To Uganda, With Love
By Melodie McCullough There are no boundaries — geographical or otherwise — when it comes to violence against women. There are also no limits to the potency of art […]
Women, Poverty, and A Basic Income Guarantee
What Might a Basic Income Guarantee Mean for Women Living in Poverty in Canada? Money. Money for a single mom to buy clothing and healthy food for her kids and […]
Human Rights’ Groups Play Vital Role, Says Former Iranian Prisoner
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 […]
Valuing Discourse: Senators Discuss INAC’s “Unstated Paternity” Policy
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 […]
Women’s Safety, Wage Parity And Leadership Roles Are Top Priorities: Monsef
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 […]
Mary-Kate Edwards: “If there is a heaven, it will be a song that goes on and on forever.”
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, […]
Hey, Fatso! Body Shaming in a Thin World
“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 […]
Joseph Boyden and Indigenous Identity
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 […]
Making a Difference in Nogojiwanong with Youth for Water
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 […]
“A Sense of Hopelessness”: Eating Disorders and the Health Care System
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. […]
Send Her to Africa: The Story of a Mother, A Daughter and the Eating Disorder That Transformed Their Lives
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 […]
