Book Review: BEFORE I GO by Colleen Oakley
Christine Ethier REVIEWS BEFORE I GO by Colleen Oakley In “Before I Go”, written by first time author Colleen Oakley, the title refers to the impending death from ‘allkindsofcancer’ of […]
Camp fYrefly For LGBTQ Youth Is A “life-saver”. . . And It’s Coming To Trent University, Peterborough, This Summer.
By the age of four, transgender youth Marissa Taylor was already having suicidal thoughts. ‘I want to die so I can go to heaven and talk to God. I […]
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 […]
Lynn Gehl Continues 30-year Fight for First Nations Status
By Melodie McCullough So far Canada’s federal government has spent $762,827.48 and 30 years trying to make Lynn Gehl disappear. It hasn’t worked. Gehl wants First Nation Indian status, and, although she lost a […]
From Rejection to Acceptance – a Trans Person’s Story of How CMHA’S GENDER JOURNEYS Throws a Life-Line to Trans’ Communities
By Melodie McCullough This article was updated August, 2017 “I’m sorry, but you’re just not a good fit.” Stacey Love-Jolicoeur does not like those words. In fact, she hates them. […]
Poverty In Our Schools
The school principal finds the tiny Grade 2 boy hunched over in the hallway, sent out from his classroom because he’s been disruptive and rude to his teacher. His face […]
Rosemary Ganley: Grateful Every Day
By Melodie McCullough There’s a small wooden box on a shelf in Rosemary Ganley’s Peterborough apartment. Each day, she opens it and adds to it — scraps of paper on which […]
HIV+? For Shame? Lillian’s Remarkably POSITIVE Story
One day after being bailed out of jail by her boyfriend in Montreal, Lillian, age 20, landed in Peterborough on a 2 a.m. Sunday Greyhound bus. Dressed in her […]
HIV FACTS and RESOURCES from PARN
Ariel O’Neill, Women and HIV/AIDS Community Animator with PARN (Community AIDS Resource Network ), works with community agencies to enhance their capacity to address HIV/AIDS and to build safe environments that support women and their HIV/AIDS-related needs. While she says there are fewer than a dozen female clients of PARN “that […]
WOMEN IN BUSINESS: Bridget Leslie at ‘My Left Breast’
By JOURNEY Staff Bridget Leslie took a huge negative and turned it into something beyond positive. For the past eight years Leslie, as owner of the My Left Breast shop in Charlotte Mews, has been helping cancer survivors on their journey to heal. The store sells wigs, bras, compression sleeves, hats, scarves, swimwear, […]
