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Holiday Closure
Please note - the Women's Centre will be closed until Wednesday, January 2nd, at 9:30 am.
Ways to Connect
Top Readings of 2018
What grabbed your attention in the past year? See the list below for all the articles with the most clicks from 2018's social issues readings lists.
Women's Centre readers were interested in Indigenous issues, the environment, and how gender impacts children. If you ever stumble across an article you'd like to share with us, feel free to send it to
sarelle@womenscentrecalgary.org.
As boys grow up, the process of becoming men encourages them to shed the sort of intimate connections and emotional intelligence that add meaning to life.
What does it mean to be poor in Canada? Does it mean having to rely on food banks and payday loans to make ends meet? Does it mean struggling to afford warm clothes for the winter? What about having to live far away from work or school?
A hospital or doctor's office is supposed to be a place of healing. But for many Indigenous people in Canada, it's yet another place where they may fall prey to institutionalized discrimination.
Child poverty is on the rise in the province and non-profit public interest groups are calling on the Alberta government to act with a poverty reduction strategy - as one of only two provinces without one.
We would like to acknowledge that the Women's Centre is situated on the traditional
territories of the Treaty 7 First Nations people and is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
