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.