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This category is for Canadian Scouting. Scouting is an educational movement for young people with over 250,000 members in Canada. Scouting was established in the UK by Lord Baden-Powell 1907 and quickly spread around the world. Earl Grey, the Governor-General of Canada, at the request of Lord Baden-Powell became the first Chief-Scout of Canada in 1910.

• Brampton resident fears unique scout camp could close - Brampton Guardian - Every summer for the past 30 years children from all over Ontario gather in a 150-year-old barn just outside Acton to camp and swim, make crafts and make friends. Despite its long history and deep roots in the community, it remains a secret to most of Bra
  
• Sask. contingent headed off to Que. - Regina Leader-Post - Some 250 Scouts, Venturers and their leaders from Regina, Saskatoon, Weyburn, Fort Qu'Appelle, Nokomis and Swift Current are heading to Quebec for Scouts Canada's 11th Canadian Jamboree.
  
• Celebrating Scouting - Western News - Penticton Mayor Jake Kimberley signs a proclamation honouring Scouting’s 100th anniversary as he is joined by some of the members of Penticton Scouts groups.
  
• Local Scouts receive Chief Scout's and Queen's Venturer awards - Brantford Expositor - Scouts Canada recently honoured 77 of its outstanding local youth at the annual Chief Scout's/Queen's Venturer award ceremony.
  
• Scouts to plant 3,000 trees - Milton Canadian Champion - Making the world a little greener will be the goal of Milton and Campbellville Beavers, Cubs and Scouts, who are gearing up to plant a whopping 3,000 trees
  
• Reward youth for a job well done - Kings Record - All too often, the only press and publicity that young people get is negative. A lot of positive news gets passed over because it isn't sensational enough.
  
• Kanata Lakes boy earns shot at $75,000 scholarship - Kanata Kourier - Gordon Stephen is a real Boy Scout. The 17-year-old Kanata Lakes youth has spent his formative years following the advice of Scouting founder Lt.-Gen. Robert Baden Powell: Be Prepared.
  
• We should be proud of Remembrance Day turnout in Sussex - Kings Record - I attended the annual Sussex Remembrance Day parade and cenotaph ceremony as part of the Scouts Canada contingent, and once again was proud to be part of such a large group of youth and adults, who year after year take part in this celebration of remembra
  
• They came, they saw, they planted - The Orillia Packet & Times - What happens when you mix together 300 kids and 3,000 tree seedlings? You get an instant forest!
  
• Canadian teen celebrates 100 years of scouting with royalties in London - Canoe.ca - A young Canadian boy is bringing home a royal memory from a trip to England to celebrate the centenary of scouting. By Russ Morgan.
  
• GM donates $100K to plant 20,000 trees - St. Catharines Standard - Little Shaw Cummings-Boase gripped the shovel, stuck it in the pile of dirt and teetered toward the white oak tree before steadying herself to cover the roots.
  
• Rotary Club names couple as Citizens of the Year - Bracebridge Examiner - What you see is what you get. Sitting with Wayne and Audrey Forth in their Bracebridge home, the co-winners of the Citizen of the Year for the Town of Bracebridge, is like a breath of proverbial Muskoka air — their spirit and obvious verve for life is e
  
• He's been in Scouting for his entire life - Regina Leader Post - Francis Martens-Poole, a Scouts Canada Commemorative Centennial Medal recipient, was in the Scouting movement even as a baby.
  
• Vulcan scout group needs volunteers to relaunch - Vulcan Advocate - Parent leaders required before making further plans - The biggest hurdle to overcome in creating a scout group in Vulcan is finding enough parent leaders and volunteers to organize the endeavour.
  
• Scoutscan.com - Scouts Scope Newsletter, news, and resources including games, program ideas, Scoutmaster's Minutes, books by BP and others, and the entire Jim Speirs archives.
  
• There is so much you can do through scouts - Niagara Falls Review - Outdated public image doesn't describe skills, adventure group offers. By Alisom Langley.
  
• Senator won't ditch Scout bill - Ottawa Sun - Conservative Ontario Sen. Consiglio Di Nino has no plans to back away from his Scouts Canada bill. Di Nino said the clamour of opposition coming from a group of dissident Scout leaders has not convinced him to drop Bill S-1001. Some Scout leaders claim th
  
• Volunteers sustain the scouting world - Kings County Record - There have been hundreds of adult volunteers who have spent time working with the Sussex area Scouts Canada groups over the years. Many are Sussex business owners and operators, and have provided not only time, but financial resources as well.
  
• Leader of the pack left indelible mark on community through his volunteer efforts - Truro Daily News - When Gordon Poole takes a trip down memory lane, he realizes how dedicated he has been to the Scouting movement. BY Monique Chiasson.
  
• Scouting movement still active, seeking volunteers - The News Serving Pictou County Nova Scotia - Remember when scouting was about building a fire, constructing a bird feeder and hanging out in the woods?
  
• These Boy Scouts have a rule:No girls allowed - Calgary Herald - Calgary finally has Boy Scouts of America chapter
  
• Happy faces make delivering boxes a joy - Toronto Star - Every year, Geoffrey Ellis has a choice to either stay home with a mug of hot chocolate and watch TV or plod through snow-covered roads in the blustery weather to deliver Star boxes. For 10 consecutive years, he has chosen the latter.
  
• Service celebrates 100 years of Scouting, birth of founder - NiagaraThisWeek - Fruitbelt Area of Scouts Canada will be celebrating the 150th birthday of Scouting's founder Lord Baden-Powell, as well as the 100th anniversary of Scouting, with a church service in Grimsby next week.
  
• Scouts Take Up The Challenge To "Be Prepared" For Any Emergency - Northumberland View - It's storming outside. Tree branches are bending. The power just went out, along with the lights. Do you know what to do?
  
• Volunteers Honoured - Caledon Citizen - Group commissioners from Alton, Bolton, Caledon, Caledon East and Mono Mills all received a pin and a certificate signed by The Honourable Mike Colle, Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
  
• Humber College Rovers test career in policing - Etobicoke Guardian - An unique local program that grooms potential recruits for a career in policing graduated more Humber College students last month. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair and Deputy Chief Kim Derry inducted a new group of Toronto Police Service (TPS) 22 Division
  
• Cubs have fun while learning life skills - Belleville Intelligencer - 200 take part in Algonquinte Cuboree. Sometimes soggy and constantly buggy conditions didn't deter Wolf Cubs and other Scouting members from enjoying their special weekend outdoors.
  
• Councillor, longtime scout devoted life to community - Halifax Daily News - According to an article his son recently read, Kenneth Edward Margeson would have been "an elder of the tribe" had he lived centuries ago. By Paul Everest.
  
