Global education for Canadians is a must-have in a world on edge

Federal leadership, however, is required to launch, brand, and catalyze a national initiative.

Jean-Marc Vallée’s coming of age comedy-drama, C.R.A.Z.Y., captures the 1970s era amazingly well: overwhelmingly white, middle-class francophone youth struggling to shake off its homophobia and inward-looking attitudes. Jean-Marc Mangin says he only really began to understand and better appreciate the society that he grew up in by leaving it and by exposing himself to a world of differences.

Opinion

BY JEAN-MARC MANGIN

November 20, 2017

The study group on global education recently released its report (GoGlobalCanada.ca) and made a series of important and timely recommendations based on the latest available evidence. It would be a missed and costly opportunity to let this report gather dust on the shelves of nice-to-have idealistic ...

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