Young climate strikers express a mix of anger and optimism when speaking about environmental politics, but for students not engaged in the climate movement, it’s more like resigned indifference.
The extended restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic have been especially tough on the mental health of 2SLGBTQ+ youth experiencing precarious housing, who are forced to spend more time in unsupportive homes or find alternatives without access to shuttered services.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be returning to Ottawa without the majority government mandate Liberals had hoped for when he called the early election last month.
Younger voters make up around 40 per cent of the electorate but are often seen as unmotivated to participate in the electoral process. Here are some of those who did show up on Monday on what matters to them.
Black youth made to feel unwelcome in Toronto’s nightclub district have developed their own club culture largely hidden from view, one that is being celebrated in an online exhibit that launched this month.
Paris Cai and a growing network of high school and university students are helping hundreds of Grade 1 to Grade 7 students in need of academic assistance in Ontario and some outside of Canada with free online tutoring.
An organization calling itself Canadian Frontline Nurses posted notices of “silent vigils” expected to take place in all 10 provinces, saying they're meant to critique public health measures put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19.
This isn’t the time to humour their irrational beliefs, or cater to their selective interpretation of our Constitution and its contents, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
The decision to change its name comes as the university faces closer scrutiny of its namesake, whose ideas on public education helped inform the creation of the country’s residential school system.
The three major pediatric hospitals issued guidance tougher than the provincial directive given the unique vulnerabilities of their patients and clients, more than 70 per cent of whom cannot get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The University of Toronto now says all who wish to walk its reopened halls must declare they are fully vaccinated or get tested twice a week, and a federation of the province’s faculty associations says the Ford government should enforce the same on all Ontario campuses.