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Let's make sure that when companies make investments to reduce emissions that they're rewarded for that and encouraged to do more. Andrew Scheer
More Emissions Investments Make Sure Reduce Encouraged Rewarded Companies
I like to think I'm a nice guy. Andrew Scheer
Nice Think Guy Like Nice Guy
The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids. Angela Featherstone
Home Game School Long Parents Remove Walks Extra Kids Steam Because Courts Were Off Child Blow Unfit Children Order Required Basketball
The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives. Anita Sarkeesian
Positive Inspirational Culture Power Enormous Our Our Lives Potential Underestimated Effect Stories Transformative Pop Should Pop Culture Lives
Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they're being driven offline. This isn't just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries. Anita Sarkeesian
Work Women Out Online Driven Participate Industries Women Are Just Being Happening Board Epidemic Across Harassment Gaming Who
I was frustrated with how academia tended to present feminist theory in disconnected or inaccessible ways. I wanted to try and bring a sociological feminist lens to the limited and limiting representations of women in the media and then share that with other young women of my generation. YouTube was the perfect medium. Anita Sarkeesian
Generation Women Try Young YouTube Other Medium Ways My Generation Perfect Share Academia Limited How Limiting Disconnected Feminist Wanted Frustrated Inaccessible Young Women Lens Then Theory Media Present Bring Sociological
We are witnessing a very slow and painful cultural shift. Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change. They believe games should continue to cater exclusively to young heterosexual men with ever more extreme virtual power fantasies. Anita Sarkeesian
Change Entitlement Slow Men Power Young Sense Gamers Believe Virtual Extreme Heterosexual Some More Cater Terrified Witnessing Continue Shift Male Cultural Very Fantasies Should Painful Games Deep Ever
There's a toxicity within gaming culture, and also in tech culture, that drives this misogynist hatred, this reactionary backlash against women who have anything to say, especially those who have critiques or who are feminists. Anita Sarkeesian
Culture Women Hatred Say Backlash Those Drives Also Reactionary Within Feminists Anything Against Gaming Who Tech
The notion that gaming was not for women rippled out into society, until we heard it not just from the games industry, but from our families, teachers and friends. As a consequence, I, like many women, had a complicated, love-hate relationship with gaming culture. Anita Sarkeesian
Relationship Culture Women Complicated Society Our Out Had Like Until Industry Heard Friends Families Just Love-Hate Love-Hate Relationship Notion Teachers Games Gaming Many Consequence
The time for invisible boundaries that guard the 'purity' of gaming as a niche subculture is over. The violent macho power fantasy will no longer define what gaming is all about. Anita Sarkeesian
Time Will Power Guard Define Macho About Purity Invisible Boundaries Longer Over Subculture Fantasy Gaming Niche Violent
Harassment is the background radiation of my life. It is a factor in every decision I make. Any time I tweet something or make a post, I'm always thinking about it. Anita Sarkeesian
Life Time Post Decision My Life Every Thinking Background About Something Factor Make Always Any Harassment Radiation Tweet
Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy. Anita Sarkeesian
Society Our Impact Shape Attitudes Because Huge Huge Impact Role Just Fantasy Games Helping Media Plays
You can tell a lot about a person by the people who work for them. Ann-Marie MacDonald
Work You People Tell About Lot Person Them Who By The People
'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed. Ann-Marie MacDonald
Family Fall Secrets Some About Knees Idea Truths Stories Story Really Your Expressed Need
In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers. Ann-Marie MacDonald
Me Fall Secrets Mystery Knees Terms Readers Were Story Much Creating Your
I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.' Ann-Marie MacDonald
Book First Fall Playwright Knees Became Accidentally Then Your Who Novelist Actor Started Career
I grew up moving around because my dad was in the Air Force - I think this has carried over into my work in that I like to hop around from one medium to another. Ann-Marie MacDonald
Work Air Force Think Medium Air Carried Hop Over Like Force Another Because Around Up Grew Moving Dad
I was always taking garbage from around the house and making my own toys. I wasn't given a Wii or an Xbox or anything. Ann Makosinski
Own Garbage My Own Given Taking House Toys Around Always Making Anything
It is important for me to remember that time learning anything substantial, even if it's not my favourite topic, is time well used. Ann Makosinski
Time Me Learning Remember Important Topic Favourite Well Substantial Anything Used Even
Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things. Ann Makosinski
Me You Learning Invent First Everything Given Steps Encourages Being Create Things
Phone screens are too small to properly appreciate YouTube videos. Ann Makosinski
Phone Videos YouTube Too Properly Small Screens Appreciate
Sport is one way of keeping kids off their phones. Ann Makosinski
Phones Way Kids One-Way Sport Off Keeping
Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with. Ann Makosinski
Creativity Out Born Because Many Play Things Necessity
I'm sure we've all had that annoying experience when we desperately need a flashlight, we find one, and the batteries are out. Imagine how much money we would save and the amount of toxins leached into the soil, etc., reduced if we didn't use any batteries in flashlights! Ann Makosinski
Experience Money Soil Desperately Batteries Out Would Find Had Annoying Sure How Reduced How Much How Much Money Any Etc Much Use Amount Need Imagine Save
I have lots of different interests. Any of my friends will know I'm interested both in science and in art. Ann Makosinski
Art Science Will Both Know Lots Friends Any Different Interested Interests
I know a lot of people around the world have these problems where there's just no light, no electricity, nothing. Ann Makosinski
People World Light Problems Nothing Know Around Lot Just Where Electricity
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