Garbage Gang is tidying a neighbourhood near you
The focus for group members was to pick up and photograph at least one piece of trash, but it turned into a larger educational movement.
Toronto friends spent lockdown helping homeless people
Through The Basket Project, Jack Tomé, Alex Mastromarini and Nathan Lee created bundles that they handed out to the city’s homeless population.
Surging COVID-19 cases put Ontario’s delayed school break on shaky ground
Premier Doug Ford declined to say if students would get their deferred March break amid spiking COVID-19 cases, while Education Minister Stephen Lecce said "delay not cancel" remains true until he hears otherwise from medical advisers.
Masks and online learning help Ontario schools with COVID-19
Elementary teachers in Ontario have filed fewer COVID-19 workplace insurance claims per capita than their counterparts in British Columbia. How big a role did masks on kids play in that?
My teeny, tiny South Asian wedding
Until COVID-19 hit, South Asian weddings were often elaborate affairs with hundreds, even thousands, of guests.
No cash relief, but training credit, in budget for young Ontarians
The 2021 Ontario budget won’t boost the bank balances of young people a few years out of high school nor help them pay off their education debt, but will help cover some training costs for a new job.
Ontario budget includes larger third round of help for parents
Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government will spend almost $1 billion on a third round of direct aid to parents, this one double the size of previous payments.
Racialized Toronto youth prepare to change the world
Serisha Iyar, 25, launched Leading in Colour in July 2019, an organization aimed at giving racialized youth a voice and, more importantly, the ability and tools needed to mobilize to create real change.
Youth express climate fears, hopes through art
“The climate issue is so intersectional. It hits housing, it hits social justice, the pandemic — we want to explore all of that,” says Abby Neufeld, co-founder of The New Twenties, a writers’ collective and magazine aiming to shape discourse around climate issues.
What the Ford government's budget could mean for Ontario students, teachers
Students and recent graduates are unlikely to find a tuition cut or loan relief in Wednesday’s Ontario budget, while one-time classroom funding tied to the COVID-19 pandemic is in play for a government uncomfortable with big spending.
Youth activists shut down Bay Street, demanding climate promises be kept
Young activists blocked traffic in the heart of Toronto’s financial district for hours on Friday as part of a global action demanding governments take more drastic steps to curb carbon emissions.
Toronto independent school raising $5M for new senior campus
Kingsway College School in Toronto’s west end is selling $4 million of community bonds (and taking donations) to fund the construction and renovation of a 40,000-square foot senior school site over two floors of a lakeshore condominium.
These young people help others break down work barriers
The youth council at Opportunity For All Youth knows first-hand the barriers marginalized young people face finding employment and is working to reduce or eliminate them.
Young Toronto musicians join industry push for climate action
Teenage indie folk duo Moscow Apartment are among the scores of Canadian musicians joining a global movement to reimagine how the music industry tackles the climate emergency and demand more drastic government and corporate action to address it.
New data tool shows how COVID-19 hurts some young Canadians more than others
The country’s national statistics agency has pulled together a one-stop shop of data collected about young people’s lives since the COVID-19 pandemic began, showing how the most vulnerable have been hit hardest.