Ambassador requires well-written articles by students and adults. For one-time publication rights and posting same on our web site, we pay accordingly: maximum article length 800 words: ten cents per word, maximum $80. We like crisp writing on current world issues, geographic areas, politics, leaders, etc. We do not want "oh-isn’t it terrible articles". We prefer perceptive description and intelligent analysis of problems and issues similar to what you might find in magazines such as New Internationalist, Utne Reader and the like.

Ambassador Guidelines

Ambassadoris a quarterly newsmagazine, distributed widely throughout the Niagara Region. (Every school, all libraries, municipal councils, Chapters Bookstore, patrons, etc.)

Ambassador is published by the Council on World Affairs of Canada, a registered, non-profit, educational charity that assists high school and elementary students to become aware of world issues. COWAC’s web page, with some selected previous editions of Ambassador is located at www.vaxxine.com/cowac/

If you would like to make a submission, send your article with a return SASE to Mike Keenan, editor, Ambassador, 64 Confederation Dr., Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, L0S 1J0. Even better: submissions via e-mail are highly encouraged: keenan@vaxxine.com. Please send your articles as a text file or as a Word document. Please indicate the word count. Also please add a short bio.

The following are a few suggested topics that might be of interest to our publication:

• Compulsory uniforms in schools.

• Child poverty in Ontario: effects, solutions.

• Indigenous culture, rights in conflict: whale hunting, diet, etc.

• Pinochet and others and the concept of crime in the international arena.

• NATO in Yugoslavia: from a unique perspective: weapons testing, marketing?

• Political centralization: Ontario municipalities, schools, health care, unions, etc.

• Environmental issues such as pesticides on lawns.

• Casino & slot machine gambling: who wins? Who loses? Addictions.

• Censorship.

• The Security Council: easily circumvented?

• An interview with an interesting community leader, commentator or expert in a field of interest to youth: lunch with Jan Wong!

• The Green Party in Canada?

• NGO's in Canada: focus on one or several in a particular field. (ex. Canadian Environmental Law Association, Toronto, Paul Muldoon, Executive Officer)

• The politics of confrontation: from pie throwing and personal insult to Seattle.

• The Natural Law Party: joke or for real?

• Body-piercing: then and now, indigenous culture and modern culture.

• Media literacy topics. Check out Adbusters magazine.

Those are a few examples that surfaced in a quick brainstorm. If you have a specific issue that you would like to first run by us to determine our interest, simply send us a short query, preferably via e-mail. The quality of your writing will be the final determinant.

Through our newsletter and our Model United Nations Conferences and other programs, we demonstrate to youth that world and Canadian issues can rarely be seen in a simplistic, black and white scenario. North America does have a dominant viewpoint, but it reflects that of only a few countries in the world. We like to view all sides of an issue, and try to develop realistic, sustainable unique solutions.