A space for her: what we can learn from Jacinda Ardern’s resignation
Canada’s track record of electing women has been dismal. Our Parliament has never had more than 30 per cent women; and we rank 61st in the world for gender parity in the legislature.
Québec City mosque attack anniversary a time for action against Islamophobia
Canada should prepare and implement a robust strategy that includes public education and building bridges between minority groups, including Muslims and mainstream Canadians.
Feds should not be allowed to hide behind NDAs
Canada ought to be the first jurisdiction not only to ban non-disclosure agreements outright, but also to release victims from any existing NDA restrictions.
Ottawa must officially recognize Black Excellence Day
Black Excellence Day, created in 2021, lands on Jan. 15. It recognizes that Black excellence is Canadian excellence and would be a meaningful way for Canada to close the UN’s International Decade for People of African Descent.
Canada’s feminist international assistance policy should be a catalyst for very important questions
The bodies in charge of international development do not focus on making structural changes to the global economic system and instead put the responsibility on Global South women to make the current system work for them.
International oversight needed into ‘consistently inadequate’ police response to MMIWG, says MP Gazan
‘This needs to be a wake-up call,’ and addressing missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls must include recognition of the rise in white supremacy and gender-based violence, says NDP MP Niki Ashton.
Senate Human Rights Committee exposes systemic Islamophobia in the CRA
It is becoming increasingly clear the federal government needs to show strong leadership to tackle systemic Islamophobia to rebuild the public trust in the government and its agencies.
‘Stay the course’: reporters, editors discuss strategies for combating online hate with Mendicino
Catherine Tait of CBC said a survey by Reporters Without Borders had found three quarters of journalists had experience harassment.
Significant policy shifts have been made, but government still leaving surrogacy families behind
It is time the government and all Parliamentarians look to include a 15-week benefit for parents via surrogacy in this much-needed EI modernization. Because it’s 2022.
Diversity and inclusion promises ring hollow if racialized voices are shut out
OTTAWA—“They invite you then mistreat you.” Those are the words of the tweet thread by Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, the acting director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who was allegedly mistreated by German border control at the Frankfurt airport while on his way to the World Health Summit, a global […]
