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Sydney :: Canada | 2 months ago
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Boy Scouts of Canada welcome gays and Carly Rae Jepsen : "In the wake of Carly Rae Jepsen's cancellation of her Boy Scouts of America performance due to the group's exclusion of gays, Scouts Canada is reaffirming its stance on inclusiveness and says
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Carly Rae Jepsen, Train Invited To Perform For Scouts Canada After Turning Down Homophobic Boy Scouts
Toronto :: Canada | 2 months ago
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Reuters But while the U.S. boy scouts have struck out with Jepsen, Scouts Canada -- a separate organization, and one that doesn't exclude people based on sexual orientation -- invited the star on Wednesday to perform at its jamboree in the Great
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Boy Scouts executive gives Fort Worth dinner audience something to chew on
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 3 months ago
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Tell us There was nothing unusual about a representative of the Boy Scouts of America's national office being invited to speak Friday night at a Fort Worth banquet to raise money for three enduring inner-city troops and honor four longtime Scout
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Scouts camp to stay open during controversial First Nations hunt
Toronto :: Canada | 4 months ago
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While First Nations hunters track deer in a controversial hunt at Short Hills Provincial Park Saturday, a group of children will be camped out in the middle of the park. Though the southern Ontario park will be closed to the public while more than a
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Jewish groups push back over Scouts' gay ban
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 6 months ago
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For nearly a decade, hundreds of local Boy Scouts have learned about the Ten Commandments on an annual Thanksgiving holiday hike to churches, synagogues and mosques, where clergy and scholars explained their faiths' takes on the ancient code. But
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Scout leader's upbeat tone belied membership woes
Toronto :: Canada | 6 months ago
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The chief commissioner of Scouts Canada said in an interview last month that the embattled organization was alive and well and growing, despite intense scrutiny over its handling of cases of suspected child abuse. Stephen Kent said while he expected
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Local scout troop uses technology to connect with scouts around the world
Tōkyō :: Japan | 7 months ago
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A special piece of technology was connecting boy scouts from all around the world on Saturday. Arroyo Grande Boy Scout Troop 413 used amateur radio, or HAMs, to communicate with other scouts as far away as Algeria and Zimbabwe.
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Scouts Canada reports 129 sex abuse cases
Ottawa :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Scouts Canada has reported 129 cases of possible sexual abuse to police, some of them decades old, officials said Monday...About one-fifth of the first group occurred after 1992, when the organization changed its rules to make reporting mandatory in
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Scouts Canada says it must fix problems in handling abuse cases
Toronto :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Story Apology The youth group has released the results of a seven-month forensic review of how it handled sexual misconduct in its ranks over a 64-year period. CBC investigation last fall uncovered dozens of confidentiality agreements that
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Boy Scouts get tech-savvy to boost membership
Charleston :: WV :: USA | 12 months ago
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The Boy Scouts of America is trying to recruit a new generation of kids to join its troops with high-energy, high-tech activities that include thrill-inducing zip lines at a new camp, apps and a television show. Wayne Brock, one of two new Boy Scout
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