Our only goal …the western shore
March is women’s history month (in the US). I’m making a series of posts about women I think are pretty important. It may be your mum, or your grandmother, or…
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“The writer of originality …is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels”
March is women’s history month (in the US). I’m talking about some of the women who have inspired me. Today’s woman is Simone de Beauvoir. She was a French philosopher,…
“Being sorry isn’t nearly enough…”
March is women’s history month (in the US). I’m talking about some of the women who’ve inspired me. Here’s an interesting thing that happens when we talk about such-and-such history…
The Analytical Engine
March is women’s history month. I am talking about some of the women who have inspired me. Today’s awesome woman is Ada Lovelace. You may know her as Lord Byron’s…
Excuse my dust
March is women’s history month. I’d like to talk about some of the women who have inspired me. Today’s woman is Dorothy Parker. She was a critic and satirist, a…
You know what I find really astounding?
That we still find childbirth amazing and incredible: Woman Gives Birth on New York City Street It’s pretty cool. Read story hereFiled under: Happy rant, No Rant-Just Interesting Tagged: babies,
Should your daughter get the HPV Vaccine?
I can understand the anxiety about the vaccine. I can. Something that is intimately tied to our daughters sexuality is really freaky especially when we’re talking about children that we…
Lena Dunham: My body’s nobody’s body but mine! You run your own body, let me run mine!
“My body’s nobody’s body but mine! You run your own body, let me run mine!” -Old song that used be in the elementary sex-ed program in the Canadian Curriculum Here
Doing right by sex trade workers
Due to multiple technical issues I haven’t been able until now to comment on the Supreme Court’s decision in Attorney General of Canada v. Bedford on December 20th but all…
Don’t Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas..(Or Do I?)
Rob Ford’s Christmas gift advice: ‘Women love money’ Toronto mayor makes comments on U.S. sports radio show when asked what he plans to get his wife CBC News Posted: Dec…
No Federal Childcare Program: An Exercise In Strengthening Hegemony
Canada, a nation among the wealthiest in the world, cannot meet its daycare needs. The problem has grown to crisis proportions in the country’s largest cities. In Toronto there are…
Should women run the world?
Scientists at at the University of Pennsylvania have once again confirmed what we have always known intuitively. Men’s and women’s brains are wired differently. Maps of neural circuitry from one…
The Staple Theory @ 50: Marjorie Griffin Cohen
The latest entry in our continuing series of commentaries marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Mel Watkins’ classic article, “A Staple Theory of Economic Growth,” we present the…
"I’ve got more than enough to eat at home," Ford says
You couldn’t get the best scriptwriters in Hollywood or Broadway to come up with this line. Rob Ford, responding this morning to numerous allegations that he hired a call girl…
Justin Trudeau “ladies night” event “condescending and patronizing”
Canadian women, including politicians, are dismissing Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s “ladies night” event in Toronto as “condescending and patronizing”. The post Justin Trudeau “ladies night” event “condescending and patronizing” appeared…
An accurate representation
This photo is missing the beer slider and the porn/video game toggle for men, but otherwise seems accurate. Alltop has an entire board filled with humor sliders.
P.INK takes heathcare to an unexpected place: the tattoo parlour
As a man with no tattoos, Noel Franus is an unlikely candidate as the founder of P.INK: an organization that connects breast cancer survivors with tattoo ideas and artists. But…
What UBC and SMU’s rape chant scandals say about women in the Canadian economy
The news of UBC Sauder Business School students chanting about rape of underage girls during a FROSH week event has generated much outrage. As it should. While the chant might…