing the deep contradictions of the settler state.
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Baseball as Power: Emotion, Ritual, and State Control
Baseball isn’t just a game—it’s a system of emotional management, civic identity, and state power that shapes how cities gather, feel, and understand themselves.
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Scandals, Spectacle, and the Sports We Can’t Escape
The World Series meets an NBA betting scandal, revealing how modern sports operate as ritual, soft power, and cultural theater in a politically charged era.
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Sports as Canada’s New Tool of National Statecraft
In a multipolar world defined by economic power, Canada is using sports to build cohesion, ease political divides, and consolidate the population for global competition.
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Sports, Ritual, and the Hidden Machinery of Allegiance
How modern sports act as ritual theaters that shape identity, loyalty, and political emotion, revealing the symbolic power behind our most familiar games.
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Ritual Combat and Spectacle from Antiquity to Today
From the Mesoamerican ball game to MMA, societies have used controlled danger and symbolic violence to shape identity, hierarchy, and collective meaning.
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Decolonizing Hockey and Canada’s National Story
How confronting racism, restoring Indigenous history, and reshaping power in hockey challenges the myths at the heart of Canadian national identity.
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How Sports Became the Ultimate Tool of Statecraft
We’re told sports are the great equalizer where politics doesn’t matter. But it never was, and in the last 25 years that myth has only become harder to defend.
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The Myth of Neutral Sport: Exile for Russia, Impunity for Israel
Global sport claims neutrality, yet Russia is exiled while Israel plays on. The double standard reveals sport as statecraft, not unity.
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Canada vs. USA: The Rivalry That Makes a Nation Feel Real
A Canada–USA showdown at the 2025 Worlds could deliver the rare moment when hockey becomes statecraft, emotion becomes national identity, and myth becomes meaning.
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