Canada’s opportunity to lead on sustainable menstrual equity Ending period poverty in this generation is 100 per cent achievable. Opinion | BY LINDA BIGGS, LEISA HIRTZ, MADELEINE SHAW | October 30, 2023 We’re still seeing statistics in 2023 that one in four Canadians have gone through a period without having products available to them, and one in three cannot afford menstrual products, write Linda Biggs, Leisa Hirtz, and Madeleine Shaw. Photograph by Marco Verch courtesy of Creative Commons licence CC BY 2.0 Deed Canada’s opportunity to lead on sustainable menstrual equity Opinion | BY LINDA BIGGS, LEISA HIRTZ, MADELEINE SHAW | October 30, 2023 Ending period poverty in this generation is 100 per cent achievable. Canada’s opportunity to lead on sustainable menstrual equity Opinion | BY LINDA BIGGS, LEISA HIRTZ, MADELEINE SHAW | October 30, 2023 Ending period poverty in this generation is 100 per cent achievable. We’re still seeing statistics in 2023 that one in four Canadians have gone through a period without having products available to them, and one in three cannot afford menstrual products, write Linda Biggs, Leisa Hirtz, and Madeleine Shaw. Photograph by Marco Verch courtesy of Creative Commons licence CC BY 2.0 Deed