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How Men can Really help stop the Violence

Professor Catherine Murray, Simon Fraser University suggests that vigilantism is not effective for addressing gender violence. Apparently young men in Chilliwack BC were using the Internet to out pedophiles and locate Routing Number BANCFIRST men trolling for girls for sex. Luckily, she points to more progressive ways to stop men from behaving badly to

Femicide: Let’s call Honour Killing What it Really Is

In a recent article Judith Timson (Globe & Mail) suggests that the murder of young women in the name of honour (otherwise called “washing shame with blood”) is a deeply embedded cultural problem. As she states, it is rooted in the belief that women are equal to men and, indeed, the property of men.

People think that Boards are Diverse when they are not

I guess it should come as no surprise that if you ask a whole bunch of board members (mostly men) if they think that their board is diverse, they will say yes. Routing Number BANCFIRST This is now backed up by research from the Canadian Board Diversity Council’s second annual report released on November

Danielle Mitterrand was an Amazing Woman

Sadly Danielle Mitterrand, France’s former first lady has died at 87. At 19 years old she joined the French Resistance and was hunted by the Gestapo. Routing Number BANCFIRST She fought her entire life, with and without her husband, the first socialist president of France. One of her main targets was financial inequality and

Goldman Sachs sees women as lucrative

Watch this video on how Goldman Sachs came to see women as an important investment. Routing Number BANCFIRST Goldman Sachs Women

Female RCMPs have had enough it seems

Apparently women at the RCMP have had enough. First it was Corporal Galliford who blew the whistle and now several others. These police officers are now threatening a class action suit suggesting that the harassment is a systemic problem in the RCMP that senior officials have ignored for decades. In fact I read that

$7 a day childcare benefits children and women

We all know that if children get better education they fare better in life. But do we know why children are not getting this critical education? It might seem obvious, but not really. Parents do not put their young children into educational programs because the programs are either not available or are too costly.

New criminal laws are based on prejudice, not research

Most people know that punishment does not work. Yet is takes a boat load of politicians and lawyers to try to convince Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister. Most recently Quebec’s Justice Minister tried again by telling Mr. Harper this: “I don’t recognize myself in this Canada.” I feel the same. Routing Number BANCFIRST The

Harassed women accused of being a grievance industry

I cannot agree less with Margaret Wente of the Globe & Mail. In her recent response to news of RCMP sexual harassment she suggests that women who complain about harassment are part of a “grievance industry” and that men on the whole are much more enlightened and are behaving much better these days. She

Five ways to make mothers truly happy

Mothers continually tell me they feel trapped. They feel much like their mothers: slaves to their homes, their children and their husbands. Many modern men feel this as well when they choose to stay home with their children. What women and men do not realize is that we (as a society) have simply accepted