What happens when a child strongly identifies with a sex that doesn’t match their own body? Zach Avery may have been born with boy parts but he knew he wanted to be a girl by the age of three. Although initially Zach can dress up as a girl without being betrayed by his “boyness,” puberty ...
On Sunday a blog post by a 17-year-old Romany boy in the UK went viral. It started when a journalist tweeted a link, which soon was picked up by hundreds. By late evening Pip, the teenage author, was reporting blog hits in the tens of thousands. The post was an open letter to Britain’s Channel ...
Female ninjas bring to mind empowerment, strength, ferocity everything that is thought of as repressed in Iranian women. Wearing a hijab is still required for women, and exposing anything but the hands and face is still punishable by lashing or jail time. Women’s rights still are a far cry from justice. Despite this, some Iranian ...
When Kamaljit Kaur returned to her home in the Netherlands, she intended to wrap up her life there and start a new one in Canada. But on February 1, she was found dead in her living room in The Hague, allegedly murdered by her estranged husband’s best friend. Now her children are in immigration limbo ...
Last week a member of Canada’s Parliament did the unthinkable. No, she didn’t infringe on anyone’s rights, didn’t offend any minorities or start any wars. NDP MP Sana Hassainia brought her 3-month-old son to work. Gasp! Don’t women, especially female politicians, know that you’re not supposed to remind people that you have a uterus! Controversy started when ...
Protecting animals? Hurting humans? Or both? These are the serious questions we must ask ourselves after viewing PETA’s new shocking ad campaign, Boyfriend Went Vegan and Knocked the Bottom Out of Me (BWVAKTBOOM). In the video, a woman walks the streets wearing a neck brace, no pants, and looking forlorn after her vegan boyfriend has rough sex ...
Canada’s annual Women’s Memorial March brought thousands of people to the streets of Vancouver on Tuesday. The marchers sang and beat drums to remember the more than 600 women who are either missing or murdered in Canada. Among the crowd was Bill Hiscox, a former employee of serial killer Robert Pickton. Hiscox had tried to ...
Eliminating child porn on the web is a noble goal, but Canadian authorities may need to tread lightly in their efforts to search and destroy pedophiles. Why? If a new bill is introduced requiring “internet service providers to give subscriber data to police and national security agencies without a warrant, including names, unlisted phone numbers ...
I’m a Valentine’s Grinch. There, I said it. I don’t understand the obsession with celebrating this holiday and frankly, I refuse to. I wrote a piece on Hallowe’en and my distaste for the way it is often celebrated for the 13 – 35 crowd. Most of it stems from my lack of understanding about why ...
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! I hope you have a lovely day with your lover or friends or family or whoever it is you enjoy spending time with. Watch this cute little video if you want a smile on your face.
It may be hilarious when every euphemism for a penis is thrown out there so we can all laugh...
I disposed of my TV in 2008. That doesn’t mean I don’t watch TV…I have internet and I know...
Dear Madame X, My girlfriend is friends with pretty much all her exes. It makes me really uncomfortable but...
Margaret Laurence’s last novel, The Diviners, provoked controversy amongst advocates of censorship when it first hit the shelves. In...
Making the case for why men should be in charge of women’s reproductive health. Women's Health Experts Speak Out...
As a stay-at-home-Dad who handles the majority of the household and child-rearing responsibilities I take note of any article,...
If you get moody and irritable when you first go on the pill, don’t lose hope. First of all,...
Now listen, there’s nothing nice about public restrooms. Nevermind the lovely scented one in that posh restaurant with a...
