What youth are getting wrong in Canada

As polarization plagues the world around us, young Canadians are not immune. We must recommit to bursting our filter bubbles.

Young tourists gather on Parliament Hill in July. Youth are not a monolith, write authors Aaron Joshua Pinto and Chris Zhou. They are learned and uninformed; engaged and indifferent; right-leaning, left-leaning, and everything in between. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY AARON JOSHUA PINTO, CHRIS ZHOU

September 14, 2018

We all know the drill: Doug Ford supporters? Shame them. Refugees? Shun them. Anti-feminists? Block them. They’re racist, misandrist, dumb, manipulated—or downright evil. Or are they? Zealous beliefs amongst different groups of young Canadians have prevented us from meaningful civic engagement....

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