‘It’s a betrayal to us’: Ontario students walkout Monday in protest of the province’s end to mask mandates

As masks became optional in most public settings Monday, Ontario students staged walkouts at schools across the province, calling for mandates to be extended and more health measures to be implemented.

“It’s a betrayal to us,” Grade 11 student Derek Song said about the government’s decision. “We don’t really get our voices heard.”

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Climate education is inconsistent across Canada, but these students and educators want to fix that

Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This story is part of a CBC News initiative entitled Our Changing Planet to show and explain the effects of climate change and what is being done about it.

What and how students learn about climate change and the environment from kindergarten through Grade 12 is inconsistent across provinces and territories, according to climate educators and students passionate about the topic. Too often, they say, it’s limited to science classes.

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Laurier student posts a horrific TikTok video glorifying stabbing people in Israel, comparing them to toilet paper and garbage.

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Left-wing Students at University of California: ‘Abolish’ the Campus Police

At universities across California, students and workers refused to attend class or meetings, answer emails and clock into work Monday as part of a “day of refusal” organized by the group Cops Off Campus Coalition. The work stoppage began Abolition May, a series of actions grounded in a central demand: Remove police from all campuses.

Do it.

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Morgan Zegers: ‘Young People Don’t Know The Reality of Communist Countries’

Zegers says the main reasons why socialist ideas take root in the minds of young Americans are:

  1. They do not know the reality of countries that suffered from communism or socialism.
  2. They are in a kind of comfort zone and convenience that prevents them from visualizing beyond the goodness of the capitalist system in the United States.
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Virginia College Forfeits Basketball Game After Suspending Players For Kneeling During Anthem

Bluefield College, a small Baptist liberal arts school nestled in the Appalachian mountains in Bluefield, Virginia doesn’t seem to be a likely place to make national news. But when players on the men’s basketball team took a knee during the playing of the national anthem — after being warned several times it was against school policy — the school president promptly suspended the players and forfeited a game.

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