Camilla Bains is a student at the Ryerson School of Journalism, also completing a double minor in politics and public relations. Bains is a dedicated journalist with a passion for social justice, policy reform and international relations. Based in the Toronto area, Bains is interested in covering domestic and international politics, foreign relations and encouraging youth to become involved in the political sphere.
Students with a youth divestment group at McGill University are staging an unusual protest. They are using an "occupation" to draw extra attention to the school's pension fund investments in fossil fuels.
A lack of new gun safety measures could be a deal-breaker for Canadians who put their trust in the Liberals’ election promises, says NDP public safety critic Alistair MacGregor.
University of Toronto's decision to begin divesting its $4-billion endowment fund from fossil fuels "immediately" could encourage other Canadian universities to do the same.
In the throes of a federal election, young voters are a potentially huge voting cohort that needs to understand the potential impacts of strategic voting, writes Camilla Bains.
As universities gear up for a new semester this fall, many will be faced with a challenge that has nothing to do with COVID-19: Devising strategies to be more inclusive to accommodate increasingly diverse student bodies.
Despite recent successes, students urging their universities to divest from fossil fuels say school administrations need to pay closer attention to their demands.
The federal NDP's calls for Proud Boys to be labelled terrorists may play well on university and college campuses — even if the demand is ultimately rejected, writes Camilla Bains.
