Brie Villeneuve is a Grade 12 student at Grant Park High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Piper Lockhart is a Grade 11 student at Collège Louis-Riel, a French-language high school in Winnipeg. Both are core organizers with Manitoba Students for COVID Safety, a student-led group advocating for safer schools in light of inadequate action from the …
Had back-to-back interviews earlier this afternoon. Thanks to high school students Brie and Piper of MB Students for COVID Safety for talking with me about COVID-19 in Manitoba and about student organizing for better measures to ensure safe schools. And thank-you to Jesse from Keepers of the Water for speaking with me about Indigenous-led efforts …