Tag: past news & miscellaneous messages

Through a motion passed unanimously in 2013, the Toronto District School Board declared April as Genocide Awareness Month (full text below). The Sara Corning Centre for Genocide Education is supportive of the TDSB’s continued efforts and its commitment to genocide education. With an exemplary curriculum on genocide — the Grade 11 Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity course. . .

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“The Voice of Empowerment” is the title of a post by teacher Cheryl Payne-Stevens on the blog of the Ontario Network at Facing History and Ourselves. The article describes a visit to Cheryl’s classroom by Corning Centre chair Raffi Sarkissian, where he presented on genocide denial.  The post can be read at http://onnetwork.facinghistory.org/the-voice-of-empowerment/. Contact us here to. . .

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The Corning Centre joins all genocide education programs and centres across the country in remembering the Jewish Holocaust. Working together to educate new generations about the importance of being upstanders in society is vital to ensuring that communities are grounded in the understanding, accepting and valuing of differences, diversity and multiculturalism. The history of the. . .

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The Corning Centre has rung in the new year with its first major monetary gift. At the end of December, the organization received a cheque for $1,300 from the Armenian Nurses of Ontario, a division of the Armenian Canadian Medical Association. The generous donation was made in commemoration of the centre’s namesake, Sara Corning, a. . .

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Drawing a line connecting the Second Battle of Ypres, a predecessor of the Globe and Mail, and injustice in the Republic of Turkey, the Corning Centre expressed its views on the adverse effects of Armenian Genocide denial  on genocide prevention  in a recent op ed in the GM. Click here read the full piece.

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On November 5th, the founder and chair of the Corning Centre, Raffi Sarkissian, presented a lecture titled ‘Giving a Voice to the Voiceless- The Armenian Genocide’. The event was organized by the Institute for Global Citizenship and Equity and The School of Advancement at Centennial College as a part of the 33rd Annual Neuberger Holocaust Education Week.. . .

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Below is a letter written on behalf of the Corning Centre in response to this recent article in the Globe and Mail.  Ms. Syvlia Stead,Public EditorThe Globe and Mail Dear Ms. Sylvia Stead, As a Canadian organization advocating for genocide education in Canada, we were disappointed to see the recent article by Doug Saunders in the Globe and. . .

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The Corning Centre has made an appearance in the latest issue of YorkU, York University’s alumni magazine. Click here for the article or here for the full issue.

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July 1, 2013, marks Canada’s 146th birthday and the 90th anniversary of the arrival of the first 46 Armenian genocide orphans at Georgetown, Ontario. A group of 50 were collected from the London, UK-based Armenian Refugees (Lord Mayor’s) Fund Orphanage in Corfu, Greece, and traveled via Marseilles to Cherbourg, France. Four were held back for several weeks, with the. . .

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On June 20, 2013, Daniel Ohanian, Director of Research at the Sara Corning Centre for Genocide Education, presented a paper on Canadian humanitarianism and immigration policy within the context of the Armenian Genocide during the tenth biennial conference of the International Association for Genocide Scholars (IAGS). The conference, titled The Aftermath of Genocide: Victims and. . .

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