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Five years after Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommended sports programs reduce barriers and become more inclusive of Indigenous athletes, a panel of experts says not enough has been done to reach that goal.

The 2020 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) have been postponed until next year, in light of concerns about the novel coronavirus.

Representatives from the Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose hockey teams unveiled special jerseys bearing Indigenous-styled logos on Friday that the players will wear next week. 

At one time, Jordan McCue was down for the count after getting into a bout of fisticuffs that landed him in trouble with the law. Now, the 27-year-old Curve Lake First Nation man is still fighting, but as a professional boxer. 

Kiya Bruno, 13, will be decked out in beaded Blue Jays bling when she walks onto the field at the Rogers Centre Saturday to belt out O Canada in Cree and English.

Montreal's McGill University has announced it will change the name of its men's varsity sports teams — the Redmen — after calls from Indigenous students, faculty and staff saying the name is discriminatory.

Suzanne Fortier, the school's principal and vice-chancellor, says she needs to 'give this important question the time and space that it clearly deserves.'

A Manitoba hockey mom says things turned ugly at a peewee game in Neepawa last weekend between the Neepawa Natives and the Waywayseecappo Wolverines.

'I think the best thing is to just try to pave the way for others, so it shows that we aren't what they think,' says Ethan Bear of the Edmonton Oilers.

Boston Celtics star Kyrie Irving was smudged with sacred grasses, presented with traditional quilts and eagle feathers and given a Lakota name that means "Little Mountain" as he was welcomed Thursday into his mother's Standing Rock Sioux tribe.