Lack of funding is preventing the City from expanding a program to distribute free menstrual hygiene products. May 28 marked Menstrual Hygiene Day, a day of awareness about menstruation and safe and hygienic health practices
It’s about showcasing ordinary women doing extraordinary things. The International Women’s Day celebration – Women Can Do Anything, hosted by Alberta Transportation Minister and Calgary North-East MLA, Rajan Sawhney, goes this weekend at the Livingston
Twenty Calgary women have signed up to receive proper political training ahead of the 2021 municipal election. Only three of 14 Calgary city councillors are women, and the Prepare Her program by Ask Her YYC
Only 3 of 14 of Calgary city councillors are women – and those at Ask Her are trying to change that. Ahead of the October 2021 election, the Prepare Her flagship program wants to prep
The Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter wants the public to know that being in coronavirus isolation doesn’t have to mean being alone. Since the COVID 19 pandemic was announced in early March, The Women’s Shelter has
A growing number of women looking for domestic violence shelter and services in Calgary – and across Alberta – has led several bedroom communities to build their own shelters. The Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters
Wandering around the University of Calgary campus in 1988 students might have seen a young woman riding naked on a horse like Lady Godiva. Students might then have read about the Lady Godiva Rides in
The quartet took a photo themselves the night they served together, because they knew it was a milestone moment in the 134-year history of the Calgary Fire Department. Indeed it was. For the first time
Emily Hicks and her fellow FREDsense Technologies co-founders were fresh off success at an international genetic engineering competition and ready to turn their idea into a company. It wasn’t that easy. Hicks, a University of
This year’s Calgary Women’s March will take the next step in helping women across the city with the launch of a new fundraising effort. In conjunction with this year’s march, the group launched the We
