Photo by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta   “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” -Martin Luther King. On a quiet Sunday evening at a local mosque, a terrible attack shook the Quebec City suburb of Sainte-Foy when Alexandre Bissonnette senselessly murdered 6 people and injured [...]

On this day today, November 11, 1918, exactly 100 years ago, the First World War ended at 6 o’clock in the morning. From 1914 to 1918, more than 650,000 Canadian men and women served overseas. Some 172,000 were wounded, and 66,000 of them lost their lives. These Canadians men [...]

In 2012, the United Nations declared that October 11th, will be known as the International Day of the Girl. This day was not only established to recognize and address the needs and challenges girls face from all corners of the world, it also promotes the empowerment of their basic [...]

For women in Canadian politics, 2018 has brought the #MeToo movement into full swing, and has brought down harassers at the highest levels. In the final week of January alone, two provincial leaders and the federal Minister of Sports and Disabilities all resigned from their positions because of sexual [...]