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Justice In America : Two Cases, Two Verdicts (Rittenhouse and Arbery). January 2022


From the Curio channel: News in Review. Two murder cases highlighting issues of vigilantism and racial injustice were heard in U.S. courts in November 2021. Kyle Rittenhouse, who was just 17 years old at the time, was accused of shooting two men and injuring another during a racial justice demonstration in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Meanwhile, three men stood accused of shooting Ahmaud Arbery, a black jogger in a Georgia neighbourhood. In both cases, the defendants pleaded self defence. But the cases had very different outcomes. The verdicts came just days apart with Rittenhouse going free and guilty verdicts for Arbery's killers.
Date Published:2022

From the Curio channel: News in Review. Two murder cases highlighting issues of vigilantism and racial injustice were heard in U.S. courts in November 2021. Kyle Rittenhouse, who was just 17 years old at the time, was accused of shooting two men and injuring another during a racial justice demonstration in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Meanwhile, three men stood accused of shooting Ahmaud Arbery, a black jogger in a Georgia neighbourhood. In both cases, the defendants pleaded self defence. But the cases had very different outcomes. The verdicts came just days apart with Rittenhouse going free and guilty verdicts for Arbery's killers.

Date Published:2022

Human Rights and the Universal Declaration Explained


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in 1948. The document outlines fundamental rights to which all people are entitled. CBC Kids News contributor Sophia Smoke breaks it down in this explainer video.
Date Published:2023

The Alberta divide : Rising separatist sentiment in the West. November 2025


From the Curio channel: News in Review. Frustration is boiling over in Alberta, Canada's economic heartland, over federal energy policies and a feeling that Ottawa simply doesn't care. After disappointment in the last federal election, talk of separation is serious, no longer just a joke. Premier Danielle Smith has even loosened rules to make a separation referendum easier. While a recent poll shows 60% of Albertans want to stay, a group is actively petitioning for an independence vote. Is the 'Alberta Divide' a serious threat to Canada's future?
Date Published:2025

From the Curio channel: News in Review. Frustration is boiling over in Alberta, Canada's economic heartland, over federal energy policies and a feeling that Ottawa simply doesn't care. After disappointment in the last federal election, talk of separation is serious, no longer just a joke. Premier Danielle Smith has even loosened rules to make a separation referendum easier. While a recent poll shows 60% of Albertans want to stay, a group is actively petitioning for an independence vote. Is the 'Alberta Divide' a serious threat to Canada's future?

Date Published:2025

Les voix du monde

Tibo, Gilles, 1951-


Dix-sept poèmes pour découvrir les voix du monde.
Date Published:2022

Miga, Quatchi and Sumi : the story of the Vancouver 2010 mascots = Miga, Quatchi et Sumi : l'histoire des mascottes de Vancouver 2010

Murphy, Michael, 1970-



Date Published:2008

Canada Reads 2021 : Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Scott Helman is championing Two Trees Make a Forest by writer and environmental historian Jessica J. Lee on Canada Reads 2021. In her memoir, Lee returns to her mother's homeland of Taiwan to understand the landscape that shaped her family - and in turn, shapes her. The book intertwines her grandparents' histories, the political history of Taiwan and the island's geological history. Two Trees Make a Forest won the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
Date Published:2021

From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Scott Helman is championing Two Trees Make a Forest by writer and environmental historian Jessica J. Lee on Canada Reads 2021. In her memoir, Lee returns to her mother's homeland of Taiwan to understand the landscape that shaped her family - and in turn, shapes her. The book intertwines her grandparents' histories, the political history of Taiwan and the island's geological history. Two Trees Make a Forest won the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

Date Published:2021

Introduction to fresh waters

Howell, Izzi,


This book looks at Earth's fresh water systems with this decodable title introducing key geography standards around rivers, lakes, and other waterways.
Date Published:2025

KN Explains : Black Futures


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. While students are celebrating and learning about Black History Month this February, others are looking ahead at Black futures. But what does the term "Black futures" mean? CBC Kids News asked some students from the Black Student Union at Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute in Guelph, Ontario, to share their thoughts and ideas. Original broadcast: February 13, 2023.
Date Published:2023

From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. While students are celebrating and learning about Black History Month this February, others are looking ahead at Black futures. But what does the term "Black futures" mean? CBC Kids News asked some students from the Black Student Union at Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute in Guelph, Ontario, to share their thoughts and ideas. Original broadcast: February 13, 2023.

