Not the Only One

“Yet women in leadership roles are currently not representing this diversity,” she said. “We cannot continue to focus solely on gender inequity; the lack of cultural diversity in women in leadership is equally as serious and must be addressed urgently.” Senior author Associate Professor Darshini Ayton says while diversity of perspectives and experiences is vital to drive innovation, economic growth and social progress, women from diverse backgrounds still face barriers to workplace equity – ...

Climate change is overwhelmingly a problem of wealthy people. The wealthiest 1% of humanity produce over 1,000 times the emissions of the poorest 1%. In fact, these 77 million people are responsible for more climate-changing emissions than the poorest 66% (5 billion people) of humanity. Since 1990, the personal emissions of the world’s wealthiest have exploded. They are now 77 times larger than the level that would be compatible with a 1.5°C warming limit – a threshold beyond which whole isl...

For us, extractive research is characterised by the funding, commissioning, conducting, production, and dissemination of research or knowledge that fails to uplift, represent, or reflect the experiences of racially, socially, and economically marginalised communities. Instead, it often serves the income generation interests of academics, higher education institutions, and a lucrative knowledge-exchange industry, which prioritises the perspectives of public and private corporations, politician...

I'll never forget when a colleague in a legal workplace threatened to jump and I stopped her from doing so because someone at work was treating her like shit. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/lawyer-stefanie-costi-was-humiliated-by-a-senior-partner-her-fightback-has-inspired-thousands-20240314-p5fcfi.html

One of the things I wish I could kill in the Canadian Talent/Job Market is the need Employers have for "Canadian Experience" Want to know a quick way to get on my bad side? Say you can't interview or hire someone because they don't have "Canadian Experience" This practice, steeped in subtle discrimination, often overlooks the fact that talent isn't geographically bound. Canadian talent isn't better than a lot of places by virtue of being Canadian.

I am going to tell you about Night Patrols. In many towns, cities and communities with large Aboriginal communities they have what is called a Night Patrol. These are local Indigenous community members who drive around and collect anybody who might get to trouble with the cops.

Fascism didn't suddenly become popular. It's not popular. Except with the bottom 15%-25% of shitheads who would vote for anyone that promises to hurt their perceived enemies. What has happened is that liberalism has failed. It has been a planned failure, happening in stages for the past 40 years, at least, wherein institutions and the very concept of liberal democracy have been hollowed out to make room for the cancerous wealth of white billionaires, fascism's most ardent supporters.

As I wrote following the September data, Black workers are often seen as harbingers of what’s to come in the labor market, and have been buffeted by federal policies over the past year, especially those federal layoffs.