Inequality of well-being among families with children is increasing at an even faster rate than income inequality, according to a new study by Peter Burton and Shelley Phipps, “Families, Time, and Well-Being in Canada”. They find that total family working hours have increased for most families, but not for those at the top of the […]
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Dead Wild Roses: Patriarchy – Killing Women Near You
Patriarchy offers so many yummy selections of shit sandwich for women. Rape culture, sexism, inequality are hallmarks of the patriarchal construction of our society. The implicit nature of Western patriarchal norms have nothing on what is going on in cultures where said norms are firmly entrenched in the bedrock of society. Modern medical technology coupled […]
Art Threat: Art in Exile – Iranian born Shirin Nashat speaks to art as voice
I recently came across this beautiful and moving talk by Shirin Nashat, an Iranian born artist who has lived most of her life in exile from her native country.
“Art is our weapon,” she says in the talk. “Culture is a form of resista…
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Quick weekend thoughts (2010-10-02)
Quick whip of two items so let’s go:Good on the Supreme Court of Canada for ruling the Insite clinic in Vancouver does not run afoul of drug control policies; more technically that it does but to deny it a “constitutional exemption” would be a far wors…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Saudi women will gain right to vote… sort of… later…
But, of course, they’ll have to be driven to the polling stations. Saudi King Abdullah announced on the weekend that Saudi women will be allowed to take part – vote and run for office – in the 2015 local elections. Of course, they are still not allowed to drive. That would be way too much […]
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Unfunded mandate galore, courtesy the Fed Cons
No surprise that the Cons reintroduced, yet again, their “omnibus” crime bill. And no surprise, again, that the Cons refused to say how much it will cost to implement — much less if there will be any commensurate transfers to the provinces…
Continue readingThe Skwib: Worth the risk
Pathetic phallacy, a photo by Miss Aniela on Flickr.
Love the quote on the photo’s page (link above):
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
–Timothy Leary
Alltop thinks they’ve spelled fallacy wrong.
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: It’s not obstetrics, it’s obstruction
It’s taken some time to write this but I can’t wait any longer. It’s more than obvious that the Holy See simply doesn’t get it when it comes to child abuse.Not that long ago, in July of this year, an independent inquiry in Ireland led by Ju…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Trademark this ™ (part 473)
The federal Conservative Party ™ can’t have it both ways. It is going after a retired university professor who is using the party’s logo within an ad banner on her website asking why it is Canada severely restricts and in the vast majorit…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Adieu, Wendy
It’s hard to imagine a world without Wendy Babcock. She died three days ago at the age of 32. After a truly horrible life including life on the streets as a sex trade worker, she fought back by getting her GED and then winning a…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: When "Free Trade" ain’t free
In the absence of any long term prospect for a Free Trade Area of the Americas, Canada has decided to go it alone and try for bilateral agreements. This started with the Chrétien Liberals but has continued under PMS.To date, we’ve si…
Continue readingantigonemagazine.wordpress.com: Women’s Worlds 2011
Women’s Worlds 2011 has blasted through barriers and has broken new ground over the last four days that it has taken place in Ottawa. I have had the privilege to be a part of it as a participant, a presenter and as the BC Network Leader for the non-profit participation part of the conference.
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Another blow for DSK? (And yet another random rant about the double standard)
Just when when Dominque Strauss-Kahn thought he finally got a lucky break, now a French writer by the name of Tristane Banon has filed a complaint that he raped her in 2003. DSK in turn has filed a counter-complaint accusing her of filing a…
Continue readingWomen are no better than men when it comes to politics
I have read at least two Huffington Post articles, on the newspaper’s Canadian website, about the need for more women to get involved in Canadian politics. One was more focused on the proper means by which women should enter po…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Case against DSK on shaky ground
The free world was shocked when Dominique Strauss Kahn was charged with sexual assault a few weeks back. But now, DSK’s bail conditions have been significantly relaxed after the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. (son of Jimmy Cart…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: SCOTUS okays violent vid games
The US Supreme Court ruled today, 7-2, violent video games are protected by the First Amendment and California had no right to pass a law that banned the sale of such games to people under 18. The majority judgment was written by that noted sarca…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Who Holds the Family Purse-Strings?
Statscan have released an interesting paper, “The Income Management Strategies of Older Couples in Canada.” It looks at who controls the family finances in couples with one partner aged 45 and over. (They used the age cut off because a special question was added to the General Social Survey which is restricted to that age […]
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Uphold the sex workers’ decision
This week the Ontario Court of Appeal is hearing arguments in the case involving three sex trade workers who have asked to have three sections of the Criminal Code, as it is applied to them and others similarly situated, to be declared unconstitutional…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Strauss-Kahn arrested
When I heard the news late Saturday night after work that IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn had been arrested for an alleged sexual assault in NYC just as his flight to Paris was getting ready to take off — presumably, the flight that would take him on…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Salimah Valiani on “Valuing the Invaluable”: Care Work in Canada
PEF member Salimah Valiani is now the research economist at the Ontario Nurses Association. Just in time for Mothers’ Day ONA released a most excellent paper by Salimah, titled: Valuing the Invaluable: Rethinking and respecting caring work in Canada Here is the abstract: Using concepts of feminist economics, this paper demonstrates the range of […]
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