• Scouts launch online protest of land sale - Haliburton Echo - The Toronto chapter of Scouts Canada is facing strong opposition to the sale of a portion of the Haliburton Scout Reserve along Drag Lake. A group of 680 members, many of whom are Scouts, has joined together on Facebook, a social networking site online, t
  
• Long-time Scouter recognized - The Northern Light - Local resident Helen Knowles was recognized for her contribution to the Scouting movement at the annual awards ceremony for the New Brunswick Council of Scouts Canada, held Nov. 1 at the Legislative Assembly in Fredericton.
  
• Boy Scouts - Tumbler Ridge News - McDonald was in Tumbler Ridge to discuss leader training, which will be offered in Prince George in early October and again in November.
  
• Registration for scouting is always a big time of year - Kings County Record - Many of our scouting groups are getting ready for the new 2008-09 year. There will be a booth at the upcoming Sussex registration fair, where youth can be registered and parents receive information. All local groups will have their own registration nights
  
• Sears Canada and Scouts Canada Join Together to Plant 250,000 Trees Across Canada - CNW Group - Sears Canada Inc. announced today that it has joined forces with Scouts Canada to raise funds and awareness for Scoutrees, a program which involves 25,000 youth in an effort to plant approximately 250,000 trees across Canada this year.
  
• Being prepared - Globe and Mail - Teenage scouts in Britain may be given sexual counselling. Their world-famous motto is "Be prepared." Now, teenage scouts in Britain may be taken to sexual-health clinics to better educate them on sex, according to new guidance issued yesterday
  
• Young Scouts to boost disaster relief in Ontario - canada.com - The next time the Big One hits - tornado, flood, or another kind of disaster - children in khaki shirts and neckerchiefs may be calling the shots.
  
• Did you ever wear green garter tabs? - Soo Today - Over 28 million Scouts worldwide celebrate; thousands attending CJ'07 are honoured with the presence of Lord Robert Baden-Powell's great-grandson, Adam Baden-Clay.
  
• Kanata Lakes boy earns shot at $75,000 scholarship - Nepean This Week - Gordon Stephen is a real Boy Scout. The 17-year-old Kanata Lakes youth has spent his formative years following the advice of Scouting founder Lt.-Gen. Robert Baden Powell: Be Prepared.
  
• Scouts and guides learn CPR - Chatham Daily News - One is never too young to save a life, kids heard at the Chatham-Kent Children's Safety Village last weekend.
  
• Scouting youth get popping - Stoney Creek News - As youth return to regular Beaver, Cub, Scout, Venturer and Rover meetings across Fruitbelt Area, they also begin their biggest fund-raising campaign of the year: popcorn sales.
  
• Boy, scouts have changed - Toronto Star - Scouts Canada has been fully co-ed for 10 years, but many people can't seem to give up the old name – so a friendly reminder was in order
  
• Scouting lessons vital for life, veteran says - Ottawa Citizen - A cardiologist was recently threading a probe into a man's heart and chatting with the conscious patient as he worked. He knew the man on the table was a former pilot, and said his father, too, had flown in the Second World War. The Battle of Britain vete
  
• Canadian Badgers Club - Association to further Scout badge collecting in Canada. Includes online trade catalog.
  
• A unique experience - The Sarnia Observer - A group of 35 happy kids piled into a yellow school bus Friday morning on their way to a unique camping trip made possible by area boy scouts.
  
• Racing to the finish line - Midland Mirror - Saturday featured the 6th-Annual Scouts Canada Windake Shores Area soapbox derby.
  
• Scouting movement celebrates 100th anniversary - NewsLeader - In 1907, founder Robert Baden-Powell took a troop of boys camping on Brownsea Island in England. That initial group of 22 lads has now become 28 million Scouting members in 155 countries. By Sabine Boersch.
  
• Down scouting's memory lane - King's County Record - I was looking through some old Central Kings District scrapbooks from 20 years ago, and I found some interesting items. Central Kings District had many great scouters over the years, and I would like to share comments from three of the original founders o
  
• Waterloo scouts make a name for themselves in international knot-tying - Waterloo Chronicle - The 21st Waterloo Scout Troop won the knot-tying trophy at the 2007 Owen Sound Winter Camporee. The annual camporee, now in its 44th year, played host to over 500 scouts from Ontario and nearby U.S. states.
  
• Cairn, plaque for Scouts - Caledon Citizen - aledon council recently supported the installation of a cairn and plaque on the Caledon Trailway near the Highway 10 pedestrian bridge in honour of Scouts Canada's 100th anniversary.
  
• Ontario promotes new mining skills for youth - Parry Sound North Star - The Ontario government is promoting mining by partnering with Scouts Canada on the first ever digital prospecting specialty badge to be used in the Canadian scouting movement, Rick Bartolucci, Ontario Minister of Northern Development and Mines announced t
  
• Scouting honours two Valley people for work - Comox Valley Record - Two local Comox Valley Scout members were awarded medals last weekend for their especially good service to Scouting. They were honoured at the Scouts Canada–Cascadia Council honours and awards ceremony in Vancouver, reports Maxine McLean, Orca Coast ar
  
• Trip celebrates 100 years of Scouting - Miramichi Leader - The weekend weather forecast predicted rain, rain, rain for the Miramichi area. It was not what we'd hoped for in our plans to canoe the mighty Southwest Miramichi River in May.
  
• Kawarthas is a playground for canoeists, kayakers - Peterborough Examiner - Courses offered for children by Brownsea Base. The seemingly endless network of lakes and rivers in the Kawarthas is a playground for those interested in learning how to canoe or kayak.
  
• Planting trees for the future - Brantford Expositor - Bailey and Jared McNeil discovered how tough it can be to break ground and properly plant a young sumac with a long root.
  
• N.B. scouters helping PEI rebuild - Kings Record - A very important part of the Scout's Promise is "to help other people at all times," and in the past few months, that has been very prevalent in New Brunswick.
  
• Scouts Canada saddened by deaths at jamboree - canada.com - Scouts Canada says it is saddened by the deaths of four scout leaders at an international jamboree that just got underway in Virginia.
  
• Heir to scouts movement on tour - West Island Chronicle - When Adam Baden-Clay, 32, emerged out of a mud session dripping head to toe this summer at camp Tamaracouta, he did not look the part for a hug, but that is exactly what a Dorval beaver scouts leader gave him. By Raffy Boudjikanian.
  
