Dear Morning Quickie readers, It’s with a heavy heart that we must let you know that Morning Quickie is shutting down. We have had a fantastic three years and couldn’t have done it without you! Your comments and conversations have been both educational and entertaining. You have kept us going and taught us a lot about ...
I’m better in relationships. The longer and more committed a relationship is, the better for my general well-being. There really is a lot to be said of shacking up including that age-old adage that “a problem shared is a problem halved” and the fact that you are with someone who knows your tastes (sexual and ...
As this is my final Lifting the Veil column, I thought a bit of summing up might be in order. While the mission statement of this column was to impart information about wedding traditions and their feminist implications, you may have noticed that much of these entries consisted of a somewhat confused woman, caught between ...
According to Statistics Canada, dating violence — verbal and physical abuse — is on the rise. Most of the data from the new report comes from urban centres across Canada and they reveal a startling trend. Rates of violence doubled between 2004 and 2010, increasing from 8500 to more than 17,000 police reports. Exes committed ...
An Oregon woman has been awarded $900,000 in damages after her date “knowingly” gave her herpes. Apparently, she requested her partner use a condom during their romp, but he removed it without her consent before they finished having intercourse. She says she didn’t know he was infected; he claims that he told her after they ...
Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Diamond Jubilee this weekend. That’s 60 years heading up the UK and Commonwealth. In a world where, even recently, women have found it difficult to reach powerful positions, it seems something of a contradiction that a woman has been in such a prominent position for such a long period of ...
The current Turkish government is threatening women’s right to abortions. On Saturday at a rally in southern Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called abortion murder, saying that women had no right to abort a fetus in their uterus. The next day, thousands of demonstrators protested in the capital city of Ankara. There were also ...
The American Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) has been declared unconstitutional. The federal law defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman and is the official stance of the US government on marriage. The act has been declared discriminatory because it doesn’t give same-sex couples the same rights and benefits under federal ...
Where is the lonely Canadian bachelorette to find the love of her life? According to The Globe and Mail, she should head west to continue her quest for romance. Statistics Canada has released some of the 2011 census results and there are actually more men than women in some communities. Most of these communities with higher ...
All power to the ladies! Research out today suggests that women reach their most satisfying sexual age before men, despite having more “complicated” sexual organs. The research debunks the idea that men are at their sexual peak in their late teens with women not reaching their’s until much later. Women apparently have the most sex ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
