Tyler Sommers' Blog

Well, we sent out many an invite and did many a follow up email and call and we finally have a second speaker for our event at the University of Ottawa on the 20th of this month (February..). All it took was a very simple response:

"Hi Tyler,

I’d be happy to do it. Thanks for the invite.

Cheers,

Graham Saul

Executive Director

Climate Action Network Canada"

and Graham Saul, the Executive Director of the Climate Action Network will be coming to speak. A little about the Climate Action Network:

(http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca). The climate action network is a group of member organizations committed to preventing dangerous levels of human interference with global climate, environmental sustainability, social justice, etc.

Member organizations include the Assembly of First Nations, the David Suzuki Foundation, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Foundation, and many others.

So they aren't only concerned with climate, but human intervention more generally. Sounds like we'll have a couple of interesting speakers! Steven Paikin and Graham Saul. We also have some other announcements, groups attending, etc, so we'll definitely have more than just two people speaking throughout the day. It won't be boring, I assure you.

And for those of you thinking "Climate change!? Boo, that's not what I want to hear about" please keep in mind that they're speaking about youth engagement, leadership, and involvement. We've stressed this in our conversations with them and I know they're happy to speak to young people and encourage us to get involved!

Also, Steven has been working on the remaking of our website, which is coming along absolutely fantastically! I'm hoping to get it up sooner than later (I'll ask him for a timeline at some point soon) and expect the forums to be shaken up a little as well when we implement the new site. We're trying to make things easier to navigate and use.

Make sure you visit the forum to get involved with CYA's guide to involvement!

http://cya-ajc.ca
http://cya-ajc.ca/forum

All the best,

Tyler Sommers
Executive Director
Canadian Youth Assembly