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 […]
By Julia Cluett-McCullough Written on Oct. 2, 2017 A little less than 24 hours ago, Jagmeet Singh became the new leader of Canada’s NDP, becoming the first person of colour and […]
“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. […]
© 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. […]
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 — […]
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 […]
Hope Zatorski at Harbour Art Gallery On Stoney Lake this summer, not only can you ‘paddle your own canoe’, you can ‘paint your own paddle’, too. On a recent rainy […]
Keara Lightning: “Indigenous scholar, activist, environmentalist, community builder, skilled writer, quiet leader, and an inclusive teacher with deep convictions and a passion for the many initiatives she takes on and […]
Sneha Wadhwani speaks three languages, is enrolled in an academically-challenging International Baccalaureate (IB) school program, volunteers with dozens of local community groups, has a job throughout the school year and […]
In 1991 in the midst of the first Gulf War between the United States, Kuwait and Iraq, Hanah Howlett McFarlane, almost four years old, attended a peace walk in Toronto […]
What comes to mind when you hear the words, “older women”? Is it the thought of frail and lonely grey-haired women who are burdens to the health care system? Maybe […]
