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This is Brilliant... "How to Change the World"

Kris Bronner is 18 years old and is also the innovator of the world's first levitating food.  Kris is a  co-creator of UNREAL ™  Brands, a mission-based company dedicated to proving that junk food, a leading contributor to the diabetes and obesity epidemic, can be "unjunked."  This past summer, UNREAL ™  launched with five reinvented versions of America's favourite candies in  25 000 stores nationwide.  These candies are sold side by side with the originals, cost the same, and we think tastes as good.  Such an amazing presentation.  Don't miss it.

TEDxYouthOttawa

During the 2011 reading of the throne speech today, a young page by the name of Brigitte Depape was yanked from the Senate Chamber as she tried to hold up a stop sign placard reading "Stop Harper."  A few months earlier Brigitte was a speaker at TEDxOttawaYouth, the first TEDx youth conference in Canada.  Watch a slightly different Brigitte in action.

And Then at TEDxTeen

Young Jacob Barnett, tells you to "Forget what  you know."  Jacob is autistic and was 13 when he made this presentation.  
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More About Jacob

Read more about Jacob and the Canadian connection in this fascinating recent MacLeans article.

Doing The Splits Like You May Have Never Seen Before

Jean-Claude Van Damme does the splits between two reversing trucks.  It's only a minute but it's a fascinating one.
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Excellent Website

Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) ignites young peoples Creative Confidence - the ability to harness creative skills to solve problems - using advanced digital media tools and tested storytelling techniques.  AYV is the Adobe Foundation's  global initiative to increase creativity.  Youth develop original media that highlights an issue they care about, identify solutions, and in the process foster critical creative skills and a passion to make a difference.
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Sask. Government Wants Kids to Report Bullying Online

The government says it will create an anonymous online reporting tool for the reporting of bullying incidents.  It's part of an anti-bullying plan unveiled thursday by Education Minister Don Morgan.
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B.C. School Bans Kindergarteners From Touching Each Other

A Langley elementary school has banned kindergarten students from touching each other at recess, a policy some parents think is both unnecessary and unworkable.
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