• Scouts Canada's Climate Change Program receives Honourable Mention - Scouts Canada and the Delphi Group, Nexen Inc. and Alcan Inc., partners in combating climate change, have received an Honourable Mention - Partnership Award from Imagine Canada for their innovative work in launching the Climate Change Education and Action
  
• Scouting rebels, upset with changes to the national organization, are looking to take over - Ottawa Sun - Scouts Canada is facing a rebellion. A faction of Scout leaders have launched a campaign to wrest control of Scouts Canada from an administration they claim will destroy the nearly century-old organization. By Jorge Barrera.
  
• Scouts can now earn digital prospecting badge - Sault Ste. Marie News - The Ontario government is promoting mining by partnering with Scouts Canada on the first-ever digital prospecting specialty badge to be used in the Canadian scouting movement, Rick Bartolucci, Ontario Minister of Northern Development and Mines announced t
  
• Whycocomagh scouts honoured by Lt.-Gov with Chief Scout awards - Cape Breton Post - Five members of the 1st Whycocomagh Scout Troop were given the Chief Scout’s award in April.
  
• Youngsters recognized for overcoming obstacles - Telegraph Journal - A steep challenge has never deterred two Kings County boys from doing the things other kids their age enjoy.
  
• Queen's Venturer Award - Miramichi Leader - Tyler Young (centre) of 1st Gretna Green Venturers received his Queen's Venturer Award at the Legislative Assembly in Fredericton on Saturday. He is shown here receiving the certificate from Lieutenant Governor Hermenegilde Chiasson while Glenn Armstrong,
  
• City takes back our Scout Hall - Barrie Advance - Thank you to those Scouters who showed up to help go through some of the “stuff” (no other word could possibly describe the odd bits and pieces of craft supplies, old flag poles, displays, piles of old event badges, posters, and of course, mugs, mugs
  
• Scouts mark a century of honours - Toronto Star - Under the blazing sun, the Scouts marched toward the new school, leading the parade in full uniform. Arriving at the site, they took position flanking both sides of the adjoining road. As the government officials, community members and students attending
  
• Scouts prepare for Great Urban Race - Kings County Record - On the afternoon of April 25, be prepared to see groups of uniformed young people running purposefully around the City of Moncton. They're participating in the city's first ever Great Urban Race.
  
• Scouts Canada Appoints Youngest-ever Canadian to Board Chair and Chief Commissioner Post - CNW Group - Scouts Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Steve Kent to the position of Chief Commissioner and Chair of the Board.
  
• Kub Kars cruise into South Common Mall - The Mississauga News - Instead of souping up his car this year, Erik Gillis opted for a clean, simple design.
  
• Historic Kawartha Waterways camp held - Peterborough Examiner - Late in the afternoon of Friday, June 8, the winds whipped trees, branches fell and rain pounded the Serpent Mounds as Scouters were beginning to arrive to set up for the first all-section camp the Kawartha Waterways had ever attempted in the same place a
  
• Cubs Learn First Aid At Toronto EMS - CityNews.ca - About 250 children learned a valuable lesson Saturday: the importance of first aid.
  
• Sons of killed Scout leaders go home to Alaska - CTV.ca - Three sons of Boy Scout leaders killed in an electrical accident at the National Scout Jamboree in Virginia have returned home to Alaska, officials said Tuesday.
  
• Campers escape morning blaze - Milton Canadian Champion - A Saturday morning fire at an area campground left a group of teenaged Scouts shaken up but without serious injury.
  
• Community groups raise funds thanks to FREX parking demand - Daily Gleaner - The Fredericton Exhibition gives the community a chance to get out and have some fun, but it also gives some charitable organizations a financial boost.
  
• Long-awaited jamboree under way - Peterborough Examiner - For more than a year, Scouting youth and adults have been preparing for the Centennial Jamboree which marks the 100th anniversary of Scouting around the world.
  
• Brownsea Base advanced paddlers enjoy first camp of season this month - Peterborough Examiner - Brownsea Base's Advanced paddlers held their first camp of the season with a trip to Buzzard Lake on the July 6 to 8 weekend.
  
• Scouts Canada Helps Break Cycle of Poverty for Kids in Kenya - CNW Telbec - Canada Hosts Ten Kenyan Extension Scouting Members as Special Guests at National Jamboree; Providing Youth with Hope for the Future.
  
• Dyb, dyb, dyb - Victoria News - "Be prepared." That well-known motto of the Scouting movement has been adopted by millions of young people around the globe over the past century. The saying is especially appropriate now, as Scouts Canada and Girl Guides of Canada prepare to ce
  
• Scout leaders clash over future of camp - London Free Press - Elgin Scout leaders are becoming increasingly frustrated with the "sham" process they face in an effort to overturn a Scouts Canada property review committee decision to close Camp Timken. Barely able to contain her anger, Karen Palmer, one of f
  
• Chief Commissioner of Scouts Canada challenges Canadian families to "Be Prepared" for an emergency - CNW Group - With Emergency Preparedness Week underway, and in light of the current H1N1 flu virus, there's never been a better time to ask: If an emergency situation occurred today, would you know what to do? Would you know how to protect your family?
  
• Scouts Canada's financial health under microscope - Vancouver Province - Scouts Canada, the country's leading youth organization, could face bankruptcy, according to a watchdog group. By Kent Spencer.
  
• Scouts to invade park - Owen Sound Sun Times - Hundreds of Scouts will spend two winter nights camping at Harrison Park later this month.
  
• Viking dinner honours Scouters - Peterborough Examiner - Members of the 1st Lakefield Viking Rover Crew and their group commissioner held a Viking dinner in honour of Scouters Bill ("Skip") and Chris Karam at the Lakefield Scout Ship on Saturday, Dec. 29 beginning at 4 p.m.
  
• Meritorious conduct, perseverance rewarded - Kings Record - At the annual Scouts Canada awards ceremony Nov. 1, two members of the New Brunswick Council received awards for meritorious conduct, and should be publicly recognized for their actions.
  
• Scouts try to boost dwindling numbers - Brandon Sun - If there were a merit badge for doing more with less, Scouts Canada would have earned it long ago. By: FPNS.
  
• Celebrate scouting - Esquimalt News - Canada’s legions of Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Venturers, Rovers, Sparks, Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders are getting ready to join 25 million other young people around the world in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Scouting movement.
  
• Scouting returns to Kirkland Lake in a big way - Northern News - KIRKLAND LAKE -Scouting has come back to Kirkland Lake. Over the past while Scouts Canada has been conducting a number of registrations for Beavers, Wolves and Scouts and to date the results have been extremely positive.
  
• Peterborough scouter receiving Governor General's Caring Canadian Award - Peterborough Examiner - A 33-year veteran of the Peterborough Scouts District is receiving the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award from Gov.-Gen. Michaelle Jean Friday at a ceremony in Toronto. By Reg Watson.
  
