On Monday January the 14th the Seneca community was lucky enough to have guest speaker Candy Palmater conduct the first part of her four part series discussing the issues faced by indigenous people living within a colonized nation. Palmater who is a well known CBC personality has experience as a comedian, broadcaster, actor, lawyer and writer of her own television show aired on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Candy has been a long time advocate for improving the si

Women in India made it clear they want change and equality by bringing in the new year with a 385 mile wall protesting gender inequality and the recent ban of menstruating aged women from entering the Sabarimala shrine. On the afternoon of January 1st, 2019, between 3.5 and 5 million Indian women joined hands and lined up along the country’s western coast to protest gender inequality. This demonstration was the largest gathering of women ever documented in India to protest ge

During the winter season of 2017/2018, the City of Toronto saw temperatures dip to dangerous levels for many extended cold snaps. During this time the City of Toronto was under incredible scrutiny to provide the homeless population with a safe place to escape these lethal temperatures. The City experienced pressure to have the Moss Park armoury reconfigured as a temporary shelter to be utilized by service users the Friday before Toronto would experience one of these cold snap

“Femicide” is a term that describes the killing of women and girls due to their sexual identity. Femicide is typically driven by gender-specific factors and examples of it are honour killing, sexual-orientation hate crimes, dowry-related violence, intimate partner violence, etc. In Canada and other parts of the world, women are more likely to be the victims of domestic violence or intimate partner violence than men. In fact, 83% of the victims of spousal abuse are women, and