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Buzzed on Diversity
Like many other business sectors, the Canadian cannabis industry is male dominated. However, years after Ottawa passed the Cannabis Act, a growing number of female entrepreneurs, including many women of colour, are working to blow away regressive attitudes about gender and race, and about cannabis use itself.
The involvement of women in the industry is also an encouragement to many female users of the plant who are no longer reluctant to admit to using cannabis for medical conditions, including to relieve stress, inflammation, pain and other chronic conditions. |
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 | | Tuning in to Time's Up by Cindy Filipenko | Canadian women in the entertainment industry have launched a campaign for greater gender parity in the music industry.
Founded in the spring of 2017 by music industry veterans Joanne Setterington and Keely Kemp, Across the Board is pushing for half of all seats on the boards of critical Canadian music organizations to be filled by women. After all, the music industry’s boards advocate on behalf of all artists, about half of whom are women.
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