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Teen tries the media Disconnection Challenge for her mental health


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. With more time spent away from friends during the pandemic, 16-year-old Serena has at times felt her anxiety take over, and endless swiping through TikTok sometimes makes her feel disconnected from the actual world. She tried a media fast to see #HowItFelt. Watch as she does a one-week disonnection challenge and tells us what she experienced.
Date Published:2021

Let sleeping dogs lie

Becker, Helaine, 1961-


Darren Dirkowitz thought his life was over when his tippity-top-secret alter ego, Dirk Daring, Secret Agent, was outed to the entire Preston Middle School student body. If only he'd been so lucky. Now the Wolf Lords--a gang of teen thugs bent on wringing every last penny out of Preston students--are breathing down his neck. There's only one solution: Dirk Daring must embark on his most daring mission yet. A mission so audacious, so cunning, so doggone crazy, that if it succeeds, the Wolf Lords will wind up begging for mercy. But first, Darren must bring his own disobedient "associates" to heel.
Date Published:2016

Darren Dirkowitz thought his life was over when his tippity-top-secret alter ego, Dirk Daring, Secret Agent, was outed to the entire Preston Middle School student body. If only he'd been so lucky. Now the Wolf Lords--a gang of teen thugs bent on wringing every last penny out of Preston students--are breathing down his neck. There's only one solution: Dirk Daring must embark on his most daring mission yet. A mission so audacious, so cunning, so doggone crazy, that if it succeeds, the Wolf Lords will wind up begging for mercy. But first, Darren must bring his own disobedient "associates" to heel.

Date Published:2016

Canada-India relations under threat : Allegations of political interference and murder. February 2025


From the Curio channel: News in Review. In October 2024, the RCMP revealed evidence implicating Indian diplomats in criminal activities on Canadian soil, including homicides and extortions. The allegations have heightened tensions between Canada and India, following the expulsion of six Indian diplomats linked to the 2023 murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. India has denied all accusations, further straining diplomatic relations.
Date Published:2025

From the Curio channel: News in Review. In October 2024, the RCMP revealed evidence implicating Indian diplomats in criminal activities on Canadian soil, including homicides and extortions. The allegations have heightened tensions between Canada and India, following the expulsion of six Indian diplomats linked to the 2023 murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. India has denied all accusations, further straining diplomatic relations.

Date Published:2025

7 generations : a Plains Cree saga

Robertson, David, 1977-


Compilation of four previously published graphic novels: Stone, Scars, Ends/Begins, The pact. Teacher's guide available under Additional info tag. Edwin is facing an uncertain future. Only by learning about his family's past--wars, the smallpox epidemic, a residential school--will he be able to face the present and embrace the future.
Date Published:2012

Republic in Peril : The Storming of the U.S. Capitol. February 2021


From the Curio channel: News in Review. On January 6, 2021, an angry mob of rioters, incited by the President of the United States, stormed the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. and smashed their way in. Hundreds of these insurgents looted the building, threatened politicians and took selfies. Five people died as a result, including one rioter and a police officer. President Donald Trump would stand accused of inciting the riot and be impeached for a second time. All this while Congress was confirming the votes of the Electoral College from the 2020 presidential election. An election that would confirm Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States.
Date Published:2021

From the Curio channel: News in Review. On January 6, 2021, an angry mob of rioters, incited by the President of the United States, stormed the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. and smashed their way in. Hundreds of these insurgents looted the building, threatened politicians and took selfies. Five people died as a result, including one rioter and a police officer. President Donald Trump would stand accused of inciting the riot and be impeached for a second time. All this while Congress was confirming the votes of the Electoral College from the 2020 presidential election. An election that would confirm Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States.

Date Published:2021

Want to bring about positive change? Tips from kid activists


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. If 2019 was any indication, kids' voices are louder than ever, as thousands of young Canadians have been taking part in mass demonstrations. The climate strikes that have been happening in nearly every city are a youth-led movement that's become impossible for adults to ignore. But those aren't the only youth-led marches we saw last year. In April, thousands of students in Ontario hit the streets all across the province to take a stance against changes to education. "I have always known that young people are powerful," said 18-year-old activist Rayne Fisher-Quann. "We know what we want and we have a voice." Fisher-Quann was the driving force behind the Students Say No protest in Ontario, where kids from more than 700 schools walked out of class to protest against increased class sizes and mandatory online courses, among other things. In 2018, she helped organize a protest against changes to the sex-ed curriculum in Ontario. From Fisher-Quann to Greta Thunberg, kids are showing that activism can make a difference.
Date Published:2020

From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. If 2019 was any indication, kids' voices are louder than ever, as thousands of young Canadians have been taking part in mass demonstrations. The climate strikes that have been happening in nearly every city are a youth-led movement that's become impossible for adults to ignore. But those aren't the only youth-led marches we saw last year. In April, thousands of students in Ontario hit the streets all across the province to take a stance against changes to education. "I have always known that young people are powerful," said 18-year-old activist Rayne Fisher-Quann. "We know what we want and we have a voice." Fisher-Quann was the driving force behind the Students Say No protest in Ontario, where kids from more than 700 schools walked out of class to protest against increased class sizes and mandatory online courses, among other things. In 2018, she helped organize a protest against changes to the sex-ed curriculum in Ontario. From Fisher-Quann to Greta Thunberg, kids are showing that activism can make a difference.

