Take a minute on December 6

December 6, 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, in which armed student Marc Lépine murdered 14 women and injured 10 others, because they were women. Since 1991, December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. OTF asks you to observe a minute’s …

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Lieutenant Governors’ aboriginal summer reading camps going strong

At the invitation of the newly-installed Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Rian McLaughlin, OTF President and Rhonda Kimberley-Young, OTF Secretary-Treasurer recently attended a presentation and reception concerning the aboriginal summer reading camps. Frontier College, which operates the camps, presented its report of the 2014 Camps and recognized the contributions of partners in the project. …

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