Senior women in Ontario are receiving inadequate care, according to a five-year study. The study, called Health System Use by Frail Ontario Seniors, was carried out by St. Michael’s Hospital, Women’s College Hospital and the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Studies. It revealed a three-headed problem: Women live longer than men, creating larger numbers of ...
After suffering abuse, humiliation and abject degradation at the hands of Egypt’s interim military rulers, an Egyptian civilian court has finally ruled an end to virginity tests on female detainees. The practice of making women strip and spread their legs to determine their sexual status has been defended by the Egyptian army. One official said ...
One Christmas I finally got Holiday Barbie. After begging my parents for years, I could breathe a sigh of relief. The only problem was she was too pretty to play with. I couldn’t even take off her elaborate white dress. Already, I wanted to take my Lego back out of its box. What reminds me ...
Israel’s Health Ministry has set up a hotline for women concerned about unsafe breast implants. Over the weekend it received over 1,000 calls from women worried about the news that Poly Implant Prosthesis (PIP) implants could be unsafe. In recent months warnings have been issued that PIP implants may leak, rupture quickly and may be ...
May your Christmas be as cold as you like it or as warm as you want it. Whether your stockings are hung by the chimney with care or your bathing suit is hung off the balcony to dry — may you spend the day with those you love and with joy in your heart. And ...
Happy Christmas Eve from all of us at Morning Quickie to all of you! Here’s a little video we found that we thought you might enjoy. Drunk History Christmas with Ryan Gosling, Jim Carrey and Eva Mendes from Ryan Gosling
Santa gets all the credit. He hears what people want for Christmas and personally delivers it, but I bet Mrs. Claus is the brains behind the whole operation. This year it’s time for Mrs. Claus to share in some of the glory. While Santa is off doing his thing and eating all the cookies ...
The freedom to define ourselves as individuals, rather than by our relationships with men, is a global feature of feminism. Indira Goswami, who died this week, was an activist and writer who took that notion seriously. Widowed as a young woman, Goswami lived amongst other young widows in an Assam ashram; she wrote her first, ...
An Ontario nun is suing her former sisters after an alleged campaign of harassment spanning fourteen years. The alleged bullying, which led to Victoria Ivantchenko’s resignation from the convent in 2010, included identity theft, psychological abuse and animal abuse; Ivantchenko claims other nuns killed her two cats. Ivantchenko is suing St. Kosmas Aitolos Greek Orthodox ...
You know those pseudo-astrological books with predictions of what’s to come in the next year? The ones that give you an insight into your zodiac sign and tell you what your vices are, who you’re most compatible with and even when to ditch your dead-end job? Well, I read one recently and under “Vices for ...
Dear Madame X, I have dated lots of women over the years, but never seem to be able to...
I always request books for Christmas. I always have. I’m not sure if that made me an easy child...
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. ~Alanis Morissette
This week, with my customary flair for timing, I thought it might be useful to say something (as ill-informed...
Here’s the secret to being an amazing lover: ask your partner what they want! Good sex isn’t about a...
And then there was the Christmas of ’05, when I decided to make my Christmas cards by hand. All...
Whether you are a Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Atheist or still deciding, the thing that binds us all together...
Dear Madame X, My girlfriend kissed one of her colleagues at the office Christmas party. She says it...
