All people deserve to be paid fairly. On this, you won’t find much disagreement. Yet, in 2022, many women are still paid less than men.

Tomorrow is International Women’s Day – a day recognized by the United Nations for more than 40 years.

Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, marked the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, the day we pay our respects to 14 engineering students and staff who were murdered at École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989 solely because they were women.

It’s hard to believe it’s been only four months since the world as we knew it changed drastically.

In a world where we are isolated at home, what happens when home is a place of violence, intimidation, threats and fear?

Her life unravelled bit by bit. 

Every week in British Columbia, an estimated 1,000 women are physically or sexually assaulted. These assaults happen at work, at school and at home. They happen in communities of every kind – urban and rural. And they need to stop.

Tomorrow is the first day of Gender Equality Week in Canada — a week driven by a vision where people of all genders and gender expressions are treated fairly and have equal access to opportunities. 

Pride brings communities together throughout our province in honour and celebration of the LGBTQ2S+ community’s hard-fought journey to attain the human rights and freedoms so many others take for granted.