This time, I want to share some assertive techniques for those of you trying to learn how to be assertive, without being aggressive. It’s a fine line and can be just downright scary to use our voices sometimes. What I share with clients is the understanding that using...
Do you know that the question I hear most often is “how do I approach sensitive topics and events?” I always answer: with an open heart and mind. Let’s discuss the topic dujour in Canada: the news of the discovery of a mass grave in what was one of the residential...
OTTAWA—Even though Broadway is closed, Canada continues to turn in a Tony-winning performance of its ostensibly inherent commitment to niceness, fairness, and multiculturalism, while committing backstage atrocities. Anyone who has been through this country’s education...
**TW abuse & residential schools** In this episode, Erin + Erica discuss the history of residential schools in the wake of the discovery of the remains of 215 children in Kamloops, BC. They also discuss the term 'BIPOC' and its appropriateness. Links: Indian...
OTTAWA—May 25th was the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. How much our world has changed, how much it’s stayed the same. Floyd’s death was, what Texans call, “a coming to Jesus moment” for Turtle Island. It removed the veil of denial of police...
OTTAWA—The old adage that one shouldn’t talk politics at work is yet another measure of professionalism that shapes company culture and can leave the most educated employees ignorant of the context of the world around them. Nearly a year after organizations wrote...
OTTAWA—Does Steven Guilbeault even understand the internet? Do any of his advisers? Minister of Heritage Guilbeault proved on a disastrous May 9 appearance on CTV’s Question Period with Evan Solomon that he doesn’t understand how the greatest media and communications...
OTTAWA—A lot of organizations should think about staying woke instead of using the excuse of free speech that betrays the human rights and existence of others. (I haven’t used the term “woke” since 2017, mainly because it was co-opted by the powerful. But today is a...
Happy Asian Heritage Month! This week Erin + Erica speak with Tanya Chen, a reporter with BuzzFeed News on Anti-Asian hate crimes and Asian-American identity. Find Tanya on Twitter: @tanyachen Tanya's work on this subject: 1)...
