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The women and gender-diverse individuals with informed opinions that we’ve trained, inspired or supported have published hundreds of commentaries in daily newspapers and prominent online sites, generating additional interview requests and exposure as a result. Here are just some of the analyses they’ve contributed as a result:

Hollywood letters of support for Danny Masterson demonstrate the pervasiveness of myths about rape culture

The Conversation by Meredith Ralston 17 September 2023

Hollywood actors Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are in hot water after their letters of support for their friend and former co-star, Danny Masterson, were made public.

Pay equity is good for everyone – let’s make it a reality

Talent Canada by Julie Cafley and Katie Ward 14 September 2023

International Equal Pay Day, recognized by the United Nations and observed on September 18, acknowledges the crucial need for society to address ongoing efforts to achieve equal pay for equal work.

Canada is still ignoring the basic human rights of its citizens held in northeast Syria

The Ottawa Citizen by Senator Kim Pate, Alex Neve, Scott Heatherington and Hadayt Nazami 08 September 2023

“What I want is to be able to tell my story, my true story, somewhere I can speak freely without fear or duress.”

Marching to Ottawa for neglected and murdered Indigenous men: One family’s fight for justice grows

The Conversation by Michelle Stewart 29 August 2023

Summer in Canada means highways filled with tourists and travellers.

Child care also an austerity victim

The Winnipeg Free Press by Susan Prentice and Jesse Hajer 29 August 2023

A recently renewed federal-provincial child-care announcement and Manitoba billboards promoting $10/day child care create the perception that the province of Manitoba has increased funding and support for child care.

Aging with a healthy brain: How lifestyle changes could help prevent up to 40% of dementia cases

The Conversation by Stefanie Tremblay 22 August 2023

A 65-year-old woman repeatedly seeks medical help for her failing memory.

Why Canada needs to charge citizens who left to join the Islamic State

The Globe and Mail by Jessica Davis 22 August 2023

Over the course of the past few months, Canada has repatriated a number of Canadian women from Kurdish-run refugee camps in Syria.

We need to stop telling our students to have their essays checked by a native English speaker.

The Globe and Mail by Adam Houston, Joanne Liu, Roojin Habibi & Srinivas Murthy 25 July 2023

To learn the right lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Canada must have the courage to unreservedly examine its record on global vaccine equity.

Sam O’Neill, a young woman dying of inoperable terminal cancer, requested medical assistance in dying (MAiD).

The Toronto Star by Anjum Sultana, Victoria Kuketz & Ramina Ghassemi 02 July 2023

Alberta’s new cabinet looks a lot like the reductive stereotypes often associated with the province – namely, that it’s populated mostly by rural, white men.

The last decade has seen the rapid expansion of new business models in numerous industries, which engage workers to provide services through on-demand digital platforms.

The Hamilton Spectator by Susan Franceschet & Jennifer Piscopo 22 June 2023

The Quebec government presented new immigration guidelines in the spring, and within them the message was clear: language is now an ironclad condition for permanent settlement in the province.

On June 6, in a landmark ruling, a young man who killed one woman and injured another three years ago in a Toronto massage parlour was found guilty of terrorism.

England is the latest in a growing number of countries to launch a guaranteed liveable basic income trial.

The Conversation by Jason Proulx, John Helliwell & Lara Aknin 01 June 2023

Canada’s National Observer by Ojistoh Horn, Naomi Trick & Jane McArthur 23 May 2023

“It is clear that the community is suffering from decades of environmental racism and generational trauma.”

The $15-billion Canada Growth Fund, emphasized in the 2023 federal budget and aimed at accelerating decarbonization, is a landmark opportunity to align substantial climate action with a thriving national economy.

When the World Health Organization formally declared an end to the COVID-19 pandemic’s designation as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), it may seem to have had little, if any, perceivable impact on the daily lives of most people.

At a recent Catalyst event, a speaker told an anecdote of a mom working from home during March school break and juggling work and childcare.

If your boss asked you to pay him $1,000 in cash to keep your job, expected you to work without safety equipment or holiday pay, or told you to sleep on the floor in the apartment he was renting to you … you would probably quit.

Member countries of the World Health Organization are currently negotiating a new pandemic treaty in an effort to prevent a global health crisis like COVID-19 from ever happening again.

The Conversation by Kelley Lee, Joel Lexchin, Katrina Plamondon and Roojin Habibi 23 April 2023

One of the key lessons emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic has been that the failure of countries to sufficiently work together worsened and prolonged this deadly public health emergency.

The societal changes that started in 2020 heralded a new sense of urgency and demand for increased accountability for employers claiming diversity and inclusion as core values.

Corporal punishment (e.g., spanking) is allowed in Canada according to Section 43 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

Canada just can’t seem to get it right; all parents need equal parental leave.

The rise of the “gig economy” and on-demand work through platforms such as Uber has ignited public debate about precarious work and what makes a “good job”.

Everyone who’s lived through a Montreal summer knows how unbearable it gets when the heat waves hit.

While the world is “on thin ice,” according to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, there is an opportunity to decarbonize in Canada through the electrification of transportation.

