Photo Essays
The Art of Work in Works of Art
(July 19, 2021) We are, once again, at the start of the work week. But more than that. We just (as in society, all of us together) might be on the edge of the biggest change in work practices since the digital revolution in the 1990s. At a recent editorial meeting…
Features
Huge tuition increases at Memorial University put the levers of inequality on centre stage
Memorial University of Newfoundland was created after Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation with Canada in 1949. Then-premier Joey Smallwood declared that one of his…
Episode 7 – Covering the opioid crisis with Marcus Gee
(July 9, 2021) What’s it like being a journalist captivated by a serious social issue? For the past two years, award winning journalist Marcus…
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News
Charity email click rates show significant increase in 2020: UK report
(July 21, 2021) The click rates of charity email increased significantly in 2020, according to the UK Data and Direct Marketing Association’s Email…
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Perception of Racial Injustice in Canada Measured by Global PR firm
(July 14, 2021) One year after the killing of George Floyd and the nation’s own identification of the systemic racial injustice faced…
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Calls to suspend the Canadian Catholic Church’s charitable status coming from people working in the sector
(July 1, 2021) After the discovery of 215 unmarked graves of children at the former Kamloops Residential School, North Vancouver resident, David…
Headlines
Bond UK: Exploring women’s leadership
(July 16, 2021) Exploring women’s leadership in 5 INGOs: A feminist learning journey is a recent report released by Bond UK that takes on the issues of misogyny and sexism in the charity sector. In 2019, statistics showed that “70% of INGO staff were women, but only 30-35% were chief executive officers.” Spurred on by the…
Stratford Festival opened on July 13
(July 14, 2021) It’s déjà vu all over again with the Stratford Festival opened, and its season being held under a tent, the same way it opened in 1953, with Alec Guinness and a young Christopher Plummer among the cast of Richard III. Plummer wrote about the experience in his deliciously gossipy autobiography In Spite of Myself. It…
UK Charities warn against easing of COVID restrictions on July 19
(July 14, 2021) UK Charities warn that shift on 19 July to ‘personal choice ‘on virus precautions is instilling fear in many most at risk, reports the Guardian in a July 13 article End to Covid rules for England ‘leaves 3.8m vulnerable people feeling abandoned. On July 19, virtually all legal restrictions will be lifted, reports the…
Mental health of Canadians has taken a hit from COVID-19, new study finds
(July 2, 2021) Canadians’ physical health has suffered during the past 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it’s the mental health of Canadians that has taken the hardest hit, a new study, Mind and body: Impact of the pandemic on physical and mental health, finds The study was conducted by the Environics Institute for Survey…