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Day Five: President Day! Y20

Leenat — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:13:36 +0000

Day Five: President Day!

Y20 got ready early in the morning in their best formal wear to meet with the President of Mexico to present him with our final document.

Pueblais three hours away fromMexico City; we had to sit in our best clothes for travel ready to meet the President the moment [...]

Day Three: Y20

Leenat — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:03:09 +0000

Day Three

Junior TeamCanadabegan the day as they received their G20 badges and walked in to the Puebla Convention Centre.

With tight security at every step we walked into the conference hall filled with Press, and a beautiful stage set up for the Opening ceremonies. Not only were we able to hear from [...]

Day Four

Leenat — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:01:45 +0000

Day Four

Apologies for posting late, time and deadlines come in the way of posting entries immediately.

Day Four at Y20 started off as we had an interactive session with the Sherpa and Central Bank Head of Mexico. Sherpa, is a term borrowed from the ethnic group who guide expeditions to the summits [...]

Day One Y20:Toronto Training Day!

Leenat — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:08 +0000

Day One:TorontoTraining Day!

I arrived inTorontotoday, one day prior to leaving forMexicoto get to know the rest of the Y20 Team before departure.

Our team consists of Canadian youth from all the regions ofCanada, two from the Atlantic, one from the West, one fromQuebec, three Ontarians. As we converge before the G20 we [...]

Y20- JTC Day Two Mexico City!

Leenat — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:53:28 +0000

Day Two:

Junior TeamCanadawoke up at 4:50 am this morning to make sure we were at the airport by six for our 8:05 flight. Dressed in our suits ties and formal clothes we walked on to the plane ready for a big day.

Five hours after a bumpy airplane ride (the turbulence was [...]

“Activism doesn’t apply to me.” Or does it?

Arin Douglas — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:06:19 +0000

The most important thing an individual can add to a cause or social movement is their own personality, their own individuality, and their own perspective, as seen within their cultural framework.

In the month of March, I had the opportunity to attend and volunteer at the 2012 Youth Activism and Social Justice Conference (YACSJC) hosted [...]

Picture Post – JTC Represents Canada @ the Summit of the Americas

Nathalia Abreu — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:15:39 +0000

Preparing for Y20 Mexico

Tyler Power — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:57:09 +0000

It’s been a busy couple of weeks. It was just a week ago that the delegation to the G20’s Y20 Summit was announced. Again, the Prime Minister, and Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade have entrusted the talent recruitment for these high end youth summits to Global Vision.

Since the announcement, we have been [...]

Western Global Leaders Center 2012

Keely Greenfield — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:22:12 +0000

The weekend of March 15-18 marked the first ever Western Global Leaders Center for our program, and what a stampeding success it was! With 113 delegates from the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, there was absolutely no shortage of energy in Calgary. Whether networking with business and

community leaders or playing the ukulele, [...]

Group 5 on “How to Promote Western Canada to the World”

Katherine — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:19:05 +0000

Please find in the link below Group 5′s presentation on “How to Promote Western Canada to the World”

Group 5 Global Vision Presentation: How to Promote Western Canada to the World

In order to answer this question group 5 looked within Canada to find the answer. By doing this we [...]