Hockey N.S. launches pilot program to teach young players about consent, hazing

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Kailee Wakeman, Avalon’s director of operations, says the centre received many emails from concerned parents and coaches following the incident and it hosted a webinar in February to teach them how to discuss consent and hazing with young players.

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She says the new program for players builds on the success of the webinar and aims to teach them how to recognize discrimination, harassment, pressure, hazing and coercion.

“We’re hoping … that we can help change team cultures because sports cultures can often include hazing in ways that people think it strengthens a team and there’s so much research that shows that it doesn’t,” Wakeman said in an interview Wednesday.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 7, 2026.

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