Young Voices
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Indigenous youth report to the United Nations
Six indigenous youth from across Canada travelled to Geneva, Switzerland this month telling the United Nations that Canada needs to end inequalities experienced by aboriginal children. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child will review Canada’s compliance with the convention later this year—these youth hope to influence the process and outcome of the evaluation.
CMU engages with NDP leadership candidate
Mennonite: culture or denomination?
Over the last few years, I have encountered a strange conversation amongst my co-workers. It comes up occasionally, each time with a different group of people and a multitude of opinions. The enthusiasm for this topic has long fascinated me, as it seems far too ordinary a thing to elicit such emotion from people.
The hot button topic: the best place to buy Farmer’s sausage.
I am from the Mennonites
Work with First Nations inspires CMU students
Don’t worry about retirement . . . yet
Lay up treasures . . . or buy an iPhone?
CMU rallies to pray for and support sick student
What would Jesus want for Christmas?
With raucous shouts of “Occupy Advent,” the youths of Langley Mennonite Fellowship interrupted the worship service on the first Sunday of the Christmas season.
Assisted by many of the church’s children, the “occupiers” entered banging drums, beating on pots and pans, and carrying protest signs with slogans saying, “The beginning is near!” and, “What would Jesus want for Christmas?”
Westgate student wins human rights award
New editor on board
Majority of faculty at Mennonite colleges, high schools are Mennonites
Why I am a Mennonite
Where are the Christians?
Faith on the job
Leading a sustainable life
Flash mob for peace
The purpose of serving
Learning through serving
Learning through serving
Seeing a need and filling it
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) made headlines earlier this month when it launched its new Redekop School of Business, made possible through a donation from the Redekop family of B.C.’s Fraser Valley. Brothers John and Peter, their nephew James and the extended family have pledged a minimum of $6.5 million to found the school.
Young Mennos ‘occupy’ Wall Street and Winnipeg
A basis of hope
Attending lectures—like the one delivered by Douglas Roche on “A future without nuclear weapons” at the University of Ottawa—helps make interns like myself at the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Ottawa Office more effective advocates for peace and justice within the political realm and with the general public.