December 6th. Just a date. Maybe an early Christmas party or a school play. Perhaps a time to start putting out decorations or maybe – a time to purchase candles and roses. A purchase not made in anticipation of a celebration but one made in memorial of 14 women who were gunned down simply because […]
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Happy SWAN Day!
SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now Day) is a new international holiday that celebrates women artists. It will be an annual event taking place on the last Saturday of Women’s History Month (March). The first SWAN Day will take place on Saturday, March 29, 2008 As a symbol of international solidarity, over 100 SWAN Day […]
December 6th
Every year it breaks my heart to watch as 14 roses pile up in remembrance of the horror of December 6, 1989. In the face of such an atrocity one can only hope that lessons will be learned. Unfortunately, it seems that few have paid attention. Women are still being killed simply for being women, […]
Our Glorious Dead
In times of war we are called upon to honour our glorious dead. Indeed the memory of the fallen is used to raise our collective patriotic ire at anyone who does not support any military action. This has become known colloquially as “not supporting the troops.” It does not matter if the cause they were […]
“Well, you’re not going to solve the problem if you even refuse to say what it is.”
The Star carried this article yesterday about The War on Women: Elly Armour, Jane Hursham, and Criminal Domestic Violence in Canadian Homes, by Brian Vallée. Stephen Lewis wrote an impassioned foreword for the book, urging the creation of a fully funded United Nations international agency for women that would provide “a tremendous force for advocacy […]
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 before being allowed […]
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