Moncton largest homeless shelter appoints new board after audit finds problems
The largest homeless shelter in Moncton appointed new board members after the New Brunswick government warned its funding could be at risk if it didn’t act on recommendations of an audit that found management and financial problems.
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As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the report by the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, we reflect on its significance and note that, when it comes to gender equity, the struggle continues.
On December 7, 1970, a report was tabled in the House of Commons that the media called “a bomb, already primed and ticking.”
The 488-page document was loaded with research and insights that would prove very dangerous indeed a threat to a Canada in which men blindly benefited from the unpaid labour of their wives at home, a society in which legal restrictions kept women from enjoying their recently enshrined human rights.