2018 Municipal Candidates Meeting

On October 22, the town of Oakville is once again holding elections for municipal government.  The school will also be participating in the province-wide Student Vote on Wednesday October 17. Students will be excused from their classes to cast for thein their vote on Wednesday, and any who are 18 years old are encouraged to vote.

To get youth involved, several staff and students at Iroquois Ridge have organized a meet and greet and a debate with some of the candidates. Last Thursday, the library filled with students as Student Vote members Sarah Kronenfeld, Alyson Rodrigues, and Jack Savelli, invited our guest candidates to ask several student-submitted questions. Their goal was to engage Iroquois Ridge students to take interest in their community and give those students a direct connection with the town leaders. This would also allow them to better their understanding of the problems Oakville faces and how the people running for government plan to confront them.

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#wethestudentsdonotconsent

All summer, concerned citizens have been demonstrating against recent large-scale changes to the
Ontario curriculum. On September 21st, tens of thousands of students from across the province walked out of their classrooms en masse in protest of these new changes. On the 23rd - a week ago today - over a hundred protesters came out to Queen’s Park to make their voices heard about the issue. And the movement is nowhere near over.

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US Supreme Court: United States V Texas

WASHINGTON D.C.- On April 18, 2016, the line to view the day’s US Supreme Court case stretches around the block. In fact, the line has been pushed back to make room for the crowds of reporters, television crews, and protesters clustering below the steps. Some are setting up, some are starting to record, and some are walking around the area, interviewing case-watching hopefuls and protesters, who are holding up signs and chanting in both English and Spanish. The most common words are “Sí, se puede”- ‘Yes, we can!’.

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Candidate Meeting at IRHS

As a precursor to the federal election and the upcoming Student Vote (which will take place Wednesday, throughout the day), four candidates from IRHS students' two main ridings came to our school on Thursday for a question/answer session to talk about important national issues and the concerns important to their campaigns.

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IRHS's Upcoming Student Vote

You may have noticed, while walking down the hallways, one poster that is seemingly everywhere. Depicting a maple leaf and an enumeration of some Canadian rights and responsibilities, this poster is advertising an important event coming up soon- the student vote.

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