Youth Speak News

Load, aim, fire: the basics of air rifle shooting, an Olympic sport. For the past three years, I have had the honour of representing Ontario with my fellow team members at the National Marksmanship Competitions, which entails practice, steadiness, a good diet, concentration, a comfortable position, proper breathing and most importantly, a positive attitude.

It’s that time of the year again — anxiety fills the air, highlighters are getting a workout, cue cards are being organized and empty coffee cups are lining desktops.

MIAMI - Look for strong turnout, robust media interest and unscripted moments as Jorge Mario Bergoglio makes his first trip abroad as Pope Francis when he arrives in Brazil in late July, according to a Brazilian writer and academic.

I had a keen awareness of death as a kid. I know it sounds strange and morbid and probably like a terrible way to begin a column, but it’s true. I was very scared of dying. So much so that I would lie awake at night, still as a stone, sweating through my cowboy-themed sheets thinking about it.

GUELPH, ONT. - More than 200 students, teachers, volunteers and cancer survivors joined forces on June 7 at St. James Catholic High School’s third annual Relay for Life.

When Toronto-area residents want to teach teens about God and sex, they call Rose Heron.

Saying grace before meals is a universal practice. Perhaps because of this, I was amused by the following quote from G.K. Chesterton: “You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”

TORONTO - SummerDaze day camp has been a safe haven for kids in Toronto’s west end for the past quarter century.

Jesuit Volunteers Canada is recruiting young adults to embark on the program’s first year of service.

As I waited for the bus at the GO station, I regretted not wearing a thicker sweater. The bus soon approached, and I was excited for two reasons: to stop shivering and to be closer to an eventful weekend.