Thoughts

How a classroom campaign sparked a lesson in leadership It was an ordinary November evening, with a seemingly typical homework task for my 10-year-old daughter. Her cl…

I have a confession — I’m really bad at canoeing On the surface, this doesn’t seem like an Earth-shattering revelation, but as a Coordinator of Conservation Biology wi…

It has been about three years since I have felt like myself I have called this period a “season,” a “phase,” a “cycle.” Anything to convince myself that this, too, sha…

Photo: provided by Senator Kim Pate Indigenous women and girls are the fastest-growing prison population The same issues that give rise to Indigenous women and girl…

My child is a drag performer.   There is an image that will come to most people’s minds when I say this. Oversized wigs. Padding to make curves where nature …

Lessons learned as the first woman in the room Being the first woman in a role has been a recurring feature of my career. Being the first woman in a role or the only w…

“You have breast cancer” — four words that changed my life forever. Until those words, cancer had been something that only happened to someone else. I don’t have any …

Advocate for yourself when you know intuitively that something isn’t right As you read this, I’m either in surgery or perhaps recovering from what is described as a mi…