Send us Fan Mail The Woman I Carry Forward In honour of International Women’s Day, I share a story about the woman who shaped my life, my grandmother, Ollie Fay Brown. She was a woman of quiet strength. A descendant of enslaved people who lived her life as a Black woman in rural Alberta, she carried dignity, rootedness, and a powerful steadiness that shaped generations after her. Through her life, I began to understand something profound: lineage does not just live in stories - it lives in...