• Cubs race their 'kars'; Four ounce blocks of wood turned into slick racers - Welland Tribune - There's not many things to make from a four ounce block of wood. But add some spokes and four plastic wheels and you have all the makings of Kub Kar.
  
• Scouts heading to Scotland - Comox Valley Echo - My name is Kassandra Sewell, and I am 13 years of age. This summer, I am fortunate enough to be traveling with Scouts Canada to Great Britain for an entire month!
  
• Hard to top this Scout badge - Belleville Intelligencer - David Fry's 17-year involvement in local Scouting has earned him national honours. The 23-year-old Plainfield resident is the first recipient in the Algonquinte Scouting area of a new national award, the Medal of the Maple for Distinguished Youth Service.
  
• East end celebrates Scout-Guide week - Orléans Star / East Ottawa Star - It may have been a blustery winter day, but east-end Scout and Girl Guide groups were out in full force this past weekend to celebrate their joint heritage and test their outdoor skills.
  
• Canadian Scouting Catalogue - A catalogue of badges, uniforms, memorabilia, and other items from 1908 to present.
  
• Scouting leaders receive honours, twice - Beausejour Review - At a ceremony held at Government House, His Honour, Lieutenant Governor John Harvard, presented Bob Chochinov and Jennifer Thorsteinsson the Scouts Canada Medal of Merit.
  
• Scouts put the 'out' in outdoors - 100 Mile House Free Press - Sixty-six Scout leaders and 20 trainers participated in Wood Badge Two training at Lake of The Trees on the weekend of May 3-6.
  
• Port Hope teen receives Duke of Edinburgh's Award - Northumberland News - Devon Campbell of Port Hope recently received the Duke of Edinburgh's award.
  
• Scout earns city honours - The Sarnia Observer - Aaron Minnis is no cub when it comes to scouts. The 11-year-old has one more accolade to add to an already historic Scouts Canada career, this time a merit of achievement from city hall.
  
• Canadian teen celebrates 100 years of scouting with royalties in London - Chronicle Journal - A young Canadian boy is bringing home a royal memory from a trip to England to celebrate the centenary of scouting.
  
• Scouts ask $1.3M for land - Haliburton Echo - Scouts Canada has put a small portion of their vast Haliburton County property up for sale. One hundred acres of property with 2,400 feet of waterfront on Drag Lake has been listed with Century 21 for $1.39 million.
  
• Rubber ducks invade the Thames; 7,500 yellow quackers float in river for charity - Chatham Daily News - Some nice weather and a strong current helped the ducks make good time on Saturday. The 18th annual Rubber Duck Race, held on the Thames River, was organized by the Chatham Kinsmen and Kinette clubs in support of the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation, a
  
• Waiting list to join Scouts in Kennebecasis Valley - CBC.ca - The scouting movement has been facing a general decline in New Brunswick, but that doesn't appear to be the case in the Kennebecasis Valley.
  
• After more than 50 years, man receives scouting award - Chatham Daily News - It's been more than 50 years since Tom Vella-Zarb was involved with scouts in his homeland of Malta.
  
• Scouts Take up the Challenge to "Be Prepared" for Any Emergency - CNW Group - It's storming outside. Tree branches are bending. The power just went out, along with the lights. Do you know what to do? Now, thousands of young people and their families across Canada do, thanks to Scouts Canada's new Emergency Preparedness program.
  
• An Apple On Apple Day Goes A Long, Long Way - Cambridge Now - Who wouldn't want to give these kids a couple-a-bucks for a crisp ontario apple. Beavers, Cubs and Scouts will be handing out apples (hoping to get a donation) on Thursday and Friday evening (October, 11, 12) and on Saturday (October 13) morning at variou
  
• Scouts celebrate 100 years - Niagara Falls Review - When a young girl fell down a hill and broke her ankle in a remote Kingston park, Mike Baskin knew exactly what to do.
  
• A Scout's honour - Ottawa Citizen - At 16, Edward King — once a violent, at times suicidal, 11-year-old — has become a person others can admire, as Shelley Page explains
  
• Scouting out your adventure - Calgary Sun - Leadership is a focus during the heaping handful of activities offered throughout the Chinook Council Scouts Canada Summer Camp sessions. By Samara Cygman.
  
• Scouts take on mountains, and win - The Gulf News - “Memories that will last a lifetime.” That’s how local Scout leader Terry Anderson summed up a recent outing over the Long Range Mountains.
  
• Scouting groups seek donations to aid Scoutrees for Canada - Georgetown Independent and Free Press - Georgetown and Acton Beavers, Cubs and Scouts will help plant 3,000 trees, as part of the national Scoutrees for Canada program, on Saturday, April 19, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Dufferin's Acton Quarry.
  
• Cubs assist birthday-card record attempt - Timmins Daily Press - A group of local boy scouts are sending about 100 birthday cards to a young cancer patient from Lancaster, Ont., none of them have ever met. By Scott Paradis.
  
• Dorval Honours the 100th Anniversary of the Scouts Movement - Le Messager Lachine Dorval - The City of Dorval is proud to dedicate the Dorval Circle floral arrangement to the Scouts movement, in this its world-wide centennial celebration year.
  
• Scouting celebrates 100 years - News Leader Pictorial - About a dozen badges are sewn to chaplain Frank Sarton’s shirt and each one tells a story. The story de jour comes from a purple badge that sits above his heart. By Michelle Thompson.
  
• ScoutDocs - Resources site. Topics include: Klondike Derby, Scouting issues, spirituality, ceremonies, kit lists, Venturer and Rover bylaws.
  
• Youth not only ones who earn badges - Kings County Record - A good volunteer is always seeking ways to improve themselves through courses, lectures or practice. Scouts Canada has a laid out training program for their adult volunteers and it consists of the three methods I mentioned.
  
• Scout, Guide fundraising pits healthy eating against guilty delights - Times Colonist - It was sweet, natural goodness versus chocolate-minty fun as scouts peddling apples went up against Girl Guides selling cookies on their regular fund-raising drives yesterday.
  
• Local scout troop wins top prize at provincial competition - Waterloo Chronicle - The 21st Waterloo Scout Troop won three trophies at the 2009 Owen Sound Winter Scout Camporee.
  
• Scouts' Apple Day, popcorn and a job well done - Kings Record - In the fall of 1932, the first Scouts Canada Apple Day was held in Saint John.
  
