One Syrian Family + Two Canadians = “so much joy”
Until recently, Mary Ward, of Peterborough, Ontario, led, what some people might consider, a fairly quiet life. Lately, it’s become a whole lot livelier. Most mornings she heads to the […]
Peterborough Newcomers Need YOU!
Just having a friend to talk to during their first days in Canada – even if it was only through ‘Google Translate’ — meant the world to the hundreds of […]
Claiming Anishinaabe: Decolonizing the Human Spirit; Author Lynn Gehl, Algonquin Anishinaabe-Kwe
Claiming Anishinaabe: Decolonizing the Human Spirit, published with the University of Regina Press, is rooted in my need to understand Indigenous knowledge (IK) in an intellectual sense as well as in a heartful way. Foremost it […]
Zach Hatton: Man with a Mission
Zach Hatton is a man with a mission. He wants to see fresh, youthful faces in the Ontario legislature — and he wants one of those faces to be his. […]
Young Muslim raises awareness about First Nations water crisis
Google ‘water crisis in Canada’, tell a friend what you find about it, and then tell the politicians. Those are the three things Hasan Syed, 28, of Toronto, would like […]
Consumerism or Happiness — You Choose
Are your cell phone and social media feeds over-flowing with so many messages and photos you can barely keep up with it all? And, still, you keep checking them? Do […]
Solidarity Weekend Statement – October, 2017
Submitted to JOURNEY Magazine by the organizers of Solidarity Weekend (Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, 2017 in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, Ontario). We are writing to offer our gratitude, reflection, and clarification. When […]
A Photo Essay: Solidarity in Words & Pictures
“Love Lives Here. End White Supremacy” The citizens of Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, Ontario, responded — a thousand-strong — to the threat of a planned white nationalist/supremacy rally in their city Sept. […]
Persons Day: The Indigenous Famous Five Contingent (Updated Version)
© Lynn Gehl Persons Day, October 18th, is a day when many women’s groups celebrate the efforts of The Famous Five for their role in gaining women’s rights in Canada. […]
Why we (still) Take Back The Night
One in three; one in six; one in five. Say what? In Ontario, one in three females, one in six males, and one in five transpeople experience gender-based violence — […]
Lisa Clarke — Living Life Her Own Way
Happy-ever-after storybook endings don’t always happen. But Lisa Clarke now knows that’s okay. Clarke, community engagement and project manager at Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre, (KSAC), was recently named as one of Peterborough’s […]
