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Category Archives: Op Eds by IO Grads
“It’s not about you”
Will Dena McMartin’s recent op ed in the Regina Leader-Post help prevent a flooding disaster and save lives? It just might. And even if it doesn’t, the informed analysis of the University of Regina professor of environmental systems engineering offered … Continue reading
Posted in Effective Commentary Strategies, Media Interviews, Op Eds by IO Grads, Reach and Impact, Scholarly Concerns, Uncategorized, Valuing Women
Tagged commentary, Dena McMartin, flood, impact, influence, natural disaster, op ed, Regina Leader-Post, spring melt, University of Regina
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The Motivational Power of Guilt
Guilt didn’t play a big role in my upbringing: I was never discouraged from having sex in order to prevent my mother from having a heart attack, nor was I warned to do well in school to compensate for any … Continue reading
Posted in Media Interviews, Op Eds by IO Grads, Reach and Impact, Scholarly Concerns, Uncategorized, Workshop Insights
Tagged CBC, CTV, guilt, heart attack, how to be effective in media interviews, impact, interviews, Kelly Grindrod, media, motivation, overprescribing antibiotics, pharmacy, radio, resources, sex, Toronto Star, TV, University of Waterloo
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Getting Ahead
… of the news story, that is. It’s a great strategy to increase your likelihood of publication: if you know that a research report, government announcement or legal decision is about to be released, and your informed opinion about the … Continue reading
Posted in Effective Commentary Strategies, Op Eds by IO Grads, Pitching Your Piece, Publishing Opportunities, Reach and Impact, Uncategorized, Workshop Insights
Tagged analysis, Carissima Mathen, David Watson, Elizabeth Sheehy, insight, newspaper, op ed, Ottawa Citizen, Supreme Court
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Ideas about knowledge mobilization from Queen’s University’s “death and grief girl”
When Jill Scott, a professor in Queen’s German department, participated in an Informed Opinions workshop last year, I had no idea she was the self-proclaimed “death and grief girl”… Until a few months later, she wrote a thoughtful op ed … Continue reading
Osgoode Hall female faculty poised to pontificate
Spending a whole day standing in front of a room occupied by 18 whip-smart women who count among the best legal minds in the country can be an intimidating experience — even if you’re not in court. But delivering a … Continue reading
On Laura Secord, long skirts and women’s history
My mother grew up a Secord near Niagara-on-the-Lake, so I pay attention when someone slags my famous ancestor, and the story makes headlines. When it happened last week I took the advice doled out by screenwriter Nora Ephron’s mother (“it’s … Continue reading
Critical context on Missing Women inquiry
Yesterday former BC Attorney General Wally Oppal opened the BC commission of inquiry established to investigate how so many aboriginal women could go missing off of Vancouver streets over so many years with so little effort to find out why. … Continue reading
Of privilege and prostitution
For a few years in the 1990s I had the enormous privilege of a regular column in the Vancouver Sun. Every week, I’d write 750 words on pretty much any topic I wanted, and the Sun (a broadsheet not affiliated … Continue reading →