Morgan Sharp reports from Toronto on the city's young population and their civic engagement and impact on the local institutions that make democracy function.
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The youth-led effort to list ecocide as an international crime won the backing of federal politicians from three different parties on Tuesday, with the Greens, NDP and an MP from the governing Liberals speaking up against the destruction of the natural environment.
“We’ve changed the makeup of city council quite significantly. It means there is a mandate now from Torontonians that they want to see change,” Saman Tabasinejad, 29, organizing director at Progress Toronto, said.
The Ontario government ordered the province’s lowest-paid education workers back to work Monday, setting up a legislative and operational standoff ahead of a planned Friday strike.
Young climate activists stressed the need for Mississauga to improve its inadequate and voluntary green measures during this month's election campaign, while councillors told them it's up to developers or the province to fix.
Saja Kilani, 24, shared her experience of being taken in by a taxi scam on TikTok, which has over one million views, helping educate unknowing youth on the topic.
Young voters, many with their parents, strolled steadily into the Churchill Meadows Library in Mississauga to vote for their Ward 10 councillor, school board trustee and mayor.
At 26, Kushagr Sharma is the youngest candidate in his ward vying for a seat on Mississauga's city council. His age is part of the reason he decided to run for public office.
When Bria Hamilton was a 19-year-old student at York University, a fire started in the basement kitchen of the three-storey townhouse she shared with nine other people.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association is hoping to build on its “unprecedented” success after raising more than $550,000 so far this year for charitable causes, including food banks and hospitals around Canada.
Ontario’s largest travelling vintage and sustainable clothing event, hosted by The Street Market at Mississauga’s Square One shopping centre over the weekend, aims to cultivate communities through fashion.
When Meihuan Yu was in Grade 10 researching a history project, she was captivated by the story of a Syrian swim instructor teaching amputee children how to swim and cope with the trauma of war.
Inflation is already driving up prices on everything from food to the overall cost of living — and now pulling out your credit card could be more expensive, too.
When 36-year-old Ryan Singh was booking the holiday Diwali off work, he realized it fell on Oct. 24, the same day as the municipal elections in Ontario.