Thoughts

Everybody's health folder looks different. Mine was a beige dossier overflowing with hundreds of papers, reminders of every doctor's visit or treatment I’d received. It c…

The conversation around Shane Gillis’ SNL jokes goes well beyond one comedian or one controversial punchline. When comments about women are brushed off as humour, they can say a lot about what we’ve come to accept. And those attitudes don’t stay on the stage. They show up in our workplaces, too.

I am not a paddler or an outdoor person. My idea of a great vacation is sitting by a pool reading a book. So you might wonder how I found myself on a canoe trip with my daughter and nine other women, a 402-kilometre journey down the Yukon River.

Over the past 10 years I’ve been on a balancing, high-wire act: how to be transparent, open and at times vulnerable about my chronic condition while also leading a national health-charity as a female CEO.

I am a planner. I always have been. Vacations, work projects, dinner on a Tuesday. If there is a way to be ready for something, I will find it and do it twice. Planning m…

It’s hard for me to imagine a day that’s better than one spent by or on the water. I love it. I always have. As a child, we didn’t have a cottage, but many of my friends …

There is a particular kind of courage required to date after divorce.  When people imagine divorce, they often picture couples in their forties or fifties, even late…

I told my story to a stranger today. Not to a close friend who already knew the characters. Not to a family member who had watched it unfold and saw the tears. To a colle…