North Bay Article:

Tour for Humanity rolls into North Bay

The Tour for Humanity bus is in North Bay next week, visiting local secondary schools.

This educational initiative, presented by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC), with the assistance of the North Bay Police Service, is a self-contained mobile classroom designed to inspire and empower students to raise their voices and take action against hate to help make the world a better place.

“We enjoyed working with the Tour for Humanity organizers to bring this rich educational experience to high school students last year,” said Inspector Kirk Kelusky, North Bay Police Service. “Teachers and students alike informed us that they were very impressed with the presentation and found it and the discussions that followed valuable. We are pleased to work in partnership with school officials, who were eager to present this to their students again this year.”

A variety of issues and topics are explored on the Tour for Humanity bus, including racism, prejudice, the Holocaust, universal genocide, real-world heroes, the Canadian residential school system, and the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.

Current issues of cyber bullying and examples of intolerance are also discussed.

The bus will be at École secondaire publique Odyssée on Monday, Chippewa Secondary School on Tuesday, St. Joseph-Scollard Hall on Wednesday and École secondaire Catholique Algonquin on Thursday.

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Sault Star Article:

Travelling exhibit stops in Sault

A touring exhibition highlighting the Indian residential school system and the internment of Japanese Canadians stops in Sault Ste. Marie in May.

The Canadian Experience, presented by the Toronto-based Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, will be at five Algoma District School Board sites from May 8 to 12.

Up to 900 Grade 5 to 10 students from Superior Heights, Korah, White Pines, Central Algoma and Rosedale will participate, superintendent of education Joe Maurice told reporters.

The Canadian Experience, a multi-media presentation staged in Tour for Humanity, a 30-seat mobile human rights education centre, is “well-timed” with Canada's sesquicentennial, said Maurice following Tuesday's committee of the whole meeting. The presentation is also a good fit with curriculum taught in a Grade 10 Canadian history course.

On the web: www.tourforhumanity.com