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 ...
Dear Madame X, I recently found out that one of my friends has been hit by her boyfriend. She is willing to give him a chance but swore me to secrecy. Do I tell someone? Do I keep it to myself? Do I convince her to dump him? I don’t think people can change and ...
A group of female senators is protesting the fact that all eight Republican judiciary committee members voted against an updated Violence Against Women Act last month. The members were also all men. The Violence Against Women Act provides money for women’s shelters, counselling, rape crisis shelters and legal services for victims of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking. It ...
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that he supports new guidelines that would severely restrict the rights of women. This new “code of conduct” was issued by the influential Ulema Council and would be a giant step backwards for women. The code would allow men to beat their wives in certain circumstances and would promote ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
One in three women are affected by sexual assault, physical violence or stalking by a partner in their lifetime. It is a disturbing fact, and one that was widely reported on when the study came out this week. Another find of the study was left out of many news reports: the same is true for ...
Celebrities like Brooke Shields and Courteney Cox have done their part to bring the media spotlight on postpartum depression, but just because we’re more aware doesn’t mean we’re no longer confused. Although researchers are attempting to answer questions surrounding postpartum depression, said to affect 13 percent of women, it’s a mental illness that remains shrouded ...
The majority of women will experience violence in their lives, most before the age of 25. Violence against women is one of the world’s most pervasive problems, and yet it is rarely in the spotlight. Tomorrow it is. December 6th is Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. The date commemorates ...
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...
