What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Our communities are strong because local leaders and active citizens listen and learn from the people they serve.

My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political leaders in both parties have long considered it untouchable, it actually helps those at the top of the income scale far more than those at the bottom.