Peterborough Women March for Women
By Melodie McCullough The spirit of a mighty sisterhood rose up and soared high Saturday (Jan. 21) as women around the globe gathered and marched against Trumpism and for hope […]
To Remember Is To End All War
To Remember is to End All War
Understanding Intersectionality By Lynn Gehl, PhD
Introducing Intersectionality When creating a more liberating world inclusive of all people, an intersectionality lens, or an intersectionality methodology, is required. Intersectionality theory was first articulated by Black women who were dissatisfied with the efforts and knowledge emerging from White feminism as it fails to speak to their experience. In […]
Forty-Three Years Sheltering Women: Lynn Zimmer Still Leads the Way
By Melodie McCullough Do you know Lynn Zimmer? Maybe you have met her through the Women’s Business Network of Peterborough, or perhaps through her volunteer work with the United Way […]
Music to Soothe the Soul
Hospice Peterborough’s Bedside Singers Reach Out to Palliative Patients By Melodie McCullough It is a gift for both the ones receiving and the ones giving. For the past seven years, a group of Hospice Peterborough, Ontario, volunteers have been singing at bedsides in the palliative care unit at Peterborough Regional […]
Meet Kathy Hardill, Street Nurse to the Homeless
“All diseases have two causes: one pathological, the other political.”: Rudolf Virchow, 19th Century German pathologist. By Melodie McCullough (Originally Published August 2016) Every week, street nurse Kathy Hardill roams the […]
The Gift of Hope: Helping One Gaza Family Survive the Occupation
“Papa, if I give them all my toys, will they stop? If I give them one shekel? If I give them one kiss?”: Amira Khaled, age three, Gaza. By Melodie […]
Time to recycle one seriously frayed metaphor…
Nourish Project Talks About BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE By JOELLE FAVREAU, Community Development Supervisor at YWCA Peterborough Haliburton/Nourish Project Manager I’ve always been fascinated by the metaphors we use to talk about the world around us. With their colourful and memorable images, they get us hooked quickly and help us make […]
Step off the blankets
…and relearn Canada’s history. “Blankets infected with the deadly smallpox virus were given or traded to you by British military leaders. You died from small […]
UNITING FOR AKIKODJIWAN
Local Group Participates in Walk to Save Indigenous Sacred Site From Condos, Office Towers and Pavement By Melodie McCullough Algonquin Grandmothers and Elders of the Ottawa River region, and […]
FOR THE WATER
Edward George and the Nibi Onji Canoe Journey “What more must we do?” “What is the water asking of us?” ” What must we come to understand in […]
