When I first moved to ÑÇÖÞÌìÌà Lake, almost anyone I met told me about the kindness, the compassion and the massive heart of the community. It was heartening to see, but it was also easy to assume that this was a bias harbored by those living in the community.

Wildfires, climate change and humans

A world where everyone speaks one language, through hands

With the year 2020 being nothing short of catastrophic especially in the public health domain, there is a major victory that needs to be recognized and celebrated, coming out of the African region.

Last week I read that the US had passed the 180,000 deaths’ mark and it suddenly hit me how for all of us, with the weight of the pandemic, the struggle with pay cuts, job losses and worsening economy, the pandemic deaths are gradually becoming more about statistics than people.

Women leaders, be it in politics or corporate settings, are increasingly being subjected to online and offline harassment, hate and threats but when the harassment comes from colleagues and men in power, it gives everyone else that much more reason to feel confident and casual about such behaviour.

Canadian Arctic has been getting hotter by the day and that has cost the world Canada’s last fully intact ice shelf, called the Milne Ice Shelf in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut.

Last week started with a barrage of black and white photos of women with the hastag #ChallengeAccepted or others such as #WomenSupportingWomen and #WomenEmpowerment on social media with women nominating each other to share their black and white photos.

When I started my undergrad studies in journalism, I was a starry-eyed rookie wanting to change the world with words. However, the deeper I got in to journalism, the more disillusioned I became, until of course, I started working in local journalism.

Intolerance could be the word of the decade with the way things are going. Some people are often so intolerant, so impatient that if things aren’t going their way, they get angry, at times even abusive.