Eva Cohen, President of Civil Protection Youth Canada, served as a panelist to discuss civil protection at the Ready 2024 Conference, organized by the Canadian Red Cross in Ottawa. The conference, which took place at the end of January, brought together over 30 of Canada's foremost emergency management agencies, community groups, Indigenous stakeholders, and experts in mental health and emergency support.

Highlights of the event include presentations and panel discussions on climate change, exchanges on relief, recovery and risk reduction and dialogue with key partners from across Canada.

Click ‘Read More’ to see key takeaways from the event.

Our Fireside Chats are a great opportunity for community members to connect with neighbors in person, and meet new and old friends!

On the first Wednesday of each month, we explore an identified or potential hazard/threat to our community. After a brief explanation of the hazard, we follow up with a discussion, resulting in ideas to encourage action both on the household level as well as the community level; to mitigate the risk and strengthen our resilience.

On the first Wednesday of every month, Cantley community members gather at CPYC HQ to explore and discuss topics of mutual interest to strengthen the resilience of our community.

CPYC's founder and president's article: “Beyond Catching Up - a Radical Shift in Disaster Response” is featured in the Conference of Defence Associations Institute's publication, On Track.

The article provides the big picture background for the value of citizen-based disaster readiness. Between the lines, it illuminates the leadership opportunity for Canadian youth to spearhead this urgently needed systematic change of our disaster response system, and to lay the foundation for an efficient, sustainable, civil protection approach going forward.

Click ‘Read More’ to view the full article on pages 45-58.

Unfortunately, we ourselves were threatened by disaster on August 30th 2023, which required us to overcome an unexpected challenge. Without any warning, our beautiful CPYC training area and Headquarters, which we lovingly call our “wilderness paradise“ was put under an expropriation threat by motion 2023-MC-198. Because we were able to put our principles into action, on Sep 19th, our voices were heard and the motion was stopped as a result of our effective disaster response.