This week we’re resharing an interview with Sairoz Sekhon, Director of Women’s Transition Housing & Supports Program at BC Housing, and Allison McLauchlan, Executive Director at Kelowna Women’s Shelter. This episode explores what women’s transition housing is, the types of housing and services provided, and why this type of housing is critical. We also d ... Show More
Oct 30
Indigenous Housing that Supports Families in Victoria
Season 6 Episode 1 In this episode, host Mita speaks with Fran Hunt-Jinnouchi, Executive Director of the Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness (ACEH). Together, they explore how ACEH is transforming housing across Vancouver Island through culturally supportive, wraparound, and ... Show More
39m 59s
Jul 2023
Weekend Woman's Hour: Welfare Support at Sandhurst, Women Plumbers, Flying with Children
In her only broadcast interview, Louise Townsend, the mother of Olivia Perks who took her own life in 2019 whilst at Sandhurst Military Academy, speaks to Woman’s Hour. Louise discusses her view that there was a lack of welfare support from the academy towards her late daughter a ... Show More
56m 27s
Dec 2021
Women making city transport safe
<p>It is not easy to be a woman on public transport. Across the world, you will hear reports of women being harassed, groped and even sexually assaulted. This has an enormous impact on women being able to take up employment and education opportunities, as well as accessing health ... Show More
27m 35s
Feb 2022
Anita Hill on Believing Women
Glory talks to lawyer and educator Anita Hill about her latest book, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence. In this episode, they converse about the need to believe women when they are brave enough to speak their truth, and about the work Hill does with the Ho ... Show More
39m 54s
Mar 2021
Cultivating Creative Solutions: Barbara Mason of Scotiabank
This episode is in partnership with SAP SuccessFactors.
Barbara Mason, CHRO of Scotiabank, may be one of the most successful women in banking, but it was never her plan to go into finance. As a college graduate with a degree in urban geography, she started working with the bank ... Show More
30m 10s
Mar 2024
Où en est le féminisme ? - État des lieux par la présidente de la Fondation des femmes, Anne-Cécile Mailfert
<p>Pourquoi la Journée internationale du droit des femmes est-elle encore nécéssaire en 2024?</p><br><p>Dans cet épisode je reçois Anne-Cécile Mailfert, co-fondatrice et présidente de la Fondation des femmes pour faire un état des lieux de la situation actuelle: précarité, droits ... Show More
14m 33s