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Mining company funds homeless women

Now this is more like it! Silver Wheaton, a mining company just donated 1.5 million dollars to a housing project for homeless women and children in East Vancouver. This is wonderful. I wonder if there is a woman on their board? [Source: Vancouver Sun May, 9 2012]

Yeah for Avon Foundation

I read about Reese Witherspoon becoming the global ambassador of the Avon Foundation for Women. She unveiled the Empowerment Circle of Support Necklace to help raise money for programs dedicated to women’s empowerment and the prevention of violence against women. It’s wonderful when those in positions on influence like movie stars and large corporations

Unworthy Creature looks like a great book

I am going to buy the book, “Unworthy Creature: A Punjabi Daughters Memoir of Honour, Shame and Love” by Aruna Papp with Barbara Kay. It seems to capture the difficulty women face when other women are being burned and killed in the name of family honour. It is always difficult to question the culture

Midwives program gets funding

You may know that women have been fighting to have midwives recognized by the medical profession for about 200 years. So it’s interesting that this week that in the name of saving money on medical costs, the BC government decided to give $2million to UBC to expand the midwives program – from 10 students to

I love the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards

I always cut and paste the full page of faces of women from the newspaper when the nominations for the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards come out. Many of these women I know, and many I do not. I am so please that the YWCA celebrates them across industries and advertises the wonderful things

Sue Paish moves

Congratulations to Sue Paish, lawyer extraordinaire on her move to head up LifeLabs.

Why do men spend so much on Mother’s Day

I recently read an article saying that men spend more money than women on Mother’s Day gifts. But wait. Something is missing. The article wrongly suggests that men are more generous than women and that perhaps it is because women have “conflicted” relationship with their mothers. The author of the article forgot some critical

Silicone sisters creates teen girl games

I just heard about the first all female-owned video game studio: Silicone Sisters Inc. It is Vancouver based and they have about 3000 (mostly teen girls) followers on Facebook. Good for you Brenda Bailey Gershkovitch and Kirsten Forbes. I am definitely going to look them up! www.siliconesisters.ca

Look for my Op ed in Saturday’s Vancouver Sun

It looks like my Op Ed “Motherhood is Madness” will be published in this Saturday’s Vancouver Sun. So Buy a copy and tell me what you think!

Go to Informed Opinions

Shari Graydon, media expert has done it again. She is now teaching women all across Canada how to write Op Eds! What a brilliant idea since so few women find themselves or their perspectives in newspapers. Her Vancouver offering is on June 15 at the YWCA. Well worth attending I suspect! www.informedopinions.org.