Katherine Jameson Digby attends the City of Ottawa’s “Ottawa Stops Hate Together” session in search of answers about the stalled Women and Gender Equity Strategy. What follows is a sharply observed account of city equity officials, contested ideas about hate and inclusion, and the complete disregard for women’s sex-based rights in Ottawa ’s DEI framework.

There is nothing more important, in my opinion, than resisting the impetus towards passivity, towards an inclination to just give in and give up because life right now is a challenge for most people. Yes, it is. But our grandchildren depend upon us to get this right.

Traumatized children are at the mercy of an ideology that has no interest in protecting them (no matter how much TRAs claim they do).