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Women & Politics

Apr 10, 2014
2 min

Women’s Campaign School: what we learned

On Saturday close to 40 Londoners come out to our first Women’s Municipal Campaign School at Goodwill Industries to learn about the ins and outs of running and volunteering in a Municipal campaign. With the leadership of experienced City politicians Joni Baechler, Judy Bryant and Gina Barber, we heard about the importance of communicating your candidacy, the logistics of running a campaign, fundraising ideas, legal requirements and more. Members of the media were also present

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Women & Politics

Jan 16, 2014
2 min

Cultivating political awareness

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. – Socrates On my internet dating profile, I describe myself as “ultra-liberal; in the nice, Canadian, sense”. But it has only been in the past few years that I have come to think about how I developed that world view. I am a child of immigrants from two very different countries with only their Catholic faith in common. Yet both families espoused conservative political views. In the case of my mother’s Irish family, it

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Women & Politics

Dec 17, 2013
2 min

Raising kids in politics

Let me preface this post by saying that I am not a mom – unless of course you count my two fur-babies. That said, I do want to shed some light on raising kids on the political front lines. I can’t speak from the experience of a parent, but I can speak from the experience of a child. One raised by a single mom with a loud voice and unshakable values. A child who managed to survive unscathed into her mid-20’s despite the picket lines, protests, marches and campaigns that filled

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