Antigonish Women's Resource Centre & Sexual Assault Services Association

09/03/2026

What does it actually take to create meaningful systems change?

In this conversation with Josie McKinney, she breaks it down into four ingredients behind every great injustice—and every real transformation:

💜Leaders to envision it.
💜 Lawyers to justify it.
💜 Policymakers to structure it.
💜 A critical mass of people to accept it as normal—or to finally demand something better.

When we understand how systems are built, we can understand how to rebuild them.

🎧Listen to the full conversation wherever you get your podcasts, on our YouTube channel or find it here: onedoor.awrcsasa.ca/podcasts

09/03/2026

Across Nova Scotia, a quiet but powerful transformation is taking place. At the heart of it are the Women’s Centres—community-rooted, offering wrap-around services where anyone can walk in, for any ... Read more

09/02/2026

09/02/2026

Background A referral came through from a local high school and an Indigenous support worker. .A 17-year-old youth arrived for her first meeting, feeling overwhelmed and unsupported, with no stable ... Read more

09/01/2026

08/31/2026

How do rural realities fuel gender-based violence and human trafficking?

In this conversation with Josie McKinney, we discuss how underserviced communities—limited counselling, addiction support and almost no public transit create conditions where something as simple as needing a ride can become a point of exploitation.

Listen to the full conversation, Rural Roads, Red Flags, and Human Trafficking, on the One Door YouTube channel or wherever you get your podcasts.

🎧: onedoor.awrcsasa.ca/podcasts

08/28/2026

What does human trafficking look like in Nova Scotia?

And what happens when we stop looking at trafficking only through the lens of convictions—and start asking whether survivors are being supported, believed and protected?

Former human trafficking prosecutor, policy advisor and consultant Josie McKinney joins Alex on the One Door Podcast for a powerful conversation unpacking the realities of human trafficking and gender-based violence in Nova Scotia.

From hidden risks on rural roads, to a survivor-centered prosecution model that became the most successful in Canada, to the ways colonial structures continue to shape our justice systems, policies and responses— Josie shows how real system change is built.

It happens leader by leader, policy by policy and relationship by relationship.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts—or watch the full episode below.

At a distance, human trafficking is often imagined as something tha...

08/27/2026

What if we stopped measuring prosecutions by convictions and started measuring success by how survivors are treated?

By centering survivor experience and building strong relationships across sectors, Nova Scotia’s human trafficking prosecution model became the most successful in Canada from 2020–2024—even though the goal was never just convictions.

🎧 Watch the full episode: Rural Roads, Red Flags, and Human Trafficking on the One Door YouTube channel.