Canada has a history of racism and violence against its Indigenous peoples. In the name of conquest, the Canadian government, aided by the Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and United Church, forced...
Racism strikes again here in the Great White North, otherwise known as Canada. It seems that when you are backed into a corner, punched and have a racial slur thrown at you, acting in your own...
Writing critically about race is not an easy thing to do. We have tendency to avoid discussing race as it has been determined to be one of those “hot button” subjects. This silence about race...
The Purity Myth (Avalon, 2009) was written by Jessica Valenti of the feminist blog Feministing. It seeks to explore the issue of virginity as obsession and comment on how said obsession is ultimately...
Since Tommy Douglas fought valiantly for the right of universal health care, Canadians have been blessed to know that in times of illness our medical needs would be covered by the state. Universal...
How do you know when you’ve made it these days? When you show up on Oprah, of course. On April 9th of this year, masturbation had its big coming out party and became the subject du jour as part of...
We once considered families to consist of a mother, father and their offspring. With the rising tide of divorce, single motherhood, gay adoption, feminism, and polyamorism, what we understand as...
Madonna is continuing on a tradition of celebrities adopting foreign children. Though she has not reached the level of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, her recent attempt to adopt Mercy from Malawi...
The Annual WAM conference runs from March 27-29. Its stated goals are as follows: “The goal of WAM! is to bring together everyone who has a stake in achieving gender justice in media, in order to...
Domestic violence happens across race, class and sexuality. It is an extremely damaging social phenomenon and yet we rarely speak about it. Until the latest incident with Chris Brown and Rihanna, the...