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 ...
A UN inquiry was announced today investigating the huge number of Aboriginal women that have gone missing in Canada. According to The Native Women’s Association of Canada more than 600 women have gone missing or been murdered since 1990 and this is a direct violation of the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms ...
Sex workers in Vancouver are being forced to work in isolated areas, putting them at greater risk of sexual violence. Criminologist John Lowman blames the police. At an inquiry into the case of serial killer Robert Pickton, Lowman said the police have long been moving prostitutes into isolated, industrial areas of the city similar to ...
The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry opened this morning surrounded by protesters demanding justice. Over the next eight months, the inquiry will be looking into the way the police handled the investigation of missing women on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, who began disappearing in the early 1990s. When Robert Pickton was finally arrested in 2002, the ...
Luo Yanquan and Xiao Aiying were expecting a second baby. While this news is normally a source of joy, the one child policy still enforced in China meant the accident had potentially severe consequences. The couple discovered the pregnancy in the third month, and decided it was too late to have an abortion. However, when ...
In a landmark ruling, a judge has ruled the prostitution laws in Canada are unconstitutional, because they contribute to the danger faced by sex workers. Prostitution has never been illegal itself, but everything related to it has been — from living off the avails of prostitution, to running a bawdy house. The result it that ...
The Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada – specifically Vancouver and its environs – has had far too many women go missing. Many, though not all, have been street-workers. Prostitution, compounded by addiction, is clearly a high-risk occupation, one that remains without benefit of worker’s protection plans. Too often when they’ve gone missing, police have ...
100 million women are missing. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn would like you to do something about it. Females are killed as babies, raped as girls and abandoned as women. They ask why, in a world where racial apartheid has been denounced, gender apartheid is simply a fact of life. Johann Hari reviewed the book, ...
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...
