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Three Edmontonians are part of the newest class of appointments to the Order of Canada.

In the spirit of the Famous Five, the Persons Case Scholarship will invest $100,000 in future leaders promoting gender equality.

Associate Minister of Status of Women Whitney Issik issued the following statement on the International Day of the Girl:

Article content The statue in Emily Murphy Park was discovered vandalized with red paint, the word ‘racist’ also written in red, Tuesday, weeks after the downtown statue of Sir Winston Churchill was slopped with red paint. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Emily Murphy statue splashed with red paint, comes weeks after Churchill statue vandalized in same fashion Back to video The Edmonton Arts Council had the Emily Murphy statue cleaned within tw...

Article content The statue in Emily Murphy Park was discovered vandalized with red paint, the word ‘racist’ also written in red, on Tuesday, weeks after the downtown statue of Sir Winston Churchill was slopped with red paint. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Statue of womens rights pioneer Emily Murphy defaced with red paint in Edmonton Back to video The Edmonton Arts Council had the Emily Murphy statue cleaned within two hours at a cost of ...

Article content The statue in Emily Murphy Park was discovered vandalized with red paint, the word ‘racist’ also written in red, on Tuesday, weeks after the downtown statue of Sir Winston Churchill was slopped with red paint. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Emily Murphy statue latest to be splashed with red paint in Edmonton Back to video The Edmonton Arts Council had the Emily Murphy statue cleaned within two hours at a cost of roughly $1,...

Winnipeg Free Press Idols no more A tour of the legislative grounds reveals a collection of statues and memorials that delivers a selective history lesson By: Ben Waldman | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Tuesday, Jul. 6, 2021 Save to Read Later The toppling last Thursday of statues depicting queens Victoria and Elizabeth II on the Manitoba Legislative Building grounds has sparked a debate over who and what deserve to stand in stone and in bronze arou...

Heritage Park is open again and has big plans for Canada Day this year

Nancy Ruth was 40 when she learned that her maternal grandfather had successfully argued the 1929 Persons Case, affirming that women were “persons” under Canadian law and therefore eligible to serve in its Senate – to which she was appointed 20-odd years after her discovery. “I remember my rage that women were of so little consequence in my family that nobody had ever mentioned the Persons Case,” she is quoted as saying in Ramona Lumpkin’s biography The Unconventional Nancy Ruth. B...

Empowering students to LEAD the way | Donner à la population étudiante les moyens The Leaders in Equality Award of Distinction (LEAD) Program is supporting 90 post-secondary students with their studies. Some parts of this page will not display. JavaScript is not available in this browser or may be turned off. The first intake of the LEAD scholarship program is complete, and 90 students have been advised their applications were successful. “We are committed to empowering women and gender-div...