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More than two dozen teenagers paddle down the Humber River — some in a canoe for the first time — as Monica Chander and Jacob Parliament from the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s Wild Outside program help them develop their appreciation and knowledge of nature.

Young people from Grassy Narrows First Nation in northern Ontario led a march through Toronto Thursday to take up the long-standing calls of their community for compensation for mercury poisoning.

The Toronto District School Board’s effort to stamp out anti-Black racism took another step forward this week with the launch of an educational centre celebrating Black achievements and uplifting a student population historically underserved and unseen.

Dianne Saxe and the hundreds of mostly young Green Party of Ontario volunteers working on her campaign are hoping to add to the party's lone seat at Queen's Park, with a focus on Toronto’s student-rich University-Rosedale riding.

The pandemic has only made it harder for community groups to run programs on school property, says a coalition pushing to turn schools into community hubs.

Canadian banks can drop their fossil fuel investments and the economy will survive, says Carbon Tracker founder Mark Campanale, an expert in getting the financial sector on the path to a climate-safe future.

Recent graduates in microbiology and other disciplines are helping Toronto keep track of trends in COVID-19 infections by running daily lab tests on sewage samples from across the city.

Students and researchers at two Toronto universities are collecting and testing samples of the city's wastewater for COVID-19, creating insight the city has started making public since individual testing was largely discarded.

Thousands of people joined the youth-led climate strike movement in a march through Glasgow on Friday, denouncing the false solutions offered by world leaders in the nearby COP26 venue.

Young climate activists want the media to do a better job explaining the causes and consequences of climate change to students, and to listen to them even when they are not skipping school to demand climate action.