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Access to Justice, Empathy and Systemic Racism Level Justice Youths explore the impacts of labels, stereotypes, and systemic racism, learning that Indigenous youth represent 8% of Canada's population but 50% of youth custody admissions. They discuss equity, equality, and access to justice, while understanding empathy, sympathy, pity, and apathy. The session also covers how power and privilege contribute to oppression and ways to promote change. Civic Action: Then and Now Elections Canada Elections Canada also offers Elections by the Numbers, Choosing our Mascot, and more. Civics 94 Level Justice also offers Mock Trial - 3 Session Program, Indigenous Justice Alternatives, Environmental Law & Justice, and more. Together Today, For Our Children Tomorrow Lyndsay Amato Join Lyndsay Amato – Héel' – of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation as she weaves a powerful, personal narrative and deep connection to the historic fight for self-government across the Yukon. Using Together Today as a guiding document, Lyndsay will walk students through several guided, reflective exercises, helping them identify their core values and how those connect to the past, their communities, their passions, and their future. My Rights, Our Rights Canadian Museum of Human Rights Students will take an inspiring journey through the Museum galleries where they will be introduced to the concept of human rights using age‐appropriate stories and activities. Through these stories and activities, students will begin to understand the importance of human rights and how these rights can keep everyone happy, healthy and safe. Canadian Museum of Human Rights also offers Be an Upstander, Expressing Rights Through Art, and more. How can you make a difference? In this activity, students study a historical case of change, then discuss how First Nations, Métis, and Inuit affirmed Aboriginal and treaty rights in Canada's Constitution. Students learn consensus- building, applying it to their own civic actions. The activity is ideal for language learners and struggling readers, using plain language and simple sentences.