20/11
2025

Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates Seeks Compliance to Jordan’s Principle on National Child Day and Every Day – Our Children, Our Future

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SASKATOON – November 20th is National Child Day – a day tocelebrate children and youth, and a reminder of Canada’scommitment made to children’s rights. In 1991, Canada ratified theUnited Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), alegally-binding international human rights instrument.The UNCRC outlines 54 articles that cover a range of special rightsand protections […]

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12/08
2025

International Overdose Awareness Day: RCY Urges Awareness, Compassion, and Action

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Victoria – Nine years into B.C.’s toxic drug crisis, first declared a public health emergency by the Provincial Health Officer in 2016, children and youth remain among those most deeply impacted. OnInternational Overdose Awareness Day (August 31), B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth (RCY) is raising awareness that young people are experiencing harms from increasingly […]

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12/05
2025

Representative for Children and Youth says much more needs to be done to ensure young people in care do not continue to go missing

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Victoria – In acknowledgement of International Missing Children’s Day, May 25, B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth is calling on provincial systems of care to do more to prevent and better support young people who are lost, fleeing and missing from government care. “The government has made improvements since my office completed a report on […]

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