For 17 years, Butterfly GoPaul has focused on community development like housing and health care in Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighbourhoods. As a worker on the front lines, she said something as simple as securing an affordable place to live is often a barrier families run into. GoPaul said these inequities have been exacerbated by
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This article is inspired by the In Your Feelings Podcast, a collaboration from Thought Catalog and Bianca Sparacino. Subscribe here: Spotify | iTunes [embedded content] Boundaries are so important for those who are empathetic, and for those who love deeply. When you have so much love to give others, when you just want to be
A Siemens software manager is being praised online for refusing to cut a female employee’s hours. Instead of agreeing to cut her pay so she could help her kids with remote learning, her boss said she could work less for the same pay, sending a message to businesses everywhere about supporting women in the workforce.
When Toronto director Kelly Fyffe-Marshall set out to make her short film, Black Bodies, in 2018, she did so as a way to channel her own trauma of being racially profiled while in California. It happened when Fyffe-Marshall and her friends were checking out of an Airbnb. “An elderly white lady saw us and decided
1. Someone’s absence is not always your fault We always internalize the behavior of others and immediately think it’s something we have done. It’s easy to place the blame on ourselves when we don’t see the whole picture. But someone’s distance from you and their failure to properly communicate usually has nothing to do with
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” ~Kahlil Gibran Anxiety has followed me around like a lost dog looking for a bone for years now. I feel it the most acutely when I’m worried about my health or my daughter’s health. I notice a strange rash
A heroic stranger swooped in to save a woman who was running for her life when a man spontaneously started chasing her with a hatchet. Like a real-life horror movie It was still dark outside when Gina Hopkins-Calligan noticed she was being chased by a man with an ax. And according to a police report,
Lily Yee has been a member of the Victoria Chinatown Lioness Lions Club in B.C. for more than 30 years. The club normally organizes big community events like dinners, but this year Yee said they’ve had to get creative with their plans amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The club has partnered with a local restaurant and
It’s no secret that we’re often harder on ourselves than we are on other people. We make goals or simply tell ourselves to be better people—maybe become more confident, less jealous, more grateful—but when we don’t improve ourselves immediately or make one slip up, we beat ourselves up for it. We constantly criticize ourselves or