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Splash, Ripple, Repeat – Reflections From the Director of Broken Courage
I first encountered the idea that, “Stories are meant to heal,” through the work of the late Richard Wagamese. It’s teased out in his marvelous book Medicine Walk and so many other places. Over the years it has slowly become one of the philosophical and relational anchors beneath much of the work that I do
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Canada’s Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus: A Shift from the Trudeau Administration
In May 2026, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney travelled to Yerevan to attend the 8th European Political Community Summit. This visit constituted the first visit by a sitting Canadian prime minister to Armenia in nearly a decade. The Canadian delegation’s engagement focused primarily on issues of collective security and transatlantic defence cooperation. In parallel, Canada
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When AI Becomes a Weapon: What African Governments Must Do to Protect Women Online
Across sub-Saharan Africa, artificial intelligence tools are being used to silence, shame, and threaten women in public life. Governments in the region have laws on the books, but almost none of them were built for this moment. The question is no longer whether AI can harm women. It already is. The question is whether African
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The FIAP is Gone. What Comes Next?
In 2017, Canada introduced its Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP). It promised that by 2022, at least 95% of Canada’s international assistance spending would go toward women’s empowerment, and half of these funds would be allocated to Sub-Saharan Africa. Nine years later, the FIAP quietly died without fanfare or public announcement. It is not a
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