Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Human rights”
I’ve been thinking recently about ‘the benefit of the doubt.’ Is it just me, or is it not given as commonly as it used to be? I don’t know if it’s the accelerating pace of work, the pressing urgency of the issues we focus on at Junxion, or the creeping impact of a social media-driven, sound-bite society, but I’m convinced …
My local social entrepreneurs’ community listserv is usually a pretty tame forum for seeking and offering help for different aspects of running a social business. Earlier this week, it lit up with a dozen messages asking for popular support to pressure the Munk Debates to cancel Steve Bannon’s upcoming appearance in Toronto. To my surprise and concern, at least five …
Last week, I saw a Facebook conversation leap from innocent question to cruel, personal attack in a series of just six comments. A few short years ago, I couldn’t have imagined that such a conversation could be commonplace. Today, I worry it’s become normal…. How did cruelty become so easy? I’m seeing it nearly every day…. Playful one-upmanship devolves into …
I’m a bit of a news hound. I wake up to the Today show on BBC Radio 4. I check the news headlines on two or three sites. I receive emails daily from several news aggregators. As we all know, bad news tends to dominate. To be sure, there are some great news stories out there—like this one featuring a …
For decades, an ever-increasing number of business leaders have recognized their companies’ obligations to their employees, their communities, and the environment we all share. The transition to a clean, healthy, diverse 21st century economy has begun—but it’s not without its challenges. Unfortunately, here in Canada, debates about the validity and value of old economy projects have become highly adversarial and …
SFU Public Square is a Simon Fraser University “initiative designed to spark, nurture and restore community connections.” Over the past couple of weeks, SFU Public Square presented ‘Brave New Work,’ their 2018 community summit, which was framed around an increasingly important question: How can we thrive in the changing world of work? It’s a question we’ve been contemplating at Junxion, …
I haven’t felt this degree of momentum for gender equality in my conscious lifetime. Quite frankly, as a millennial who was born into the most equitable society in modern history, I have felt surprised, as have many of my peers, both male and female. Broadly speaking, we thought we were past the need for these movements. We thought we …
Walking distance from Vancouver’s scenic downtown is an area known as the Downtown Eastside (DTES), a low income area of the city where the realities of inequality are faced on a daily basis. These realities include the fact that more than 65% of the area’s residents are low income, relying on income assistance, old age pension, informal and volunteer work …
Canada’s Reconciliation process is rooted in social justice. It recognizes that Canada’s historic treatment of and attitude towards Indigenous Peoples—First Nations, Métis and Inuit—have many deep consequences for our society today. The Reconciliation Commission highlights societal issues of marginalization and racial discrimination, overt systemic bias resulting in a lack of autonomy and opportunity for specific communities, and subtler implicit biases …
