“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is yet to come. We have only today. Let us begin.” Mother Theresa During the month of October and November Christina Antonick and I were in the classes of primarily grade 3, 4 and 5 students delivering the Peace Kids program. Recently we were asked by a student… Read more »
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Respectful Relationships National Grantee Meeting in Calgary by Christina Antonick
“Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.” – Sonia Gandhi- In early October, I was blessed to travel to Calgary for a national meeting of Canadian Women’s Foundation’s 17 Teen Healthy Relationships Grantees – of which our Respectful Relationships is one. CWF are working… Read more »
Untitled by David Norget
We often hear talk of a world of war, of destruction of poverty, of violence, of famine, of racism, of sexism, or other ‘isms population explosion, resource depletion a world where animals are dying and not coming back of environmental depletion, of starvation, of disease, of us and them, of that group not listening… Read more »
Australian’s research on best-practice respectful relationships programs includes SWOVA – by Ellen Poyner
I’m an Australian Social Worker, who had the privilege of visiting SWOVA as part of my Churchill Fellowship – a scholarship supporting me to travel to Canada and the USA to investigate Family Violence and Sexual Assault prevention programs, approaches and evaluations. As I travel around, my intention is to learn about unique and promising… Read more »
Consent by Lynda Laushway
Consent is a big topic in the news these days. What constitutes consent to sexual activity? When and how is consent given? How do we misinterpret consent? These are some of the topics in the news and on many peoples’ minds. This is particularly true for university and college campuses across Canada as our… Read more »
Why Focus on Gender-based Violence? by Lynda Laushway
There is a lot of violence in our world and it takes many forms- men’s violence towards other men, violence perpetrated on children, violence directed at seniors, violence against lesbian, gay and transgendered people, and violence against women, to name some of the more prevalent forms. The motivations for violence are many and complex and… Read more »
Crime Costs, Prevention Pays by lynda laushway
Canada is spending billions of dollars each year on police, courts and corrections. In the past 10 years these costs have increased by 50 percent. These costs do not include the human suffering to individuals and families. Investment in preventing crime is a wiser use of our money. In 2020 in Canada, women self-reported 472,000… Read more »
Sexual Assault Hits Mainstream Media By Lynda Laushway
The New Yorker magazine’s recent cover photo is of thirty-five women who allege that they were sexually assaulted by actor Bill Cosby over a period of decades. Some of the alleged victims have come forth on their own for years but their claims were hushed up, silenced or diminished. It wasn’t until thirty-five women reported… Read more »
Re-defining Feminism by Elise Pearson
I find that definitions can be limiting and problematic, and I’d like to see if I can encourage you to think for yourselves about what this word, or movement, or ideology might mean to you. Instead I’ll start by providing a few different definitions I’ve come across that I like, and try to give evidence… Read more »
June 16th, 2020: Reflections on South African Youth Day
“They are a generation whose whole education has been under the diabolical design of the racists to poison the minds and brainwash our children into docile subjects of apartheid rule.” -Nelson Mandela Thirty-nine years ago and yesterday, South African youth led an uprising against the apartheid regime. The image of twelve-year-old Hector Pieterson… Read more »
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