Glassen High School Ethics Essay Competition and University of Manitoba Centre for Professional Applied Ethics the Department of Philosophy

St John s-Ravenscourt School: Alicia Essig, a high school student in Matt Henderson class at St, according to CBC. John's-Ravenscourt School, won the $1,000 prize with this essay. The 2016 Glassen High School Ethics Essay Competition, sponsored annually by the CBC and the University of Manitoba Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics and the Department of Philosophy, asked students what Canada should do about this challenge. The United Nations report Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries for 2014 put Canada at the bottom of a Top 15 list of industrialized refugee-receiving countries. While the number of Syrians exposed to these appalling circumstances continues to increase, Canada must decide whether or not to take action. Since the Syrian civil war started in 2011, more than 4 million people have fled the country and more than half of the country population has been displaced by violence, danger, conflict and persecution. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.