The Edmonton Journal by Jane McArthur, Sharon Dodd and Joe Vipond 29 March 2023

Canada is one of few industrialized countries in the world that lacks legally binding and enforceable ambient air quality standards.

When we think of gentrification, we often think of how a neighbourhood’s demographics and landscape are transformed.

As Turkey continues to reel from the impact of last month’s earthquake, countries around the world continue to provide support to the Turkish people.

The Ottawa Citizen by Julie Young, Shauna Labman and Jamie Liew 02 March 2023

Friday marks the sombre one-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

With Toronto’s political municipal leadership in absolute flux, this city has a gaping hole.

Every February during Black History Month, Canadian schoolchildren learn about Black people who have changed the world: Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Oprah Winfrey.

Power is power, and it doesn’t matter if Toronto mayor John Tory’s affair with a former staffer was consensual.

“This neighbourhood isn’t the same. Rents are out of control. Most of the people I’ve known my entire life left long ago, and the ones who can afford to stay are now feeling excluded in their neighbourhood.”

Last week, the House of Commons unanimously voted to list the Wagner Group, a Russian private military contractor, as a terrorist entity.

Judges can call it what they want, but the defence of extreme intoxication still smells like the same old patriarchy to us.

The Conversation by Stephanie Mayell, C. Susana Caxaj and Janet McLaughlin 01 February 2023

The government of Canada recently amended the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations to include new employer obligations.

Last week, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that she would be stepping down.

The Bank of Canada “resolutely” declared it will fight inflation by raising interest rates.

The Conversation by Jennifer Fang, Julianne Piper and Kelley Lee 15 January 2023

In a throwback to January 2020, when the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 began to be detected outside of China, many countries have again adopted measures targeted at travellers from China.

Policy Options by Daniel Béland, Jennifer Elrick and Mireille Paquet 19 December 2022

Last week marked the two-year anniversary of the Axum massacre in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, where Eritrean forces killed hundreds of Tigrayans over the course of 24 hours.

From controversies about COVID-19 protections to legislative actions around education and health workers to concerns about inflation and food costs, there is no shortage of critical issues that have captured our attention.

I recently had an opportunity to encourage hundreds of Canada’s business leaders to consider their contribution toward more inclusive workplaces.

Policy Options by Jennifer Robson, Tammy Schirle and Lindsay Tedds 01 December 2022

Now that Bill C-31 has received Royal Assent, some Canadian families will soon want to apply for the interim federal Canada Dental Benefit created by the legislation.

In about six months, two powerhouse female politicians will go head to head to decide who will lead the province for the next four years.

Canada’s National Observer by Ineza Umuhoza Grace and Anjum Sultana 18 November 2022

Affordability has long been a concern for residents of Metro Vancouver — a region notorious for stratospheric housing costs — but with inflation shooting up to a 40-year high this year, the cost of living has become a much more pressing worry for many.

During the Cold War era, American military strategists thought the Soviet Union would be deterred from dropping a nuclear bomb on North America only if the United States also built up sufficient nuclear weapons capable of annihilating the Soviets.

In case you missed it, and if you blinked you probably did, Parliament passed Bill C-28 in June 2022.

When terrorist groups kidnap aid workers, humanitarians, diplomats, tourists and others, the outcome for victims is usually bleak: years of neglect at the hands of their captors, and – if they’re lucky – release only after their families or governments pay a ransom demand.

The Toronto Star by Jane MacArthur, Jennifer Beeman and Cassie Barker 11 October 2022

How far do women have to run before we stop getting breast cancer in the first place?

For many Nova Scotians, life is a constant struggle; the challenge to make ends meet is even tougher this year because of the rising cost of living.

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Canada’s wage gap sits at 16.7 per cent – the seventh worst of 38 OECD countries.

Nearly 2.5 million students began post-secondary education in Canada this September.

As we begin to head back to the office, most women will be pulling warm sweaters and wraps out of the closet to shelter from the arctic office temperatures that prevail in our workplaces.

The Canadian government has used Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the removal of Russian natural gas exports to justify increasing natural gas production in Canada.

On a trip to Mexico City, a bus tour whisks me through neighbourhoods teeming with cool cafes, elegant wine bars and stylish twentysomethings.

This November, the Québec Court of Appeal will hear an appeal of Hak v. Attorney General of Québec on the constitutionality of Bill 21, which prohibits public service workers from wearing religious symbols.

We’ve all heard about the crisis in health care, but what most Canadians don’t know is that this crisis is being driven, in part, by an unprecedented labour crisis in our non-profit community care sector.

Canada’s National Observer by Jane McArthur and Honour Stahl 18 August 2022

When I graduated with a bachelor of engineering from McGill in 1987, the best engineering students went to big Canadian companies like Pratt and Whitney, IBM, Nortel, CAE Industries, Dofasco and Alcan.

Last week, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine passed its 160th day, Amnesty International published a report accusing Ukrainian forces of unlawfully endangering the lives of their civilians.

There are many reasons why Hockey Canada’s reported handling of sexual assault allegations should leave us feeling disgusted. But compensation for the victims should not be on the list.

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