{"id":433419,"date":"2023-04-17T06:12:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T10:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433419"},"modified":"2023-04-17T04:50:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T08:50:31","slug":"federal-government-set-to-restore-hockey-canada-funding","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/federal-government-set-to-restore-hockey-canada-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal government set to restore Hockey Canada funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canada government is ready to restore funding to Hockey Canada after the body met three conditions to make the sport safer, said Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Hockey Canada didn&#8217;t receive any money last year when the national governing body came under scrutiny over its handling of sexual assault allegations from players.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hockey Canada says it has had its funding restored from the Government of Canada, which was rescinded as a result of the governing body\u2019s handling of a sexual assault by members of the 2018 World Junior Championship team. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IVzP04c6NS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/IVzP04c6NS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frank_seravalli\/status\/1647709773431701507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today marks an important milestone for Hockey Canada in our journey to earn and maintain the trust of Canadians,&#8221; said Hugh Fraser, chair of the Hockey Canada Board of Directors. &#8220;While I would like to thank Minister St-Onge and the government for their vote of confidence and for their ongoing efforts to prioritize safe sport in Canada, I also wish to stress that we still have work to do to change the culture of our sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CBC reported that Hockey Canada received $7.7 million from Sport Canada in the 2022 fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canada government is ready to restore funding to Hockey Canada after the body met three conditions to make the sport safer, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":433420,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[18845],"acf":{"announce":"The federation came under scrutiny over its handling of sexual assault allegations","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433419"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433419"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}