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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

CrankyTown is a must see

I can’t wait to visit www.crankytown.ca, the new website that helps women talk about menstruation. Apparently users can make one-minute films about menstruation. What a great idea. Maybe some day our universal shame will be replace with celebration.

Eve Eisler is amazing

You must watch MissRepresentation

I attended the YWCA Vancouver screening of Miss Representation, a great empowering documentary for women. All I can say is GO WATCH IT NOW! Then call me and we will start a new movement.

We humans are born kind, not nasty

New research shows we are born empathetic. It disproves years of backward thinking about human kind and makes us really re-think things. Professor Frans deWaal of Emory University of Atlanta has debunked hundreds of years of research that suggested that humans are nasty and that morality was only a learned (shallow) behaviour. He looked at

Women are taught to be less confident

Women are taught to be less confident. They are not born this way. Ann Daly, a career coach dedicated to the advancement of women recently noticed that we teach our girls very specific approaches to confidence. We tell them that for girls to reach the top of the class they must be perfect. Absolutely

Fat is a feminine issue, again

Adele highlights our obsession with women’s bodies. So after the Grammy’s when Karl Lagerfeld thinks Adele is a little too fat we are reminded that if you are a woman it does not matter how brilliant you are, someone will notice your weight. I do not recall any comments on male opera singers’ physical shapes.

Civil liberties must be protected at all costs

Please listen when civil liberties lawyers speak! Today they are talking again about Bill 30 and our government’s (Safety Minister Vic Toew’s) suggestion that police officers need new laws to help them access your personal information and Internet use. You should be suspicious. As a lawyer I have seen too many erosions of personal

Porn is the elephant in the room

I agree with Paddy McCallum when he says, “Porn is the elephant in the room” as it relates to girls and boys fractured relationships. Kids are consuming vast amounts of extreme pornography and no one wants to talk about it. Mr McCallum, a seasoned teacher said in a recent news article that about 8