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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBy Cl\u00e9mence Tessier \u2013 Collaborator<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is a competition in which groups from different schools debate among themselves, in French. You may have never heard of it, so let me explain!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The primary objective of the Ethical Cup is to allow young participants to exercise their critical thinking. That is to say the ability to think for oneself by analyzing the information available to oneself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The different teams must therefore discuss sometimes complex subjects among themselves. This year, for example, it was about forest fires, politeness, sharing and inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is also an exercise in listening and collaboration, since the winning team is the one that is best prepared and most open to different points of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Emma Natividad, a participant, says: \u201cThe best thing about the Ethical Cup is the discussions between schools, the different points of view. See how others think. \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Manitoba, the Ethical Cup tournament is held in French, even though it is a majority English-speaking province. Antoine Cantin-Brault, the organizer of the event, is delighted: \u201cMore and more schools want to participate. I have the impression that interest in debate in French is growing. \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n This year, the teams from the Gabrielle-Roy Regional School\/College and Louis-Riel College competed in the final. It was the latter who won the cup, for the second year in a row! \u201cIt\u2019s still so much fun<\/em> ,\u201d assures Gabrielle Lachance, who was participating for the third time. Then it\u2019s great to see the Ethical Cup growing. \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the defeat, all participants from the Gabrielle-Roy Regional School\/College finished the competition with smiles on their faces. \u201cWe are not disappointed. We didn’t even think we would win, we really came for the experience. The cup is just a bonus point,\u201d says Emma Natividad, who was a finalist for the Gabrielle-Roy Regional School\/College team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n St\u00e9phanie Roy, who was part of the jury, was very impressed by the performance of the two teams: \u201cI was not surprised, but really proud to see that so many students had the courage to participate. It was a very enriching experience. I’m happy to see how young people think. After all, they are our next leaders! \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have you ever participated in a competition with your school?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3799,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"blog-category":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marl.mb.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/3801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marl.mb.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marl.mb.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marl.mb.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marl.mb.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/3801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"https:\/\/marl.mb.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/3801\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marl.mb.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marl.mb.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marl.mb.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-category?post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Gymnastics for thought<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The important thing is to participate!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n