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  By Pierre Filion pierrefilion@bell.net We have been writing often about the mistruth s that c h aracteri z e Lacrosse Canada’s information system; the information is out there (often times hard to locate) but it is so often incomplete, biased or inaccurate that we need to highlight our point with a series of examples, that illustrate the point; our point is that Lacrosse Canada creates its own problems. HOW MANY PLAYERS ARE MEMBERS OF LACROSSE CANADA? Now that is a simple question and there is a simple answer. In 2025 there were 52,782 registered lacrosse players in Canada. What is beyond understanding is why is it that Lacrosse Canada does not simply come out and share that information with its readers on the website? Nowhere will you find a statement indicat i ng clearly the real number of registered lacrosse players in Canada . Nowhere. Yet Lacrosse Canada has that information in November every year. It collects it from the provinces and shares it discretely with AGM ...

  What’s Our Mission?    By Dennis Kehoe If you leaf through the constitution of almost any lacrosse organization in Canada—local, provincial, or national—you ’ ll find a  sentence under “Mission Statement”  that has  now  survived longer than  some countries .  The Mission statement   typically  reads  as  some variation of:  “To foster and promote lacrosse as the National Game of Canada.” That sentence has been with us since September 26, 1867, when the National Lacrosse Association was formed in Kingston, Ontario. One hundred and fifty-nine years is a long time to repeat anything without  revisiting whether it’s still relevant, and  what it  actually means .   T he problem with old mission statements is that they fossilize. They turn into slogans that no one interrogates, even when the world around them changes completely. So  it is worth asking the awkward question: if lacrosse is alr...

IS THE RE HOPE FOR SOMETHING CALLED TRUST A T LACROSSE CANADA? by Pierre Filion pierrefilion@bell.net Our last post dealt with the history and culture of mistrust at Lacrosse Canada. Readers all had their own horror stories and seemed to think that there was no solution to the culture of mistrust. I disagree and want to contribute, as positively as possible, to some sort of improvement in the relationships that lacrosse people have with one another. Here are some pathways that could be considered. 1.Just tell the truth I know, I know, no one lies in lacrosse. Everyone tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth! Yet we are an association of Pino c chios ! I also know that it is totally naïve to suggest that people should tell the truth as there will be hundreds of reasons not to really engage in telling the truth. So , I’ll leave this to everyone’s assessment, but still will suggest that when dealing with members, in a democratic and open association, leaders shou...