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Interview: Barbara Freeman on the Abortion Caravan Campaign of 1970
Barbara FreemanToday we’ve got a new entry in the Verbatim series, the transcripts we provide of our Listen to This podcast. (Just a reminder that you can catch new, original interviews every other...
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Why You Should Give a Damn: 5 Reasons to Care About the G8/G20
Protesters gather outside Union Station dressed as an oil spill in demonstration against Harper's environmental policy, June 17, 2010. Photo credit: Jesse MintzUnless you have been living under a fake...
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Body Politic #14: What we need to hear from the G(irls) 20 Summit
People sporting the G(irls) 20 "Pangaea" T-shirt.We’ve talked a lot about what’s going wrong so far with the G20 and G8 meetings taking place in Ontario this year. And lord knows there are plenty of...
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Interview with Jessica Yee: "The struggle for rights has to start at home"
Jessica Yee, 24, is the founder and Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network and a member of Canadians for Choice. Yee has spent more then half her life mobilizing individuals,...
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Interview: Kay Roesslein of the AIDS Candlelight Vigil
AIDS memorial at 519 Church Street Community Centre, Toronto. Photo courtesy of Kenn Chaplin at Flickr.Although Pride Toronto decided to reschedule its week-long festivities in light of the G20 circus...
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42 years on, the freedoms that Bill C-150 affirmed can't be taken for granted
Pierre Trudeau. Bill C-150, passed by his government on May 15, 1969, ushered in a new era of human rights in Canada.Tomorrow, let’s take a moment to reflect on the 42nd anniversary of the passing of...
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The sinister power and deep historical roots of the word "slut"
Weighing in with 57,184 votes, the most popular definition of the word “slut” on Urban Dictionary is “a woman with the morals of a man.” If we strip away the male punchline, hasn’t “slut” always meant...
View ArticleReopen the abortion debate?
On May 10, the annual anti-abortion rally was held on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. This year’s event has come at a very interesting time in the Canadian abortion debate. Only weeks earlier, Stephen...
View ArticleWTF Wednesday: The New Abortion Caravan is pro-life
Over 30 years ago, the pro-choice movement in Canada was at its peak. In 1970 the Vancouver Women’s Caucus travelled across the country as part of the Abortion Caravan.Stopping in various cities and...
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WTF Wednesday: A female Viagra is coming…as a nasal spray
Photo: http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/new-female-sex-drive-drug-tested-5172215It’s been 14 years since the erectile dysfunction pill Viagra hit the market, and it seems like women are finally close to...
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WTF Wednesday: Canadian Blood Services trumpets policy change on gay men and...
Canadian Blood Services is now accepting blood donations from men who have had sex with men—but only if they haven’t done so in the past five years.The change took effect July 22, and marks a drastic...
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FTW Friday: This Week in Protests
“The protesters should fall in love with hard and patient work – they are the beginning, not the end. Their basic message is: the taboo is broken; we do not live in the best possible world; we are...
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WTF Wednesday: Morning-after pill might not work for every woman
When the mammoth pharmaceutical company Bayer announced in 2009 that it would be making NorLevo, a morning-after pill, available over the counter to women in Toronto, it failed to mention one small...
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Body Politic #14: What we need to hear from the G(irls) 20 Summit
People sporting the G(irls) 20 "Pangaea" T-shirt.We’ve talked a lot about what’s going wrong so far with the G20 and G8 meetings taking place in Ontario this year. And lord knows there are plenty of...
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