February 27, 2009 (Catholic education, Catholic schools)

A group of 47 students from Bishop Allen Academy personally deliver over 2300 letters to Ottawa yesterday in support of a new school for students in .

J.R. Nakogee Secondary School in Attawapiskat has been boarded up since 2000, when the soil surrounding the school was contaminated by a leak from heating oil pipes.

The Bishop Allen students personally visited 16 Toronto Catholic schools, informing them of the situation in Attawapiskat and asking for their support.  Students from St. Paul Secondary School in the Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board also participated.  The letters are addressed to Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Chuck Strahl and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The Honourable Charlie Angus, M.P. (Timmins-James Bay) and the students will meet media in the National Press Conference Centre shortly after noon.  An invitation has been issued to Minister Strahl to meet with the students to address their concerns.

Mr. Angus will table the boxes of letters in the afternoon session of the House of Commons, much to the delight of the students who will be observing from the Gallery.

The trip has been funded through fundraising efforts by the Bishop Allen students, Advisory Council and Student Council.

And then there is this article in the Toronto Star for February 26, 2009

Need a school? Better go Tory blue: NDP

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/593690

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