Date Published:2023

Pas moi

Gravel, Elise, 1977-,


Lorsque leur papa leur demande qui a laissé traîner des chaussettes partout, Nico et sa soeur répondent tous les deux: "C'est pas moi." Menacés d'être punis tous les deux si l'identité du coupable n'est pas révélée, les enfants conduisent leur père jusqu'à Pas Moi, un petit monstre rouge rondouillet, qui déguste des biscuits au milieu du fouillis. Seulement, ce dernier rejette à son tour la responsabilité sur Pas Vrai, qui se tourne à son tour vers Pas Juste.
Date Published:2020

Lorsque leur papa leur demande qui a laissé traîner des chaussettes partout, Nico et sa soeur répondent tous les deux: "C'est pas moi." Menacés d'être punis tous les deux si l'identité du coupable n'est pas révélée, les enfants conduisent leur père jusqu'à Pas Moi, un petit monstre rouge rondouillet, qui déguste des biscuits au milieu du fouillis. Seulement, ce dernier rejette à son tour la responsabilité sur Pas Vrai, qui se tourne à son tour vers Pas Juste.

Date Published:2020

What's in the walls?

Champagne, Julie, 1981-


One day after floor-hockey practice, ten-year-old Zack hears some strange sounds in the school gym. But he's the only one in there. It sounds like scratching... and it's coming from inside the walls. What could be making that sound? Zack soon discovers that the school custodian may not have been doing a good job of keeping the school clean -- and something uninvited has moved in.
Date Published:2025

Astronomer Heidi White


TVOkids news segment from June 2019 From the TVO streaming audio-visual collection. Rights expire on September 26, 2030. . Heidi White explains what it's like to be an astronomer.
Date Published:2019

Coded bias


Originally produced in the United States as a motion picture in 2020. Strong Language - Previewing recommended. "CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT media lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legisation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all. --Coded bias website.
Date Published:2020

Originally produced in the United States as a motion picture in 2020. ** Strong Language ** - Previewing recommended. "CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT media lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legisation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all. --Coded bias website.

Date Published:2020

Le silence se glisse près de toi

Hughes, Alison, 1966-


Traduction de: The silence slips in. Dans cet album, un jeune enfant trouve du réconfort dans le silence quand le monde devient trop bruyant.
Date Published:2019

Where did Bunny go? : a bunny and bird story

Tafuri, Nancy.


Bird cannot find Bunny during a game of hide-and-seek and worries that Bunny has run away.
Date Published:2001

Canadian Peacekeepers in Mali


TVOkids news segment from June 2018 From the TVO streaming audio-visual collection. Rights expire on March 28, 2030. . Daniel anchors the news and talks about Canadian peacekeepers in Mali.
Date Published:2018

Sorting algorithms


Learn about the different methods for sorting algorithms.
Date Published:2016

Jamaica

Pluckrose, Henry Arthur.


Includes index. A simple introduction to the geography, people, weather, and cities of Jamaica.
Date Published:1998

What is a budget?


TVOkids news segment from 2018 From the TVO streaming audio-visual collection. Rights expire on March 28, 2030. . Daniel speaks with Shannon, a money expert, about budgets.
Date Published:2018

Frog and the wide world

Velthuijs, Max, 1923-


Frog joins Rat on his travels in search of adventure. But Frog soon misses his friends and discovers that the wide world is very far from home.
Date Published:2000

What does peace feel like?

Radunsky, Vladimir


"An Anne Schwartz book." Simple text and illustrations portray what peace looks, sounds, tastes, feels, and smells like to children around the world.
Date Published:2003