Girl Guides of Canada January newsletter [selections]

Archived Articles | 21 Jan 2009 | EWR

Guide-Scout Week

February is a special month for Girl Guides and Girl Scouts worldwide. February 15 to 22 marks Guide-Scout week, which is a week dedicated to holding special joint activities to promote our Movements. If there is a Scout group in your area, consider getting together with them to celebrate and promote Guiding. The Guide-Scout Week Kit will be posted soon on Member Zone, with great ideas on how your girls can participate. Please share your success stories and event photos with us at .

World Thinking Day
February 22, 2009

The World Thinking Day 2009 theme is girls worldwide say “Stop the spread of AIDS, malaria and other diseases”. World Thinking Day is a chance for Girl Guides and Girl Scouts to reaffirm their commitment to change the world around them and to raise funds for the World Thinking Day Fund.

Click here for GGC’s World Thinking Day Kit – full of activities and resources that will help girls explore the importance of health and understand AIDS, malaria and other diseases as global issues. (You can also click here for activities developed by WAGGGS.) There is also a Thinking Day patch, available for purchase in local Guide stores.

Archived Articles

The reverberations of Soviet totalitarianism in Finland: Sympathies and contradictions (II) (1)
Translated from Imbi Paju’s article in “Maailma Vaade” (View of the World).

This year 70 years have passed since the signing of the ...

How to Liberate an Economy
Entrepreneurs understand the importance of freedom in the workplace

Guy Sorman, TCS Daily

Brian Carney and Isaac Getz's Freedom, Inc. is a ...

Lessons from Estonia: Protecting the West from a computer attack
Väino Reinart, National Post, October 22, 2009

The cyber attacks carried out against Estonia in the spring of 2007 served as a wake-up call about ...

Opening statement by Mark Carney Governor of the Bank of Canada Press conference following the release of the Monetary Policy Report 22 October 2009
Good morning. Paul and I are pleased to be here with you today to discuss the October Monetary Policy Report, which we published this morning.

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Welcome home
It is high time to abolish the concept of ethnic minorities
Europe.view column, Oct 22nd 2009, from Economist.com

Should the Polish ethnic ...

Moscow Patriarchate’s efforts to subordinate ‘alternative Orthodox’ undercut Russia’s future, Regelson says (2)
VIENNA, October 22 – The Moscow Patriarchate’s drive to subordinate all independent Orthodox bishops and believers to its own power vertical, an ...