• What's in a name? - Kings County Record - When a new organization is created, a suitable name for the organization must be created as well. When Sir Robert Baden-Powell started an outdoor program for young boys in 1907, he based it on the training program that new army scouts took, and the progra
  
• Top three finish for local scouts - Sooke News - The Klondike gold rush began in 1897 when ships brought gold-laden miners to San Francisco and Seattle from the Yukon. The press carried the story to the world and within six months, 100,000 gold-seekers headed for the Yukon.
  
• Youth get connected at Global Development Village - CNW Group - Many young people know about the world's problems but never hear about solutions. The Global Development Village is a welcome change! Over 2000 young people will gather at Toronto's Downsview Park on May 6, 7, 8 and 10, to take part in interactive and em
  
• Scouts may face bankruptcy - Edmonton Journal - $6-million pension shortfall alarms watchdog. Scouts Canada, the country's leading youth organization, could face bankruptcy, according to a watchdog group.
  
• 20 Scout camps on the block - London Free Press - Five local camps are on the sell-off list, but some scout leaders are fighting the plan.
  
• Scouts presented with top awards; Scouts And Venturers From Welland And Port Colborne Attend Ceremony In Niagara Falls - Welland Tribune - Scouts Canada honoured 77 of its outstanding local youth at the annual Chief Scout's/Queen's Venturer award ceremony Friday evening at St. Andrew's United Church in Niagara Falls.
  
• Scouting aims to connect with Muslims - Toronto Star - An early-morning paddle across a still northern lake, just as the rising sun burns off the last of the fog from the surface of the water, your thoughts full of the stories, hot chocolate and marshmallows of the campfire the night before. By Stuart Laidlaw
  
• Proud to give back - Kings Record - Since 1950, the Canadian Scout Brotherhood Fund has supported community development projects carried out in Third World countries. The Scouts Canada International Relations Committee administers this fund, and the World Scout Bureau in Geneva, Switzerland
  
• Oshawa Scouts team canoe their way to notable honour - News Durham Region - The 21st Oshawa Venturer company will be honoured by Lieutenant-Governor David Onley at Queen's Park in Toronto on Nov. 17.
  
• Registrations continue for Scouts, Guides - Belleville Intelligencer - It's still not too late for parents to register their children -- or themselves -- for the local Scouts and Guides for the upcoming winter sessions.
  
• Falling interest prompts Scouts to close camps - The Globe and Mail - Scouts Canada plans to put 20 of its Ontario campgrounds on the chopping block after dwindling membership and declining revenues have forced the venerable youth organization to streamline its operations. [Paid subscription or article purchase required.]
  
• Motor Madness ready to take over the city - North Bay News - Nipissing Area Scouting youth will celebrate more than just fast Beaver Buggies, Kub Kars and Scout Trucks when they gather at Motor Madness 2009, Saturday April 4 at the College Education Centre cafeteria.
  
• Scouts Canada Announces New Chief Commissioner - CNN Matthews - On behalf of Her Excellency the Honorable Michaëlle Jean, C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D., Governor General of Canada and Chief Scout of Canada, Scouts Canada's Board of Governors is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Glenn Armstrong as Chief Commissi
  
• Governor General Welcomes 150 Young Canadians to Rideau Hall in Honour of the 100TH Anniversary of Scouts Canada - MarketWire - Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada, will welcome 150 members of Scouts Canada from the National Capital Region to Rideau Hall in honour of the 100th anniversary of the World Scout Movement.
  
• Scouting in Canada - History of Scouting and current status of national Scouting organizations.
  
• Local scouts among 350 at Owen Sound winter camp - Orangeville Citizen - Members of the Orangeville Scout Troop braved the elements and attended the 45th annual Owen Sound Winter Camp, along with over 350 other Scouts and Venturers.
  
• Scouts Canada - Brampton Area To Host Camp Of The Century - Brampton Guardian - To celebrate 100 years of Scouting in Canada, Scouts Canada – Brampton Area will hold its Camp of the Century at Donald M. Gordon Chinguacousy Park from June 15 to 17.
  
• Scouts set for Huck Finn races - Peterborough Examiner - Scouts Canada's 26th annual Huck Finn Raft Race will be held June 1 to 3. Sponsored by the Trillium Highlands Area and hosted by Bobcaygeon, this event will take place at Riverview Park. It is open to registered scouting and guiding members, but the publi
  
• Scouting with Staves & Stetsons - Canadian Scouting history through a photo gallery and stories. Photographs from personal collections of Canadian Scouts through the Years.
  
• Cubs learn canoe skills at Walter Baker - Your Nepean - Every year Scouts Canada does basic canoe training before their spring camp. In the latest session at the Walter Baker Sports Centre on April 25, the kids learned survival techniques. Instructors would push the canoes over and the cubs would try and rescu
  
• GM donates $100,000 for youth tree-planting initiative - How to plant tree - GM Canada has kicked off Earth Week by extending a helping hand to Scouts Canada and Girl Guides of Canada to the tune of $100,000 for tree-planting initiatives.
  
• Scouts Canada and St. Joseph Communications Extend Unique Reforestation Program: Partners in Growth - CNW Group - For every ton of paper used on a customer's behalf, St. Joseph Communications facilitates the planting of three tree seedlings through Scouts Canada.
  
• Volunteer award for Cutler - Welland Tribune - Ten young men and women last week received the Ontario Medal for Young Volunteers for their exceptional volunteerism, in activities ranging from distributing food for those in need to organizing fund-raising drives for a school in India for HIV-positive c
  
• Scouting's new motto: Be prepared for diversity - Globe and Mail - The group of young adventurers known as World Organization of the Scout Movement is growing up - and according to those in charge of its Canadian following, it is aging for the better. By Geoff Nixon.
  
• Ottawa 67's and Local Scouts set to honour Veterans - Ottawa Start - Scouts Canada has created a badge to show appreciation to those who have served, and those who continue to serve and protect peace and freedom in the world. In a special ceremony before the Ottawa 67's game against the Mississauga IceDogs on Friday, Novem
  
• Scouts Honoured - Victoria News - Four Victoria scouts will receive the Queen's Venturer Award from Lt.-Gov. Iona Campagnolo today.
  
• Potential to 'change the world' - Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald - Great-grandson of Scouts’ founder, wife bound for Kenya to work with youth.
  
• Scouting Trailways - Daily Gleaner - Scoutrees is a local and national fundraising and conservation effort by Scouts Canada. Each year, hundreds of thousands of trees are planted coast to coast by members of the scouting movement.
  
