Speaking Out
The advent of social media has been positively embraced as a means of connecting people across long distances. It has also revolutionized marketing and public relations in unprecedented ways.
Speaking Out: Cancelling won’t better society
By Paula Ducepec, Youth Speak NewsDuring the COVID-19 lockdown, my siblings and I started viewing movies and TV shows that we grew up with and developed a game: we would try and see which jokes, ideologies, portrayals and topics will eventually get cancelled according to today’s standards and practices.
Speaking Out: What have we learned from a year of COVID?
By Kathleena Henricus, Youth Speak NewsThe landmark one-year anniversary dates for COVID-19 in Canada are Jan. 25 and March 8 — the former being the day we recorded our first official pandemic case, and the latter being the first death.
Speaking Out: Faith in a murky world
By Elizabeth Gay, Youth Speak NewsBeing steadfast in times of suffering can be a struggle. COVID-19 continues to create a murky picture for Canada’s near future. All around us, people suffer from loneliness, anxiety, illness and despair.
Speaking Out: Finding Christian values in secular media
By Paula Ducepec, Youth Speak NewsI hear this often: there isn’t much Christian or religious material out there. I also hear the media is now very secular. And this is where I stop people and say: No! You are wrong, it’s everywhere — we’ve just lost the art of finding Christianity and religion in everything.
Speaking Out: Disconnected in a virtual world
By Emily Knudsgaard, Youth Speak NewsIn a world where we have so much technology and connection right at our fingertips, why do we sometimes feel so disconnected?
Speaking Out: In giving we will receive
By Jacob Stocking, Youth Speak NewsThe typical image of poverty is often presented to us when we walk down a busy street. We see a man or woman holding a coffee cup, baseball cap or some other vessel to receive the pocket change of passers-by.
Speaking Out: Mining the soul in pop music
By Mary French, Youth Speak NewsMan’s search for God lies at the very core of the soul. So it comes as no surprise that God can be found in art that springs forth from that powerful place of divine recollection: music.
Speaking Out: Abortion is not the solution
By Bernadette Timson, Youth Speak NewsI couldn’t help but cry and scream as I saw a baby decapitated, dismembered and disemboweled 10 minutes into watching the movie Unplanned.
Speaking Out: Leaders’ example sorely lacking
By Elizabeth Gay, Youth Speak NewsCanada’s provincial and federal politicians essentially locked the country down again over Christmas because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Tightening restrictions intensified the dreariness, the darkness and coldness of a Christmas season in Canada. These limits on freedom were even instituted in communities that were faring well with flattening the pandemic’s curve.
Speaking Out: Create experience that screams ‘you’
By Angelica Vecchiato, Youth Speak NewsDinner table conversations at my house often turn to the fond reminiscing of the teenage life of my parents.