There is a lot going on in the world today, and youth want to talk about it. Every week we cover current issues that are important to the youth of YYC.
1 Alberta’s current history curriculum focuses on many of the wrong things. From kindergarten to grade 12, students miss out on quintessential historical events including but not limited to, the cold war, the rise of China, current politics, and more. It can be argued that the rise of China as a world superpower is the…
COVID-19. At this point, it has gone on for WAYYYYYY too long. Everyone, or at least I am incredibly sick of it. I think everyone just wants a taste of normalcy and the closest, safest chance we have to achieving that it is the vaccine. Pros: Vaccines offer some sort of protection. Vaccines are safer…
All of our lives have been impacted by COVID-19. Whether it was not being able to socialize with our friends and family, or having to wear masks everywhere we go, this virus has had a negative influence on practically all of us! Fortunately, due to the time spent by thousands of scientists worldwide, many companies…
Even before the invention of driverless cars or robots capable of human interaction, movies and books exploded with science fiction worlds. From H. G. Well’s 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea to Marvel’s superheroes, and even Disney’s Wall-E, there have been countless imaginations of mad-genius science concepts. They once seemed only possible in books and…
The global rollout of the vaccines for COVID-19 has been the subject of much contention all over the world. There’s a lot of information coming out at once, and with so many stakeholders it can be hard to keep up. Here’s a brief rundown of each of the currently Canadian-approved COVID-19 vaccines as well as…
As Canada enters yet another wave of the pandemic, most provincial governments have reacted with a wide range of measures. Unfortunately, Alberta is the exception here. Instead of enacting strict measures, officials told citizens to “just behave, and everything will be fine”. Other than going back to Step 1 of the transition plan and implementing…
Around ⅓ of all food for human consumption is wasted yearly. This means that about 1.3 billion tones of food are wasted each year. To put these numbers into context, this amount of food could feed about 3 billion people every year and about 2 billion people on the planet struggle to eat safely.…
Draw a path from B.C. to Saskatchewan using a map of Alberta. Learn about BCE and CE before learning how to read a clock. Admire Jason Kenney’s grandpa as the most influential jazz musician in all of Canada-these are some of the most glaring problems that educators found in the Alberta government’s draft K-6 curriculum. But this…
Hey y’all, first of all, I hope you had a restful and well-deserved spring break. Today I’ll be sharing a wonder I discovered through school quite a few years ago. Well, what is it? The website, “Free Rice” is an initiative led by the United Nations’ World Food Programme; they aim to support calls for…
Its been a year since the original BLM protests and now with the Stop Asian Hate movement, it seems that this is the time we have to be standing in solidarity with our friends from minority groups. Since last May people have been calling out to people the reeducate themselves on the social issues surrounding…
When one thinks of pollution, water, air, and soil are typically the only categories that come to mind. However, one often overlooked type of pollution is the contamination of space. Though we do not feel it, we utterly depend on space in today’s modern-day and age, and the neglected buildup of space garbage may quickly…
We’ve all been there- those playground marriages at recess time- where a friend officiates, another is the proud father- those playful bindings that resulted as the culmination of days, perhaps weeks, of relentless teasing. Later in the week, or perhaps even the same day’s afternoon- a sheet of scrap paper, whereupon closer inspection has revealed…
Discrimination based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, and many other factors has been a problem across the world for several years. Recently however, we have finally been able to see people come together to address this wide scale issue. There’s one area where I’m constantly seeing discrimination being normalized and joked about. This area is…
While the school year becomes more hectic, our minds often get carried away with how much work we have to do. Some of us wish our breaks were longer as the time just flies. This is relatable among many people, however, with all the tests aside, I will admit that I sometimes take education for…
In light of recent events, but not less any other time, I want to write an article about the significance of feminism, and more specifically what feminism is not. In today’s society there are many misconceptions about feminism, which is something that overshadows the importance of what this movement is really about. It is very…