• Scouts learned how to party green - Kings Record - The 2007-08 scouting year is in summer shutdown mode, but went out with a bang. The weekend of June 27-29, saw 250 youth and adults descend on the Yoho Scout Reserve, near Fredericton, for the NB Council Linking camp. Cubs, Scouts and Venturer groups land
  
• Scouts celebrate centennial - Regina Leader-Post - There wasn't any knot-tying or badge-sewing, but Wednesday's fresh and pleasant morning witnessed a khaki-clad community gathered to celebrate a centennial. By Joe Couture.
  
• Scouting is still alive and well - Sooke News Mirror - About 500 youth participated May 5 through 7 at a cubs and scouts weekend at Camp Barnard, learning new skills and meeting new people. The groups were from throughout Vancouver Island, as well as a couple groups from the mainland. All 14 scouting groups i
  
• Sea Scouting in Canada - Index of units.
  
• Preston Scout House Alumni Band - Provides participant information, tour, and booking availability.
  
• Live Smart BC Community Heros: Tumbler Ridge Troop, Cubs, Beavers & Scouts - Tumbler Ridge News - We ask our youth to “Think globally, act locally”, which is our Conservation Badge Motto, Sarah Falcon, Scout Leader
  
• Scouts have to raise cash - Owen Sound Sun Times - Scouting Canada will put Wildfang Park up for sale if Kincardine Scouting can't recover from the debt racked up from repairs to Scout Hall.
  
• City man honoured for 40 years of Scouting - Belleville Intelligencer - For the past 40 years, few things have given David Bentley a feeling of more pride than wearing his scouting uniform.
  
• Scout's Honour - Daily Gleaner - Herb Allen has always been prepared to lead a busy, happy and fulfilling life.
  
• Scouts Canada awards Calgarians - Calgary Herald - Two Calgary citizens were awarded in mid-April for their outstanding service and dedication to the Scouting movement by Scouts Canada.
  
• Local food drive preparations underway - Regina Leader-Post - An army of Guides and Scouts will be hitting city streets on Saturday to collect donations of food to help the food bank battle hunger in Regina. By Ken Gousseau.
  
• Brownsea Base enters its 41st year - Peterborough Examiner - Brownsea Base, at the George Street wharf on Little Lake in Peterborough, the centre for Scouts Canada's Kawartha Waterways Area water skills training program, enters its 41st year on June 16 and 17. The pre-Brownsea camp will be held at Langley Park for
  
• GM donates $100,000 for youth tree-planting initiative - newsdurhamregion.com - Scouts and Guides to plant 20,000 trees across Canada. GM Canada has kicked off Earth Week by extending a helping hand to Scouts Canada and Girl Guides of Canada to the tune of $100,000 for tree-planting initiatives.
  
• Scouts Canada celebrates 100 years - NorthernLife.ca - At Marymount Academy Sunday morning 36 Boy Scout Cubs got the chance to race their home made creations as part of a regional KubKar Rally.ademy Sunday morning 36 Boy Scout Cubs got the chance to race their home made creations as part of a regional KubKar
  
• Scouts and Guides set for a new century - Vancouver Sun - The movement popularized by Lord Baden-Powell celebrates its centenary next year with a resurgence. By Gerry Bellett.
  
• The serious “business” of scouting - kingscorecord.com - When most people think of scouting, they tend to think of youth hiking through the woods, camping by a crystal clear lake, and standing at attention in their uniforms at a ceremony. No one thinks of scouting as a business, but it really is.
  
• Joining in the celebration of Scouting - Campbell River Mirror - How do you sum up an event that keeps you going day and night, introduces you to hundreds, if not thousands of people and celebrates 100 years of serving youth?
  
• Central Division Rover Round Table - Association for Ontario and Quebec Rovers. Information about meetings.
  
• Stoney Point scouts celebrate their centennial anniversary - Chronicle West End - Montreal West town hall played host to at least 100 scouts last Thursday as they rallied together to mark the centennial celebration of the scouting movement. By Charles Montgomery.
  
• Young folks among volunteer nominees - Bedford/Sackville Community Herald - Sometimes getting youth involved in the community can be as difficult as splitting hairs. Not so for youth in the Bedford area.
  
• Big rig racing; Scouts, Venturers and Rovers will race homemade vehicles against each other this weekend - Welland Tribune - Some of Niagara's youth will be racing 18-wheelers on Saturday. Not to worry, however. The vehicles are made of plastic and wood and are only 11.5 centimetres tall.
  
• Scout leader presented Award of Fortitude - Community Press - A Havelock Scout leader has been awarded one of the organization’s highest honours.
  
• Hike for Hunger this weekend - The Sarnia Observer - Ontario - Last year, about 75 scouts aged five to 17 collected 1,000 pounds of food and brought it in backpacks, sleds and wagons from Tecumseh Park to the Inn of the Good Shepherd.
  
• Heroes, among friends - Ottawa Citizen - Area Cub leaders receive awards for saving life of ailing colleague. By Roger Collier.
  
• Outdoor adventures await scouts - Larngley Advance - For more than a century, scouting has provided outdoor adventures for boys and girls as young as five years old.
  
• Scouting for volunteers - Vulcan Advocate - The biggest challenge in restarting a Scout’s group in Vulcan is not finding enough kids. It’s finding adults to run the group, said Juran Greene, field executive for Scouts Canada.
  
• Great Canadians thank Scouts for success - Ottawa Citizen - Gala's keynote speakers credit organization for giving them expertise as well as confidence. By Caroline Phillips.
  
• Scouting offers many experiences we take for granted - King's Record - The Scouts Canada mission statement says, "to contribute to the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potential as individuals, as responsible citizens, and as members of their local, nationa
  
• They've got the whole world in their hands - Welland Tribune - Scouts, cubs and beavers from Scouts Canada - Merritt Trail, will be digging in to do their part tomorrow at Merritt Island as part of the opening ceremonies of Earth Day Welland.
  
• Scouting has seen many changes over the years - NewsLeader - After 100 years, the Scouts may be co-ed and members may be able to earn badges for computing and snowboarding, but its basic premise remains the same.
  
• Teen ATV rider dies - Peterborough Examiner - Keene resident was in crash on Sunday. A 19-year-old Keene man has died from injuries he suffered in an ATV accident on Sunday.
  
• Local scout joins 40,000 in London - Chilliwack Progress - Steven Burgoyne has a date with the Queen of England. He’s not sure if she’s actually going make it, but early next week the local teen will be at Windsor Castle, the largest occupied castle in the world.
  
• Girl Guides looking for a new camp - Kootenay News Editor - The directors on the Board of the Regional District of East Kootenay will be making a decision this week on an application by the Cranbrook Girl Guides. The organization has asked that the zoning of a piece of property in the Cranbrook area be changed fro
  
• Merit Badge for Lobbying - Summer camps and boy scouts go together like peanut butter and jam. But that combination could soon cost the scouts a lot of money if the provincial government doesn't step in. By Sean Holman.
  
