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Rise Up! Idle No More's Pam Palmater
by Kaj Hasselriis
When First Nations leaders and their supporters descended on Parliament Hill in January, some choosing to meet the prime minister in his office with others beating the drums of dissent outside, breathless pundits all asked the same question: Will the Idle No More movement last? |
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 | | The Caregiving Crunch by Lillian Zimmerman | In Canada, more than two million informal caregivers, the majority of whom are women, provide care to elders. | MORE > |
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 | | Choice Feminism by Meghan Murphy | Have you noticed that a lot of conversations about female empowerment today seem to be stuck in a discourse of choice that makes it difficult to challenge—well, anything at all? | MORE > |
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 | | Ethical Pornography by Tina Vasquez | It’s April 2011, and in the dark of a very small room about 70 people are watching porn together. | MORE > |
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Women's News from the Web
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Gender & Hurricane Sandy
by Joanna Chiu
The mother in Staten Island, New York, whose sons were swept from her arms when a surge of floodwater hit. The elderly woman who died in her daughter’s embrace while trapped in their flooding home.
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Can We Thrive Without Our Bookstores?
by Susan G. Cole
Many of us here in Toronto are in shock over the closing of the Toronto Women’s Bookstore in November. After 39 years and many different operating paradigms...
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Blow the Whistle
by Penni Mitchell
When a woman steps forward to publicly disclose that corporate interests are being placed before health and environmental protection, we call it whistle-blowing. When a woman steps forward to publicly disclose...
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