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The Sixties Scoop and the stolen lives of Indigenous children

Bomberry, Andrew,


"An examination of the Sixties Scoop – a child welfare policy in Canada that saw the removal of Indigenous children from their families, often by force. Starting in 1951, Indigenous children in Canada were taken by social welfare agencies from their families and placed in the care of non-Indigenous families. These children grew up without their birth families, cultural roots, and language. Many tried to run away and some died in the attempt. The taking of the children is known as the Sixties Scoop, though the policies and practices started before the 1960s and lasted long after. Today, Indigenous children are shockingly over-represented in the child welfare system across Canada."
Date Published:2024

"An examination of the Sixties Scoop – a child welfare policy in Canada that saw the removal of Indigenous children from their families, often by force. Starting in 1951, Indigenous children in Canada were taken by social welfare agencies from their families and placed in the care of non-Indigenous families. These children grew up without their birth families, cultural roots, and language. Many tried to run away and some died in the attempt. The taking of the children is known as the Sixties Scoop, though the policies and practices started before the 1960s and lasted long after. Today, Indigenous children are shockingly over-represented in the child welfare system across Canada."

Date Published:2024

Dragon et le gros chat

Pilkey, Dav, 1966-,


Traduction de: Dragon's fat cat. Par une froide journée d'hiver, Dragon invite un chat frigorifié à entrer se réchauffer. De fil en aiguille, il lui fait une place chez lui et tous deux prennent plaisir à la cohabitation, mais le dragonneau réalise rapidement qu'il ne sait pas comment dresser son compagnon, le nourrir convenablement ou gérer toutes ces flaques jaunes qu'il laisse sur son passage. Bientôt, la maison sent extrêmement mauvais! Un petit passage à l'animalerie permet de remédier à la situation.
Date Published:2020

Traduction de: Dragon's fat cat. Par une froide journée d'hiver, Dragon invite un chat frigorifié à entrer se réchauffer. De fil en aiguille, il lui fait une place chez lui et tous deux prennent plaisir à la cohabitation, mais le dragonneau réalise rapidement qu'il ne sait pas comment dresser son compagnon, le nourrir convenablement ou gérer toutes ces flaques jaunes qu'il laisse sur son passage. Bientôt, la maison sent extrêmement mauvais! Un petit passage à l'animalerie permet de remédier à la situation.

Date Published:2020

Tumble

Pérez, Celia C., 1972-


Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
Date Published:2022

Dear dad : growing up with a parent in prison, and how we stayed connected

Patton, Jay Jay,


Tells Jay Jay Patton's life of growing up with a dad in -- and out of -- prison, and how she and her dad were able to develop a powerful father/daughter bond and create Photo Patch -- an application that connects children to incarcerated parents.
Date Published:2024

Mnoomin maan'gowing = The gift of Mnoomin

Luby, Brittany,


In this bilingual book, an Anishinaabe child explores the story of a precious mnoomin seed and the circle of life mnoomin sustains. Written in Anishinaabemowin and English, the story opens at harvest time. A child holds a mnoomin seed and imagines all the life that made a single seed possible - Mayfly, Pike, Muskrat, Eagle and Moose, all had a part to play in bringing the seed into being. What will happen if the seed sprouts? Underwater leaves will shelter young fish, shoots will protect ducklings, stalks will feed larvae, in turn providing food for bats...until finally mnoomin will be ready to harvest again. We follow the child and family through a harvest day as they make offerings of tobacco, then gently knock ripe seeds into their canoe. On shore, they prepare the seeds, cook up a feast, and gratefully plant some seeds they'd set aside.
Date Published:2023

In this bilingual book, an Anishinaabe child explores the story of a precious mnoomin seed and the circle of life mnoomin sustains. Written in Anishinaabemowin and English, the story opens at harvest time. A child holds a mnoomin seed and imagines all the life that made a single seed possible - Mayfly, Pike, Muskrat, Eagle and Moose, all had a part to play in bringing the seed into being. What will happen if the seed sprouts? Underwater leaves will shelter young fish, shoots will protect ducklings, stalks will feed larvae, in turn providing food for bats...until finally mnoomin will be ready to harvest again. We follow the child and family through a harvest day as they make offerings of tobacco, then gently knock ripe seeds into their canoe. On shore, they prepare the seeds, cook up a feast, and gratefully plant some seeds they'd set aside.

