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By Owen Charters The news has been heartbreaking. First, the revelation of an unmarked gravesite at the Kamloops Residential School, situated on the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, containing the remains of 215 children—a stark and difficult ...

Published June 4, 2021 on Cision National awareness day focuses on youth mental health and intentional connections TORONTO, June 4, 2021 - On Friday, June 4, Canada's Queen of R&B / Soul, international recording artist, multi-Juno award winning, stage and ...

Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc First Nation discovered an unmarked gravesite at the Kamloops Residential School holding the remains of 215 children. This is a horrific discovery, a tragedy of huge scale. Flags are flying at half-mast across the country, honouring ...

Published May 26, 2021 on Cision New charitable program will connect 320 stores and Club locations in large and small communities from coast to coast MISSISSAUGA, ON (May 18, 2021) - M&M Food Market and BGC Canada (formerly Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada) ...

Grants to support local, environmental and community projects, including COVID-19 relief efforts, in honor of 135th birthday of Coca-Cola (Originally published on Coca-Cola's website May 6, 2021) The Coca-Cola Foundation today announced $35 million in new ...

Youth of the Year initiative to award winners with leadership training, financial support for postsecondary education, and funding toward youth leadership programming

Originally published in the Globe & Mail December 11, 2020 By W. Matthew Chater, Owen Charters, Dan Clement, Peter Dinsdale, and Maya Roy One thing is true of our organizations: We exist because communities need us. More than eight million Canadians ...

By Owen Charters Youth voices are rising again on the vital issue of the environment and climate change. We have three public policy priorities for Boys & Girls Clubs: youth poverty, youth employment, and mental health. These are the areas where we’re ...

By Jully Black (published in The Toronto Star on November 30, 2020) Opportunity changes everything. If this sentence doesn’t resonate with you, then maybe opportunity wasn’t something you had to think about. Or maybe you had to create your own ...

The changes will give more parents access to safe, high-quality, and accessible child care October 2, 2020 - With authorized recreation and licenced child care programs for 135,000 children and youth at over 300 locations, Boys & ...