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Keeping It Real

A Long Way Still to Go

Housing Affordability for Canadian Women on IWD 2025 Its 2025 and another International Women’s Day drifts by. Lots of social media posts ...

Leadership is Messy

When I worked as a Chief of Staff for a provincial minister – every morning at 7:30 we had a stand up ...
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The Clock is Ticking

According to the Doomsday Clock we are one hundred seconds to midnight. According to the Climate Clock we are nine (9) years ...
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Who Can We Trust?

Who Can We Trust In the small island of Trinidad if you have an emergency you should call 999 – not 911, ...
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Forged from the Land

Indigenous worldviews are a philosophy of interconnectedness and belonging. An understanding that we are all related. Included. This interconnection extends to our ...
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We all must work to end the rise of anti-Asian hate

“Are you their nanny?” A simple question from another mom on a playground in Toronto — Canada’s most diverse city. At the ...
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2021: DON’T GIVE UP

Its January 25th of a new year and I already broke my resolution to a “dry-January” two weeks in. I had a ...
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EVERYWOMAN’S CITY

I was recently excited to join a panel to discuss how cities can be designed with women at the center. The Feminicty ...
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I CAN SEE YOUR VOICE

Recently I attended an event hosted by a women’s leadership group, of which I had been the founding co-chair. It was the ...
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THE VID

Toronto, Fall 2030Dearest GrandKiddies, I hope you have all settled into your new school year and that your in-class and on-line days ...