Archive for November 2025

The Catrina has proved an appealing inspiration for women seeking to protest against the unacceptably high levels of gender-based violence in Mexico. The country has one of the highest rates of femicide in the world – a term used to denote deadly violence against women because of their gender. Alongside the glitzy parade is an alternative event called the Marcha de las Catrinas. In Mexico City, this march follows a route between two monuments dedicated to female victims of violence.

This trend is the total power of Boards of Trustees — self-appointed, self-reproducing, and answerable to no discernible public or regulatory scrutiny, not even to the presidents they hire, assess, and fire. Indeed, the growth of the power of the board is one of the most important transformations in American colleges since at least the 1990s…. In short, American universities have gradually come to be ruled by the very top of their imperial executive branches, the president and the board. The faculty, whose senates used to constitute a combined version of a legislative and judicial branch on campuses, have long been on the retreat, intimidated by the ballooning cadre of administrators and buffeted by real or imagined fiscal crises. In their diminished state, faculty are now kept busy responding to various student and parent whims about course content, grading, and campus politics. Faculty governance has largely been replaced by a governed faculty.

Today, with her cancer in remission, Linda Nothing (center) credits the U of T program for helping her heal in both body and spirit. Developed in collaboration with the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres and the Middleton-Moz Institute, the two-year graduate program combines academic study with Indigenous Knowledge systems to prepare graduates to work with individuals, families and communities affected by historical and intergenerational trauma.

The Care Reform (Scotland) Act recognises that some family and friends are also ‘Essential Care Supporters’ – an integral part of the care team for their loved ones. Anne’s Law recognises their role in providing care, support and companionship. This section of the regulations explains how care home providers should identify Essential Care Supporters for their residents. An Essential Care Supporter could someone who has been the resident’s main carer, or simply a close contact, like a family member or friend.

In the ten years I have rented in the private sector in London, I have had six landlords, nine flatmates, two section 21 eviction notices, two stints staying with friends to tide me over, one bedroom so damp mould grew on my clothes and one instance of fungi growing out of the ceiling. Some sickening maths suggests I have parted with around £115,000 in rent in the process. There is nothing particularly unusual about this. A fifth of households in the UK live in privately rented homes – dependent on the whims of often faceless landlords, powerless to demand repairs, unable to plan further ahead than the length of a tenancy. It can be an unpleasant, unsettling way to live.