• Scouts help Base grow new forests - The Daily Observer - Members of the 4th Petawawa Scout Group pitched in to assist the Base Construction Engineers with their reforestation plans.
  
• Not a joiner? Join the club - Vancouver Province - Scouts Canada, now celebrating a centennial and a parallel effort to boost membership, has 102,000 members across Canada, including adult volunteers. At its height in 1963, membership was more than 315,000. By Chris Cobb.
  
• Scouts teaches about life through camp fires, tying knots - Kings County Record - Every youth organization promises to teach their participants some valuable skills. It could be how to shoot three-point baskets, stick handle around pylons or make a great tackle. While these are all admirable skills, they are hardly what are called &quo
  
• Omemee Scouts were glad to help - The Lindsay Post - Some of the 1st Omemee Scouts along with their leaders joined the Omemee Foodbank team to prepare the Christmas hampers.
  
• Top honours for local scouts - Niagara Falls Review - Seventy-seven boys and girls from across southern Ontario were honoured for their achievements in the Scouting movement, during a special ceremony Friday in Niagara Falls. By John Robbins.
  
• Scouts' money returned - North Shore News - West Vancouver Scouts have a good Samaritan to thank for the return of $700 earned by selling Christmas trees outside in the cold. By Bethany Lindsay.
  
• Scouting hands out honours, awards - Peterborough Examiner - On April 19, members of the Kawartha Waterways Area Scouting family gathered at St. Paul's Church in Peterborough for the annual 2006/2007 Scouting year Honours and Awards dinner and presentations. By Allen Lenore.
  
• Order of Canada to Sooke man for scouts work - Times Colonist - A long-time Scouts Canada leader from Sooke is among 47 people to be invested in the Order of Canada in Ottawa this Friday.
  
• Another Brownsea season winds down - Peterborough Examiner - The 41st season of on-the-water Scouting at Brownsea Base drew to a close on the evening of Aug. 16 with the familiar family barbecue at the Beavermead Park dining shelter.
  
• Vulcan Scout troop still in limbo - Vulcan Advocate - Although support didn’t seem to grow very much in the effort to find volunteers to launch a local scout group, the original support hasn’t waned.
  
• SCOUT eh! - SCOUT eh! is a group of registered Scouts Canada members dedicated to turning Scouts Canada into a democratic association.
  
• Scouts dig in to help environment - Peterborough Examiner - With a shovel twice as tall as he was in one hand and a small spruce sapling in the other, eight-year-old Shawn Burnham came prepared to plant Saturday. By Galen Eagle.
  
• Jamboree celebrates 100 years of Scouting - Montreal Gazette - Scouts arrive en masse in laurentians Week full of competition and badge collecting.
  
• Scouting groups gear up for food drive - Peterborough Examiner - On Saturday, March 15, the Scouting groups in Kawartha Waterways Area will participate in the eighth annual Lorraine Hannah Memorial Food Drive.
  
• Campfire trouble - Amherst Daily News - Scouts struggling to find volunteers. Remember when Scouts did good deeds, helped friends and neighbours, shared stories around the campfire and just enjoyed being kids?
  
• Scouts pop up short of record - Calgary Sun - More than 500 boy scouts looking to pop their way into the Guinness Book of World Records came up just a few kernels short, not that critters at the Calgary Zoo minded.
  
• Local scouts receive new medal - Welland Tribune - Two Welland scouts are among the first to receive Scouts Canada's newest medal. Doug Stanyar and Greg White received the Medal of the Maple Wednesday.
  
• Scouting trio receive federal youth awards - Peterborough Examiner - All three said they had no idea the award was coming. Rachel Northey, 18, Tyler Lewis, 16, and Jordan Weller, 16, all youth members of the Kawartha Waterways branch of Scouts Canada, each received a Canada Day Youth Award from Canadian Heritage during a s
  
• Venturers win adventure award - Peterborough Examiner - The 1st Lakefield Sea Venturers were honoured to be presented with the 3rd Place Amory award in Canada at the Kawartha Waterways Area Centennial Camp in front of youth and leaders from all five sections, their peers, their friends and fellow Scouters. By
  
• Scouting Celebrates 100 Years in National Capital This Weekend - CCN Matthews - As part of Scouts Canada's 2007 Centennial celebrations, media are invited to two very special events in the National Capital on Saturday, February 24, 2007.
  
• Becky's Guiding Resource Centre - Information resources on songs, games, camping, games, crafts and other activities for Girl Guides.
  
• Scouts Canada Foundation Honours Scholarship Recipients - Marketwire - The Scouts Canada Foundation today announced it will award its annual scholarships to outstanding students involved in Canadian Scouting. Criteria for selection included academic achievement, demonstrated Scouting history, involvement and achievement, and
  
• Niagara scouts reach out for new recruits - Niagara Falls Review - Organization wants to show it's still relevant for youth. The faded photographs that line the walls at the Niagara Scouting Museum depict a simpler time.
  
• Worldwide Sunrise Ceremony Marks 100 Years of Scouting - CNW Telbec - Over 28 million Scouts worldwide celebrate; thousands attending CJ'07 are honoured with the presence of Lord Robert Baden-Powell's great-grandson, Adam Baden-Clay.
  
• Scouts for kids - Vulcan Advocate - t seems like we're always in need of volunteers in this area. If it's not referees, it's Moonlight Madness. There are plenty of things in the county that simply would not happen without the efforts of volunteers. As a society, Canadians value volunteerism
  
• Scouts plant 10,000 trees - Peterborough Examiner - Scout Blair Harrison, 11, has some advice for anyone who cares about the environment: Get out and plant a tree.
  
• Part clean-up,part green-up; wellanders turn out to help make their patch of Earth a better place - Welland Tribune - Welland's Earth Day celebration was part part clean-up and part green-up. City councillor Paul Grenier was pleased the event accomplished what it set out to. By Derek Swartz.
  
• Theft from Scout Camp in Blandford-Blenheim - Woodstock Sentinel Review - On Monday, the Oxford Community Police service received a theft report at 6:52 p.m. from the Impeesa Camp belonging to Scouts Canada, located at 827559, Road 8.
  
• Olive Tree Foundation Announces Grant to Scouts Canada - IQRA - Olive Tree Foundation has announced that it will provide a grant to support Scouts Canada in developing a video that will encourage the creation of Scout groups in multicultural communities across the country.
  
