How Harper celebrated Women’s History Month
As we near the end of Women’s History Month it is time to pause and reflect on the way our ignoble PM celebrated with us. Red Jenny tells us of a new bill The Harper government yesterday introduced legislation requiring all voters – including veiled Muslim women – to show their faces... Read this post...
Mothers
An interesting article at Women’s Enews on mothering and the value placed on it. While much lip service is given to the undertaking, little is done to actually support those choosing to have children. (WOMENSENEWS)–The news media loves stories about highly educated mothers opting out of rewarding... Read this post...
Rights for the Rich only
The Star has an article on the Charter today, A quarter-century later, the Charter is at a crossroads. While there may be much to celebrate, the process of using it to establish rights is time-consuming and expensive, almost entirely dependent on government subsidies and the benevolence of lawyers to... Read this post...
Politics and Religion
Rules of etiquette commonly call for the avoidance of certain topics. Chief among those are politics and religion. It is worth noting that these are treated as two separate items, and rightly so. When religion is factored into politics neither can work appropriately. Religion deals with spirituality,... Read this post...
The Optics of abortion
In recent years, support for legal abortion has waned, which Lord attributes to the growing power of Christian fundamentalists: “We, like the good citizens of Iran, live in what amounts to a theocracy.” A great article from Womens’ Enews showing how the media on abortion has been skewed... Read this post...
