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Canadian professional ice hockey player Akim Aliu (Photograph by Jalani Morgan)

Hockey’s chance to reckon with its culture of abuse

The biggest question this season isn’t who wins the Stanley Cup, but whether the game finally deals with revelations of bullying, racism, misogyny and homophobia
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#MeToo’s influence reaches coaches’ corner

Anne Kingston: Two years after the first mass movement to protest sexual harassment and assault, we see the testing of new tolerances play out in the hockey arena
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Don Cherry was an unchanging man in a changing world. Finally, the world caught him out.

Cherry’s antiquated ideas about being Canadian and about the place of violence in hockey made him both off-putting and irrelevant. Hockey could learn from his exit.
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How Don Cherry resisted Canada’s brownface

Erica Ifill: Canadian hockey and Don Cherry walked hand in hand for 40 years without noticing that they lost an entire generation of highly diverse viewers
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Don Cherry fired by Sportsnet following offensive on-air comments

Cherry singled out new immigrants in Toronto and Mississauga, Ont., where he lives, for not honouring Canada’s veterans and dead soldiers
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Twitter reacts to Don Cherry’s poppy rant

The hockey commentator made bigoted remarks on national television. What else is new? Here’s what Canadians had to say.
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If Don Cherry called the 2015 election campaign

You know what this too-long campaign really needs? Some Coach’s Corner colour commentary.
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How much can you make for not playing sports?

Salaries for referees, umpires, commissioners and Don Cherry
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10 tips from Don Cherry

’When wearing a striped shirt, only a plain tie’ . . . and other tips from the Coach’s Corner