The Narwhal https://thenarwhal.ca Deep Dives, Cold Facts, & Pointed Commentary en-US Copyright 2026 The Narwhal hourly 1 Not everyone in Canada can swim. A former Olympic coach in Waterloo is trying to change that https://thenarwhal.ca/swimming-lessons-equity-waterloo/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=81682 By teaching Black and other racialized people to swim for free, Jacky Beckford Henriques and her team are taking on a historic Canadian inequity Perry King On the ground environmental racism Ontario After spending the first decade of the millennium as head coach of Jamaica’s national swim team through three Olympic games, Beckford Henriques came to Waterloo, where she has been the university’s head swim coach since 2017.