What's New?

January 2, 2012
One more revised Challenge badge workbook has been uploaded - Science.  Note: the content has been revised and a number of additional examples have been added.

December 29, 2011
One more revised Challenge badge workbook has been uploaded - Sailing.

December 28, 2011
Two more revised Challenge badge workbooks have been uploaded - Recycling and Safety.

December 23, 2011
The November 13th news item below on the use of the red cross symbol has been modified to include the new Safety Challenge Badge as well as the First Aid Challenge badge.

December 23, 2011
Two more revised Challenge badge workbooks have been uploaded - Pioneering and Powercraft.  Note: the Powercraft workbook content, especially for requirement 2, has been substantially revised.

December 21, 2011
Two more revised Challenge badge workbooks have been uploaded - Pet Care and Photography.  Additionally, a new Photography Resource Page has been added providing ideas and content to help earn the badge.

December 20, 2011
One more revised Challenge badge workbook has been uploaded - Performing Arts.

December 19, 2011
One more revised Challenge badge workbook has been uploaded - Paddling.

November 13, 2011
It has been reported to me that Scouts Canada appears to be in contravention of trademark law regarding the use of the Red Cross symbol on the First Aid Challenge Badge and the Safety Challenge.

The following excerpt is from the act to incorporate the Canadian Red Cross Society (SC 1909, c. 68):

Unlawful use of name, emblem, badge, etc.

(2) No person shall wear, use or display for the purposes of his or her trade or business, for the purpose of inducing the belief that he or she is a member or representative of, or agent for, the Society or for any other purposes whatsoever, without the Society’s written authorization, any of the following:

(a) the heraldic emblem of the Red Cross on a white ground, or the words “Red Cross” or “Geneva Cross”;

(b) the emblem of the Red Crescent on a white ground, referred to in Article 38 of Schedule I to the Geneva Conventions Act, or the words “Red Crescent”;

(c) the third Protocol emblem — commonly known as the “Red Crystal” — referred to in Article 2, paragraph 2 of Schedule VII to the Geneva Conventions Act and composed of a red frame in the shape of a square on edge on a white ground, or the words “Red Crystal”; or

(d) any other word, mark, device or thing likely to be mistaken for anything mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c).

Until such time as evidence is presented that Scouts Canada has been given the Society's written authorization the images will be removed from this site as well as from both workbooks.

November 13, 2011
One more revised Challenge badge workbook has been uploaded - Modeller.

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