Gender Equality as a Canvas for Achieving the Global Goals

By Priscilla Ojomu

If we claim that gender equality is being achieved in this present timeline, we need to define what we mean and who we include.

As an artist, I see gender equality as a shared canvas upon which different colours and tools come together to create a work of art that captures the beholder’s eye, provides meaning and serves as a framework of reference for them to assess other artworks.

What does this mean? Let’s break it down.

The Impact of Food Deserts

By Eman Ahmed

While being a familiar place, the supermarket itself is a place that has grown to become one of the places that cause hardships for families. Specifically due to food deserts, swamps and mirages. These areas are riddled throughout Northern America, specifically in Canada.

Environmental Racism in Canada

By Alejandra Padros

Case Studies on ‘Chemical Valley’ (ON) and Fort Chipewyan (AB) Environmental racism is a strategy for colonialism often mobilized by states that simultaneously pursue the growth of their economy and the genocide of particular racialized populations. In this blog I unpack the logistics of extractive industry in Fort Chipewyan (AB) and ‘Chemical Valley’ (ON) to…

Overconsumption and Sustainable Fashion

By Eman Ahmed

Imagine this: You open up Tiktok to find an outfit-of-the-day pop-up. The comments are flooded with responses like: “How could you support fast fashion” “Imagine buying Shein” “This is disgusting…” Fast fashion has been one of the raging topics within the past few years. I remember being introduced to it in my grade 10 class…

Minority Discrimination In Psychiatric Diagnoses

By Shelby Dumont

Mental Health Concerns Canada is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. It would make sense that as there are more than 200,000 immigrants and around 25,000 refugees who come to Canada each year, that we would have mental health services readily accessible to them. However this is not the case, and…