Category | CEO Blog | Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada

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 are scared. Toronto is experiencing its fourth straight year of ever-increasing gun violence. In the...

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Jun 08

Time to Connect

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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 fingertips—computers, phones, tablets—are meant to serve us rather than rule us … and we still...

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Apr 27

Federal Funding For STEM Empowers A New Generation Of Canadians

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By Owen Charters Over March break, Isabella got to try her hand at engineering. Volunteers from Tru Grit Engineering showed her and other members of Boys and Girls Clubs of Thunder Bay how to make toy cars. Technically, they were introduced to problem-solving, propulsion physics, mechanics and mathematics. But Isabella summed it up in a...

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Let’s empower youth to step up and speak out

Time to Connect

Federal Funding For STEM Empowers A New Generation Of Canadians

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