Next Gen Insider

Young climate protesters say vague green ambition in the federal government’s throne speech has added further motivation as they prepare to take to the streets of Toronto and some 50 other Canadian cities and towns on Friday.

Young people reacted with frustration and disappointment after the federal Liberal government’s throne speech Wednesday said little about how Ottawa would help them recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Young people want to see a green rebuilding and universal basic income included in the roadmap the Liberal government will lay out on Wednesday for how the country can recover from COVID-19.

Nearly all of Ontario’s elementary and secondary students are either back in class or set up for virtual learning. At the same time, the province’s COVID-19 cases are steadily rising and two schools are already closed again.

It still had more than its fair share of dirty tricks, but the first ranked ballot vote for city council in an Ontario municipality also gave London a younger, more diverse council and one more representative of its population.

The how and why of ranked ballots, a form of preferential voting that advocates say can encourage a more diverse field of candidates and engender a more collaborative and collegial form of campaigning and governance.

The senior city staffer, Ulli Watkiss, is recommending that Toronto council stop getting ranked ballots ready for the 2022 municipal election, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. Advocates have pushed for a decade to ditch first-past-the-post voting in favour of a preferential voting system they say increases the diversity of candidates and improves the tenor of campaigns.

Many of Ontario’s growing number of new COVID-19 cases are in the Greater Toronto Area and some have already shown up in schools, while parents and teachers worry about minimally spaced classrooms and buses exacerbating a potential second wave.

The rooming houses can be “extremely subdivided,” with anywhere between three to 16 rooms in a three-storey, single-family townhouse, said student Nathi Mbuso Zamisa.

With all the reminders to wash your hands, students should also think about how to practise good cyber hygiene, such as encryption, VPNs, software updates, and password management.

Pivot 2020 is a youth mission to find out how cities can be improved in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the group is hiring 1,200 young people and training them to research and analyse the concerns of their peers.

More than a hundred young people from across Canada are logging on to a summit this week to solve problems related to the future of work, where automation is expected to upend even more industries. It is backed by one of the country’s biggest banks, which is meanwhile pushing for Canada to expand its digital export of post-secondary education.

Post-secondary student unions are mobilizing to deliver limited services in-person while promoting a virtual campus life experience.

From quarantine ships to paintings of diseases as “transcendental entities,” a Toronto architecture student is mapping out historical and visual artifacts to examine how design has adapted through plagues of the past.

Only one of 88 core faculty members at U of T's architecture school identifies as Black, and two identify as Indigenous, according to the student-led Daniels Do Better campaign.