- by Alicia Sylvest
It’s not availability; Its accessibility.
Not 24 hours has gone by since we set up at the high school to hand out free period products, and I have been swarmed with messages of defense. So many are speaking out about how there ARE products available for students if they need them, but this isn't the root. "The products are free, and the students just have to ask."
- by Craig Gammie
"This should NEVER have gotten this far”. I agree. I also submit that it should never even have even got off the ground.
Janice Jackson has been fighting with the MNR (Ministry of Natural Resources) over plover habitat protection since 2011. She was repeatedly warned by MNR staff that ...
- by Alicia Sylvest
Tears of joy are overflowing!
Yesterday, the Toronto Youth Cabinet, backed by many big names, made an official plea to Ontario Education minister, Stephen Lecce, in a push to provide all publicly funded schools in Ontario with free menstrual products. This is everything I have been working towards for almost five years, ...
- by Diane Ferguson
The pandemic and politics to the south of us, have taken up most of the news for the past year, and rightly so. They’ve also provided the perfect cover for the selling off and rezoning of Ontario land at the sole discretion of Premier Ford. If there’s laws or zoning in the way, he’ll change them. Environmentally protected? No problem, we’re the government, we’ll change ...
- by Kimberley Love
Happy International Women's Day!
On this day in 1922 – exactly 99 years ago – a determined young woman from South Grey took her seat for the first time in the Parliament of Canada.
By a stroke of remarkable coincidence, that day was already marked in many countries as International Women’s Day. In the early, tumultuous years of the 1900s, women were launching campaigns around the world ...
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