“Call in the women! Chrystia Freeland and Kamala Harris’s new roles respond to the times” by Peggy Nash, Ryerson University What a groundbreaking week this has been in North America, with great excitement about two appointments that shatter glass ceilings. In the United States, Senator Kamala Harris, former California attorney general, has just been nominated as … Read More
Election. “How women voters could decide the Canadian federal election — again” by Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Queen’s University, Ontario Heading into the federal election campaign’s final days, the Liberal and Conservative parties are in a dead heat nationally in a race with an uncertain outcome. In the scramble for votes, the parties have all made gender-based … Read More
Indigenous Peoples. “The road to reconciliation starts with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” by Sheryl Lightfoot, University of British Columbia When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada concluded its work almost four years ago, it provided a road map for Canadians to follow. That road map, the 94 Calls to … Read More
“Newcomers Find Jobs, Prosperity in Atlantic Canada — If They Stay” by Kelly Toughill If Anna Tselichtchev had been able to flee rural New Brunswick when she first arrived, she would have been gone in a flash. Now, she wouldn’t leave for anything. The factors that transformed the mother of two from an Israeli with … Read More
