May 31, 2022 Newsletter

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May 31, 2022

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.

MAY 31, 2022

Hello Amazing Humans,A post from Jennifer Valentyne, a long time face on Breakfast Television, about her experience at the hands of a bully at a Toronto radio station has started a wave of broadcasting #MeToo stories. I spent a decade working in commercial radio and I have so many stories. I wrote about some of them here.

It's the start of Pride season in Canada and we kick things off with members of the group Rural Ontario Community for Queer Youth (ROCQY). Mabe and Blake talk about how they started the group, their own experiences as queer youth in high school and advice for parents.I'm looking for your input about issues facing rural women in Canada. I have an opportunity to speak briefly about them at the Equal Futures Summit in Ottawa next week. I'd love to hear what is eating at you and you want everyone to know about! (Hit 'reply' or email me directly at [email protected] )You can always support my efforts with a donation or becoming a member here.Stay curious friends,Shauna

This week signals the start of Pride Celebrations across the country and that happened to coincide with a fantastic conversation I had with two members of the Rural Ontario Community of Queer Youth. It's a new organization and I got a chance to speak with Mabe Kyle and Blake Wava Quinlan. They speak about their experiences, the staggering statistics around queer youth suicides without support and why forming this group and this community has been critical to so many of their members.

NEWS

On my mind this week:

1. It's Time

2. Provincial elections

3. Equal Futures Summit

4. Have you heard of Business Sisters?

Created by Doreen Ashton Wagner, a Women ​Entrepreneurship Researcher & Ecosystem Leader​ | ​ Recherchiste et leader en entrepreneuriat féminin, Business Sisters is a "Community for Rural Women Entrepreneurs, a bilingual social enterprise dedicated to building happy, resilient rural communities by connecting women business owners so they can learn and thrive."

5. New program in Alberta to help women entrepreneurs

"Community Futures Wildrose (CFWR) is the local branch in Strathmore that is a part of a new provincial initiative working with women entrepreneurs to provide them easier access to capital to help them to start to grow a business within their local communities.The Alberta Women’s Economic Recovery - Capital Growth Initiative, will offer flexible low-interest small business loans, that will support women entrepreneurs on the road to recovery." Read full story(Image and story source: Strathmore Now.)

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