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Tag: reach and impact

Why women decline interviews – and how we’re trying to change that

Master Media Engagement

March 18th, 2014

Don’t blame the messenger, folks: When Steve Paikin, host of The Agenda blogged and tweeted recently about the show’s difficulties in recruiting female guests, he elicited a firestorm of protest. But what […]

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Making smart advice irresistible

Effective Communication

February 11th, 2014

Up until this week, Rob Ford’s life experience — elected office, crack cocaine, domestic abuse — had little intersection with mine. But hearing his contention that he’d been “profiled” for […]

read more...Making smart advice irresistible

Pro Bono Expertise Transforms Digital Real Estate

Our Advocacy Work

February 6th, 2014

“You’re not making the best use of your prime real estate,” Chamika Ailapperuma told us. (Which was news to us: we didn’t even know we HAD real estate!) An experienced […]

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TL;DR – advice to ignore, but implications to heed

Improve your Writing

November 8th, 2013

Hanging out with teenagers can be an enlightening experience. Last week, I participated in a panel discussion convened by MediaSmarts, “Canada’s centre for digital and media literacy” and a repository […]

read more...TL;DR – advice to ignore, but implications to heed

Women on boards to counter “affirmative action plan for men”?

Our Advocacy Work

September 23rd, 2013

The following op ed was published in the Ottawa Citizen 23 September 2013. Constance Sugiyama, pictured at right, a respected mergers and acquisition lawyer and honorary patron of Informed Opinions, […]

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Changing lives through media commentary

Master Media Engagement

August 13th, 2013

“You really have to write that!” This enthusiastic exhortation — often exclaimed simultaneously by a chorus of voices — is a common refrain in the commentary writing workshops we lead. […]

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Expert status less important than insightful context

Improve your Writing

July 28th, 2013

I have no legal training or experience in the sex trade. No one would ever mistake me as a candidate for the corner office of a large corporation. I am […]

read more...Expert status less important than insightful context

“Get me rewrite!” – a truly inclusive O Canada

Our Advocacy Work

July 1st, 2013

The positive responses to our video campaign in pursuit of a more inclusive O Canada are still outpacing the cranky ignorant ones, and among the most inspiring was an email […]

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Official sexism brought to you by Canada’s national anthem

Our Advocacy Work

June 29th, 2013

The following op ed, commissioned by the Montreal Gazette, also appears in  today’s Saskatoon Star Phoenix. It’s like poking a hornet’s nest: Dare to suggest that the words to the […]

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O Canada… Oh, Canada

Our Advocacy Work

June 24th, 2013

A few years ago the Conservative government threw a bone (briefly) to Canadian women, and (rashly, as it turned out) promised to update the lyrics to our national anthem to include the […]

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