Date Published:2020

Something, someday

Gorman, Amanda, 1998-


Shows how even the smallest gesture can have a lasting impact.
Date Published:2023

Secret Agents Of The Underground Railroad


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Archeology proves that just below the surface there is always more than meets the eye. A dig at the site of the the once-renowned Cataract House Hotel in Niagara Falls, New York is no exception. In Secret Agents of the Underground Railroad, host Anthony Morgan follows an excavation at Heritage Park, a remarkable site in Niagara Falls that was home to the Cataract House, an upscale hotel that stood between 1825 and 1945. Today, it looks like a regular park but in the past, it was the most important station of the Underground Railroad on the Niagara Frontier: a Black Resistance operation run by the hotel's staff and led by the hotel's head waiter John Morrison, who guided enslaved people to freedom in Canada. In a revealing exploration of the hotel's hidden remains and the artifacts left behind, Morgan joins a team of archeologists and community leaders as they recover essential but forgotten history. Through an archaeological excavation of the site, we learn about the lives and operations of some of the Underground Railroad's greatest unsung heroes. Original air date: February 3, 2023.
Date Published:2023

From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Archeology proves that just below the surface there is always more than meets the eye. A dig at the site of the the once-renowned Cataract House Hotel in Niagara Falls, New York is no exception. In Secret Agents of the Underground Railroad, host Anthony Morgan follows an excavation at Heritage Park, a remarkable site in Niagara Falls that was home to the Cataract House, an upscale hotel that stood between 1825 and 1945. Today, it looks like a regular park but in the past, it was the most important station of the Underground Railroad on the Niagara Frontier: a Black Resistance operation run by the hotel's staff and led by the hotel's head waiter John Morrison, who guided enslaved people to freedom in Canada. In a revealing exploration of the hotel's hidden remains and the artifacts left behind, Morgan joins a team of archeologists and community leaders as they recover essential but forgotten history. Through an archaeological excavation of the site, we learn about the lives and operations of some of the Underground Railroad's greatest unsung heroes. Original air date: February 3, 2023.

Date Published:2023

My good man

Gansworth, Eric, 1965-


5 books. When a mysterious assault lands the brother of his mother's late boyfriend in the hospital, Brian, a twenty-something Indigenous reporter, must pick up the threads of a life he's abandoned, returning to the Tuscarora reservation to discover the truth.
Date Published:2022

The boat people : a novel

Bala, Sharon.,


5 Books. A high-stakes and increasingly timely novel. When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and 500 fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father believes the struggles that he and his six-year-old son have long faced are finally over. But their journey has only just begun. The group is thrown into a detention processing centre, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among "the boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks -- and that these insurgents now pose a threat to Canada's national security.
Date Published:2018

5 Books. A high-stakes and increasingly timely novel. When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and 500 fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father believes the struggles that he and his six-year-old son have long faced are finally over. But their journey has only just begun. The group is thrown into a detention processing centre, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among "the boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks -- and that these insurgents now pose a threat to Canada's national security.

Date Published:2018

Amah faraway.

Greanias, Margaret Chiu.


Nervous about visiting her grandmother in Taipei, Taiwan, a young girl soon adjusts to her unfamiliar surroundings and enjoys the adventure.
Date Published:2022

Ru

Thúy, Kim.


Translated from the French. Contains 5 books. Ru carries us on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new beginning in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels in the chance to become part of the American Dream. As an adult, the waters become rough again: now as the mother of two sons, she must learn to shape her love around her younger boy's autism. Moving seamlessly from past to present, from history to memory and back again, Ru is a book that celebrates life in all its wonder: its moments of beauty and sensuality, brutality and sorrow, comfort and comedy.
Date Published:2012

Translated from the French. Contains 5 books. Ru carries us on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new beginning in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels in the chance to become part of the American Dream. As an adult, the waters become rough again: now as the mother of two sons, she must learn to shape her love around her younger boy's autism. Moving seamlessly from past to present, from history to memory and back again, Ru is a book that celebrates life in all its wonder: its moments of beauty and sensuality, brutality and sorrow, comfort and comedy.

