Lisa Thibodeau

My focus was on the kind of leadership the world tends to recognize – the kind that comes with a title and an office. Getting more women into those spaces mattered. It still does. However, it is only part of the picture. My work with CARE Canada showed me another part of a much larger picture.

Growing up, money taught me one thing early on: don’t get too comfortable. My dad was an entrepreneur in the real estate industry, which meant money could come in all at …

Across Canada, more women are working for themselves. They’re freelancers, consultants, creatives, and tradespeople carving out income between school pickups and elder ca…

Breakups have their clichés – the playlist, the ice cream nights, the “closure” talk. But there’s another kind of heartbreak we rarely give space to: when a close friends…

I was twenty years old when I boarded a plane with two suitcases, a one-way ticket to New York, and no real understanding of what it meant to start over. I remember walki…

It’s been impossible not to feel the buzz watching the 2026 Winter Olympics unfold. From nail-biting finishes to joyful celebrations (and some heartbreaking hockey moment…

I didn’t wake up that morning expecting my life to change. I woke with a thud, disoriented and hollow, my body still shaking from a night that felt like it had stolen pie…

Love has a way of surprising us – sometimes it’s fleeting, and sometimes it comes back when we least expect it. In her new memoir, If Only Love, author Shelley Saywell te…