Public Life
Kielburger contributes a regular column about social activism around the world called Global Voices for the Vancouver Sun, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Edmonton Journal, Victoria Times Colonist, Waterloo Region Record, Winnipeg Free Press, Huffington Post and Huffington Post Canada online. Along with his brother Marc Kielburger, he also authors a column in the Globe and Mail called "Ask the Kielburgers," which offers tips on giving back and socially conscious living.
In 2012, Craig Kielburger Secondary School opened its doors in Milton, Ontario. The school was named after the activist after a campaign by two former students along with two current students.
Shortly before the one-year anniversary of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Kielburger traveled with a W5 television crew to a Free The Children school in Haiti alongside actress and activist Mia Farrow. A documentary of their experience aired in January 2011.
In June 2010, Kielburger joined CP24, a Toronto-based news television station. As "Special Correspondent" he interviewed a variety of Toronto citizens and visitors regarding their thoughts about the 2010 G20 Toronto Summit being held in the city in the weeks following. He reported locally on eyewitness accounts of the 2010 Central Canada earthquake and at regular intervals during the violent and nonviolent protests in Downtown Toronto on the weekend of June 26 and 27. He also hosts a segment entitled "Living Me to We," interviewing local experts on topics related to socially conscious living.
Kielburger was featured in a special documentary episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation, titled "Doing What Matters", in which cast members are shown traveling to Africa to help build schools for children in Kenya. He would later appear as himself in a Season 7 episode of Degrassi, in which a student (Anya) organizes an event with Free the Children to raise awareness of living conditions in Africa.
In 2000, Kielburger was awarded $319,000 in damages as settlement for a libel suit launched against the now-defunct Saturday Night magazine. The settlement covered Kielburger's legal costs and the remainder was used to set up a trust fund for Free The Children.
In October 2010, Kielburger’s Shameless Idealists came to Canada’s CTV channel. In front of a high school audience, Kielburger conducts one-on-one interviews with socially active public figures including K'naan, Cherie Blair, Al Gore, Jacob Hoggard, Jesse Jackson Sr., Martin Sheen and Betty Williams.
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