Demographer Richard Cincotta of the Stimson Center in Washington DC has compiled some intriguing facts about revolution and the age of populations. His analysis not only enables him to predict if a revolution will occur in a particular country but whet…

The Toronto’s Best High School Dance Crew finals were a celebration of movement, expression, and the life of a young dancer who inspired his peers.

Hundreds of excited high school students packed Ryerson Theatre on Saturday to take in the finals of Toronto’s Best High School Dance Crew, a hip-hop dance competition. The impressive lineup of amateur dancers from across the GTA thrilled the crowd and shook the stage. They also paid a classy and heartfelt tribute to a departed [...]

We are a group of high school students who call ourselves “Youth 4 Climate Justice Now,” and we are organizing this year’s Vancouver Earth Day Parade & Celebration, hoping to build upon last year’s Earth Day event that broug…

This is part of a 3-part series on LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying education, centring around the Day of Silence, which encourages students to take a vow of silence for the day, to bring attention to anti-LGBT bullying and harassment. It occurs on April …

This is part of a 3-part series on LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying education, centring around the Day of Silence, which encourages students to take a vow of silence for the day, to bring attention to anti-LGBT bullying and harassment. It occurs on April …

Does your community want to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee? Canadian Heritage is making funding available for community celebrations in honour of the Queen’s 60-year-reign. Click here to learn more.
The Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation’s 2nd National Rural Research Workshop: Policy & Research in Community Investment is May 24th and 25th in Ottawa, Ontario. [...]

It was on the front page of the Ottawa Citizen’s March 17 “Saturday Observer”  section. The paper sat on a table beside Mom’s comfy chair, where she keeps anything she wants to pass along to me.  She knows that, like Jamie Hub…

My name is Gabrielle de Montigny and I am 20 years old. I currently live in Toronto, Ont. and I would like to share my story.
First of all, I would like to state how deeply hurt and saddened I am by the Conservative government’s decision to cut the Kat…

Announcing a bad policy 10 years in advance doesn’t make it a good policy.
So the fact that the Harper government is giving people at least 10 years to prepare for two years of life without an important source of income, hardly makes it OK — as so man…

For those of us internationals who care deeply about Palestine, it is hard to know just how to make a real difference. Probably the most significant way we can help is to change the foreign policy of our government (particularly if we are American). Bu…

The federal government’s budget gets a failing grade when it comes to intergenerational equity.
The government has outlined priorities with clear winners and clear losers, and the line drawn in the sand places the biggest burden on my generation. From …

I join the outcry today over the sentencing of convicted serial pedophile Graham James to two years in prison for the sexual abuse of Theo Fleury and Todd Holt. Counter-intuitively (because I knew it would just get me stirred up) I watched the news co…

Twenty-somethings value fame and money over community

A few years ago I attended an event where science reporter Bob MacDonald, of CBC Quirks and Quarks fame, spoke passionately about the importance of science. He gave examples about how we thought the world was flat but science proved otherwise, and how …

I reached another marker this week in my posthumous, intriguing, fan-like relationship with Montréal poet Émile Nelligan (1879-1941) when Craig’s partner, Claude, drove me to the site of his burial in Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges. Even with…

For the last year and a half, the Urban Alliance on Race Relations’ Making Noise GV CAMP has been working with organizations across Toronto to hold conversations with young racialized women and LGBTQ youth about gender-based violence, community account…

We’re flooded with stories about Greece and the Euro and the European Union leaders and their deals.  Blah, blah, blah.  What these stories almost always overlook are the real victims, Europe’s young people.   They are on the verge …

Contributors to this blog — and CCPA experts — have been warning about the negative economic and social consequences of rising inequality for decades.
Now the even the 0.0001 per cent are getting concerned. Experts polled for the Global Risks Report …

The Canadian Federation of Students, and most of the people we have spoken to, is at a loss over how the government thinks it can increase student and youth employment without direct state intervention into the economy via wage subsidies and/or direct …