Date Published:2012

A million shades of grey

Cynthia Kadohata


For health reasons, earphones are not included with the Playaway unit. AAA battery required for playback. Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. A boy takes refuge in the jungle with his elephant when the Viet Cong launch an attack on his village in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Date Published:2010

Old man

Poulsen, David A., 1946-


Electronic reproduction. Just as summer vacation is about to arrive, Nate Huffman's plans are unexpectedly shelved for the most unlikely of reasons: the reappearance of his estranged father. Not only is the old man back, he's got this idea about a road trip the two of them will take. Nate finds himself in a pickup with a man he can't stand and he wants Nate to really understand him. Larry Huffman has chosen to make this happen by taking his son into his own past, which has the Vietnam War as its centrepiece.
Date Published:2013

Electronic reproduction. Just as summer vacation is about to arrive, Nate Huffman's plans are unexpectedly shelved for the most unlikely of reasons: the reappearance of his estranged father. Not only is the old man back, he's got this idea about a road trip the two of them will take. Nate finds himself in a pickup with a man he can't stand and he wants Nate to really understand him. Larry Huffman has chosen to make this happen by taking his son into his own past, which has the Vietnam War as its centrepiece.

Date Published:2013

Love, Hate and Propaganda, The Cold War : Cracks in the Wall (Part 3 of 4)


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Berlin becomes the Cold War under a microscope - East and West in close quarters battle about ideology, but it's also a contest about who has the best music. In the hope of eclipsing the popularity of Western rock stars, East German authorities manufacture their own pop star. Frank Schöbel can't compete with the appeal of the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, but with the Communist propaganda machine handling his career, he's guaranteed some type of success. The Soviet Union hands the West a propaganda triumph when their tanks invade Czechoslovakia in 1968. But the US government is waging its own war against protest as the Vietnam War spirals out of control. The two powers again face off in space, as the Soviets send the first man into orbit. That triumphant first is followed by the first woman into orbit. The Americans are left scrambling but finally in 1969 Neil Armstrong makes "one giant leap for mankind" as he sets foot on the moon. In this era, even a gentlemanly game of chess turns into a high-stakes propaganda battle.
Date Published:2011

From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Berlin becomes the Cold War under a microscope - East and West in close quarters battle about ideology, but it's also a contest about who has the best music. In the hope of eclipsing the popularity of Western rock stars, East German authorities manufacture their own pop star. Frank Schöbel can't compete with the appeal of the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, but with the Communist propaganda machine handling his career, he's guaranteed some type of success. The Soviet Union hands the West a propaganda triumph when their tanks invade Czechoslovakia in 1968. But the US government is waging its own war against protest as the Vietnam War spirals out of control. The two powers again face off in space, as the Soviets send the first man into orbit. That triumphant first is followed by the first woman into orbit. The Americans are left scrambling but finally in 1969 Neil Armstrong makes "one giant leap for mankind" as he sets foot on the moon. In this era, even a gentlemanly game of chess turns into a high-stakes propaganda battle.

Date Published:2011

Syrian Refugee Crisis : Lessons from Vietnamese Boat People


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. As desperate migrants from the Middle East and Africa make their way across Europe, many in Canada are reminded of another refugee crisis that hit close to home. In the late '70s and early '80s, Canada took in 60,000 refugees, at the time often called the "Vietnamese boat people." CBC reporter Judy Trinh was four years old when her family fled from Vietnam.
Date Published:2015

From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. As desperate migrants from the Middle East and Africa make their way across Europe, many in Canada are reminded of another refugee crisis that hit close to home. In the late '70s and early '80s, Canada took in 60,000 refugees, at the time often called the "Vietnamese boat people." CBC reporter Judy Trinh was four years old when her family fled from Vietnam.

Date Published:2015

Rise of the Nazis: Dictators at war. Ep. 3, The home front


From the Curio channel: BBC Channel. Facing defeat on the Eastern Front, Hitler retreats and his inner circle vies for power. The resistance gets a student voice and an enemy within plots to kill Hitler.
Date Published:2021

Rise of the Nazis: Dictators at war. Ep. 2, Stalingrad


From the Curio channel: BBC Channel. The Nazis have lost in Moscow. Hitler and Stalin take charge of their armies - with no one to hold them back. In Stalin, Hitler has met his match - it's now a fight to the death.
Date Published:2021

Rise of the Nazis: Dictators at war. Ep. 1, Barbarossa


From the Curio channel: BBC Channel. At the peak of his power, Hitler now faces fellow dictator Stalin. He tries to deceive Stalin with a plan to invade Britain, while preparing an attack on the Soviet Union.
Date Published:2021

Protest music of the Vietnam War


In protest against the Vietnam War - one of the most divisive conflicts in US history - American musicians wrote and performed hundreds of songs calling for peace and criticising the US government's handling of the war.
Date Published:2021