Kate Beaton, the author of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is speaking in Calgary on Nov. 7. Her graphic narrative is a moving depiction of life in the oilsands, where she worked for two years in the mid-2000s, paying off her student loans. She describes being isolated, ogled, dismissed as cute, asked to perform dangerous jobs, sexually assaulted, and paid less than others for equal work. The world that she depicts is one that recent Pembina Institute research can confirm persists.

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