by pk mutch, April 2022 Looking around in her rural community, Shauna Rae noticed that 95% of the faces surrounding her were white. But things are changing. And Rae was changing too. “I rarely saw BIPOC folks at community events but I did see people of colour at the grocery…

by pk mutch, May, 2022 It will be Election Day on June 2, 2022 in Canada’s largest province, Ontario. The signs are on lawns. The local news is full of campaign Batman-style biffs, baffs and promises. There are two new right-of-centre conservative spin-off parties, the New Blue party and…

by pk mutch, July 2022 We could all use a laugh or two right now! Good thing Toronto’s Don Valley Girls emerging sketch comedy troupe delivers laughs and more. …

by pk mutch (originally published in LiisBeth) Economic and Marxists theorists refer to small business owners, artisans, retailers, trades folks, service providers, restauranteurs, and basically any self-employed folks as the ‘petite bourgeoisie’. Today, this economic and social class is commonly referred to as the small business sector and includes micro-entrepreneurs…

by pk mutch (originally published in LiisBeth.com) When Inanna Publication’s Editor-in-Chief Luciana Ricciutelli died suddenly at the age of 62 in December 2020, Inanna Publishing, Canada’s longest-running feminist book publishing house, was thrown for a Wonderland Behemoth rollercoaster size loop. …

According to the recently released State of Women Entrepreneurs 2023, the gap between men and women are getting narrower. LiisBeth Media has been a supporter of the women’s entrepreneur StrikeUP conference since the start. Why? …

These four Canadian dystopian sci-fi novels will inspire you and your activist priorities for 2023. At this time of year, media becomes preoccupied with predictions for 2023. But why stop at 2023? Especially given economic (recession) and political (more unrest) forecasts for the year are especially gloomy. Instead, why not…

A career in policing for a Black woman leads to liberation — and a new business. As a child, Toronto-born Keda Edwards Pierre wanted to do something many intelligent, artistic kids dream of doing; create buildings. “In elementary school, I wanted to be an architect. I was recognized to be…

The first Freelance Summit was held on Friday, February 3 in Toronto at Metropolitan University. Participants discussed the crippling erosion of freelance worker well-being in Canada–and if working together was part of the answer. The number of freelancers is growing. But are freelance unions growing? If not, why not? …