A Catholic school board was accused of systemic homophobia after ditching vital LGBT+ support for children (Envato)
Crucial LGBT+ youth resources have been scrapped from nearly 200 Canadian schools following an article that labelled them “smut” and “porno paraphernalia.”
As of 8 January the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) has removed the Canadian youth support organisation LGBT YouthLine from its list of resources for 198 schools in the greater Toronto area.
YouthLine offers free, confidential and informed peer support through telephone, text, and chat services for LGBT+ youth aged 29 and under. It’s one of the only forms of LGBT+ support available in Ontario – but according to former Canadian politician Joe Volpe, it amounts to nothing more than a “smut site”.
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Shania Muthu and a team of 27 students, left, are selling masks to raise money for struggling families this holiday season. (Image submitted by Shania Muthu).
Kids raise thousands to help those hit hardest by COVID-19 CBC Kids News • Published 2020-12-17 07:00 Students made and sold hundreds of masks
Happy Holidays! Every day this week, CBC Kids News is featuring Canadian kids who are raising money for people in need during the holiday season. Here is one of those kids helping out a good cause. A group of students in Toronto’s Catholic District School Board has been working to help communities most affected by COVID-19.
As people in Neskantaga wait for the advisory to be lifted, they must bring their tap water to a full boil for at least one minute before it s safe to use for washing produce, cooking and brushing teeth.
Jugs and boxes of water bottles are lined up the community centre of Neskantaga First Nation, which has been under a boil-water advisory for 25 years.(Olivia Stefanovich/CBC)
After learning of the community s long struggle, Codina Langschmidt turned to Mother Cabrini Catholic School in Etobicoke, Ont., where her child attends classes, and elementary students started a Christmas card campaign across the Toronto Catholic District School Board for the children of Neskantaga First Nation.
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