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As part of Canada’s G7 Presidency, Finance and Development Ministers will gather May 30 -31 in Whistler, British Columbia, in the fourth and final meeting of the G7 governments taking place in advance of the Summit. Bringing together global Ministers to discuss issues that will impact the lives of millions of people around the world is an international necessity and key to the world’s commitment to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

I have found myself thinking of Gaza’s children who have been hard hit by the latest Israeli crackdown on protests.

“Up the mountain.” “Down the road.” “To the other side of that hill.” All of these phrases take on a different meaning when one is working in a rural African context. The mountain doesn’t have a road, the road isn’t paved, and the hill is just one of many. When you are told that a “rural” community is such-and-such a distance from the nearest town, more often than not that town is also rural and the distance needs to be considered in terms of time rather than kilometers, since kilometers on…

For International Day of the Midwife, I was asked to reflect my thoughts about Indigenous midwifery in the context of reconciliation. It started with a question about the difference between an Indigenous midwife and a non-Indigenous midwife. First, however, you need to understand what Indigenous midwifery is. Our role in the community Indigenous midwifery has always played an important role in our communities. Traditionally, as the carriers of knowledge on the whole health of our families…

I am Mi’kmaq First Nations from Millbrook, Nova Scotia. I grew up on a reserve and have always been taught the value of new life and the strength of women. Through a very spiritual journey, I found my way to becoming a midwife. It started when I had a dream of being involved with birth. Pursuing my education off-reserve to become a midwife had many barriers and challenges, but I did well by encouraging my younger sister to move to a new city with me.

It has been three years since the escalation of war in Yemen following the Saudi-led air strikes in 2015. Save the Children staff are on the front-line responding to the needs of sick, wounded and starving children and their families. With frequent fighting and airstrikes, it is extremely dangerous and hard to operate on the ground. Save the Children Canada operates programs, funded by Global Affairs Canada, that reach hundreds of thousands of people, the majority of them children, in…