“We Won”: Two words that represent the end of a 143-year struggle for the elimination of sex discrimination in Canada’s Indian Act. The Trudeau government is expected to formally announce […]
“Individuals bring with them the hidden rules of the class in which they were raised.” Ruby K. Payne Lynn Smith-Reeve still feels an an “internal panic” when vegetable prices rise […]
“It’s hard to be self-motivated when someone is telling you what to do.” Todd Coombes spent most of his adulthood “on the low end of the money scale”, drifting, without […]
Submitted by Lynn Gehl 1.) Email or phone Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Justice Minister David Lametti, Minister for Women and Gender Equality Maryam Monsef, and Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Carolyn […]
“It is female-empowering. You are dancing into the earth.” Women and girls in Afghanistan are learning to read and write because an Ontario, Canada, woman loves to . . . […]
The Peterborough chapter of Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan (CW4WAfghan) invites everyone –women, children and men – to enjoy some belly dancing fun, prizes, refreshments, Afghan crafts, an inspiring […]
“We suffered with a loss of identity, which, combined with the racism in White communities, further harmed our self-identity. That’s why this UN ruling is so important and so historic.”: […]
Helen Agger. Following Nimishoomis: The Trout Lake History of Dedibaayaanimanook Sarah Keesick Olsen (Penticton, BC: Theytus Books, 2008). Review by Lynn Gehl, Ph.D. In Following Nimishoomis: The Trout Lake History […]
On Dec. 12, 2017, Canada proclaimed Bill S-3, An Act to Amend the Indian Act (the elimination of sex discrimination), into law. The process of passing it into law was […]
Time Travel, screening this coming weekend (Jan. 26) at the ReFrame Film Festival in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, Ontario delves into the world of dementia and the relationships between those with the illness and […]
The 25-year-old Oslo Peace Accords are long dead. A two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is no longer viable. The Trump administration recently cut all US funding to the United Nations Relief […]