Date Published:2023

A dirty deed

Stenhouse, Ted.


"In a prairie town in 1952, a white boy and his Indian friend brave cruelty as they uncover secrets about the town's richest man. A sequel to the acclaimed 'Across the Steel River'" Cf. Our choice, 2003.
Date Published:2003

The blind stigma : mental health within the Black community


Produced and Directed by Stacy-Ann Buchanan, The Blind Stigma is an award winning documentary that discusses mental health within the Black community. It chronicles and testifies the stories of five individuals (including Buchanan's) on their trials and triumphs with mental health. Each story is told bravely and effectively with additional context provided by mental health professionals, religious leaders, caregivers, and your everyday citizen. Within the Black community, mental health is deemed as a 'Swept Under The Rug' stigma that has been creating false illusions and assumptions for a long time. That stigma is the core component of the African Canadian response to mental illness, and therefore African Canadians who suffer from mental illness are less likely to seek treatment. As a result very few studies have been done on the impact of mental illness in the Black community. The Blind Stigma powerfully removes the veil of shame that clouds the topic of mental illness in the Black community, challenges that misconception, gives a voice to Black Canadians living with mental illness and leaves the audience more informed and empowered. The Blind Stigma made Canadian History by being the first documentary in Canada that focuses specifically on mental health within the Black Community. Since its release, the film has been featured on several media outlets across North America and the Caribbean, including: CP24, City TV, Huffington Post, Bell Let's Talk, Smile Jamaica, Caribbean Vibrations, G98.7 and CBC. It has screened at film festivals throughout North America, has been featured in high schools, universities, colleges, churches and work places and was used as an initiative for CAMH in changing the stigma surrounding mental health in inner-city communities in Toronto.
Date Published:2015

Produced and Directed by Stacy-Ann Buchanan, The Blind Stigma is an award winning documentary that discusses mental health within the Black community. It chronicles and testifies the stories of five individuals (including Buchanan's) on their trials and triumphs with mental health. Each story is told bravely and effectively with additional context provided by mental health professionals, religious leaders, caregivers, and your everyday citizen. Within the Black community, mental health is deemed as a 'Swept Under The Rug' stigma that has been creating false illusions and assumptions for a long time. That stigma is the core component of the African Canadian response to mental illness, and therefore African Canadians who suffer from mental illness are less likely to seek treatment. As a result very few studies have been done on the impact of mental illness in the Black community. The Blind Stigma powerfully removes the veil of shame that clouds the topic of mental illness in the Black community, challenges that misconception, gives a voice to Black Canadians living with mental illness and leaves the audience more informed and empowered. The Blind Stigma made Canadian History by being the first documentary in Canada that focuses specifically on mental health within the Black Community. Since its release, the film has been featured on several media outlets across North America and the Caribbean, including: CP24, City TV, Huffington Post, Bell Let's Talk, Smile Jamaica, Caribbean Vibrations, G98.7 and CBC. It has screened at film festivals throughout North America, has been featured in high schools, universities, colleges, churches and work places and was used as an initiative for CAMH in changing the stigma surrounding mental health in inner-city communities in Toronto.

Date Published:2015

The outsmarters

Ellis, Deborah, 1960-


Suspended from school, twelve-year-old Kate finds her own way to get on with her life, despite the messed-up adults around her. Kate decides to open a philosophy booth to provide answers to life's big and small questions. She soon learns that adults have plenty of problems and secrets of their own. When she finds that her grandmother has been lying to her about her mother, the two have a huge fight. Kate decides to take matters into her own hands and discovers that to get what she wants, she may have to reach out to some unexpected people, and find a way to lay down her own anger.
Date Published:2024

Suspended from school, twelve-year-old Kate finds her own way to get on with her life, despite the messed-up adults around her. Kate decides to open a philosophy booth to provide answers to life's big and small questions. She soon learns that adults have plenty of problems and secrets of their own. When she finds that her grandmother has been lying to her about her mother, the two have a huge fight. Kate decides to take matters into her own hands and discovers that to get what she wants, she may have to reach out to some unexpected people, and find a way to lay down her own anger.

