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By Owen Charters Earlier this year, I was honoured to attend and speak at the opening ceremony of the National Association of Friendship Centres Annual General Meeting in Ottawa. It was a wonderful experience—I was part of the Grand Entry, following drummers ...
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, ...
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, 76% of Canadians owned a ...
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 more), unplug from your devices and ...
By: Ashley Whiteman, Emily Vandermeer, Karine Gauthier, Kianna Benson, and Shealah Hart As young Canadians, we watched with interest as youth in the United States mobilized in large numbers around the issue of gun violence, organizing marches and protests around ...
TORONTO, Feb. 5, 2018 - Nothing but net for kids across Canada as Sun Life Financial, the Toronto Raptors, and the NBA team up to expand the highly successful Sun Life Dunk for Diabetes program to 20 BGC within the regions of Vancouver, ...
BGC Canada is proud to share WestJet’s Christmas Miracle video, WestJet’s 12 Flights of Christmas, which celebrates the joy of Christmas through the eyes of youth from BGC Canada. Share our Facebook and Twitter posts! Over 12 days in November, WestJet ...
Over the last seven weeks, I have felt my daily routine take on a new purpose: I wake up every morning excited to head to my summer job. I’m one of the lucky ones. For thousands of youth across Canada, finding a summer job is a stressful and worrying ...
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 BGC Thunder Bay how to make toy cars. Technically, they were introduced to problem-solving, propulsion physics, ...