Today there was a win for people with disabilities when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a disabled victim of alleged sexual assault will get a second trial. The woman’s original testimony, about alleged assault when she was 19 from her step-father in 2004, was dismissed because she couldn’t describe what an oath was ...
Police are investigating claims in Dawson Creek that one or more Golden Cabs drivers trapped young women in their taxis and sexually assaulted them. The police department received a complaint in late January that a teenage girl had been lured into a cab with the promise of a free ride home. She was then reportedly ...
A Canadian navy medic, James Wilks, who took advantage of his patients and was subsequently jailed has just had new charges laid on him. He was convicted last year of sexual assault and was sent to jail for nine months. Now, like with many of these cases, more people have come forward to say he ...
Last summer, the Vancouver Police Department started a campaign to try to cut the city’s growing rate of sexual assaults. Three posters with pictures of intoxicated young women were put up in bars and nightclubs around Vancouver with the slogan “Don’t Be That Guy.” The good news is that Deputy Chief Doug LePard announced that ...
A sexual assault survivor who fought for compensation after her convicted attacker won 7.2 million pounds of lottery money has waived her right to anonymity. Receiving an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to her community, Shirley Woodman spoke about her fight for compensation. After her attack in ...
There have been plenty of amazing women making the news this year in politics, arts, and many other fields and they all deserve a mention. It’s hard to narrow them down, but here is a list of my top ten women of 2011. Enjoy! 1. Samira Ibrahim — Egyptian activist. Ms. Ibrahim was subjected to ...
About seven percent of teen girls are having group sex, according to a recent study conducted by the New York Academy of Medicine. They looked at any sexual experience from a modest threesome to the more advanced orgy. Of the 328 14 to 20-year-olds surveyed, over half said they were pressured and 43 percent claim ...
In sex abuse cases, confidentiality clauses silence the victim and free the perpetrator. But there may be an end in sight. Scouts Canada has made the decision not to pursue victims who break their vow of silence by publicly speaking out about their experiences of sexual abuse. After suffering sexual abuse at the hands of ...
Men’s magazines are harmless, right? Zines like Nuts and Loaded are all in good fun. Men don’t really take in what is written in them. Rapists, on the other hand, are condemnable. They think differently than normal men. This is a pretty common dichotomy, but it may be very far off from the truth, according to ...
With the abortion debate many of us take for granted raging on Prince Edward Island, I decided to go back in time a bit, when reproductive rights were a newly won battle and the female sexual experience was a subject not everyone spoke about. The stream of consciousness narrative in Andrea Dworkin’s Ice and Fire ...
We need a new car. Our current one is pretty old (though it works ok) but for boring administrative...
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There has been an upswing in royal fever on both sides of the Atlantic since last April. When Kate...
Dear Madame X, I know you say that it’s not good to fake your orgasms, but what if you...
It is one of the oldest institutions in the world. Most humans are actively engaged in it as I...
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Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