Date Published:2024

From the desk of Zoe Washington

Marks, Janae,


Zoe Washington isn’t sure what to write. What does a girl say to the father she’s never met, hadn’t heard from until his letter arrived on her twelfth birthday, and who’s been in prison for a terrible crime? A crime he says he never committed. Could Marcus really be innocent? Zoe is determined to uncover the truth. Even if it means hiding his letters and her investigation from the rest of her family. Everyone else thinks Zoe’s worrying about doing a good job at her bakery internship and proving to her parents that she’s worthy of auditioning for Food Network’s Kids Bake Challenge. But with bakery confections on one part of her mind, and Marcus’s conviction weighing heavily on the other, this is one recipe Zoe doesn’t know how to balance. The only thing she knows to be true: Everyone lies.
Date Published:2020

Zoe Washington isn’t sure what to write. What does a girl say to the father she’s never met, hadn’t heard from until his letter arrived on her twelfth birthday, and who’s been in prison for a terrible crime? A crime he says he never committed. Could Marcus really be innocent? Zoe is determined to uncover the truth. Even if it means hiding his letters and her investigation from the rest of her family. Everyone else thinks Zoe’s worrying about doing a good job at her bakery internship and proving to her parents that she’s worthy of auditioning for Food Network’s Kids Bake Challenge. But with bakery confections on one part of her mind, and Marcus’s conviction weighing heavily on the other, this is one recipe Zoe doesn’t know how to balance. The only thing she knows to be true: Everyone lies.

Date Published:2020

Canada should apologize for forced adoptions : Senate report


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Between 1945 and 1971, an estimated 350,000 Canadian women were forced to give up their babies for adoption because they weren't married.
Date Published:2018

Let's Estimate

Adler, David


This introduction to the mathematical estimating and rounding explains the difference between the two, their uses, and gives directions for estimating and rounding.
Date Published:2017

Pollinator danger


It's time for probably the most dangerous pollinator story yet! Today's tale revolves around the bug eating plant, the Purple Pitcher Plant, and our pollinator pal the Fletcherimyia fly. This amazing pollinator not only helps to pollinate the Purple Pitcher Plant, but actually trusts this bug-eating plant with its babies! It's the most dangerous, unbelievable pollinating story Leo has ever heard! Chloe is hopping into a canoe and heading into the bog-lands of Algonquin Park with researcher Peter Kann to check out this brave pollinator.
Date Published:2021

It's time for probably the most dangerous pollinator story yet! Today's tale revolves around the bug eating plant, the Purple Pitcher Plant, and our pollinator pal the Fletcherimyia fly. This amazing pollinator not only helps to pollinate the Purple Pitcher Plant, but actually trusts this bug-eating plant with its babies! It's the most dangerous, unbelievable pollinating story Leo has ever heard! Chloe is hopping into a canoe and heading into the bog-lands of Algonquin Park with researcher Peter Kann to check out this brave pollinator.

Date Published:2021

The puddle jumper

Schwartz, Beverly,


A child-friendly tool for discussing grief and the loss of a loved one.
Date Published:2024

Skating over thin ice

Mills, Jean, 1955-,


Imogen St. Pierre, a talented piano prodigy who is painfully awkward socially, meets Nathan McCormick, a hockey phenom who lets his anger get the best of him on the ice, and the two find a special connection.
Date Published:2018

The grammar of mathematics (numbers)


When men started writing they began to use symbols to represent units or small bundles of units. These symbols were called numerals, or numbers, and represent specific quantities. In 628, Brahmagupta formalized Zero (0), which is a symbol and a number. Roman numerals were found to be limiting and time consuming, so the Indians proposed using fewer symbols and changing their order. They created a type of grammar for mathematics, based on the number 10, that would be adopted by the entire world. Brahmagupta explained that numbers that were less than zero could also be counted, called negative numbers. All these numbers represented whole quantities, so were called whole numbers. Fractions were invented to indicate part of a whole number, with the parts of the whole being called the numerator, and its equally divided pieces the denominator. Based on the Latin word ratio, these were called rational numbers. In 1427, Al Kashi proposed writing these numbers as decimal fractions, which was later simplified by Simon Stevin and then again by John Napier to be known as a decimal.
Date Published:2020

When men started writing they began to use symbols to represent units or small bundles of units. These symbols were called numerals, or numbers, and represent specific quantities. In 628, Brahmagupta formalized Zero (0), which is a symbol and a number. Roman numerals were found to be limiting and time consuming, so the Indians proposed using fewer symbols and changing their order. They created a type of grammar for mathematics, based on the number 10, that would be adopted by the entire world. Brahmagupta explained that numbers that were less than zero could also be counted, called negative numbers. All these numbers represented whole quantities, so were called whole numbers. Fractions were invented to indicate part of a whole number, with the parts of the whole being called the numerator, and its equally divided pieces the denominator. Based on the Latin word ratio, these were called rational numbers. In 1427, Al Kashi proposed writing these numbers as decimal fractions, which was later simplified by Simon Stevin and then again by John Napier to be known as a decimal.

