The Toronto Observer

Talent is shining in Scarborough’s youth. “I was at a community centre and I was looking for a job...I saw a flyer for a music program and I decided to give it a shot,” Troy Beharry said.

It has been a challenge for many young people to find opportunities to get involved in their communities. However, a handful of students in Scarborough are working to change that. The Ward 43 Youth Summit was held in the Scarborough Civic Centre on Jan. 28, led by Coun. Paul Ainslie. Students and youth workers spoke [...]

Fifty years ago, a bit of Scarborough made a monumental move to start a new life as the Scarborough Museum.

Several of Scarborough’s at-risk youth prove that they’re not ones to count out when the going gets tough. Curtis Carmichael, 18, is currently finishing up his first year at Queen's University on a partial athletics scholarship. He was one of these troubled youth who has since taken several big steps towards maturity.

Several years ago the Scarborough Town Centre was a hangout spot for young people. Scarborough Youth Resource Centre’s Nadia Harris says the mall was plagued with youth criminal activities.

Apathy, not obesity, is the epidemic taking over Canada. Witness the lack of youth involvement in this election.

When Michael Erickson ran for councillor of Ward 14 Parkdale/Highpark in the 2010 municipal elections, he promised to create a shelter dedicated to homeless LGBTQ youth in Toronto.

Eighteen-year-old Eden Full won the award in 2009. While in her last year of high school in Calgary, Full developed her prize-winning project: a method for rotating solar panels. Full, now a student in mechanical engineering and African studies at Princeton University in the United States, put the $2,000 cash prize toward developing a prototype that she tested during field work in Kenya.

Seems someone forgot to tell the City of Toronto there are at-risk youth in Scarborough, or so says Leon Saul.

Susie Styrsky says cutting youth programs won’t help Toronto’s kids or its crime rate.