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Catalyzing Female Labour Force Participation In Pakistan
Pakistan is a diverse country and females account for a large portion of the population. Recently, it has becoming increasingly difficult to discuss the challenges that Pakistani women face. After all,...
View ArticleHow Quotas Help Solve Income Inequality
On Sunday, a CBC panel about gender balance in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet took a strange turn. The editor-in-chief of the Walrus, Jonathan Kay, said he thinks employers need to look beyond...
View ArticleI Took A 'Sound Bath' In The Middle Of A Desert
There's something strange and mystical about the desert that can draw you in like a thirsty traveler to an abundant oasis. The climate is almost perfect at certain points of the year, while the dead of...
View ArticleThe Time Has Come To Restore Protection Of Canadian Ecosystems
By Greg Lowan-Trudeau Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt...
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This Wartime Postcard Took 64 Years To Deliver
Somewhere in England, November 4th 1943... Thus began a postcard that took 64 years to deliver. Though the ink is still legible, the paper has yellowed. On the front is a picture of the Old Curiosity...
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Touring The Grange Of Prince Edward County
Located 2.5 hours from Toronto along the east end of Lake Ontario is Prince Edward County, a relatively new and rapidly growing wine region. One of the region's gems is The Grange of Prince Edward...
View Article'In Flanders Fields' Connects Young Canadians With History
In my earliest memory of reciting "In Flanders Fields," my legs are crossed and I am sitting on the dusty floor of a school gymnasium. It is the only poem that I really knew at the time and it is the...
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These Are The Faces Of Resilience In South Sudan
By Brett Tarver, World Vision Canada Proud perseverance. Women who have lost their husbands and sons to conflict have bound together in solidarity at a camp for internally displaced people supported...
View ArticleMedications That Can Kill A Child In Small Doses
As a mom and doctor, I want to ensure my kids and your kids are as safe as possible, as often as possible. I work in a busy emergency room and from time to time have the responsibility of caring for...
View ArticleWhy Trudeau Should Commit To Passing This Victims' Rights Bill
Justin Trudeau has officially been sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada. It is probably the coolest, but also the toughest job. As leader of a G7 country of over 35 million people, with a nearly two...
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Remembrance Day Connects Canadians Of All Cultures
This post was originally published on CanadianMomEh.com Growing up as a South Asian, second-generation Canadian in suburban Montreal, I remember standing in the school auditorium on Remembrance Day as...
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Ruffino Is A Lesson In Tuscan Terroir And Mamma
"Storytellers connect people, reflect culture and inspire discovery through the art of storytelling," according the Storytellers of Canada: The Art of Storytelling. On Oct. 18, 2015 I had the pleasure...
View ArticleClimate Action Is A Win-Win Situation
I'll soon be chairing a conference in London featuring clever people (and me) discussing global energy and climate challenges. This and the big Paris climate bash got me wondering -- am I helping to...
View ArticleMy Elderly Parents Have Been Separated By Health Care
This is an open letter regarding the struggle my octogenarian parents are facing with the private and public health-care system in Alberta. While my parents' story is not unique, it is time sensitive...
View ArticleTrue Climate Leadership Means Stepping Away From LNG
I remember standing beside a festering pool of "processed" water from a fracking drill site outside Hudson's Hope in northeast British Columbia. It was toxic water that was used by the gas industry to...
View ArticleMayor Don Iveson On Edmonton's Energy Transition Strategy
By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Climate change is often portrayed as this giant, fuzzy, future threat that's hard to relate to, but the mayor of Edmonton, Don Iveson, brings the idea home: "We...
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As A Doctor, These 5 Flu Myths Make Me Shake My Head
By Dr. Mary Vearncombe, Associate Microbiologist and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre The cooler weather brings us together; we're more often...
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The Poultry Industry Prioritizes Profits Over Animal Welfare
Dogs in Canada are in crisis. They're crowded into dim, dirty warehouses and mutilated without painkillers. They grow so quickly that their soft, immature bones collapse underneath them and their...
View ArticlePeople-Pleasing Always Backfires
Jessie* is a bright, 34 year-old office worker who always tries so hard to please her boss and ingratiate herself to her co-workers. She wonders why, with all her efforts at being nice, her boss...
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5 Ways You Can Foster A Discrimination-Free Workplace
Canada is still trailing many countries when it comes to discrimination in the workplace. According to a recent Workmonitor survey from Randstad, 26 per cent of Canadian respondents have been subjected...
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