The Tour for Humanity bus is in North Bay for its third year

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The Tour for Humanity bus is in North Bay for its third year (BayToday.ca)

This educational initiative, visiting local secondary schools, is presented by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, with the assistance of the North Bay Police Service.

It's a fully self-contained mobile classroom designed to inspire and empower students to raise their voices and take action against hate to help make the world a better place.

“We enjoyed working with the Tour for Humanity organizers to bring this rich educational experience to high school students last year,” said Inspector Kirk Kelusky, North Bay Police Service. “Teachers and students alike informed us that they were very impressed with the presentation and found it and the discussions that followed valuable. We are pleased to work in partnership with school officials, who were eager to present this to their students again this year.”

A variety of issues and topics are explored on the Tour for Humanity bus including racism, prejudice, the Holocaust, universal genocide, real-world heroes, the Canadian residential school system, and the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Current issues of cyberbullying and examples of intolerance are also discussed.

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TOUR FOR HUMANITY IN NORTH BAY FROM TUESDAY TO THURSDAY (My North Bay Now)

A tour bus depicting Canada’s not-too-rosy history shows up in North Bay today.

The bus is part of the Friends of Simon Centre for Holocaust Studies and is currently on a tour of Northern Ontario.

The centre’s education director Melissa Mikel says the tour features presentations on a wide range of sordid events in Canada.

Mikel says that includes how we interned the Japanese during World Two, introduced the Chinese head tax and how First Nation people were treated at residential schools.

Mikel says the presentations, which are open to students and adults, are 50 minutes long and are seen in the bus which has a capacity for 30 people at a time.

Mikel says although the education system is catching up, there was a time Canadian students never learned about these past events.

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Tour for Humanity rolls into North Bay (North Bay Nugget)

The Tour for Humanity bus is in North Bay for the third year, visiting local secondary schools this week.

This educational initiative, presented by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, with the assistance of the North Bay Police Service, is a fully self-contained mobile classroom designed to inspire and empower students to raise their voices and take action against hate to help make the world a better place.

“We enjoyed working with the Tour for Humanity organizers to bring this rich educational experience to high school students last year,” says Insp. Kirk Kelusky, North Bay Police Service. “Teachers and students alike informed us that they were very impressed with the presentation and found it and the discussions that followed valuable.

“We are pleased to work in partnership with school officials, who were eager to present this to their students again this year.”

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Tour for Humanity bus back in North Bay (North Bay Nippising)

The Tour for Humanity bus is making its rounds again in an effort to inspire and empower students to raise their voice and take action against hate - and it's spending April 24, 25 and 26 in North Bay.

The educational initiative is presented by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) with the assistance of the North Bay Police service.

“We enjoyed working with the Tour for Humanity organizers to bring this rich educational experience to high school students last year,” said Inspector Kirk Kelusky.