Date Published:2020

Étrangère chez moi : une histoire vraie

Jordan-Fenton, Christy


Traduction de: A stranger at home. Suite de: Les bas du pensionnat. Margaret a dix ans et elle se réjouit à l'idée de rentrer à la maison après avoir passé deux ans dans un pensionnat. Mais quand elle retrouve enfin sa famille, sa mère ne la reconnaît pas et crie : "Pas ma fille!" Cet accueil n'est pas celui que Margaret espérait. Elle a oublié la langue de son peuple et a du mal à avaler la nourriture de sa mère. Margaret n'a même pas le droit de jouer avec son amie Agnès parce que les gens trouvent qu'elle ressemble trop aux étrangers détestés. Elle est devenue une étrangère parmi les siens.
Date Published:2024

Traduction de: A stranger at home. Suite de: Les bas du pensionnat. Margaret a dix ans et elle se réjouit à l'idée de rentrer à la maison après avoir passé deux ans dans un pensionnat. Mais quand elle retrouve enfin sa famille, sa mère ne la reconnaît pas et crie : "Pas ma fille!" Cet accueil n'est pas celui que Margaret espérait. Elle a oublié la langue de son peuple et a du mal à avaler la nourriture de sa mère. Margaret n'a même pas le droit de jouer avec son amie Agnès parce que les gens trouvent qu'elle ressemble trop aux étrangers détestés. Elle est devenue une étrangère parmi les siens.

Date Published:2024

Everything you need to know about e-cigarettes, vaping and hookahs


This hard-hitting program challenges the belief, held by many students, that e-cigarettes and hookahs are risk-free, healthy alternatives to traditional cigarettes. It shows how in a typical hookah session a smoker inhales 100 times the amount of toxin-laden smoke that is inhaled smoking a cigarette. While e-cigarettes don't contain the carcinogens that come from burning tobacco, the vapor does contain highly addictive nicotine as well as other chemicals whose health risks we are only beginning to understand. Viewers also learn that teenagers who start vaping e-cigarettes are more likely to later smoke regular cigarettes. The program looks at how e-cigarettes have become a multi-billion dollar industry controlled largely by tobacco companies, who use the same deceptive advertising techniques they have used with cigarettes. The DVD contains a separate four-minute bonus video on the dangers of vaping marijuana and alcohol. Includes Resource Guide.
Date Published:2016

This hard-hitting program challenges the belief, held by many students, that e-cigarettes and hookahs are risk-free, healthy alternatives to traditional cigarettes. It shows how in a typical hookah session a smoker inhales 100 times the amount of toxin-laden smoke that is inhaled smoking a cigarette. While e-cigarettes don't contain the carcinogens that come from burning tobacco, the vapor does contain highly addictive nicotine as well as other chemicals whose health risks we are only beginning to understand. Viewers also learn that teenagers who start vaping e-cigarettes are more likely to later smoke regular cigarettes. The program looks at how e-cigarettes have become a multi-billion dollar industry controlled largely by tobacco companies, who use the same deceptive advertising techniques they have used with cigarettes. The DVD contains a separate four-minute bonus video on the dangers of vaping marijuana and alcohol. Includes Resource Guide.

Date Published:2016

Finding Cleo, Episode 8 : Salesperson of the year


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Digging through archives in Saskatchewan, Connie makes a shocking discovery. As she investigates the controversial Adopt Indian Métis program which Cleo and her siblings were a part of, the man who started the program agrees to speak with her about its controversial origins and legacy.
Date Published:2018

The tray of togetherness

Leung, Flo,


In preparation for the Lunar New Year, a little girl and her family fill up the Tray of Togetherness, a special candy box that has eight lucky snacks with special meanings, to share with family and friends.
Date Published:2022

Don't mind read!


Think you can KNOW what people are thinking? You can't! This Mood Tool shows us how to check the facts instead of making assumptions.
Date Published:2024