The house I grew up in has two bedrooms on one side of the house, a long hall, and then a master bedroom. I remember the living room as a sterile space…
Violence Against Women
This just in: Violent Shia LaBeouf threatens violence. On Friday, the actor, who was in Germany to film a horror movie, and his girlfriend were seen screaming at each other outside a…
I guess I’m a man-hater, writing a title like that, using my keypad to fire a shot across the bow of an entire gender. #NotAllMen are violent, and some women are, and…
“It’s ironic” seems to be the go-to defence for misogyny these days. As a female activist for grassroots organization Collective Shout, I hear it all the time. After the global backlash to…
In Leah McLaren’s Toronto Life story on fallen star, Jian Ghomeshi, she writes, What’s startling about the allegations against Jian is not that a seemingly law-abiding person is accused of doing terrible…
After a five and a half month inquiry, employment lawyer and workplace harassment expert Janice Rubin delivered a damning report to the CBC, detailing evidence of misconduct by management in relation to…
Over one hundred people gathered Thursday morning outside the Provincial Court of BC to demand justice for Cindy Gladue and other missing and murdered Indigenous women. The demonstration was one of 26…
Owen, Owen, Owen. Why must you reinforce every lefty male cliche in the book? I once thought we shared some politics, but it’s clear we don’t. Women’s lives have no place in…
At a time when many of us are working flat out to help young women avoid controlling, manipulative, emotionally and physically violent relationships, comes a film which presents these behaviours as romantic.…
For some unknown reason, virulent anti-feminist, Cathy Young, continues to be published by otherwise seemingly legit publications. Most-recently we saw her trot out an MRA-style list of “guideposts” suggesting ways feminism can…
If you are a woman or girl seeking justice, the Canadian legal system is an abject failure. Whether the case is instantiated at the provincial or federal level; the judicial decisions reflect…
Remember George Zimmerman? Of shooting 17 year old Trayvon Martin to death and then getting off fame? Well, CNN has reported that he was arrested Friday night on a charge of domestic…
On Saturday, it was widely reported that Ismaaiyl Brinsley “executed” two cops in Brooklyn. The mainstream media and the NYPD immediately tried to link the shooting to the recent protests instigated by…
Dear Camille Cosby, It is very believable that the man you hear about in the news with over 20 victims coming forward telling their stories of having been drugged, sexually harassed and…