OSDU News

Provincial Championship 2010

04/07/2010

On March 26-28 we held our annual Provincial Championship in Ottawa.  Eighty-eight English debaters, 12 French debaters, and 12 bilingual debaters participated in an exciting weekend of debate, discussion, and activities in the capital.  Thank you to the host, Margo Pinault, to Carleton Debate for hosting us on Saturday, and to everyone who helped make the weekend such a big success.

On Friday night we were honoured to have Dr. Carolyn Bennett, MP (St. Paul's) address us on the topic of the prepared resolution, women in parliament.  She wrote about the event on her blog which you can read here: http://www.carolynbennett.ca/whatsNewPosting.cfm?ID=2736.

This year Ontario is sending eight teams to the National Championship in Victoria, BC (April 24-25).  Congratulations and good luck to our representatives:

Tim Radcliffe and Josh Lockwood (St . Lawrence)

Janelle Tam and Vivienne Tam (Central Western Ontario Region)

Braden McDonald and Adil Abdulla (Ottawa)

Cole Bricker and Aly Lakha (Metro Toronto West)

Adam Litman and Robert Sniderman (Metro Toronto East)

Jack Reeves and Henry Choi (Halton)

Tae-Hu Kim and Anson Kwok (Metro Toronto North)

Elizabeth Stratton and Anisah Mahomed (Metro Toronto East)

The top speakers in the French and Bilingual categories who are NOT in Grade 12 will have the opportunity to represent Ontario in 2011 at the National Seminar in Hay River, North West Territories.

We look forward to seeing you at the 2011 Provincial Championship in Toronto!