We Day Calgary - Nov 03, 2014

We Day Calgary - Nov 03, 2014. Watch the We Day Alberta Live Stream at Weday.com tomorrow at 9:30 am.

http://www.weday.com/we-day-events/we-day-cities/alberta/

Putting the We in We Day

By Stephen Hunt, Calgary Herald November 1, 2014

Floor seats. That's what 20 lucky students from St. Gregory School in southwest Calgary found out they were getting to attend We Day, which rolls into Calgary at the Scotiabank Saddledome Nov. 3. In the case of St. Gregory, one of 135 schools sending 3,000 students to the event, what landed them on the list was an initiative that took place Thursday, during We Scare Hunger Day: a food drive with a scary movie theme.

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We Day (Calgary) - Oct 24 2013

You can't buy a ticket to We Day—you earn it through service. Through the year-long We Act program, schools and groups take on one local and one global action and report back to Free The Children to earn their way to We Day. 

 Learn more here: http://bit.ly/WB6aVG

We Day Rallies Youth (Calgary)

Marc Kielburger, left, and Craig Kielburger address the crowd at We Day Alberta on Wednesday. Craig says no action is too small to affect positive social change in the world. “So long as these actions are undertaken with great love, we really can make an impactful difference on the lives of so many.”

Photograph by: Stuart Gradon, Calgary Herald

Students' good deeds pile up as 18,000 pack Saddledome 
Eva Ferguson, Calgary Herald. Thursday, October 25, 2012  

Celebrities say kids are true stars of We Day show 
By Valerie Fortney, Calgary Herald October 25, 2012  

Corbella: Another 18,000 Iqbals born in Calgary 
By Licia Corbella, Calgary Herald October 25, 2012 

We Day 
Free The Children

Tales of inspiration often steal We Day spotlight from celebrities (Calgary)

 We Day speakers Spencer West and Molly Burke, with her dog Gypsy, say they get as much out of acting as speakers at the inspirational event as the young people in the audience.

Photograph by: Stuart Gradon , Calgary Herald

Tales of inspiration often steal We Day spotlight from celebrities (Calgary)

By Valerie Fortney,

Calgary Herald

October 24, 2012

At her first We Day event, Molly Burke found herself trembling from head to toe.

At that moment, an older gentleman came to her rescue. He put his arm around her, said some words of encouragement and handed her a rosary.

“He asked me if I was nervous and I said, ‘a little, but excited too,’” says the 18-year-old from Oakville, Ont., who is blind. “He gave me a hug, then put a rosary in my hand and said, ‘When you go on stage, put this in your pocket. It’ll bring you good fortune.”

As the diminutive, adorable teen tells me this story, I too feel the urge to put my arms around her, to protect her from the harshness of life.

In this case, however, appearances are more than a little deceiving. That pep talk from last year was before Burke stepped on to a stage to speak to a crowd of 20,000. And that reassuring older man? Well, that was none other than Martin Sheen, the legendary film star and activist.

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