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Students toss their caps into the air while posing for family photos after a graduation ceremony at a Vancouver high school in June 2020.The current voting age does not align with the minimum age of many other activities that require maturity and judgment, such as driving, consensual sex and paid work.
An entrepreneur who can’t vote: A teenaged boy uses a skateboard to move up and down selling popcorn to southern Alberta residents lining up to get COVID-19 vaccines in May 2021.Ageist assumptions against those under 18 mirror
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