Extracurricular Program

CDS Social Justice

List of 5 news stories.

  • On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - CDS Walked for Chanie Wenjack

    Monday, September 30th was National Day For Truth and Reconciliation, a national holiday in Canada honouring the Indigenous children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools. It is informally referred to as ‘Orange Shirt Day’, given that many Canadians wear orange shirts in recognition of the day’s significance and the story inspired by the experience of Survivor Phyllis Webstad in the 1970s.
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  • Pop Can Tab Drive Initiative

    The Social Justice Club in the Senior School has been actively collecting pop can tabs to support the Robert Hampson Foundation, which transforms these small tabs into big opportunities. The foundation uses the funds from recycling the tabs to provide essential mobility equipment like wheelchairs, walkers, and prosthetics to individuals who need them but may not have the financial resources to access them. These life-changing devices enable greater independence and improved quality of life for those living with mobility challenges.
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    Social Justice Team Reaches Out to Local Community

    The Social Justice team has been bringing joy to frontline healthcare workers and seniors over the past month. 
     
    CDS is helping Fatima Manshadi, owner of the Maple Teahouse & Bake Shop in Aurora, to make lunches for frontline workers at Southlake Hospital. This week, the ER nurses will be receiving chicken kebabs from Fatima thanks to the funding done during our last dress-down day. Members of the Social Justice Club wrote personal thank you notes that will accompany each hand-packed lunch, expressing our gratitude and appreciation for all of their hard work.

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  • Social Justice Initiative: Dress Down Day for True North Aid

    The Senior School Social Justice club tackles social justice initiatives with at least one issue promoted each month. This involves the club’s more than 40 members spearheading a charitable action, such as a dress-down day or a food drive, along with a research component. The students create displays and posters for the classrooms and hallways as well as presentations for school assemblies. The initiatives are student-driven based on their interests and passions.
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  • An Evolution of the Social Justice Club

    Since its founding about a decade ago, the Social Justice Club at The Country Day School has offered interactive and inspirational opportunities for community-driven Senior School students interested in exploring the issues and injustices faced in our contemporary world, as well as possible remedies for these issues. This year, Mr. Harvey and Mr. Downer led a group of students through their journey toward becoming global citizens with an ability and a passion for alleviating local, national, and international struggles. Over the past several weeks, I had an opportunity to sit down with both of these faculty advisors and speak about the goings-on of the club, its initiatives, its importance, and its future.
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Anti-Racism Student Resources Compilation

“By keeping the public discourse focused at the level ‘does racism exist?’ denial demands no change, no reflection, no accountability. Denial is complicity” – Shree Paradkar

Organizations

  • Black Health Alliance
    System change, fundraising, health, research. Mission: “To reduce racial disparities in health outcomes and promote health and well-being for people from the diverse Black communities in Canada with emphasis on the broad determinants of health, including racism”
  • Urban Alliance
    Community based educational programs to reduce racism in society
  • Black Youth Helpline
    Provides health and social support
  • NIA Centre for the Arts
    Amplifying the artwork of Black artists, first Canadian Black art centre
  • Black Lives Matter Canada
    Vision: “To be a platform upon which black communities across Toronto can actively dismantle all forms of anti-black racism, liberate blackness, support black healing, affirm black existence, and create freedom to love and self-determine”

Articles

Books

  • “How to be an Antiracist” – Ibram X. Kendi
  • “The Hate You Give” – Angie Thomas
  • “The New Jim Crow Laws: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness” – Michelle Alexander
  • “Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor” – Layla F Saad
  • “The Skin We’re In” – Desmond Cole
  • “Stamped from the Beginning” – Ibram X. Kendi
  • “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” – Robin DiAngelo
  • “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race” – Reni Eddo-Lodge
  • “Ain’t I a woman: Black Women and Feminism” – bell hooks

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The Country Day School wishes to recognize and acknowledge the land on which the school operates. Our nearest Indigenous Nations are now the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the Chippewas of Georgina Island. The Dish with One Spoon Wampum covenant is often cited as an example of the shared responsibility for caring for these lands among the Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples who would call these their traditional territories. CDS respects the relationship with these lands and recognizes that our connection to this land can be strengthened by our continued relationship with all First Nations, by acknowledging our shared responsibility to respect and care for the land and waters for future generations.

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Junior, Middle and Senior Schools
13415 Dufferin Street, King, Ontario L7B 1K5 
(905) 833-1220 

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Founded in 1972, The Country Day School is a co-educational private school offering programs in JK-12 and located on 100 acres north of Toronto in King.

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