April 26, 2022 Newsletter

The only news you'll need this week 🎯

Clearing a New Path™ and Clearing a New Path Podcast™ are products of Radar Media, located in Dorchester, Ontario on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Neutral peoples who once used this land as their traditional beaver hunting grounds.  As a settler here I’m committed to deepening understanding of Indigenous communities and reframing responsibilities to land and community. I am grateful to Mother Earth for the opportunity for love and connection and to the spirits of the Elders and the Medicine People who still walk the Earth.

APRIL 26, 2022

Tomorrow's the big day, it's our first virtual event!

YOUR VOICE MATTERS: A Rural Virtual Town Hall is LIVE (more details below) is an opportunity to come together and listen to the issues facing different rural women entrepreneurs across Canada. Those issues include: sexism, racism, homophobia, access to capital and overall access to resources (and others). You won't want to miss it!

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NEWS

On my mind this week:

1. F--king c--t follow up

to a female councillor. (CBC News) Citing breach of code of conduct, the female councillor Maureen Couture has now filed a notice of motion and will be asking the councillor to resign during the council meeting May 2.(CTV London) Stay tuned!

2. TOMORROW is first ever Rural Women Town Hall!

You can SIGN UP HERE and please help spread the word by sharing with your networks and/or by sharing our posts on social media. Our friends at the Canadian Women's Chamber of Commerce have partnered with me to help spread the word and to help with logistics.

3. GOVERNMENT OF CANADA LAUNCHES $15 MILLION INCLUSIVE WOMEN VENTURE CAPITAL INITIATIVE

"The federal government is calling for applications from not-for-profit organizations to fund projects that provide education to support equitable access to funding; increase representation of women in roles such as investors and fund managers; foster networking or mentoring models to improve access to capital for women entrepreneurs, and demonstrate support in other areas to improve the network of women and diverse entrepreneurship in Canada." (BetaKit)

The Rural Entrepreneur Stream is an economic immigration program, designed to encourage new Canadians to become entrepreneurs by starting or buying an existing business in a rural Alberta. (Source: RDNewsNow)

5. Canadian woman-identifying researcher discovers tech to detect cervical cancer

"First Nations, Inuit, and Metis women die from cervical cancer at four times the rate of the general population, driven by lack of access to screening in their communities." The Smartphone Enhanced Visual Assessment (SEVIA), provides guidance and training (peer-decision support) for accurate diagnosis. It was discovered by Dr. Karen Yeates, a clinician scientist in the Faculty of Health Sciences and co-founder of Women’s Health Equity through Mobile Approaches (WEMA Inc.), a not-for-profit corporation based in Kingston, Ontario. (Story and image source: Queens Gazette)

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