Trish Hennessy
DIRECTOR, THINK UPSTREAM Trish is the Director of the Think Upstream project and a senior communications strategist with the CCPA National Office. She is focused on social determinants health, sustainable development goals, income inequality, decent work, an inclusive economy, and wellbeing budgeting. Trish was the founding director of the CCPA Ontario and co-founded the Ontario Living Wage Network. She was the founding director of the CCPA National Office’s growing gap project, which began in 2006. Trish was a former newspaper journalist, originally from Saskatchewan but she now lives in Ottawa. She has a B.A. Sociology from Queen’s University, a B.S.W. from Carleton University, and an M.A. in Sociology from OISE/University of Toronto.
Like many of us, I grew up with the CBC as a daily and vital part of my life.
“From its inception the CBC was intended to convey Canadian culture and to be an instrument of national unity. These objectives have been difficult to…
I was only a few years into my journalism career when the future began to visit the present. Newspapers were going through a hard time,…
These days, there are many reminders to hold on to this one precious thing: our democracy. Not just ticking a box at election time, but working in between elections to protect the systems in place to safeguard our democracy.
For the first time since 1977, and the third time ever, the monarch of the British empire appeared before Canada’s parliament to read the speech…
Long before the federal election race began, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre campaigned on defunding Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC (while sparing Radio-Canada).
These days, there are many reminders to hold on to this one precious thing: our democracy. Not just ticking a box at election time, but working in between elections to protect the systems in place to safeguard our democracy.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”—George Orwell, 1984.
In 2021, Fair Vote Canada marked the 100-year anniversary of politicians promising to move from first-past-the-post voting to proportional representation in Canada. (Dear reader: We…
These days, there are many reminders to hold on to this one precious thing: our democracy. Not just ticking a box at election time, but…
We asked Canadians to tell us about their perceptions of public service broadcasting and CBC/Radio-Canada
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