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Our Kid Tech Nation online portal is live!

Our Kid Tech Nation online portal is live!

We are excited to announce the launch of our new Kid Tech Nation online portal! Kid Tech Nation is a Boys and Girls Club of Canada national program that introduces children aged 7 – 12 to computational thinking, coding, and...

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Leadership Blog

Let’s empower youth to step up and speak out

By Owen Charters *this op-ed was recently published in the Toronto Star, Maclean’s, and Huffington Post. Brazen. Public. Daylight. More and more these words are showing up in news reports about gun crime. Shootings are happening on playgrounds now, and we know kids...

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A mile in moccasins

As part of our Youth Leading Reconciliation program, eleven youth and five staff members from BGC across Canada visited the Saddle Lake Cree Nation reserve in Alberta for a cross-cultural exchange. The Youth Leading Reconciliation (YLR) program was born out...

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Real people, real connections.

By Shannon, Tyrell, Katie, and James, members of BGC Canada’s National Youth Council If, like us, you were born in the last 20 years, chances are you’re reading this on a smartphone and you haven’t looked up recently. In 2016,...

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Time to Connect

We all do it—answer a text during dinner, play one last game on our phone when we should be working, or compulsively check who has liked our latest post. As adults, most of us know that the technology at our...

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Real People, Real Connections: Join BGC and Unplug to Connect!

Hundreds of thousands of kids and their families. Corporations and local businesses. Young and old alike. On June 1, BGC are inviting Canadians from coast to coast to coast to join us to Unplug to Connect! For one hour (or...

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Join BGC and Unplug to Connect!

Hundreds of thousands of kids and their families. Corporations and local businesses. Young and old alike. On June 1, BGC are inviting Canadians from coast to coast to coast to join us and Unplug to Connect! For one hour (or...

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Privilege is not just for the privileged

BGC Canada is proud to launch a new public service announcement that demonstrates the crucial work our Clubs do to better the lives of children and youth across the country. Developed for web, TV, cinema, and print, the PSA takes...

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Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada announces new partnership with Barrick

Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada announces new partnership with Barrick

Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Barrick Gold Corporation that will support our national digital education program Kid Tech Nation. Generously funded by the Government of Canada’s CanCode program, created in collaboration with...

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