By Melodie McCullough Hamid Ghassemi-Shall firmly believes that if it wasn’t for Amnesty International (AI) and other human rights’ groups he would be dead. The Iranian-born Canadian citizen spent five […]
Photo Credit: The Senate of Canada By Lynn Gehl, Ph.D. When Members of Parliament and Senators borrow, assimilate, or adopt gender-neutral language such as “unstated parentage” or “unnamed parent” when […]
By Melodie McCullough Preventing gender-based violence is a top priority of Maryam Monsef, federal Minister of the Status of Women Canada, now and in the coming months. The Ministry’s Strategy […]
Last fall, Peterborough native Mary-Kate Edwards, 21, decided the time had come to follow her heart. And now singer-songer Edwards, just named as Emerging Artist at this year’s Peterborough, Ontario, […]
“And the shame. Oh, the shame of being wrong, all the time wrong, impossible to erase the wrong-bodied-ness that you express everywhere you go. Hide yourself. Don’t move. Don’t dress […]
By Lynn Gehl, Ph.D In the last few weeks and months much has been said about Joseph Boyden and Indigenous identity. Situated as I am in a section 15 Charter […]
Rain gardens that filter pollutants; shoreline naturalizations; aid for at-risk species; traditional medicine food gardens; storm and ground water management with low-impact solutions –it’s all part of Youth for Water […]
Eating disorders (EDs) are serious and complex illnesses, as anyone who has struggled with them will tell you. But problems within the health care system complicate the situation even more. […]
By Melodie McCullough Six years ago Lisa Burns took her then almost-17-year-old daughter, possibly suffering with anorexia, to the family doctor. The advice given by the doctor upon diagnosing an eating disorder? “Send her to Africa, so she will see what starving children really look like.” Burns knew it was time to […]
This Moment By Jovanna Soligo I have a Balinese bell that sits on my altar in my studio. When I pick it up and ring it, the air in the room fills with a clear resonance. Something shifts inside me when I listen to that bell. I can’t help but […]
Poems and Stories of Strength/Resiliency from Space/Time RESILIENT SOUL by Gay Josephine Valles MY SILENCE by N. Wali COZY by Sasha Patterson SONG of the FIR TREE by Mary E. McCullough […]
