Fun fact about me: I was born on Labour Day.

This timing feels more significant with each passing year. As I've been reflecting on my own relationship to labour movements, capitalism, and community care, I keep coming back to the lessons my parents unknowingly taught me about what work should—and shouldn't—be.

Why We Built a Project Toolkit That Puts People Before Deadlines.

I’ve been fighting Ford in various ways since 2013 professionally, when he was at city hall I was part of a grassroots group called Women in Toronto Politics, when he became Premier and cut city hall I was one of the protest organizers, I covered most of his first term as staff for the ONDP, and since then I have had non-profit and union clients impacted by his cuts in catastrophic ways.

Free practical tools and frameworks that help turn solidarity into action.

In a world obsessed with high-tech solutions and digital disruption, nature offers us the most profound lessons about building movements that last. Birds have spent millions of years perfecting strategies to protect not only themselves, but each other and their communities. 

You’ve seen an Astroturf campaign before. You may not have realized it at the time, or you knew something was off but didn’t have a name for it, or you realized it and you want to vent about it.

What digital professionals and marketers can learn from Neopets.

 In tarot there is a card called The Tower, whose fundamental lesson is about the need for things to collapse in order to rebuild. I think that’s the moment we are in.

I went to write a post shouting out a few people for International Women’s Day… and it grew into a very long list that still feels incomplete, but all the more important. Some of these folks I’ve known for over a decade, some are new connections, some are new to their fields, some have switched careers, some are respected experts and leaders, some are working mothers, some have amazing secondary creative pursuits in art and poetry, some are nonbinary badasses, some are in Canada — many are not.

This year is kicking off with significant political shifts, including Justin Trudeau's resignation and a potential snap election in Ontario. Nonprofits will face many challenges ahead. Regardless of the outcome, there are proactive steps you can take to prepare your nonprofit for any upcoming election.