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  <title>Inside the making of Canada’s first pay equity legislation</title>
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  <description>75 years ago, post-war Ontario women finally got equal pay in the workplace. Did it work?</description>
  <content:encoded><![CDATA[Leslie Frost believed that anti-discriminatory legislation signalled a democracy’s strength. He felt that such bills tested politicians and the public in ways where those who claimed to believe in democratic values would be “judged by millions of people throughout the world who are engaged…in the...]]></content:encoded>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 10:47:24 EST</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>Jamie Bradburn</dc:creator>
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  <title>Inside the hottest party of the year: election night</title>
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  <description>Live music. Baby beauty contests. Municipalities across Ontario once celebrated a new government as if it were New Year’s Eve.</description>
  <content:encoded><![CDATA[“It was not a partisan gathering. It was all of Toronto, rich and poor, high and low, old and young…guests of the Star as at a New Year’s community festival, as at Christmas carols. It was a great family gathering. Mothers were there with children in their arms, and other children holding on to...]]></content:encoded>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:29:53 EST</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>Jamie Bradburn</dc:creator>
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  <title>The little-known story of Barbara Hanley, Ontario’s first woman mayor</title>
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  <description>‘There are a lot of things that we are going to do that we have never done before.’</description>
  <content:encoded><![CDATA[Driving into Webbwood, a town along Highway 17 between Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury, you may notice a sign declaring the town’s claim to fame: “Home of Canada’s First Woman Mayor Barbara Hanley.” Her victory in January 1936 made her the first woman to be elected as mayor in the country, an achievement...]]></content:encoded>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:48:59 EST</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>Jamie Bradburn</dc:creator>
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