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Share this article OTTAWA, ON, July 29, 2021 /CNW/ - Advancing gender equality is a key priority for the Government of Canada. The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified systemic and longstanding inequalities, with women and girls disproportionately impacted by the crisis. Women have faced job losses and reduced work hours, shouldered the majority of the additional unpaid care responsibilities at home, and continue to be on the front lines of the pandemic. As Canada moves towards an inclusive recovery, meaningful progress to advance gender equality is needed now more than ever to ensure no one is left behind.
To further support critical recovery efforts led by the women s and equality-seeking movement, today the Honourable Maryam Monsef, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development, announced 237 projects to receive funding under the $100 million Feminist Response and Recovery Fund call for proposals.
Local Indigenous archives and language revitalization underway at KFPL
An initiative to create and digitize an archive of local Indigenous history is in full steam at the Kingston Frontenac Public Library.
Danycka Pereault, an Indigenous woman from the Kingston area has recently joined the team responsible for the work thanks to a grant from Young Canada Works and going towards the StoryMe project.
She joins Programming and Outreach Librarian Jake Miller and Librarian of Local History and Genealogy Joanne Stanbridge at KFPL until December, and in her first few weeks of work has jumped in headfirst.
Pereault says, to little surprise, that Indigenous history in the area is not well documented.