The unprecedented shock of the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the federal and provincial governments’ woefully inadequate childcare strategies and their impact on working mothers. When schools and daycares across the country were shuttered, families, and especially women, found themselves having to balance full-time childcare with employment.

The sports stories generating headlines this summer are not about the Olympics as planned, but rather, the growing activism forcing the sports world to acknowledge its sexist, racist, heterosexist, and ableist culture. The WNBA Black Lives Matter protest is one of many solidarity actions. Mounting public pressure has finally shamed long-resistant sports teams into changing their racist names.