SRI in the News

Items pop up in the news with a socially responsible investing (SRI) angle. Sometimes I write about their immediate impact and sometimes I examine their historical context or wider impact.

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In Recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was founded in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated the one year anniversary of Hester’s death and all the transgender people lost to violence that year. That initial event began the world-wide observance that is the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Individual killings are not the only way that anti-transgender discrimination shows up in our society. We all know about the active legislative efforts across the United States and Canada to attack our transgender friends and relatives.

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Housing Policy Doesn’t Have to Mean Home Ownership Policy

Last year, I read an article in the Globe and Mail focused on Canadians’ fixation on the personal goal of homeownership. While the goal of home ownership might be worthwhile for many Canadians it does not need to be the goal for all Canadians. A home to live in is essential to your health and well-being but a mortgage or a deed in your name is not.

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