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Vast Majority of Canadian Women Still Live in Fear of Violence, Regardless of Age, Race, Class, Education or Marital Status: Study
Despite strides made by the #MeToo Movement and recent changes to legislation, Canadian women continue to live in deep rooted fear of rape, sexual harassment or physical violence, and worse, believe they’ll be judged for doing something wrong if it...
Toronto’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Demonstrates Racism is Alive and Well in Canada, Expert Says
If you’re among the one in three Canadians who still don’t believe racism is a serious problem in our country, you don’t have to look further than our response to the COVID-19 pandemic for proof that inequity remains deeply rooted here. Dr Frances...
Lack of Digital Supervision is Leaving Kids Vulnerable to a Growing Group of Online Predators – Their Peers
A rising number of Canadian children – some as young as four years old – are becoming desensitized to porn and violence online and being victimized by their peers, and if adults don’t take action now to boost their digital supervision, the problem...
Democracy in the classroom: Struggles for mental equilibrium, trust and knowledge
Recent events in the United States are a stark reminder of how currents of racist hatred and thinking can lurk, concealed in the privacy of people’s thoughts until called-upon or provoked. There are folks who maybe had the misfortune of being raised...
Dr. Shirley-Anne Tate – Congress 2021
We asked Professor Shirley Tate, Canada Research Chair in Feminism and Intersectionality at the University of Alberta, about her hopes for Congress 2021. Professor Tate's feminist approach to the critical analysis of race, power, and dispossession...
We Must Tackle and Dismantle Systemic Racism and White Supremacy.
The exploitation, control and violence against Black people in the Americas is not a new phenomenon. We have seen the world of Black people worsen each day, month, year, decade, and century. The events of May 25, 2020 were another breaking point in...
The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution
My research with and on behalf of trans and gender nonconforming kids brings my personal experience together with my scholarship in a particularly powerful way. I was a gender nonconforming kid and experienced very harsh gender policing. I now...
Thinking about War
Reflections on the Congress 2018 Big Thinking lecture entitled Thinking about war with Margaret MacMillan, C.C. organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Regina. In a country like ours, it can be easy to...
Mexican student brings new perspectives to Indigenous treaties in Saskatchewan
Wendy Ortega Pineda is determined to do her part to make the world a more equitable place. As a law student at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Mexico, Wendy learned much about the profound differences between nations regarding access to...