From being a marine electrician at the Canadian Navy to becoming an energy healer, Ashley LeBlanc certainly has a unique story to tell--how she was afflicted with a rare illness, her journey in finding out what it is, and how it caused her to choose a different path in her life--one that not only helped her recover, but also allowed her to help clients in ways she never thought possible. Writing a review on Changemakers helps more people hear about initiatives like these that people are creating to make our society a better place. Contact me on Twitter @TheMayCooper. This is also on community radio, CFUZ Peach City Radio in British Columbia and CKWR 98.5 in Waterloo, Ontario.

Who was your role model? Is it important for men to have platonic friendships? Spend "brotherly" time with each other, and share their struggles? What kind of issues are men facing? How can women support men more? Those, and more, are questions asked of Nick Solaczec, the Executive Officer of the Samurai Brotherhood, a positive, empowered space for men, to have men’s backs.

Who was your role model? Is it important for men to have platonic friendships? Spend "brotherly" time with each other, and share their struggles? What kind of issues are men facing? How can women support men more? Those, and more, are questions asked of Nick Solaczec, the Executive Officer of the Samurai Brotherhood, a positive, empowered space for men, to have men’s backs.

Who was your role model? Is it important for men to have platonic friendships? Spend "brotherly" time with each other, and share their struggles? What kind of issues are men facing? How can women support men more? Those, and more, are questions asked of Nick Solaczec, the Executive Officer of the Samurai Brotherhood, a positive, empowered space for men, to have men’s backs.

Executive Officer Nick Solaczec joins Changemakers to talk about the Samurai Brotherhood, a community for conscious men that started out by its founder Phil Teeertha Mistlberger 24 years ago with an aim to support and guide men in the modern era. The Samurai Brotherhood has over 400 members across North America, and some even in Australia. Groups of men meet up in a safe space to share in their grief, struggles and challenges, without the use of alcohol, drugs, or video games, to help each other become the best version of people they can be.

In the final episode of the Fight for Women’s Rights in Canada I ask Tarah Brookfield, a professor from Wilfred Laurier University from the Faculty of History and Youth and Children Studies, about gender quotas and diversity in workplaces, professorship applications, Indigenous women’s rights in Canada, as well as the Grand River First Nations’ system. I also ask her about how transgenderism may be affecting women’s rights, and what may be the best type of relationship for children's prosperity and stability.

Onwards! The fight for women's rights continues, with its interesting turns in the Canadian political arena of the 1900s. In this 4-part series, Professor Tarah Brookfield from Wilfred Laurier University unravels her research and vast knowledge of the subject in Part 3 with Changemakers. The history of the suffragist movement in Canada for women is a subject not to be forgotten or overlooked. We got this far for getting the vote, equality, and freedom. Men and women should not let their guard down, and keep fighting for our life-freedoms.

Professor Tarah Brookfield joins us from the University of Wilfred Laurier in Waterloo, Ontario, representing both the faculty of Youth and Children as well as the faculty of History, and shares her knowledge on the history of the women's rights movement in Canada. Women did not only fight the government to get the vote. There were also disagreements between the women themselves on if they should even get the vote in the first place. That, and much more interesting politics is in this Women's Rights series with Professor Brookfield.

In this new 4-part series, Professor Tarah Brookfield at Wilfred Laurier University joins Changemakers to talk about the history of the suffragist movement in Canada, and the leading men and women who made a difference in this field. This episode focuses on the first women who made the break act of casting their ballots, among interesting stories behind the issue of women's rights and how it affected every aspect of a woman's life in 19th century Canada.