Elizabeth Fix
@elizabethfix.bsky.social
Non-profit professional who lives and works in Saskatchewan. I am committed to practicing intellectual humility and civil discourse.
We can identify the most blatant versions of gender stereotyping, yet we keep finding cuter and more socially acceptable ways to reintroduce the same ideas…they have a frustrating habit of getting a makeover and bounding back louder and uglier than ever. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...
Boy moms and girl dads, let’s be done with gendered parenting labels
Beneath the cute TikToks are old ideas about families that we really should have outgrown by now
theglobeandmail.com
“Sometimes I imagine seeing me, as I am now, through my 20-year-old eyes. Who is this sagging hydrant I’ve become? He’s almost but not quite unrecognizable: He is who I became, and I am who he became“ www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: As I enter my 70s, my vanity will be the last thing to go
It’s difficult to admit that I am indeed changing with age
theglobeandmail.com
Does drug decriminalization deserve another kick at the can? Enforcement is crucial to Portugal’s decriminalization success, a new study finds — yet their role of police is largely ignored in North America, by Alexandra Keeler www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/06/09/d... via @cdnaffairs.bsky.social
Does drug decriminalization deserve another kick at the can?
Police are crucial to Portugal's decriminalization success, a new study finds — yet their role is largely ignored in North America
canadianaffairs.news
Alberta just passed a bill that appointed library inspectors. These would be provincial inspectors into public libraries. thewalrus.ca/book-bans-ar...
Book Bans Are Surging in an Increasingly Digital Age | The Walrus
Why children reading scares a lot of people
thewalrus.ca
Beautiful piece by Ian M. Brown about mid-life: “Our compressed years don’t look like a crisis. They look like an arrival.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Midlife isn’t a crisis, it’s a compression
Like the narrow rings of a tree during lean years, this dense period of life is more about perseverance than expansion
theglobeandmail.com
“This is precisely the time in their lives where they should be allowed to toy with ideas, to ask hard questions and this shouldn’t result in ostracism or punishment,” Prof. Garner said. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
In the midst of ‘cancel culture,’ universities create ways to encourage uncomfortable debate
Some academics and administrators worry that students are no longer able to freely express the broadest range of thought
theglobeandmail.com
Where much of the world relies on people, favours, and knowing someone who knows someone, Finns rely on institutions. Things work. Public services work. Hospitals work….There’s an unspoken social contract that mostly holds. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: In Finland, the secret to finding happiness is to not try
When I visited the country during its dark and cold winter, I learned why its been the global leader in contentment for years
theglobeandmail.com
Across Canada, women make up around 31% of all elected officials in municipalities, while only 22% of mayors are women, according to a 2023 report published by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. globalnews.ca/news/1172154...
‘Outright degrading’: Regina councillor speaks out on treatment in municipal politics | Globalnews.ca
Regina city councillor Sarah Turnbull says she has been experiencing degrading comments ever since stepping into her role that have become commonplace for her.
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A pause on third parties providing sexual education in Saskatchewan schools ordered by the province more than two years ago is putting students at risk of harm and denying them an education on topics such as abuse prevention www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/educa...
Pause on third-party sex-ed programs puts students at risk, Saskatchewan organizations say
When pause was announced in 2023, government said it would conduct a review of educational resources
theglobeandmail.com
“Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just.” 👏 @mark-carney.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=btqH...
Mark Carney's full speech at the World Economic Forum
YouTube video by National Post
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Canada’s investment in education amounts to some 11% of total government expenditure, falling significantly below the UNESCO benchmark of 15-20%. Some provinces’ per-student funding of education has kept pace with inflation, but in AB, SK, NFLD & ON have not. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/f0eb524...
Violence in Canadian schools is reaching a tipping point. What needs to change?
Underfunding and outdated policies mean students’ needs are being neglected and teachers are stretched thin. The only solution is more boots on the ground
theglobeandmail.com
Christi Belcourt, contemporary Métis visual artist known for her paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art #womensart
“When students can’t make a “wrong” choice, in what sense are they being virtuous at all when you’re just forcing them to have these views?” www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...
“Saskatchewan should care about the interests of investors and shareholders. But it should also care about feeding its children, educating its young, caring for its sick, and keeping its people housed.” - Eric Cline in @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/potash-compa...
Potash Companies Are Getting Rich. Saskatchewan, Not So Much | The Walrus
Billions go to shareholders, while the province guts schools, services, and social supports
thewalrus.ca
“The more clearly I saw my fears, the more I noticed a strange irony: I feared what I wanted most.” - Suleika Jaouad www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/w...
What Facing Cancer Taught Me About Fear (Gift Article)
There’s something on the other side.
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Beautiful piece about aging in @thewalrus “The crone “must become pregnant with herself, at last.”….“She must bear herself, her third self, her old age, with travail and alone.” thewalrus.ca/the-never-en...
The Never-Ending Scrutiny of Being in an Aging Body | The Walrus
What is growing old but becoming who you are?
thewalrus.ca
Just finishing up the Manawaka Sequence Series with “The Diviners”. And wow, does Margaret Laurence’s writing still resonate today.
