Young Calgary — add your voice to help shape this CBC Calgary listening campaign

CBC News | Posted: December 9, 2022 9:41 PM | Last Updated: June 22, 2023

Seeing yourself, knowing you belong — that's just as important for young people

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Are you young? Maybe you're still in high school, taking time for yourself, or looking ahead to a career.… What's that like for you right now?

We want to hear your stories, to know what you think.

Talk with us by joining our text messaging community. These messages go straight to our Young Calgary reporter, Jo Horwood. Tell her about the stories you'd like to see on CBC, or the heroes in your life or just something you learned recently.

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Why?

The point of all this is to include more youth perspectives. We want you to be able to see yourselves in our coverage, which helps your friends know they're also an important part of Calgary.

Seeing yourself, knowing you belong — that's just as important for young people as it is for the rest of the community.

WATCH | Young Calgary launch with the Calgary Public Library:

Media Video | CBC News Calgary : Packed mixer at the library launched this new CBC Calgary's Young Calgary campaign

Caption: More than 200 young Calgary residents packed the main lobby of the Central library branch for the launch mixer of the CBC's Young Calgary in late March of this year. They joined conversations on everything from dating in this city to their dreams for work and how moving to Calgary changed them. Thanks to everyone who came out and invited others, and to our partners for this event, including the Calgary Public Library, Umoja Community Mosaic, Chopped Leaf and 360 Motions YYC.

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Read some of the first stories of 'Young Calgary'

We did a soft launch for this effort late last year and assigned a reporter to pay particular attention to the stories of younger Calgary residents. Here are some of the stories published so far.