Peterborough Women March for Women
By Melodie McCullough The spirit of a mighty sisterhood rose up and soared high Saturday (Jan. 21) as women around the globe gathered and marched against Trumpism and for hope […]
Charmaine Magumbe: 2017 YMCA Peace Medal Recipient
Peterborough’s Community and Race Relations Committee Chairperson Fights the Good Fight for Social Justice — with Her Religious Faith and Love of Family Guiding Her By Melodie McCullough As chairperson […]
A Once-Mysterious GIGANTIC BLOB Has Taken Shape & Is Ready For Its Debut. What IS It?
In the beginning it was a colourful and disembodied mish-mash of fabric, wire, newspaper, hula hoops, plastic bags, foam pipes, toy noodles, bamboo poles, feathers, bells, ribbons, fencing, bubble wrap, […]
The Power of Music: Afghan Children’s Songbook Project Re-Introduces Music to Once-Silent Country
By Melodie McCullough Imagine a world without music; a home where a mother cannot hum to her baby; a house in which children’s toys that make sounds are banished; a […]
“It starts with the Jews, but it doesn’t end with the Jews.”
Holocaust survivor says learn from the past, speak out against current climate of hate By Melodie McCullough “They went through the chimney.” How could someone go through a chimney, wondered an innocent 15-year-old Jew, Max Eisen, when someone replied to his father’s inquiry about their relatives. It was 1944, and his […]
Sheatre – Making Kids Think
If you could step in and change the outcome of a sexual assault, would you? How? What would you do? What would you say? And why? Thousands of Ontario youth recently had the chance to experience this scenario during Sheatre‘s recent tour of the play, “Far From the Heart”, — an interactive, educational […]
Domestic Violence Spikes Over the Holidays, But Help is Available
By Melodie McCullough Each year the holiday season brings a significant spike in domestic violence in Peterborough, Ontario, and elsewhere, but Jennifer Martin wants women to know the YWCA is here to help with its 24/7 crisis line, and even before a crisis point is reached with its START […]
Gender-Neutral Toys for All the Kids in Your Life
Wondering what toys to buy your children, nieces and nephews this Christmas that won’t send a stereotyped message? We’ve come across lots of suggestions to help you out, thanks to […]
Local Peterborough Woman Thanks Leading Women’s Organizations on Women’s Rights
By Lynn Gehl, Ph.D, Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe I was happy to learn that CEDAW’s concluding observations about Canada’s violations against women and girls addressed the matter of unknown and unstated paternity and the Indian Act. As many know this has been an issue that I have taken on for over 30 […]
To Remember Is To End All War
To Remember is to End All War
Peterborough Woman’s Effort Now Supported by LEAF
The Ontario Court of Appeal has granted the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) leave to intervene in Lynn Gehl’s case challenging sex discrimination in the Indian Act, after LEAF filed a factum Sept. 23 in Gehl v Attorney General of Canada. Gehl, PhD, who lives in Peterborough, Ontario, has been […]
