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Coroner’s Inquest into Search and Rescue Death
On November 24, a coroner’s inquest into the death of search and rescue volunteer Sheilah Sweatman released its recommendations. Sweatmen drowned while trying to recover the body of a woman in a vehic… more →
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A different look at Mt. Everest fatality Stats
wrote 4 months ago: Avalanches, crevasse falls, and falling rock and ice are also inherentrisks and should be regarded a … more →
Coroner’s Inquest into Search and Rescue Death - By Associate Professor: Jon Heshka
wrote 5 months ago: Coroner’s Inquest into Search and Rescue Death On November 24, a coroner’s inquest into the death o … more →
Coroner’s Inquest into Search and Rescue Death
wrote 5 months ago: On November 24, a coroner’s inquest into the death of search and rescue volunteer Sheilah Sweatman r … more →
Hockey coach sentenced to 2 years for multiple sexual assaults to minors
wrote 1 year ago: In a case whose perpetrator’s actions span three decades and has attracted a considerable amou … more →
Jon Heshka also interviewed for Global News
wrote 1 year ago: Faculty memeber Jon Heshka had a busy weekend full of news interviews. This article in Global News i … more →
Faculty Member interviewed on CBC Sports
wrote 1 year ago: Faculty member Jon Heshka was interviewed by CBC Sports this past weekend. The interview is entitled … more →
The real risk in extreme sports
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wrote 1 year ago: The Vancouver Sun published on February 1st an op-ed piece about risk in extreme sports (click here … more →
Perspective and Probability in Heli-skiing
wrote 1 year ago: I was interviewed on Radio NL 610 AM late last week in regards to two avalanche fatalities in the fi … more →
Ask not for whom the bell tolls
wrote 1 year ago: The words “Ask not for whom the bell tolls” should be ringing loudly at NHL headquarters following J … more →
Battle of the Beers
wrote 1 year ago: Sports Litigation Alert (Volume 8, Issue 19) just published a short piece I wrote entitled, ‘Battle … more →
Police recommend assault charges in lacrosse head stomping incident
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wrote 1 year ago: The Canary reported in June 2011 that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) were investigating an … more →
Risk, free markets and free will
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wrote 1 year ago: It is interesting to note that in the last couple of days, National Football League Pittsburgh Steel … more →
Off Duty
wrote 1 year ago: Solicitors Journal (Vol 155 no 38) just published a piece (click here for the full article) Kris and … more →
Risk and Responsibility
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wrote 1 year ago: Gripped climbing magazine just published an article (http://gripped.com/2011/10/sections/articles/ri … more →
A (head) shot across the NHL’s bow?
wrote 1 year ago: The Globe and Mail – Canada’s national newspaper – just published a piece I wrote relating the … more →
NFL sued for failure to protect ex-players from concussions
wrote 1 year ago: As speculated in Ben McGrath’s excellent piece in The New Yorker on 31 January 2011 (click here for … more →
Hot dog eating - sport or spectacle?
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wrote 1 year ago: Kris is spearheading a study investigating the merits of recognising cheerleading as a sport. As not … more →
International Cheerleading survey launched at: www.staffs.ac.uk/cheerdebate
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wrote 1 year ago: AN INTERNATIONAL survey into cheerleading and whether it should be recognised as a sport has been la … more →
Changing the culture of violence in sport
wrote 1 year ago: I wrote last week of the lacrosse head stomping incident. A colleague of mine at Thompson Rivers Uni … more →
