The St. Paul Learning Centre provides a wide range of subject-specific links for students and parents. Please click on the desired subject on the left navigation bar to see what is currently available or take a look at our feature videos below.
HOT DOCS 2009 - H2OIL
Alberta's oil sands now make Canada America's major oil supplier, but the billion-dollar industry extracts a terrible price: some of the cleanest water on earth is used to make the dirtiest oil in the world, with catastrophic results.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9fjhJIS5A0
WATERLIFE
http://waterlife.nfb.ca
FRONTLINE: INSIDE THE MELTDOWN
On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the U.S. Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days. "There was literally a pause in that room where the oxygen left," says Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.). As the housing bubble burst and trillions of dollars' worth of toxic mortgages began to go bad in 2007, fear spread through the massive firms that form the heart of Wall Street. By the spring of 2008, burdened by billions of dollars of bad mortgages, the investment bank Bear Stearns was the subject of rumors that it would soon fail.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/
FRONTLINE: HEAT
Melting glaciers, rising sea levels, fires, floods and droughts. On the eve of a historic election, award-winning producer and correspondent Martin Smith investigates how the world's largest corporations and governments are responding to Earth's looming environmental disaster.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/
THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD
Obesity. It's been called the world's first man-made epidemic, and it's killing us. Physical and Health Education Canada collaborated with CBC and the NFB to create this national education project.
http://www.nfb.ca/webextension/weight-of-the-world/?ec=en20081008
THE END OF SUBURBIA
Global oil peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of the future? This is a short version of "The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream", a documentary about the end of the age of cheap oil.
The complete 78-minute version of The End of Suburbia is available on DVD at www.endofsuburbia.com. If you own the DVD, you are welcome to screen it to live audiences without permission, as long as it is not for profit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3uvzcY2Xug
THE STORY OF STUFF
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
THE WORLD I KNOW
St. Paul Secondary School was fortunate enough to participate in the Salt & Light Television Production entitled "The World I Know". Our segment on Virtues can be viewed by clicking on the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CGsfmozBqQ
For more information on this production please go to http://www.saltandlighttv.org/