Alright, Now What?
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Alright, Now What?
Gender equality and justice where we live, work, learn, and play is the goal – and it makes life better for everyone. Join our host Andrea Gunraj of the Canadian Women’s Foundation, Canada’s public foundation for gender justice and equality as she connects with insightful people and explores what it...
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Season Finale: Indigenous Entrepreneurship with Jenn Harper
With Jenn Harper, Founder and CEO of Cheekbone Beauty Cosmetics
Jenn Harper is an award-winning social entrepreneur and international speaker. S...
Disability and Gender Justice
With Jenna Barnable, disability inclusion advocate and educator
Jenna Barnable is an Atlantic Canadian writer, communicator, disability inclusi...
Reshaping Maternal Care with Kimberley Okafor
With Kimberley Okafor, researcher and advocate for maternal health equity
Kimberley Okafor is a dedicated researcher and advocate for maternal h...
Bleeding with Dignity
With Leisha Toory, Winner of the 2025 Feminist Creator Prize
Leisha Toory is a feminist advocate, writer, and the founder of the Period Priority...
Emergency Preparedness and Gender with Alex Valoroso
With Alex Valoroso, Gender Equity Advisor
Alex Valoroso is a Gender Equity Advisor and consultant specializing in equity, diversity, and inclus...
Seeing Humanity in One Another with Fallon Farinacci
With Fallon Farinacci, Winner of the 2025 Feminist Creator Prize
Fallon Farinacci is Red River Métis and a child survivor who testified in the N...
Challenging Gendered Digital Harm with Suzie Dunn
With Suzie Dunn, Interim Director of the Law and Technology Institute and an assistant professor at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law.
Creating Inclusive Online Communities with Monica Bancheri
With Monica Bancheri, Winner of the 2025 Feminist Creator Prize
Monica, also known as Gay Italian Nonna, is a queer, masculine-presenting lesbia...
Trade Gaps & Women Entrepreneurs with Marwa Abdou
With Marwa Abdou, Senior Research Director, BDL, Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
After over 15 years of multidisciplinary experience abroad, takin...
Humanizing Urban Planning with Leslie Woo
With Leslie Woo CRE®, Chief Executive Officer of CivicAction.
Leslie is a respected city leader building sustainable communities and shaping urb...
Deconstructing Colonial Gender Roles with Dr. Ruth Green
With Dr. Ruth Green (She/her), Director of the School of Social Work at York University.
Green is an activist turned accidental academic. She i...
Feminist Entrepreneurship with Frances Meyer
With Frances Meyer, Program Coordinator and Team Lead at the Women’s Business Hub (WBH).
Frances immigrated to Saskatoon from the Philippines 1...
Interview with MP Jagmeet Singh
With MP Jagmeet Singh, lawyer, human rights activist, and Leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party.
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“What She Said” with Elizabeth Renzetti
With Elizabeth Renzetti, journalist and author. Her most recent book is the national bestseller What She Said: Conversations About Equality. In 2020 s...
A Healing Poet with Dr. Chika Stacy Oriuwa
With Dr. Chika Stacy Oriuwa, author of her 2024 memoir, Unlike The Rest: A Doctor’s Story. Dr. Oriuwa is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Facu...
Sharing the Underspoken with Hillary LeBlanc
With Hillary LeBlanc, a winner of Canadian Women’s Foundation’s inaugural 2024 Feminist Creator Prize. As an Acadian-Senegalese woman, Hillary has spe...
Feminist Journalism with Lindsay Jones
With Lindsay Jones, a reporter based in Halifax for The Globe and Mail. Earlier this year, she won the prestigious Landsberg Award, presented by the C...
Gender Equality Leadership with Mitzie Hunter
With Mitzie Hunter, new President and CEO of the Canadian Women’s Foundation. Mitzie is a dynamic, community-grounded leader. Her 30 years of leadersh...
Big Data on Women’s Health
With Liza Vityuk at McKinsey & Company. Discrimination based on gender and other connected factors like our race and ability impacts our health in so...
Women’s Heart and Brain Health
With Carissa Gravelle at Heart and Stroke Foundation. The link between experiences of discrimination and your health and wellness is undeniable. It's...
Dementia and Gender
With Dr. Saskia Sivananthan, healthcare leader and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University. The link between dis...
The Federal Budget and Gender Equality
With The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada. As the Department of Finance Canada notes, the federal budget is “a blueprint for...
Endometriosis and Misogyny
With Tracey Lindeman, author of BLEED: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care. The link between discrimination and your health is undenia...
Feminist Climate Action
With Catherine Abreu of Destination Zero. I’ve heard people say, “climate disaster knows no bounds” and “it discriminates against no one.” There’s a s...
Becoming Water Literate
With cave diver and climate advocate Jill Heinerth. Climate change affects us all. But women, girls, and gender-diverse people often experience harshe...
Defamation Law and Sexual Assault
With Mandi Gray, author of Suing for Silence: Sexual Violence and Defamation Law. #MeToo made headlines around the world in 2017 and thousands publicl...
The Model Minority Myth
With Prachi Gupta, author of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies that Raised Us. The Canadian Encyclopedia says the model minority is a stereot...
Talking Gender and Climate Change
With Katie Harper at Project Neutral. I’ve heard people say, “climate disaster knows no bounds”. There’s a sense in which that’s true. But impacts of...
The Walrus Talks Gender-Based Violence (Part 2)
With Jake Stika of Next Gen Men, Fay Slift and Fluffy Soufflé of The Fabulous Show with Fay and Fluffy, Shree Paradkar of the Toronto Star, and Angela...
The Walrus Talks Gender-Based Violence (Part 1)
With Paulette Senior and Anuradha Dugal of the Canadian Women’s Foundation and Pamela Cross at Luke’s Place. Today’s episode features three of seven i...
Being Young and Facing Gendered Digital Abuse
With Amanda Arella at YWCA Canada. Those who are young face elevated risks of gendered digital harm. Statistics Canada found that, among those aged 18...
Taking Action on Online Hate
With Leigh Naturkach at the Mosaic Institute. We’re still not doing enough to end gendered digital hate, harassment, and abuse on a large scale. Perha...
Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
With Rhiannon Wong at Women’s Shelters Canada. The Tech Safety Canada website says technology-facilitated gender-based violence “happens when someone...
Rising Extremism and Gendered Digital Abuse
With Barbara Perry, Professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University, and Director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and...
Misogynoir in Digital Spaces
With Yamikani Msosa, Executive Director at the Ottawa Coalition To End Violence Against Women. Misogynoir, a term coined by Dr. Moya Bailey, describes...
Digital Creator Alicia Mccarvell (@aliciamccarvell)
With Alicia Mccarvell, creator and social media influencer (@aliciamccarvell). There’s a lot of research on how social media can impact users and expo...
Digital Creator Hannah Sung (@hannsung)
With Hannah Sung (@hannsung, @hannah_tok), veteran of Canadian media and co-founder of Media Girlfriends. Communication in the western world has chang...
Missing Voices in Hate and Harassment Data
With Dr. Nasreen Rajani. Gendered digital abuse can take lots of forms: threatening or damaging communication, cyberstalking, non-consensual distribut...
Digital Creator Fallon Farinacci (@fallonfarinacci)
With Fallon Farinacci, social media influencer (@fallonfarinacci). There are good resources designed to help you better respond to and take care of yo...
Rainbow Organizations Facing Hate
With Stephanie Jonsson at Ontario Digital Literacy and Access Network (ODLAN). Organizations working on gender justice, feminist, and 2SLGBTQIA+ issue...