2024 Upcoming Events

New to our program this year will be two online (zoom) debate events. These are intended strictly for students who are new to debate, maybe you have only ever attended one other debate tournament, or even better, none!

We are discovering a lot of students are taking part in debate club but are too intimidated to attend a debate tournament in their city, or town. We want to remove that anxiety by offering events that are geared towards students who have just learnt this new skill and would like to practice it in a non-competitive environment.

We will host an online tournament intended strictly for students who are "new to debate" these are students who are now learning the skill and may have attended 1 or 2 tournaments prior, but have absolutely no other experience. It will be in the Canadian National Style (2 per team with 2 teams in a round)  with 3 rounds of debate and ran on zoom, between 8:30 and 11:30am Pacific Time. The speaking times will be 6/6/6/6/ with 3/3 minute reply speeches at the end. Rounds will be judged to provide feedback only. If you can provide a judge that would be appreciated. Registration deadline is April 22nd, 2024. There is no cost to attend the event, but do sign up early as spaces are limited and it is open to students across the country. We would sincerely appreciate that should you sign up and then decide not to partake, a polite email letting us know this would be appreciated.

PREPARED MOTION FOR ROUNDS 1 & 2:

"THIS HOUSE WOULD PUNISH STUDENT BYSTANDERS FOR FAILING TO STOP BULLYING."

ROUND 3 WILL BE AN IMPROMPTU ROUND WITH THE MOTION RELEASED 20 MINUTES BEFORE THAT ROUND STARTS.

Saturday, May 4th from 8:30 to 11:30AM Pacific Time. Please have your coach register you here as a team:

Debaters: https://forms.gle/qxuS1b3XVURjYsGh9

Once again, judges are needed:

Judges:  https://forms.gle/NaaNGXd4Tev5vgq57

CKSTEM is one of our partners and we are supporting them with their annual debate/speech tournament. We provide judges at this event and would appreciate all the help we can get, please follow the link below to sign up. If you would like more information please feel free to send your questions along to ed@speechanddebatecanada.com

Saturday, April 27th, 2024 from noon to 3pm Eastern

Judges Registration Link here: https://forms.gle/ELqmZPeAbK269wEu9

WORKSHOPS FOR 2024-25 SCHOOL YEAR

We have partnered with the Hart House Debate Club at U of T to deliver 3 debate workshops for the 2024-25 school year. They will be on Wednesdays from 7:00 to 9:30PM Eastern Time. It will be a workshop on the style as listed below followed by one or two rounds of debate and feedback. These workshops are on a first come sign up basis and is open to all students in grades 6 to 11 across Canada. They will be online.

Here are the tentative dates for now:

• September 25th - British Parliamentary
• November 20th - Canadian National
• February 12th - Worlds Style

More information will follow by the beginning of September, such as registration information, etc.

Check back regularly on this page as we offer more workshops for speech and debate programs, both for students and coaches!

Inquires please contact our Executive Director, Debra Miko at ED@speechanddebatecanada.com

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