• Scouts appeal to Valentine hearts - Peace Arch News - White Rock and South Surrey scouts are hoping Peninsula couples will be in a giving mood this weekend. The scouts are holding a Valentine’s Dance and Silent Auction tonight (Feb. 10) at Crescent Beach Legion to help raise money for a leadership trip to
  
• Scouts Canada issues warning to Sault area - Sault This Week - City Police would like to advise the public that they received information from the Executive Director of Scouts Canada for Northern Ontario that he received information that there is an individual that has been going door to door in our local area, weari
  
• Renowned astronaut plans visit with Waterloo cub troupe - Waterloo Chronicle - Cubs learn many valuable lessons, like how to build a fire and paddle a canoe. By Jennifer Ormston.
  
• Scouts Canada looks to attract new recruits - Brandon Sun - Scouts Canada is looking for a few good boys and girls to join its ranks. With declining membership in Manitoba and across the country, scouting leaders in Brandon are recruiting new members. By Robson Fletcher.
  
• Apple drive coming up - The Lindsay Post - Buy an apple a day and keep the Scouts away on camping trips.
  
• Scouts brave frigid park - Owen Sound Sun Times - Troops converge on city for annual camp-out. After winter camping in Harrison Park this weekend hundreds of Scouts probably would agree not only must they be prepared, but they must be prepared to be cold.
  
• Hazel receives scout's honour - The Mississauga News - She's a worthy recipient of an award. Scout's honour. Scouting groups in Mississauga will honour Mayor Hazel McCallion with a Centennial Medal in a ceremony today at the Logos Baptist Church in Meadowvale.
  
• Scouting memorabilia on auction block - Belleville Intelligencer - Wearing a scouting uniform is a badge of honour, if you ask Nick Fry. "It's a treasure that not everyone gets a chance to wear," said Fry, a long-time local volunteer with Scouts Canada.
  
• Youth deserve praise, not negative press - thisweekonline.ca - Too often we read about young people in the newspaper while shaking our heads and worrying about the future of our society. Stories of teenagers beating other teenagers, of excessive noise, litter and vandalism around high schools, and of young offenders
  
• Scouts' hockey a thing of the past - London Free Press - It wasn't the 50th anniversary celebration London's scouts' hockey league expected. Instead of celebrations and a promise of many more years to come, the focus will be on its death. By Morris Dalla Costa.
  
• Chemainus scout given group's highest honour - Ladysmith Chronicle - Adam Shepherd of Chemainus is one of a select group of scouts to earn the Queen's Venturer Award. A Chemainus master scout received the honour - the highest youth award within Scouts Canada - last week in Victoria from Iona Campagnolo, B.C.'s Lieutenant G
  
• 'Youth-led' Scouts enter 100th year - The Chilliwack Progress - Camp fires, close friends and merit badges. Some of Dee Williams most cherished memories are from her years as a Girl Guide. Well, the girl grew up, became a school teacher, married and had her own children. But the memories never left her. And when Willi
  
• SolHuma's Partnership With the Scouts Could Reach Out to 28 Million Members - Marketwire - SolHuma, the Canadian firm who invented the Vital Stove(TM), announces that is has reached a strategic partnership with the Association des scouts du Canada (ASC), a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), a non-governmental interna
  
• Scouts honoured at 100 - London Free Press - You wouldn't know it by looking at them, but the Boy Scouts turn 100 next week.
  
• Mountie honoured beyond the call - Langley Advance - Staff Sgt. Dave Fitzharris of the Langley RCMP was given a Community Contribution Award this week by the Pacific Federal Council.
  
• It's Kub Kar season | By Paul Murray - Kings Record - February is the start of another exciting Kub Kar season. (You may notice that Kub Kar is spelled with a K, that is the official spelling.)
  
• New trees greening up rural areas; Young and old plant saplings on the weekend - The Cornwall Standard Freeholder - More than 300 new trees were planted in Cornwall Saturday as two very different groups did their part to keep the city's green space growing.
  
• `Raksha' loved life, mentoring Scouts - Toronto Star - Her name was Margaret Eleanor Josephine Wright, but to boys young and old she was simply "Raksha," named after the protective mother wolf in The Jungle Book.
  
• Scouts have been fighting climate change since 2004 - Kings Record - Like all youth organizations, Scouts Canada is constantly coming up with new and fresh ideas, trying to keep their youth programs meaningful in modern times.
  
• Scouts Canada in financial trouble - Victoria Times Colonist - Scouts Canada, the country's leading youth organization, could face bankruptcy, according to a watchdog group.
  
• Opportunities abound through scouting - Langley Advance - Today scouting is far different from what was begun as the Boy Scouts a century ago by Lord Robert Baden-Powell in England.
  
• Evidence strong to support scouting movement was born in Port Morien - Cape Breton Post - Last week I pointed out that the tradition that scouting began in Port Morien in 1908 is strong. To commemorate the event, the village has planned four days of celebrations from July 10-13.
  
• Scout Hall to be demolished by city - The Barrie Examiner - Time is growing short for Sunnidale Park's Scout Hall. It becomes the city's responsibility again on June 30, and is to be demolished.
  
• Stringent screening - Ottawa Citizen - We believe that any organization responsible for providing programs to youth, regardless of the program or the cost, has a duty to the parents, the youth participating in the programs, the leaders, and any partners or sponsors of that program, to ensure t
  
• Scouters gather from around world - Peterborough Examiner - When the Centennial Jamboree opened in Camp Tamaracouta at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 25 there were thousands of excited leaders and youth realizing that they'd finally arrived. The months of fundraising and planning were over and they looked forward to a
  
• Canadian Rovers EH? - Features The Phoenix, an Internet publication replacing The Canadian Rover Eh?.
  
• More than 8,000 at Scouts Canada centennial jamboree - CBC.ca - More than 8,000 scouts, leaders and volunteers from as far away as Africa started arriving Thursday at Quebec's Camp Tamaracouta, near Saint-Jérôme, for the Canadian Jamboree celebrating scouting's centennial year.
  
• Scout leader honoured - Langley Advance - A Langley Mountie has been honoured for his commitment to public service and Scouts Canada.
  
• Scouts Canada not giving staff Family Day off - Toronto Star - 110 in Ontario already getting 11 paid holidays, but review could occur. When it comes to Ontario's controversial Family Day holiday, staff at Scouts Canada should abide by Lord Robert Baden-Powell's motto: Be prepared.
  
• Scouts place flags on veterans' graves - mykawartha.com - It's early Saturday morning. A perfect November day. The grass at Little Lake Cemetery is still crunchy to walk on, covered in a layer of frost that hasn't yet been melted away by the late morning sun. The children are bundled in jackets, some wearing hat
  
  

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