Dec 5, 2020 | News and Views, Now Available, Purple Ribbon Campaign
Where Violence Persists, What Women Do Last year we gathered to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, where fourteen women, students at l’École Polytechnique, were murdered because they were women. With our service of remembrance we paid...
Oct 14, 2020 | News and Views, Now Available
FOR THE PREMIER’S COUNCIL FOR RECOVERY AND GROWTH The following insights and policy directions for a gender-sensitive recovery in PEI come from participants in interviews and a roundtable for the forthcoming report Gender & COVID-19 in Prince Edward Island:...
Oct 2, 2020 | News and Views, Now Available
For Immediate Release Charlottetown, October 2, 2020 – October marks Women’s History Month in Canada, and today the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women is pleased to release a new report, Gender and COVID-19 in Prince Edward Island: In the Words of...
Aug 27, 2020 | Advice to Government, News and Views
In July 2020, Prince Edward Island’s Department of Agriculture and Land initated a Land Matters consultation. This consultation is part of a project to review and update provincial land-related legislation and policy. The Province invited responses from...
Jun 12, 2020 | News and Views, Now Available
I wrote this opinion piece thinking of Lisa, a woman in the UK who hijacked a conversation between my sister and me. Lisa is a white woman; she is no one but she could be everyone. Lisa is everywhere, she thinks she understands racism better than any Black person....
