Parents With Purpose

As a child, Kayla Mansfield-Brown attended monthly zone meetings for off-reserve Native communities with her mother but has little…

Bartering is nothing new. But in the summer of 2013, the quest for a simple jar of pasta sauce became the catalyst for BUNZ. The…

Modern life can be exhausting and leave us feeling disconnected. For Chantal Garneau, one of the cures for isolation has always been found…

We’ve all had them: those parenting moments we wish we could take back and do over.

Rent Frock Repeat was born in 2010 out of an all-too-common dilemma: having a function to attend and nothing to wear. The concept is simple…

Nicole McKay is standing at a picnic table in Chippewa Park, just outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario, rolling strips of locally caught walleye…

Long before she became a mother, Terri Chu was a committed environmentalist. As an Engineering Consultant in renewable energy projects…

Kid birthday parties are garbage — literally. One of the first things mom-of-two, Emma Rohmann, noticed about birthday parties attended by…

After having her first child in the midst of what would turn out to be a brutal Maritime winter, Brigid Milway regularly found herself at…

Little over a year ago Krystal Blakely decided she couldn’t take it anymore. She came home from work, asked her mom to pick up the kids…

The first time Jen Shears tried hunting she hated it. Hated getting up at 4 AM, hated not being allowed to talk, and hated all the walking…

Food is both political and highly personal. It’s a way to feed our bodies and our souls, to sustain families and communities. Rachel…

Marlene Wandel grew up in a rural area outside of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. As a kid, she recalls, “I was really jealous of all the kids…

Suffering from an eczema flare-up that covered almost 90% of her body after the birth of her third child, Sheena Rozak tried a host of…

After years selling purses and bags through her Etsy store, Halifax mom and entrepreneur, Tracy McNeil found new focus with eco-friendly…

Everyone with a period knows the hassle of getting their period unexpectedly. For most of us, the remedy is at worst a pharmacy or corner…

Kathy Wardle’s love for the environment began in her early teens. During a drive on Vancouver Island, she witnessed large swaths of land…

Schools, like most large organizations, create a lot of waste. So in 2002 the Toronto District School Board created EcoSchools, a program…

When Janna Hart wanted to help people in her community who couldn’t afford new clothes she started hosting a clothing swap out of her home…

For parents living in poverty, it can be difficult to reach out when they need help providing for their families. When they do they risk…

For the past six years, Cindy Wilding has walked her neighbourhood and local parks with a plastic bucket she fills with litter. Her…

Nine years ago Monika Marcovici helped establish Board of Change — an organization working to grow a sustainable business network in…

All Alyssa Kerbel wanted was a plain black t-shirt for her baby. But ten years ago she couldn’t find simple, unisex baby clothes that…

After an early life of environmental activism, marriage, kids, and life took over until one day Mel Lefebvre realized she’d left political…