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Earning honours with distinction
Wed 13 May 2009

Women recognized for hard work, vision

Toronto Star - Noor Javed
May 13 2009

Angela Robertson still remembers the morning vividly.

As a high school student then, Robertson had woken up early to catch the first bus of the day to a nursing home, where she had just started volunteering. At the bus stop, she was surprised to see she had company. Dozens of women, mostly of colour, mostly middle class, stood alongside her to get to work, hours before the sun came up. She could sense their exhaustion.

Women on top of anti-war wave
Wed 6 May 2009

Toronto Star - Antonia Zerbisias

Not that all men are warmongers, but it's striking how, in recent years, the most outspoken, out-front, outrageous and out-there peace activists have been women.

And older women at that.

Is it because, as our baby-making hormones ebb, our anti-war-mones take over?

Here in Canada, we have the Raging Grannies, often seen at the front lines of demonstrations against everything from the U.S. attack on Iraq to the globalization of trade that exploits workers, including women and children, around the word.

Giving a voice to recession's victims
Mon 4 May 2009

Toronto Star - Carole Goar

The last time Canada went through a recession, there was no Facebook, no high-speed Internet access and no online chat rooms. Email was in its infancy.

That meant public perceptions were shaped largely by economists, politicians and pollsters. The people who were hurting were seldom heard.

This time it will be different, anti-poverty activists vow. Technology has given them the ability to link up, highlight the distress signals they see and tell their stories.