5 Additional Resources
- The Fraser Institute is a Canadian policy think tank headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Fraser Institute Lesson Plans on Income Inequality
2. Created by Ryerson University professor, Dr. Kosha Bramesfeld, C’est la Vie: The Game of Social Life is described as “a role-playing game for teaching about privilege, oppression, and intersectionality.” It includes an instructor’s guide, character profiles and game sheets, a strategy game PowerPoint, and a series of debriefing/discussion questions:
C’est la Vie: The Game of Social Life
3. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPI) is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social, economic and environmental justice. Founded in 1980, its national office is housed in Ottawa, Ontario, with regional offices in British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and Saskatchewan. Each year, CCPI releases a “report card” of selected provincial initiatives to address child poverty and family income inequality. British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, English Ontario, French Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island have all just released their annual reports, with reports from Alberta and the Yukon expected in the next few months.
Dr. Lesley Frank is a researcher in food, health and social justice at Acadia University, and has authored or co-authored the Nova Scotia child poverty report card for two decades.
Laura Fisher is a current PhD student in sociology at Dalhousie University.
Dr. Christine Saulnier is the regional director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
2021 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia: Worst Performance over 30 Years
4. Intersectional Feminism – Kimberle Crenshaw, an American law professor, coined the term intersectional feminism in 1989 to describe “a prism for seeing the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other.” Further information can be found here: https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/6/explainer-intersectional-feminism-what-it-means-and-why-it-matters
A Twitter thread by Jordan Amaranth on the same topic can be accessed here: https://twitter.com/JordanAmaranth/status/1558882429590310915? t=MvixuBA1vuzu4EviEkbB8A&s=19&fbclid=IwAR17J-r6UIK2kT1au3ZEuU1IiBV1gcIn-yCGjbkhrGNKXhmjawGkrRY3ZO4
