Order of Canada Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:32:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Order of Canada Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 “Father Of South Africa” Nelson Mandela Responding Well To Treatment In Hospital https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/06/12/1-father-of-south-africa-nelson-mandela-responding-well-to-treatment-in-hospital/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/06/12/1-father-of-south-africa-nelson-mandela-responding-well-to-treatment-in-hospital/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:15:35 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=10740 Nelson Mandela is responding well to treatment, according to his doctors.

Mandela is one of the most well-known and respected people in the world.

He is 94 years old and is in hospital, fighting a recurring lung infection.

Doctors say he is in serious but stable condition.

To many people around the world, Mandela is known as a great hero.

He fought for the freedom of blacks in South Africa.

During the 1950s until the late 1980s, South Africa was ruled by a relatively small number of white people. Black people, in the majority in the country, had few rights.

The separation of white people and black people** was known as “apartheid.”

Blacks were not allowed to be citizens, and were not given the same rights as white people. Services for black people were greatly inferior to those provided to white people. Black people were not allowed access to the best schools, hospitals, beaches or many other services to which the country’s white people had access.

Apartheid was denounced around the world, but South Africa’s government refused to change its policy.

Nelson Mandela, and people who followed him, wanted to change things.

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Canada Loses Its Troubador – Stompin’ Tom Connors Dead At 77 https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/03/08/2-canada-loses-its-troubador-stompin-tom-connors-dead-at-77/ Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:30:47 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=9550 Some people say that Canada has two national athems: “O Canada” and “The Hockey Song” by Stompin’ Tom Connors.

The Canadian icon passed away on March 6, at the age of 77, leaving a hole in the heart and soul of the country.

Connors was a folk musician and a fierce Canadian patriot. He made his way up and down the country, documenting every square inch of every little Canadian town in his songs. He got his nickname because as he played and sang on stage, he stomped his cowboy booted left foot in time to the music.

The songs Stompin' Tom wrote and sang were songs that Canadians connected with and which drew them together. They were simple, singable and relatable. Songs like “The Hockey Song,” which recounts a hockey game, inning by inning. Or “Bud the Spud,” about a trucker driving a load of PEI potatoes across Canada. Or Sudbury Saturday Night, which tells the tale of ordinary folks enjoying themselves in an Ontario town.

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