Tyler Sommers' Blog

It's that time of the year again. We're all headed back to school. What fun! I'm still working on getting my courses (unfortunately the University of Toronto has an application process for the courses I want, which means I have to do extra work just to take a course). I guess that's the price of having a school which encompasses pretty much the entire downtown core. But I digress..

You'll notice a few things new with the CYA website:

We've edited the main page (still tweaking, if you have suggestions, head to http://cya-ajc.ca/forum and let us know). It's now more informative. The centre will be for more prominent and relevant updates, near the bottom is a feed to forum announcements. The mini-feed will just be tidbits of things that happen, basically we're trying to ensure that you stay in the loop as much as possible.

We've also added Google Ads to our sites and forum. It's another way for us to generate revenue for the organization. By in large these are pay-per-click, which means that we get a few pennies when someone clicks one of the ads. If we're lucky we might get some pay-per-impression ads, which means we get paid whenever someone loads the page. As our forum alone receives tens of thousands (July we hit a high of over 100,000) page views a month, that would be nice.

I added a brief bit of information regarding the Canadian Heritage Roundtable that I attended on the CYA's behalf. Showcasing some of what we're doing (in the YOUth section).

As you may have read, ICA Canada and the Green Party of Canada support the CYA. We do not have an official endorsement letter from the GPC as of yet, but when we get one they will go up on the supporters page.

We're still planning a smaller conference in Toronto for November of this year. We're saving the larger conference for early next year (including a debate, etc) - we want to fire from all cannons (or whatever the saying is) when we hold a major conference.

CYA! Volunteering (http://volunteering.cya-ajc.ca) is going well! We are getting more and more attention and organizational support/postings every day, so be sure to take a look! There are many opportunities!

I'll do my best to keep you all up to date and keep things moving along.

Tyler Sommers