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Don’t let your teen watch movies

Recent research shows that those teens who watch movies showing people drinking alcohol are more likely to start drinking sooner. No surprise, except that SO many movies show young adults drinking. Think of all those movies where college students are seen drinking themselves silly and doing stupid and dangerous things with no apparent consequences

Anti-Shark Fin Soup Crusader is Amazing

Claudia Li, a 25 year old Vancouver woman is single handedly saving the sharks. Why? Because she can. Her non-profit organization “Shark Truth” is stopping the eating of shark fin soup. As a Chinese-Canadian woman from a traditional family she knew that eating shark fins had two purposes: family status and generosity. Her work

Hooray for Movie on Acid Attacks on Women

The movie “Saving Face” won an Oscar! Hooray for Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and her two-year journey in bringing to light the vicious practice of acid attacks on women. The most important thing to know is that it took amazing courage for the two women in the movie to speak up only to help other women

Feminine Power is the Future of Leadership Style

Author of the book, “The Future of Power,” Joseph Nye has hit the nail on the head about women and leadership. In a recent article he said that research shows that the more “feminine styles” of leadership are effective and that the old tough male stereotypes based on power-over others are falling from favour.

Mistress actually empowers some women

Sarah Symonds the famous recovering mistress (she had sex with Nicolas Cage!) now teaches husband hunters to become empowered and stop accepting second status love affairs. This is great. Sadly however, she became most famous for her criticisms of wives and mothers at home who “allowed” their husbands to stray. What she missed was

We need a new wonder woman

I can’t wait to watch the new documentary called “Wonder Women! The untold Story of American Super heroines,” directed by Kristy Guevara- Flanagan. It’s about the one rare superhero but also about why women and girls need strong powerful heroes that they can relate to. There are so few. Here’s to more women that

Female RCMP officer lost her job and boss get off free for sex in car

A female RCMP officer recently effectively lost her job for having sex in a police car with her boss, another higher ranking RCMP officer. Her husband apparently told all when he found out. When brought to “trial” a three officer panel held her guilty of disgraceful conduct and was essentially dismissed for lying about

Lingerie Football League is demeaning and pathetic

I can’t believe it’s really a sport. But yes there is actually a lingerie football league in which near naked women athletes compete. These women have no protection to prevent injury and “accidental nudity” is common. Although we like to poke fun at it, the fact that is that if it’s happening at all

Prisons do not work

You know this. And I know this. Yet our Canadian government wants to introduce mandatory minimum sentences for minor marijuana offenses. Imagine, more kids who try marijuana will end up in our newly built prisons. Recently a handful of American law enforcers were so disturbed by this that they actually wrote a letter to

Eve Eisler is amazing