CALGARY, Alberta – Hockey Canada and its Members have published their annual Tracking Maltreatment in Sanctioned Hockey report, as part of their collective efforts to better track, identify and respond to maltreatment in the sport.

The report includes nation-wide data collected during the 2024-25 season of behaviours that breach Section 11 – Maltreatment of the Hockey Canada Playing Rules, and reviews two national level complaint mechanisms: Abuse-Free Sport and the Canadian Safe Sport Program.

Sport Complaints, Hockey Canada’s Independent Third Party reporting mechanism for all hockey-related maltreatment complaints of someone affiliated with the organization beyond a national programming level, published its 2024-25 annual report here.

“Publishing our Tracking Maltreatment in Sanctioned Hockey report has become a critical, annual initiative to raise awareness of the forms of maltreatment that continue to negatively impact participants across the country each season,” said Natasha Johnston, vice-president of sport integrity for Hockey Canada. “Together with our Members, we remain steadfast in our commitment to creating safer and more inclusive spaces for participants in sanctioned hockey, and as outlined through this year’s report, we continue to work with stakeholders at all levels of the game to facilitate culture change and challenge unhealthy and unsafe behaviours.”

In December 2022, Hockey Canada and its Members published a report of all incidents of verbal taunts, insults or intimidation based on discriminatory grounds which occurred during the 2021-22 season, under Rule 11.4 – Discrimination.

The following year, the report expanded its scope to track more broad maltreatment behaviours, including the complaint intake data from the ITP and OSIC, tracking of Rule 11.4 penalties and allegations and pilot project data that tracked other maltreatment-related penalties with specific Members.

New to this year’s report, Dr. Kevin Mongeon of the University of Ottawa provided an analysis of Rule 11.4 penalties from the 2024-25 season, which includes commentary on national trends, contextual and organizational factors, re-offense data, discrimination type and community level influences incorporating census data.

As part of its efforts to better prevent and address maltreatment behaviours, Hockey Canada will continue to make national reports on maltreatment publicly available and accessible on an annual basis as part of its overall sport integrity framework.

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