Kathleen Finlay
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Kathleen Finlay was involved in Canadian financial policy and regulation for two decades. She advocates for workplace, healthcare and public policies that create value through accountability and social change. She can be reached at kayefinlay@gmail.com.

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Caring for my Mother Shouldn't Cost Me my Career

(23) Comments | Posted June 14, 2013 | 5:00 PM

Much attention has been focused over the years on the need for employers to have flexible policies that assist women who want to return to the workplace after taking time off to raise children. The flip-side to that coin is even more daunting: the challenges that face women after they...

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We Don't Need Rona Ambrose to Represent Women

(39) Comments | Posted September 28, 2012 | 4:39 PM

Suppose a private member's bill calling for the nationalization of Canadian banks became the subject of a free vote in the House of Commons. And suppose then the minister of finance voted in favour of it? Might there be some blowback from the big banks? Think a ferocious, career-ending whirlwind...

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Feel That Hand? Yeah, That's Because We're All Muppets

(2) Comments | Posted March 16, 2012 | 12:15 PM

Few in business have caused such a stir as Greg Smith, who publicly resigned this week from famed Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs by way of the the New York Times.

The fallout from his decision to give up a job that paid him...

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Victims of Sexual Harassment are Twice Punished

(16) Comments | Posted March 8, 2012 | 7:15 AM

Recent events in the United States have seen the long-settled debate over the right of women to have access to birth control bizarrely reopened amid congressional side shows and talk show host tirades. Many are left wondering how far the U.S. has come on issues that are vital...

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