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Canadian Forces Member Vandalized Rehtaeh Parsons Suicide Wikipedia Page

The father of one of the four boys who gang-raped Rehtaeh Parsons edited her Wikipedia suicide page, wrote that her vicious attack was "consensual sex." The post Canadian Forces Member Vandalized...

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Brigette DePape and the youth insurgency against Harper

Why game-changing activist Brigette DePape's Get Out the Youth Vote tour is a much-needed youth democratic insurgency against Stephen Harper. The post Brigette DePape and the youth insurgency against...

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Theland’s 134km walk for children of missing and murdered indigenous women

Theland Kicknosway, an 11 year old Pottawatami Cree boy, walked-and-ran 134 km from Ottawa to Kitigan Zibi, Quebec, to "bring attention to the children of missing and murdered Indigenous women." The...

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Lauren Bialystok: Empty Schools Campaign denies children essential education

Opponents of Ontario's sex education curriculum are denying children essential education, argues Lauren Bialystok, an Assistant Professor of Ethics and Education at the University of Toronto's Ontario...

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Climate change will harm the world’s poorest children “first, hardest, and...

In a new report titled Unless We Act Now, UNICEF says "climate change will harm the poorest and most vulnerable children first, hardest, and longest.” The time to act is now! The post Climate change...

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Canada racially discriminates against First Nations children, tribunal rules

In a landmark decision issued Tuesday, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled that Canada racially discriminates against First Nations children. "This is a great day for First Nations children and...

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The Mental and Physical Trauma of “Dreamers” Living With Deportation Threats

Since Trump's election, the future of Daniela Vargas and more than 750,000 recipients of former president Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has been uncertain. Most of them now...

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Put Muslim characters who don’t need to be ‘saved’ on school reading lists

Children’s stories either written by Muslim writers or featuring Muslim main characters are typically nonexistent or problematic in their representations of Muslim experiences, writes Heba Elsherief, a...

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Canada racially discriminates against First Nations children, tribunal rules

In a landmark decision issued Tuesday, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled that Canada racially discriminates against First Nations children. "This is a great day for First Nations children and...

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The Mental and Physical Trauma of “Dreamers” Living With Deportation Threats

Since Trump's election, the future of Daniela Vargas and more than 750,000 recipients of former president Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has been uncertain. Most of them now...

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Put Muslim characters who don’t need to be ‘saved’ on school reading lists

Children’s stories either written by Muslim writers or featuring Muslim main characters are typically nonexistent or problematic in their representations of Muslim experiences, writes Heba Elsherief, a...

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