News & Updates

In part 3 of the documentary “Living Democracy from the Ground Up,” Thomas R. Berger, the commissioner of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, spent 2.5 years visiting with Indigenous communities...

By Pak Ka Liu For the 16 Days of Action on Gender Violence, I'm thinking about Gender and Education. Today is December 6th – National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.  Today...

By Irene Tsepnopoulos-Elhaimer For the 16 Days of Action on Gender Violence, I'm thinking about the insidious impact of business models on social services, particularly for women.    ...

By Dalya Israel During these 16 days of Activism, I'm thinking about the fact that other important days are being commemorated as well. Today is World AIDS Day, a day that perhaps many of us have...

By Lisa Wagner During these 16 days of Activism, I am thinking about our daughters. I have a strange relationship with children. I love them, but I have never really wanted any of my own. I have...

For the 16 Days of Action on Gender Violence we are thinking about how we can act when we see sexism in the media...here is an example... When we at WAVAW heard that a Calgary Stampeder had ‘joked’...

By Alana Prochuk There is no way I can think about violence against women without also thinking about the culture we live in. And when I say “culture,” I’m not talking about some abstract academic...

By Ariana Barer For the 16 Days of Activism to End Violence Against Women, I’m thinking about the courage it takes to tell anyone about sexualized violence and the nothing-less-than-heroism of...